Mealey's (March 14, 2019, 10:46 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Appealing a ruling by the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals that deemed the Official Code of Georgia Annotated (OCGA) not copyrightable, the state of Georgia on March 1 filed a petition for certiorari with the U.S. Supreme Court, arguing that the ruling improperly expanded the scope of the government edicts doctrine and deepened an already existing circuit split over whether annotations accompanying laws can be copyrighted (Georgia, et al. v. Public.Resource.Org Inc., No. 18-1150, U.S. Sup.)....