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by fiatmoney
3425 days ago
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"But if the government can essentially revoke a private individual or company's copyright merely by incorporating otherwise protected text into legislation, that can have adverse effects on copyright holders." This is a settled area of law; revoking the copyright would be a "taking", inarguably for the public good, and the copyright holder would be entitled to just compensation. IMO that is the appropriate way to handle this issue; effectively the government uses eminent domain to seize the copyright. |
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I would suggest that for a lot of organizations whose code has become written into laws, the organizations actually benefit from their incorporation even if they were to be required to release the copyright. They may lose some 'access-control' revenue from release of the copyright, but overall their closeness to the rules gives them ample opportunity to make money from associated services (e.g. training, consulting, membership and influence on revisions to name a few).