Another example of disruptive nature of the Internet... http://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/the-emc-blog/4378139/Pirated-Standards--Could-It-Be-True-
After alerting several of the major standards organizations over a year ago, nothing seems to have been accomplished to take down this site. _______________________ Kenneth Wyatt Wyatt Technical Services LLC 56 Aspen Dr. Woodland Park, CO Phone: (719) 310-5418 / Toll Free: (877) 443-9275 Email Me! | Web Site | Blog The EMC Blog (T&M World) Subscribe to Newsletter Connect with me on LinkedIn On Aug 26, 2013, at 8:40 AM, Mike Sherman ----- Original Message ----- wrote: > 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. > 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]> - ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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]>
