Re:“ISO obstructs adoption of standards by paywalling them”
by jrochkind1 on Monday March 08, 2021 @05:55PM
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Hm, thanks for correction. I'm definitely not an expert. I just vaguely remembered that it was something that was at one point being legally challenged, so looked it up and found those articles, with headlines including:
"Supreme Court rules that building codes cannot be copyrighted"
"Construction code purveyor calls Supreme Court's ruling that annotated code can't be copyrighted 'monumental'"
Are you saying those headlines were overstating?
Re:“ISO obstructs adoption of standards by paywalling them”
by ac0lyte on Monday March 08, 2021 @08:53PM
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If I read the TechCrunch article properly the UpCodes case was decided at the district level by judge Victor Marrero. The judge cited the recent victory by PRO Inc. in the Supreme Court
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf/18-1150_7m58.pdf
The Supreme Court ruled in Georgia vs public.resource.org, which was very much not about building codes. P.R.Org actually does have another ongoing lawsuit that is similar to UpCode's: American Society for Testing and Materials et al. v. Public.Resource.Org
The UpCode ruling was at the district court level, and merely cited the ruling from Georgia vs public.resource.org.
Until we get at least appellate level decisions on the copyrightability of enacted codes, I'm unlikely to feel satisfied.