[10007] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
RE: West sued by Matthew Bender
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James Love)
Thu Feb 3 22:43:38 1994
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 1994 22:42:25 -0500 (EST)
From: James Love <love@essential.org>
To: cohnen@rockvax.rockefeller.edu
Cc: sugarman@panix.com, COM-PRIV@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <00979855.F7B3B1E0.30257@RUVMS2.ROCKEFELLER.EDU>
On Thu, 3 Feb 1994, Stuart Cohnen wrote:
> Subject: RE: West sued by Matthew Bender
>
> Who cares? What's this got to do with the com-priv list?
> We're too busy knocking ANS to worry about a few sharks (I mean
> lawyers) and what they are doing!
The West copyright of federal legal citations is an important issue
for all those who are interested in access to legal information, and also
for those who want the opportunty to become publishers of legal
information products or services, such as expert systems or legal
databases which are organized around specific legal issues
(such as communications law).
Mathew Bender is a major publisher, and the NY case will be very
important. West will likely spend quite a bit, and the "law" that is
made will have broad impacts far beyond legal information, since it will
address issues of how private parties claim private property rights to
databases of government information (through various claims of value
added activities).
jamie
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