Barry
04-27-2020, 10:02 PM
A Sebastopol company, https://public.resource.org/, just won a 5-4 Supreme Court ruling "that under the so-called government edicts doctrine, lawmakers are not authors of the statutes they produce" (https://www.courthousenews.com/supreme-court-rules-states-cant-copyright-annotated-laws/), including and annotations of the law by the legislature, are not copyrightable, and thus remain free.
See more about this ruling here (https://www.courthousenews.com/supreme-court-rules-states-cant-copyright-annotated-laws/) and here on SCOTUSblog
(https://www.scotusblog.com/2020/04/opinion-analysis-sharply-divided-bench-rejects-georgias-copyright-in-annotations-of-georgia-statutes/)Congrats and thank you to Carl Malamud (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Malamud)!
Of particular note is the scrambling of the traditional left/right split of the justices with the Chief Justice Roberts joining the majority of Sotomayor, Kagan, Kavanagh and Gosurch versus the minority of Ginsberg, briar, Alioto and Thomas.
https://www.waccobb.net/forums/waccobb/keep90days/2020-04-27_21-59-07.png
Thanks to Wacco member Thad, who brought this to my attention! (https://www.waccobb.net/forums/showthread.php?133614-If-the-law-is-the-operating-system-of-our-country-show-me-the-manual&p=234204#post234204) :tiphat:
See more about this ruling here (https://www.courthousenews.com/supreme-court-rules-states-cant-copyright-annotated-laws/) and here on SCOTUSblog
(https://www.scotusblog.com/2020/04/opinion-analysis-sharply-divided-bench-rejects-georgias-copyright-in-annotations-of-georgia-statutes/)Congrats and thank you to Carl Malamud (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Malamud)!
Of particular note is the scrambling of the traditional left/right split of the justices with the Chief Justice Roberts joining the majority of Sotomayor, Kagan, Kavanagh and Gosurch versus the minority of Ginsberg, briar, Alioto and Thomas.
https://www.waccobb.net/forums/waccobb/keep90days/2020-04-27_21-59-07.png
Thanks to Wacco member Thad, who brought this to my attention! (https://www.waccobb.net/forums/showthread.php?133614-If-the-law-is-the-operating-system-of-our-country-show-me-the-manual&p=234204#post234204) :tiphat: