Professor Posts "Illegal Copy" of Guide To Oregon Public Record Laws

Posted by timothy on Wednesday September 16, 2009 @07:48AM from the hey-man-I-paid-for-that dept.

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.

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Re: Obama Care by nog_lorp · 2009-09-16 21:55 · Score: 1, Troll

As of yesterday, we hit 4,344 US military deaths in Iraq since 2003.
In 2004, there were 83,000 preventable deaths in hospitals due to negligence or malpractice within the United States.
Get your fucking priorities in order.