On Thu, 29 May 1997, 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?
In the case of publishing court opinions, I cannot imagine a situtation where opinions would not be published, if not by West or a private publisher, by the courts themselves. The particular area of concern about judical opinions concerns the "ownership" of an essential and core public document -- the law the public has to obey.
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