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Federal Appeals Court: No Copyright for Public Law (epic.org)
8 points by clarkevans on Oct 22, 2018 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


Things that shouldn’t even be up for debate:

1. Public access to the laws governing their behavior should be free

2. All laws and decisions involving interpretation of the law should be available to the public.

This is a federal court (not the supreme court alas) saying that 1. Is clearly true.

Alas 2 continues to not be true in the US at least...




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