Re: Jury Instructions & State Copyright

Chris Wren <cgwren[_at_]wisconsinlaw.com> wrote:
>
> Wisconsin's standard jury instructions have long been copyrighted by
> the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin, a publicly funded
> university. In addition, the Wisconsin judicial benchbooks, a series
> of lengthy publications written by taxpayer-supported committees of
> Wisconsin judges and designed to serve as "a distillation of the law
> as well as the experience, practice, and thought of many outstanding
> Wisconsin judges and attorneys" (preface to first edition), are
> copyrighted by the Office of Judicial Education, an arm of the Wisconsin
> Supreme Court, and published and sold by the State Bar of Wisconsin,
> another arm of the court.

Does anyone have case law citations wherein a state's right to copyright taxpayer financed documents has been upheld at the federal appellate level?

Leo Smith
<barter[_at_]ntplx.net> Received on Wed Mar 04 1998 - 16:58:04 GMT