Whitney Kimball, Gizmodo; Should You Be Allowed to Copyright a Law? We're Going to Find Out
"Copyright law, boring on its face, has posed various unprecedented
threats to intellectual freedoms in recent internet history. It
threatens to kill our links, kill our news, kill our memes, kill our precious videos of babies dancing to Prince. And yesterday, the Supreme Court considered the momentously stupid question: should you be able to paywall a law?"
Showing posts with label Official Code of Georgia Annotated. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Official Code of Georgia Annotated. Show all posts
Thursday, December 5, 2019
Open Access: SCOTUS will consider whether publishers can copyright annotated state codes; ABA Journal, November 27, 2019
Mark Walsh, ABA Journal; Open Access: SCOTUS will consider whether publishers can copyright annotated state codes
"The question in Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org Inc. is whether a work such as the Official Code of Georgia Annotated may not be copyrighted because it falls under the doctrine of “government edicts.” The doctrine stems from a series of 19th-century Supreme Court cases holding that judicial writings and other official legal works published under state authority are not “the proper subject of private copyright,” as an 1888 decision put it."
"The question in Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org Inc. is whether a work such as the Official Code of Georgia Annotated may not be copyrighted because it falls under the doctrine of “government edicts.” The doctrine stems from a series of 19th-century Supreme Court cases holding that judicial writings and other official legal works published under state authority are not “the proper subject of private copyright,” as an 1888 decision put it."
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