The District of Columbia Claims Copyright on the Law

Freedom to Tinker 2013-04-01

Summary:

Copyright exists to incentivize people to create new works. The federal government is not allowed to copyright things, because they don’t need the added incentive, and it would be bad if they started charging for access to something like the text of laws that they promulgate. If ignorance of the law is no excuse, the [...]

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Authors:

Steve Schultze

Date tagged:

04/01/2013, 19:08

Date published:

04/01/2013, 14:53