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Professor Posts "Illegal Copy" of Guide To Oregon Public Record Laws
An anonymous reader writes "Copyright law has previously been used by some states to try to prevent people from passing around copies of their own government's laws. But in a new level of meta-absurdity, the attorney general of Oregon is claiming copyright over a state-produced guide to using public-records laws. That isn't sitting well with one frequent user of the laws, who has posted a copy of the guide to his website and is daring the AG to respond. The AG, who previously pledged to improve responses to public-records requests, has not responded yet." The challenger here is University of Oregon Professor Bill Harbaugh.
The govt is acting like a starved beast when they resort to this sort of unofficial tax to get more money. I doubt the lawmakers ever had a debate over it. They may be happy to look the other way as long as it doesn't cause too much trouble. They're such cowards, always looking for ways to sneak in more revenue generation mechanisms and shift costs to make up for falling revenues from well known taxes, such as the gas tax which is NOT indexed to inflation and is regarded as suicidal to touch. Some leadership. It's why we have all these lousy toll road schemes.
Intellectual Property is a monopolistic, selfish, and defective concept. It is "tyranny over the mind of man"
Please learn the background on the health care debate before you make yourself sound silly again. None of the current proposals have the $3800 number, and the reason for the "fine" is a simple, statistical necessity for a working system. (For reference, the "fine" is typically the actuarial value of a benficiary; i.e. - the cost to insure a member of a nominally infinite pool without maintenance costs).
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
Why shouldn't a person be allowed to self-insure? Mandatory health insurance is robbery on the part of government and the health insurance lobby.
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