Codes cannot be copyrighted if they are incorporated into law

TenPenny · Oct 4, 2023

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/de...,incorporated standards constituted fair use.

XL83NL · Oct 4, 2023

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

Huub
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SWComposites · Oct 4, 2023

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

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