Georgia ruling: end of the public-private partnership?
In his dissent to the US Supreme Court’s Georgia v Public.Resource.Org decision in April, Justice Clarence Thomas cautioned that invalidating Georgia’s copyright in state code annotations will seriously “shock” the public-private legal publishing system used by about half of the states.
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28 April 2020 State bodies and legislators cannot own the copyright to any works produced in the course of their official duties as lawmakers, the US Supreme Court has ruled.
25 June 2019 The US Supreme Court is to decide whether states can hold copyright protection on annotated codes of law, in the case Georgia v Public.Resource.Org.