Comment by acomar

13 years ago

That doesn't make any sense. How can laws not be in the public domain? Can any lawyers around comment?

IANAL but you are right from the basic premise:

“If a Law Isn't Public, It Isn't a Law”—Justice Stephen Breyer

But I believe the distinction here is that just because the law is public, that doesn't mean that you can call up anyone who has a copy of the law (including the organization who wrote the law) and say "Hey, give me a copy of the law."

So orgs like Malamud's get copies of the law and provide them freely to all:

http://boingboing.net/2012/03/19/liberating-americas-secret....