The same open-data pattern that powers Lekha's Indian corpus, applied to a third jurisdiction. U.S. Government works are in the public domain under 17 U.S.C. § 105. We index metadata from the official govinfo.gov API and link to the source — we don't re-host. This is an early preview.
Beta · preview — pending expert reviewA live sample of recent U.S. Public Laws read from the govinfo.gov public API; last verified 2026-10-19.
17 U.S.C. § 105 — the statute that places U.S. Government works in the public domain. Read the official text on govinfo.gov or via the Cornell LII human-readable mirror.
Public Domain (17 U.S.C. § 105 — U.S. Government works). Published by the U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) via govinfo.gov. U.S. Government works are in the public domain under 17 U.S.C. § 105; a government publication may still embed third-party copyrighted material used with permission, which this index does not reproduce. View the statute.
Cornell LII (law.cornell.edu) is linked as a human-readable mirror only. LII markup is copyright (Creative Commons, no commercial redistribution); Lekha never fetches, parses, caches, or re-hosts LII content — canonical machine-readable text comes from govinfo.
Educational, not legal advice. Citations and links are neutral pointers to the official, public-domain source; always read the current, authoritative text at govinfo.gov and confirm with a qualified attorney. State legislation, full-text re-hosting, and editorial headnotes are out of scope for this preview.