Insight: High Court Copyright Ruling Raises Law Access Questions

The Supreme Court’s invalidation of Georgia’s copyright on its annotations in state code will have a huge impact on copyright for government works for decades to come, writes Bashar H. Malkawi, dean and professor of law at University of Sharjah, UAE.

Against the current trend we have seen over the past decades, copyright can and should be curtailed in some circumstances against monopoly. The U.S. Supreme Court just did that when, on April 20, in Georgia vs. Public.Resource.org it held that the official version of the law cannot be copyrighted.