Re: West loses major copyright decision

Andrew Martin <amartin[_at_]cancopy.com> wrote:
>
> What I find intriguing in these discussions is that no-one seems to be
> giving any thought to whether commercial publishers will continue with
> services that, effectively, can be ripped off by competitors, who have
> invested absolutely nothing. Leaving aside any desire to beat up on
> West, any your interests really advanced if the larger law publishers
> decide to abandon what are obviously, for practitioners and academics,
> key areas of publishing?

Assuming that one cannot establish a copyright-like protetction by license, isn't the principal result that publishers like West will have to compete on the basis of the value they add to opinions, rather than having an exclusive lock on the opinions themselves?

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Regards,

John Lederer
Oregon, Wisconsin
<johnl[_at_]ibm.net>

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