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12 June 2020CopyrightB. Brett Heavner

Georgia ruling: end of the public-private partnership?

In his dissent to the US Supreme Court’s  Georgia v Public.Resource.Org decision in April, Justice Clarence Thomas cautioned that invalidating Georgia’s copyright in state code annotations will seriously “shock” the public-private legal publishing system used by about half of the states.

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