{"id":98,"date":"2008-04-23T04:41:10","date_gmt":"2008-04-23T11:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/?p=98"},"modified":"2008-04-23T04:41:10","modified_gmt":"2008-04-23T11:41:10","slug":"ore-gone-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/23\/ore-gone-wild\/","title":{"rendered":"Ore-gone Wild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can&#8217;t make this stuff up. The State of Oregon Legislative Counsel Committee sent a <a href=\"http:\/\/onward.justia.com\/useful-tools-web-sites-203-cease-desist-resist-oregons-copyright-claim-on-the-oregon-revised-statutes.html\">cease and desist letter<\/a> to Justia a couple weeks ago claiming that a copy of the Oregon Revised Statutes that Justia had published online infringed on the State of Oregon&#8217;s copyright to the statutes. While Oregon conceded that the text of the law itself, it did assert that &#8220;the leadlines and numbering for each statutory section&#8221; were protected. This is a no-win situation. If the government doesn&#8217;t act like a business, people complain. When the government acts like a business, people complain.<\/p>\n<p>Some legal experts see this as a <a href=\"http:\/\/williampatry.blogspot.com\/2008\/04\/oregon-goes-wacka-wacka-huna-kuna.html\">copyright<\/a> issue. Me? I see this as a tax issue. If the state collected a 10 cent royalty every time someone cited an Oregon law, just think what it will do for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oregon.gov\/DAS\/BAM\/index.shtml\">Oregon budget<\/a>. Cha-ching! Personally, I&#8217;m waiting for a YouTube video showing someone reading the Oregon Revised Statutes with leadlines and numbering. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can&#8217;t make this stuff up. The State of Oregon Legislative Counsel Committee sent a cease and desist letter to Justia a couple weeks ago claiming that a copy of the Oregon Revised Statutes that Justia had published online infringed on the State of Oregon&#8217;s copyright to the statutes. While Oregon conceded that the text [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[50,131,149],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}