If you publish Georgia's state laws, you'll get sued for copyright and lose
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Re: If you publish Georgia's state laws, you'll get sued for copyright and lose
#2One would think that making laws and regulations easily accessible would be a priority for lawmakers. Is this issue exclusive to Georgia, or are there other states or nations with similar restrictions?
Re: If you publish Georgia's state laws, you'll get sued for copyright and lose
#3One would think that making laws and regulations easily accessible would be a priority for lawmakers. Is this issue exclusive to Georgia, or are there other states or nations with similar restrictions?
> One would think that making laws and regulations easily accessible would be a priority for lawmakers.
Not really. It continues the trend towards making poverty a crime.
Re: If you publish Georgia's state laws, you'll get sued for copyright and lose
#4As the saying goes, "ignorance of the law is no excuse." Seems like you could argue that's incredibly unfair (classist, maybe?) in this case.
Then again, you could probably make a good argument that it's unfair even if all the laws are freely available.
Re: If you publish Georgia's state laws, you'll get sued for copyright and lose
#5> [the judge] made the extraordinary finding that Public.Resource.Org is engaged in "commercial" copying despite being a nonprofit, stating that the organization "profits" by "the attention, recognition, and contributions it receives in association with its copying and distributing the copyrighted OCGA annotations, and its use was neither nonprofit nor educational."
I know legal definitions might not always mesh with lay definitions, but is this a standard interpretation of "commercial?" It makes sense if you factor in that the grants public.resource.org receives (a few 100k a year) are directly related to their presentation of information, but the quoted passage seems a bit all-encompassing.
Re: If you publish Georgia's state laws, you'll get sued for copyright and lose
#6One would think that making laws and regulations easily accessible would be a priority for lawmakers. Is this issue exclusive to Georgia, or are there other states or nations with similar restrictions?
> One would think that making laws and regulations easily accessible would be a priority for lawmakers. Not really. It continues the trend towards making poverty a crime.
How is that a trend, and not just the reality this country was founded on? How many of the original people here were either indentured, or just enslaved? We just keep shuffling the verbiage and the optics every few decades while refining the overall system. Slavery in prisons, rotating jail terms for people who can't pay fines for arbitrary crap, no education, no hope, and no voice.
Re: If you publish Georgia's state laws, you'll get sued for copyright and lose
#7And here I am, again and again being reminded how the US can be so backwards in some issues here and there.
Not making THEIR OWN LAWS in its entirety available for free for every citizen? What the hell is this?
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#8This is how democracy ends. You can go to jail for committing crimes you didn't know were against the law, but you can't know what the laws are unless you pay nearly a month's wages at minimum wage.
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#9One would think that making laws and regulations easily accessible would be a priority for lawmakers. Is this issue exclusive to Georgia, or are there other states or nations with similar restrictions?
One would think wrong. If the populace fully understood the amount of sheer stupidity in the laws and regulations the politicians create there would be problems.
Plus, when the populace is ignorant of how easily they can become criminals in the eyes of the state, the easier they are to control.
Re: If you publish Georgia's state laws, you'll get sued for copyright and lose
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
> One would think that making laws and regulations easily accessible would be a priority for lawmakers. Not really. It continues the trend towards making poverty a crime.
How is that a trend, and not just the reality this country was founded on? How many of the original people here were either indentured, or just enslaved? We just keep shuffling the verbiage and the optics every few decades while refining the overall system. Slavery in prisons, rotating jail terms for people who can't pay fines for arbitrary crap, no education, no hope, and no voice.
I wouldn't say the country was "founded" on such things. Yes, they were interwoven into the fabric of the country at the time; but the country was also created in a way that opened the door to remove those things.
As for your last sentence; that's the inevitable outcome of almost all civilizations which is why revolutions happen at a somewhat steady rate.