All NFPA standards are freely viewable at www.nfpa.org .
Creating standards costs money. Darned interesting legal theory, and another example of the disruptive nature of the Internet. Mike Sherman Product Safety and Compliance Engineer Graco Inc. ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Schaefer" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, August 26, 2013 8:10:00 AM Subject: [PSES] Standards free, by law, in the USA? https://www.eff.org/press/releases/publicresourceorg-fights-back-against-copyright-lawsuit This article brings up an interesting viewpoint – since the standards are required by law, can copyright be enforced on them? Laws must be public domain, so how can the actual requirements of the law be under copyright? David Schaefer Senior EMC Engineer TÜV SÜD America Inc Office: 651 638 0251 Cell: 612 578 6038 Fax: 651 638 0285 - ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to < [email protected] > All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieee-pses.org/emc-pstc.html Attachments are not permitted but the IEEE PSES Online Communities site at http://product-compliance.oc.ieee.org/ can be used for graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas < [email protected] > Mike Cantwell < [email protected] > For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher < [email protected] > David Heald < [email protected] > - ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to <[email protected]> All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieee-pses.org/emc-pstc.html Attachments are not permitted but the IEEE PSES Online Communities site at http://product-compliance.oc.ieee.org/ can be used for graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas <[email protected]> Mike Cantwell <[email protected]> For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: <[email protected]> David Heald: <[email protected]>
