11th Circuit: No Copyright Protection For Georgia Code Annotations

Mealey's (October 22, 2018, 1:30 PM EDT) -- ATLANTA — In an Oct. 19 ruling, the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals found that “no valid copyright interest can be asserted in any part” of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated (OCGA) because “the People are the owners of these works,” which are thus “intrinsically public domain material” (Code Revision Commission v. Public.Resource.Org, No. 17-11589, 11th Cir., 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 29511)....