Electronic Frontier Foundation has an important post
Jan, 14, 2014 by Corynne McSherry about keeping the text of statutory law and
court opinions in the public domain. The
link is here. Federal court opinions generally live behind a
clumsy paywall (although some circuits and district courts do publish their
opinions) – an issue that led in part to Aaron Swartz’s activity.
Now a couple organizations trying to make these
public legal documents free (Public Resource), and the
Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton (link) have been sued by a consortium of
standards-development organizations (SDO’s) that claim that these legal texts
came from copyrighted private sources.
Imagine, had either of the two proposed constitutional
amendments in the last chapter of my DADT-1 book really been adopted, could I
still have copyrighted them?
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