The Law Should Be Free

Sara Benson
Nov 6 · 2 min read

The Supreme Court has its hands full of copyright cases this term. One, which I wrote about earlier, is about Blackbeard the pirate (truly!), but the other one is about the law itself. That’s right. The question the Court must answer is this: should the law, including annotations to the law performed for the State, be free? Not sure yet? Let me explain.

The case started because Carl Malamud strongly believes in the principle that all law should be free to view, use, and in the public domain. Indeed, mostly the law is settled on that point — mostly. Under the government edicts doctrine…

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