And then, once you do, they pressure you into buying an expensive usable copy. So, if you get your code adopted into law, it seems the government may be obligated to direct thousands of people into your sales and marketing funnel using taxpayer dollars. We are waiting to see if the governments agree that this arrangement is legitimate, especially in light of the previous court ruling mentioned earlier in this article. The matter is not yet settled. But this will be a court case worth following.
Theft of private property is illegal. We are going to have to wait and see if the courts rule whether the NEC, once adopted into law, is private property or not. They will tell us what we are allowed to do. Privitizing codes which have the force of law is unsupportable. There is no safety in the unknown.
I think that if the NFPA is going to sue anyone they should be suing the states adopting their code into law. That in itself is the copy write infringement. It is in the interest of the federal and local government to protect the general public by enacting laws electrical safety guidelines, rules, measures, means and regulations into law. The law is public domain and meant to be published free of charge for the commonwealth of every US citizen.
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