17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
John Gilmore says:
Gopher to gopher.internet.com, port 2002, and you will find the Federal Register online. For most documents, you can only get the first 100 lines, but the use of the indexes is free, and many documents are useful in this form.
You can pay them for access to the full documents, but they prohibit republishing online -- though you're free to print the documents out. What heart these guys have!
This can't be legal. You can copyright a collection, true, but you can't hold copyright on an element of a collection of public domain information. I'd check with a lawyer first, but I don't think they can actually legally stop you. Perry