heptagonprime’s Comments

• Aug 1st, 2013 @ 8:25am

  Re: Interesting

  on Georgia Claims Its Annotated Laws Are Covered By Copyright, Threatens Carl Malamud For Publishing The Law
  LexisNexis is the official publisher. It does not claim ownership of the law and specifically states that the copyright remains with the State of Georgia.
  
  The letters in the article make no mention of LexisNexis. They are essentially just the hosting company. He is also not hosting what Lexis Nexis has online. The site just has the code. He is in fact hosting a scanned copy of the annotated code. If you look at the scanned code that he actually hosts, it has a copyright for the State of Georgia on it.
• Jul 31st, 2013 @ 3:40pm

  Re: Re: Interesting . . . But does Georgia even own the copyright?

  on Georgia Claims Its Annotated Laws Are Covered By Copyright, Threatens Carl Malamud For Publishing The Law
  Almost all state expenditures can be found here:
  http://open.ga.gov/index.html
  
  There are other contract sites but I cannot find them just yet.
  
  I think the issue is being confused though. OCGA is not secret. The State just wants to be the one who is in control of the publication of the code.
• Jul 31st, 2013 @ 12:25pm

  Re: Duh! It's Georgia

  on Georgia Claims Its Annotated Laws Are Covered By Copyright, Threatens Carl Malamud For Publishing The Law
  It would be really great if you could point out what these laws are. You can see O.C.G.A here: http://www.lexisnexis.com/hottopics/gacode/
  
  I don't think Georgia has anymore stupid laws than any other state. In fact, due to higher oversight due to our less than spectacular past, we have cleaned a lot of it up and repudiated old laws. There are also harsher penalties for sex trafficking of minors and a ban on female circumcision.