Hi all,
As you know resources.org has published standards documentation online
https://law.resource.org/pub/in/manifest.in.html

It looks like they bought the DVDs of standard documents and uploaded the
documents to web. Some of the uploaded documents have been converted into
HTML & SVG for portability and life. I know how much effort it takes to do
that and they have done awesome job with that. They informed[1] the BIS
about this and in reply they got a notice[2] to remove the content. Carl
Malamud replied[3] to the notice in elegant way. Its worth the read.

I think this is important for us as an open data community. I am not sure
what we can do as of now, but at the moment we should at the least keep
track of happenings.

*Disclosure*: I was one of the kick-starter baker of resources.org's
campaign called Public Safety Codes of the World: Stand Up For Safety!
<https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/publicresource/public-safety-codes-of-the-world-stand-up-for-safe>
which
wasn't successful :(


   1. [1] Letter by Carl Malamud informing BIS about the conversion and
   upload:  https://law.resource.org/pub/in/bis.gov.in.20140625.pdf
   2. [2] Semi Notice by BIS:
   https://law.resource.org/pub/in/bis.gov.in.20140801.pdf
   3. [3] Reply by Carl Malamud :
   https://law.resource.org/pub/in/bis.gov.in.20140802.pdf



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