Georgia Tells Supreme Court Law Annotations Are Copyrightable

Mealey's (August 28, 2019, 9:29 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Filing its opening merits brief in a dispute over whether annotations accompanying published versions of state laws are copyrightable, the state of Georgia on Aug. 23 argued to the U.S. Supreme Court that because the annotations are distinct from the laws themselves, and as such lack the force of law, they are not rendered ineligible for copyright protection under the government edicts doctrine (Georgia, et al. v. Public.Resource.Org Inc., No. 18-1150, U.S. Sup.)....