On April 27, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court extended limits on the states’ ability to claim copyright protection over legislative materials and, specifically, over explanatory annotations added to ...
Last month, in Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, ___ S. Ct. ___, 2020 WL 1978707 (April 27, 2020), the U.S. Supreme Court held that, under the "government edicts doctrine," the annotations contained in ...
As a result, without the protection of the exclusive rights under copyright, it would be difficult for Georgia and the amici states to induce private companies to prepare the annotations, or the ...