Copyright folks: I scraped (tbh downloaded the pages) of an official government website, where each page represents publicly available information (due to transparency laws). However, the site has been shut down for some financial reason. This is a public record that is now gone.
My question is:
What is the copyright law on html? Because the contents being presented is public domain, so it’s only the html (I didn’t fetch the css or js). Can I republish all these pages to make the info available again? I’d make some new CSS and possibly tweak the html, but is there copyright on page layout? If so, I need to figure out who has those rights, I’m hoping it’s the government agency (and not the private contractor), but tbh I don’t know how they rig their contracts.
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