Comments on: All Your Law Are Belong to Us http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/05/all-your-law-ar.html Dispatches from a Small Business Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:39:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: markm http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/05/all-your-law-ar.html/comment-page-1#comment-11162 markm Sat, 10 May 2008 12:31:49 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/05/all-your-law-ar.html#comment-11162 <p>In many places, the building codes <i>are</i> copyrighted. That is, rather than placing thousands of pages of codes into the law, the law just says to follow a particular edition of a model code published by a private organization. Thus you have a law that you can only stay in compliance with by buying a book copyrighted by a private organization.</p> In many places, the building codes are copyrighted. That is, rather than placing thousands of pages of codes into the law, the law just says to follow a particular edition of a model code published by a private organization. Thus you have a law that you can only stay in compliance with by buying a book copyrighted by a private organization.

]]> By: John O. http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/05/all-your-law-ar.html/comment-page-1#comment-11161 John O. Sat, 10 May 2008 01:17:55 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/05/all-your-law-ar.html#comment-11161 <p>That reminds me of the Arizona Revised Statutes CD you can buy. It costs a normal citizen $15 for "non-commerical use," yet it costs $4000 for corporate users who resale published copies of the ARS. There really is no basis for the gross cost disparity other than the Secretary of State wants to make up some of the costs of producing the CD and then some.</p> <p>-- John O.</p> That reminds me of the Arizona Revised Statutes CD you can buy. It costs a normal citizen $15 for “non-commerical use,” yet it costs $4000 for corporate users who resale published copies of the ARS. There really is no basis for the gross cost disparity other than the Secretary of State wants to make up some of the costs of producing the CD and then some.

– John O.

]]> By: Jim Collins http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/05/all-your-law-ar.html/comment-page-1#comment-11160 Jim Collins Fri, 09 May 2008 16:34:46 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/05/all-your-law-ar.html#comment-11160 <p>The thing is that if the text of laws were made public, then people would know what the law is. This would make it very hard on some government entities to claim a violation or to get away with something.</p> The thing is that if the text of laws were made public, then people would know what the law is. This would make it very hard on some government entities to claim a violation or to get away with something.

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