In a watershed ruling for public access to primary legal materials, the Supreme Court today held that the state of Georgia cannot claim a copyright in the annotations contained in its official legislative code.
The opinion in Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, Inc. is a victory for Carl Malamud and his organization Public.Resource.Org, which had published Georgia’s official statutes as part of its larger effort to make all primary legal materials freely available to the public.
But it is also a victory for public access more broadly, helping to ensure that members of the public have free and open access to state primary legal materials.
