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Is it a copyright infringment to reprint state laws?

Asked on Jan 23rd, 2014 on Intellectual Property - Texas
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Can I reprint laws (state statues) and publish them in a book for sale.
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Intellectual Property Attorney serving Manchester, NH at Hayes Soloway P.C.
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Works of government employees in carrying out their work are not protected by copyright law. This would include statutes and court opinions. There is copyright protection in how a private business compiles the statutes or court opinions. West Law puts Keynotes on their printing of statutes and court opinions to provide a form of executive summary. That content is theirs. I mention this only as a word of caution, if you are going to copy the state statues from a given location, check for copyright notices to make sure you are not copying a compilation of a private company. Good luck, Todd
Answered on Jan 27th, 2014 at 3:50 PM

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