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Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jamiexml@infosec.exchange ("Jamie Clark") wrote:
"Our laws belong to all of us, and we should be able to find, read, and share them free of registration requirements, fees, and other roadblocks." Significant legal victory on #standards becoming public when enacted into public law.
https://www.eff.org/press/releases/appeals-court-upholds-publicresourceorgs-right-post-public-laws-and-regulations
This is significantly at odds with the policies of some governments and agencies, and standards bodies, that allow standards -- even when given the force of public law -- to charge royalties for access and use. This has some relevant in our data standards world, but a more classic example is a Building Code, where (a) you are required to obey it, in order to build on your own land, but (b) the government won't let you see it or read it unless you pay a fee to the rules' proprietary source.
HT @carlmalamud @eff