Most states or municipalities in the United States of America adopt the ICC family of codes[citation needed] and other reference standards and codes in whole or with local amendments. This has the effect of designating a copyrighted work as actual law[citation needed], and, once enacted, that law enters the public domain[citation needed]. The model codes themselves, prior to their adoption as law, are not in the public domain and the ICC retains copyright on the model code itself.
In the wake of the Federal copyright case Veeck v. Southern Building Code Congress Int'l, Inc.,[2] the organization Public Resource has published a substantial portion of the enacted building codes on-line, and they are available as PDFs
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