Re: copyright in legal documents

From: droe2 <droe2[_at_]earthlink.net>
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1999 10:46:13 -0400

On Thu, Oct 28, 1999, Thomas Workman <tworkman[_at_]erols.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> Not quite. Copyright law is federal law, and is supreme to any
> state law.

Oh? So then are you inferring that the Clerk of Court by obeying state law (making copies of the entire record) is violating federal law? How about legislators who copy constituent letters for anyone who asks for them?

Don Roemer
<droe2[_at_]earthlink.net> Received on Sat Oct 30 1999 - 14:49:19 GMT

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