The state of Georgia’s annotated version of state law cannot be protected under copyright law and sold for more than $400 a copy, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday. The decision resolves hotly ...

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5–4 today that the state of Georgia can't claim copyright over its annotated code. The ruling is a victory for Carl Malamud, an open government activist who posted the ...

Who owns the law in Georgia? On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court will take up that question as the justices consider whether the annotated version of Georgia code is protected under copyright law or ...

"The law should be available for the public to access," said state Rep. Chuck Efstration, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. "I'm happy to report annotations are now available online along ...

Amy Swearer is a senior legal fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies. The state of Georgia has one, and only one, official set of laws: the Official ...

On December 2, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in the matter of Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, Inc. The issue on appeal was on whether annotations to the Official Code of the State of ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday said it would decide whether states may impose copyright protection on annotated codes of law and other state and local legal materials. In Georgia v.

If you want to read the official laws of the state of Georgia, it will cost you more than $1,000. Open-records activist Carl Malamud bought a hard copy, and it cost him $1,207.02 after shipping and ...

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights yesterday unveiled the first ever annotated version of Cambodia’s Code of Criminal Procedure, a tool they say could ultimately promote stronger ...

WASHINGTON — Carl Malamud believes in open access to government records, and he has spent more than a decade putting them online. You might think states would welcome the help. But when Mr. Malamud’s ...