The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit upheld a lower court’s ruling that it is fair use to copy and disseminate building codes that have been incorporated into federal and state law, even though those codes are developed by private parties who claim copyright in them. The court followed the suggestions EFF and others presented in an amicus brief, and joined a growing list of courts that have placed public access to the law over private copyright holders’ desire for control.
How is that case related to the article? The article is about paywalling law texts, which is quite different from privately owned texts.
The access was exclusively private. The information he got got for was case law. What the law literally is.
Ah yes, the Pacer case. Though that’s separate from the JSTOR case, which Swartz is most known for.
How the thugs justify their murder isnt my concern given that it all just comes down to stealing from me to murder people some of whom will eventually be me.
Privately owned texts about precedent, what the (case) law literally is.