Miscellaneous

You go, Carl!

So here in California, we have a fuck-ton of long, boring codes. Civil Code, Code of Civil Procedure, Business & Professions Codes, Family Code, Fish and Game Code, Water Code, etc. etc. But they're all copyrighted. So if you want to purchase a digital copy of the 38-volume California Code of Regulations, it'll set you back over fifteen hundy, and it's over two grand for the books.

Carl Malamud thinks this is bollocks, so he's posted the entire Code of Regulations online for free. He's also posting other state, local and federal codes, spoiling for a fight. "Sue me," he's saying. "Sue me long and hard."

And get this -- it's worked, at least once. He actually got Oregon to stop claiming copyrights to its laws earlier this year.

(Hat tip: Reason Magazine)

Full post as published by Quiz Law on September 16, 2008 (boomark / email).