Info/Law

Last spring, I blogged here about the State of Oregon’s attempt to assert copyright over the language and organization of the statutes enacted by its legislature — an attempt that seemed to contradict over 100 years of precedent recognizing that state and federal laws are in the public domain. That particular story ended happily, with the state declaring magnanimously that it “would not enforce” a right that it never actually possessed.

Now California, it seems, hopes to succeed where Oregon failed. Coverage of the state’s assertion of copyright over its statutes is available on Slashdot and Techdirt and in an editorial by the Santa Rosa Press Democrat. Stay tuned!

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