According to a report, ISO and IEC have issued the following statement:
"In the interests of our respective members, IEC and ISO have taken measures to protect international standards from unauthorized disclosure." [sic]
THANK YOU for fighting this fight! I do building code/standard research for a living (https://centerforbuilding.org), and these standards are such a problem. Tomorrow I’m going to have to pay $1,000 for a bunch of EN standards, and the fucked up part is that CEN-ELEC and ISO won’t give them to me for…
…free even though the purpose is to convince the American model code body to reference them! I need to submit them to the U.S. committee and ISO claims they don’t even have a process to release the copyright for committee review. Insane! European standards are great, but this IP issue is nuts.
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"In the interests of our respective members, IEC and ISO have taken measures to protect international standards from unauthorized disclosure." [sic]