NODE 8cb52d5cGopher access to Federal Register
gnu (John Gilmore)Tue, 21 Sep 93 08:46:30 PDT
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!
John
NODE 0897fd36Re: Gopher access to Federal Register
"Perry E. Metzger" <pmetzger@lehman.com>Tue, 21 Sep 93 09:08:04 PDT
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