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Wut?

• alsetmusic 9y ago
  They were referencing this: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/03/public-records-activist-violated-copyright-by-publishing-georgia-legal-code-online/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/03/public-records-a...
• lovich 9y ago
  The text of Georgias law is publicly available, but there is a version with annotations from legal precendents that is considered necessary to understand the law as it is currently interpreted. LexisNexis collates those annotations for the state of Georgia and maintains a copyright on the annotations, you cannot access them without paying. The government in Georgia feel this is perfectly acceptable as you can tehcnically access the law even though, in practice, you have no idea
  • rayiner 9y ago
    The annotated version is freely available: http://www.lexisnexis.com/hottopics/gacode/default.asp http://www.lexisnexis.com/hottopics/gacode/default.asp. What the kerfuffle is about is that the State of Georgia has (1) Georgia law is highly unusual in giving the annotations authoritative force; (2) the State of Georgia has asserted copyright over the annotated version.
    • lovich 9y ago
      ah my mistake
    • jonathanwallace 9y ago
      It depends upon what you mean by "free." There are limitations on what you may do with the "freely" available version.
• amigoingtodie 9y ago
  https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/03/public-records-activist-violated-copyright-by-publishing-georgia-legal-code-online/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/03/public-records-a...