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One is reminded of the legal fight over the public posting of Georgia's penal code.

• rootsudo 7y ago
  More info? I tried to google and I can't find any good links - was it that only people that could afford printed copies had access to the Law?
  • Geforce8472 7y ago
    Link here has some info about it: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20181019/12232640876/appeals-court-says-course-georgias-laws-including-annotations-are-not-protected-copyright-free-to-share.shtml https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20181019/12232640876/appea...
  • TeamTeaTime 7y ago
    https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/10/appeals-court-tells-georgia-state-code-cant-be-copyrighted https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/10/appeals-court-tells-ge... Basically there are annotations that are considered part of the law but they are behind copyright and can't be distributed in the way you expect public laws to be.