Re: Gopher access to Federal Register

["Perry E. Metzger" <pmetzger@lehman.com>]

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