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 make that work “the law,” such that the public needs free access to the work. CCC, 44 F.3d at 74. However, a privately-authored work may “become the law” upon substantial government adoption in limited circumstances, based on considerations including (1) whether the private author intended or encouraged the work’s adoption into law; (2) whether the work comprehensively governs public conduct, such that it resembles a “law of general applicability”; (3) whether the work expressly regulates a broad area of private endeavor; (4) whether the work provides penalties or sanctions for violation of its contents; and (5) whether the alleged infringer has published and identified the work as part of the law, rather than the copyrighted material underlying the law. See generally  BOCA, 628 F.2d 730; Veeck , 293 F.3d 791; Solicitor General’s Brief at 11. These considerations may not all be strictly necessary or exhaustive, but are guideposts to assess whether notice of the purported copyrighted work is needed for a person to have notice of “the law,” such that due process concerns would effectively categorically outweigh the private author’s need for economic incentives. See Suffolk, 261 F.3d at 194. Where considerations such as these predominate, the text of model