Open gov advocates face obstacles when publishing state codes

Transparency advocates in the U.S. are facing legal obstacles to moving state codes online.

Though the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 200 years ago that government work can’t be copyrighted, a tug of war between private companies with contracts to publish state codes and open government activists has raised questions about the ruling’s scope. Continue…

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