> 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?
Of course.
Prof. Steven D. Jamar
Dir. LRW Program
Howard University School of Law
2900 Van Ness Street NW
Washington, D.C. 20008
sjamar[_at_]law.howard.edu voice: 202-806-8017 fax 202-806-8428
Received on Mon Oct 14 1996 - 14:06:12 GMT
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0 : Mon Mar 26 2007 - 00:35:22 GMT