U.S. Supreme Court,
Intellectual Property
Apr. 28, 2020
US Supreme Court finds states can’t copyright laws
The court found the protections cited by the plaintiff in a case involving a publication of Georgia’s legal codes only extend to annotations representing “an original work of authorship.”
The state of Georgia can't copyright the entirety of its legal codes, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday in a 5-4 decision that intellectual property attorneys say could impact states with similar stances.
The Official Code of Georgia Annotated, or OCGA, is a privately prepared compendium of state statutes currently in force as well as other non-binding supplementary materials. It differs from many of its counterparts in other stat...
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