A recent discussion on lawlib indicated that Bancroft-Whitney, a publisher of legal materials, decided to back out of a contract with the California Administrative Office of the Courts to put briefs filed by attorneys up on CD-ROM, stating that there was a copyright problem. It seems that the company believes that the individual lawyers who write the briefs have copyrights in them. This seems strange since the US Supreme Court briefs are routinely put online and available in microformats. Do briefs fall into the materials that are protected by copyright?
Dennis Austin
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Received on Fri Oct 11 1996 - 18:29:29 GMT
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