[mordae]

ISO is not publicly funded and "recommends" that end users pay for the norms despite many European standards organizations being government funded and operated.

If some of these organizations were to release ISO-derived norms to the public, they would be breaching copyright.

We should have an international treaty that says we fund these organizations from public budgets and everything they produce is open.

EDIT: Wrongly blamed US, but ISO is based in Geneva.

[margana]

The EU does not answer to a higher authority, therefore only the copyright law of EU applies to itself. They can make any modifications to EU copyright law to make certain things lawful for themselves to publish, and then publish them.

[lucioperca]

Not true, same for all DIN norms.

[mordae]

Deutsches Institut für Normung e.V. is publicly funded. Germany can unilaterally decide to publish the norms that do not incorporate other (usually ISO) standards.

[lucioperca]

No, they cannot. DIN e.V. also gets money from selling norms and other stuff, in fact almost 60%:

https://www.din.de/de/din-und-seine-partner/din-e-v/finanzie...

[FateOfNations]

The point is that the government could pay 100% of the cost but chooses not to.

[lucioperca]

No it is an e.V. so it is a non-commercial non-state entity. Bayern Munich is such an entity.