Bill Rankin, Atlanta Journal Constitution; Who owns the law in Georgia?
"“If the (appeals court’s) decision is affirmed, publishers will no
longer be able to rely on sales of copyrighted works to recoup their
costs for preparing annotations,” said Johnson, also a Washington
attorney. “Therefore, states will either need to use taxpayer dollars to
pay the publishers or stop offering annotated versions of their
official codes.”
Thirteen states and the District of Columbia offered similar sentiments in a legal brief filed with the high court...
Malamud’s case has received support in friend-of-the-court briefs
filed by a wide variety of groups, including the American Library
Association, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Intellectual
Property Association and the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the
Press, which was joined by Gannett Co., the Los Angeles Times and The
New York Times.
“If the First Amendment requires public access to
criminal trials so that citizens may oversee and participate in
government, then citizens must also have access to the laws that
organize their society (and that form the basis of those criminal
trials),” the media organizations said.""
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