Legal Opinion
Veeck v. Southern Building Code Congress International, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided June 10, 2002No. 99-40632PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EDITH H. JONES, Circuit Judge:
The issue in this en banc case is the extent to which a private organization may assert copyright protection for its model codes, after the models have been adopted by a legislative body and become “the law”. Specifically, may a code-writing organization prevent a website operator from posting the text of a model code where the code is identified simply as the building code of a city that enacted the model code as law? Our short answer is that as law, the model codes enter the public domain and are not subject to the copyright holder’s exclusive prerogatives. As…
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