Sued for copyright infringement for putting legal materials online
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#2Really the abuse of "terrrorism" so blatantly even by the standards of a government should qualify for some pretty damn harsh defamation law to the officials trying to hide behind the state. Those sorts of abuses of power are the kind of thing where we actually do need to be "tough on crime" for if we wish to be remotely free.
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#3Note: Georgia's lawyers called it a "strategy of terrorism". Carl Malamud is not being charged with terrorism. This is a copyright case as it pertains to official state law.
Claiming "terrorism" is a significant detriment to the story.
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#4I do not understand this story. How can law be "under copyright"?
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#5"Malamud" you say?
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#6This hyperbole on the part of the state is dangerous. It reminds of of lifetime flagging individuals as “sexual predators” and then learning that some state will use this for people convicted of public urination.
It makes going to the source very important as my previous reasoning used to be “Are you against Terrorism/Sexual Predation? Yes. Cool, here’s how we deal with it.”
Now is much more labor intensive as it’s now “are you against Terrorism/Sexual Predation? Well, that depends on the particulars...”
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#7I do not understand this story. How can law be "under copyright"?
Frequently the letter of the law itself is publicly available, but there are also significant annotations and explanations that form the real body of the law/code as used by the courts, law enforcement, etc. It is these annotations that are copyrighted by the large legal companies contracted to write, compile and publish them. For that reason it is a common occurrence that the version of the law citizens are held to is not a version of the law that is freely available.
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#8Carl Malamud does very important work. You can fund Public.Resource.Org at
https://public.resource.org/about/donate.html
A recurring monthly donation is probably most valuable to them (see "Other Donation Options").
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#9I do not understand this story. How can law be "under copyright"?
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#10I do not understand this story. How can law be "under copyright"?
So you want to copyright your laws, but the SCOTUS said "NO!"...
What you do is you pack your laws into something else for example a new fancy construct you have just build. Let's call that new construct "bubbles". So your law is now inside your bubbles and you put copyright on you bubbles... Until the SCOTUS says "NO!" again.
It's 3y/o playing government for their business friends.