Adam Liptak has an important piece on p A14 of the New
York Times, “Is it legal to post state laws online?”
Carl Malamud published the official code of Georgia
online, along with annotations.
The state sued for copyright infringement, and the
case seems on the way to the US Supreme Court.
The start actually argued that publishing the law
could be a step toward “terrorism”.
To be fair to the state, it is possible that some of the
annotations are supposed to be paid for, as the state has no problem with
republishing the law itself.
But wouldn’t a government analysis be public domain?
There is discussion in the article of “privatization
of the law”.
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