Georgia is suing Public.Resource.Org over a claim of copyright infringement for publishing state copyright laws on the organization's website. The way they see it, the state holds the rights to their annotated copyright laws, and PRO is violating the state's rights by republishing them; thus sounding the dinner-bell for the lawyers.
Georgia claims that a legal rebel, Public.Resource.org, is publishing and making it easy for others to copy the physical text and accompanying annotations of Georgia's state law—the Official Code of Georgia Annotated.
"We had a similar showdown with Oregon but no court case," Carl Malamud, a Californian and the man behind the site, told Ars. "They did the civilized thing and held hearings and then decided that the law belongs to the people."
And while Oregon's busy being a "model for the nation", Georgia's got no such distractions. They have other priorities:
Enforcing copyright law on copies of the copyright law ensuring that people do not have access to the copyright law causing people to violate copyright law, by claiming copies of the copyright law are a violation of the copyright law.
Wonder if they've been thinking that "Catch-22" was a "how-to" manual....
