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by John W. Simek, Vice President of Sensei Enterprises, Inc.

The Law is Not Copyrightable

February 8, 2016

At least that's what Ed Walters of Fastcase believes. To back up that belief, Fastcase has filed a lawsuit against Casemaker in the U.S. District Court in Atlanta. According to our friend and colleague Bob Ambrogi, "Casemaker's parent company, Lawriter, has an agreement with the Georgia Secretary of State designating it as the exclusive publisher of the Georgia Rules and Regulations and giving it the right to license that content to other publishers." It seems pretty crazy to me that Casemaker thinks it has an exclusive right to provide court data to the public. Just because some states don't have the budget dollars to post court information online for the public shouldn't mean that the service provider owns the data.

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