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Construction code purveyor calls Supreme Court’s ruling that annotated code can’t be copyrighted ‘monumental’

April 29, 2020

Via: Construction Dive

In the dissenting opinion, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote that while statutes and regulations cannot be protected by copyright, “accompanying notes lacking legal force can be.” The state, he wrote, makes it clear that the annotations are not legally binding. How […]