Check your HTML for having posted any of the Oregon Revised Statutes.
Website owner wants right to put Oregon laws online
The owner of a nonprofit Web site is battling Oregon for the right to distribute state laws on the Internet for free.
Oregon is one of about ten states that says a copyright protects their right to put their statutes on the Web.
But Carl Malamud, the president and C-E-O of Public.Resource.Org, says Oregon is the first state to send him a “cease and desist” letter.
Malamud will appear today before a legislative committee to assert that the Legislature should allow Web sites like his to post Oregon’s collection of statutes online for free.
it is kind of a sick joke that you ignorance of the law is not an excuse, but you have to buy a copy of the ORS’s to be able to read the laws. Sounds like a way to shake down the lawyers every year to me.
Much ado about nothing. There are three sites that let you look up any states’ laws, and all of them are connected to an online copy of the ORS.
Just Google “Oregon Revised Statutes”.
Yes, there is one “official” purveyor of the printed ORS, and a host of boneheaded court procedures that say you may not quote law out of anything else if you want the judge to take “Judicial Notice” of it, but just looking up ORS for your information is not restricted to any one company.