EF>We have a lot of Legal information that you can obtain.
 EF>A lot of it is free to download.Barrister's Legal Files.
 DR> Can we assume you have secured [copyright] permission to post 
 DR> those?  
Are you suggesting that the Laws made by a government FOR the people are
copyrighted ?
Who/what should this guy do ? I mean, I agree that if he's scanning actual
case law at his site that there would be someone/something from which he
could obtain permission to carry on (since there are various professional
publications that print these abounding), but if he's simply providing an
information service to the public about what the law is (State, Federal
or International), then I fail to see your point. Who owns case law ? The
government, the respective jurispudence of a State or Province (ie - the
Bar) or some legal society ? Is not case law put-over (following the delivery
of a judgement) to the Public Domain -  an aspect which legal practsioners
deliberately make difficult for the Public to freely access ?
Is Law considered "intellectual property" ?
Would it make any difference if he were a practising lawyer and decided
to open up his own office's resources to the Public, noting credit to the
software publisher as a curtesy ? I mean, technically, if his office already
owns a(n unlimited User) LAN license to such software, then would he not
merely be enlarging the LAN's "workspace" ? What would the circumstances
become if he were to charge an access fee to each dial-up caller to that
same, well, "database", I wonder ? (Agreed, such a move by any Legal
Beagle might be tantamount to a cutting of the (fiscal) jugular: I mean, if
everything were so open, where would such a lawyer then find his\her
business ?)
Semper Fi
RTP
... I know what you're thinking; I can hear the echoes in your head.
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