Every 2 years the Oregon DOJ publishes the "Oregon Attorney General's Public Records and Meetings Manual", a very useful guide to public records law. It's essential reading for people trying to use their right to get public records from Oregon government agencies. The DOJ has been trying to keep me from redistributing this manual, on the grounds that they own the copyright to it. Trying to use copyright law to keep the public from getting information about how to get public records strikes me as wrong, so I've posted the manual online at my official UO faculty website. As the email below explains, I am posting this despite the fact that the AG's office has explicitly warned me not to redistribute this manual.So here we see an elected public official, one who is responsible for enforcing public laws, prohibiting distribution of information - developed at public expense - about how to use these laws.
The question for supporters of government controlled health care is what sort of screw ups like this will the government make when they're running health care? Anyone who supports the "public option" and who cannot come up with at least one credible scenario like this has not seriously thought things through.
Come on, lefties. You're supposed to be smarter than the rest of us. Dazzle me.
I thought that public documents couldn't be copyrighted because they're, you know, public documents.
ReplyDeleteIs this the same Orwellian state that wants to monitor their citizens' driving habits via GPS and tax them on how "environmentally friendly" they are?
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