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Re:State of Georgia sues Public Resource for posting their s... by cgtyoder on Wednesday July 22, 2015 @09:38PM (#9933485)
If GA hired LN to produce an annotated code, then that means the annotations are owned by Georgia, which means they are public record and not therefore copyrightable.
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Re:State of Georgia sues Public Resource for posting their s... by rimunroe on Thursday July 23, 2015 @09:38AM (#9935609)
Documents produced by or for a state or federal government are not automatically public record.
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Re:State of Georgia sues Public Resource for posting their s... by cgtyoder on Thursday July 23, 2015 @09:50AM (#9935682)
Yes, you are right I should have said public documents to be more precise. "Public record" is different than "copyrightable" which is what the issue is about. Public documents, that is owned by the state aka the people, cannot be copyrighted.

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