New answers tagged case-law
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Can a court’s decision be copyrighted?
Not in brazil. Law 9.610/98 (our copyright law):
Art. 8º Não são objeto de proteção como direitos autorais de que trata
esta Lei:
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IV - os textos de tratados ou convenções, leis, decretos,
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Can a court’s decision be copyrighted?
united-kingdom
Generally the UK judgments available from the Courts and Tribunals Judicary website and BAILII are asserted to be Crown copyright and licensed for use under the Open Government Licence.
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Can a court’s decision be copyrighted?
No in united-states
The court is part of the trifecta of government - it's part of the Judicative. The government can not have copyright in its works: 17 USC 105 declares such papers to be without ...
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Can a court’s decision be copyrighted?
new-south-wales
Not only can it be, it is copyright
Copyright in judicial decisions continues to reside in the State pursuant to the Copyright in Judicial Decisions Notice 1995 (NSW).
There is a ...
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Where can one find the full decisional text of R v Hale (1979) 68 Cr App R 415, [1979] Crim. L.R. 596?
The Criminal Appeal Reports and Criminal Law Review are commercially published, by Thomson Reuters and Sweet & Maxwell respectively. They are not freely available on the internet; paid access to ...
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Can a court’s decision be copyrighted?
In slovakia, it cannot:
§ 5 par. b) of the copyright law 185/2015 Z. z. says explicitely:
Za predmet autorského práva sa nepovažuje
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b) text právneho predpisu, úradné rozhodnutie alebo súdne ...
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Can a judge make it case law that 2×2=5?
Courts do not rule on either physical reality or basic math. If a judge/jury were to find that 2 apples + 2 apples = 5 apples, that would not allow you to put 2 apples on one end of a table, 2 apples ...
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Can a judge make it case law that 2×2=5?
united-states
Will the judge not face any disciplinary consequences but just public
outcry and reputation damages?
The judge will be absolutely immune from civil liability for this decision. A ...
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