Re: copyright in legal documents

From: Cumbow, Robert <RCumbow[_at_]GrahamDunn.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 10:38:27 -0700

On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Don Roemer <droe2[_at_]earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> In my state ANYTHING filed in the public record is not only open to
> view but can lawfully be copied per the law and state constitution.

Surely not ANYTHING! Putting aside the obvious case of evidence filed under seal, what about a situation in which evidence entered into the record consists, for example, of published sound recordings, or a published book or article, or previously unpublished letters ... surely none of these things springs into the public domain merely by virtue of having been made part of a public record ... ?

Bob

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