To: Roscoe
Court decisions as private property? No, but a compilation thereof may be.
4 posted on
09/06/2003 11:10:33 AM PDT by
TopQuark
To: TopQuark
I think there were decisions on this involving West Publishing. IIRC, the upshot is the text is not protected, but the headnotes, key number system, and West pagination is protected. Seems fair enough to me. Access to decisional law for free is fundamental to the rule of law.
5 posted on
09/06/2003 11:27:44 AM PDT by
CatoRenasci
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To: TopQuark
No, but a compilation thereof may be. That's not copyright.
22 posted on
09/06/2003 3:04:17 PM PDT by
Roscoe
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