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."
Issues and developments related to Intellectual Property (e.g. Copyright, Fair Use, Patents, Trademarks, Trade Secrets) and Open Movements (e.g. Open Access, Open Data, Open Educational Resources (OER)), examined in the "Intellectual Property and Open Movements" and "Ethics of Data, Information, and Emerging Technologies" graduate courses I teach at the University of Pittsburgh School of Computing and Information. -- Kip Currier, PhD, JD
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