Codes cannot be copyrighted if they are incorporated into law

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Codes cannot be copyrighted if they are incorporated into law

TenPenny (Mechanical)

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4 Oct 23 17:04

I thought this might be worthy of discussion. Last week, a US appeals court ruled in a case involving the ASTM, that codes that are incorporated into law could not be copyrighted. A link to one story is below.

I expect this could have lots of implications as far as building codes, the nfpa, etc etc...definitely food for thought.

https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=f6e....

XL83NL (Mechanical) · Answer 1 · 2023-10-04 20:40:28

Interesting story. To get more exposure, Id suggest to post this in either subfora, e.g. Pats Pub, or mech eng general discussion.

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SWComposites (Aerospace) · Answer 2 · 2023-10-04 21:49:21

this was discussed at length in another forum on this site.

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Codes cannot be copyrighted if they are incorporated into law