Practice question
A publisher prints the official text of a statute with original explanatory annotations. It claims copyright over the statute's words merely because they appear in its book. Which is best?
- Publication makes the statute privately owned
- Every annotation is necessarily unprotected
- The book's price creates copyright in legislation
- The official text remains excluded, while original annotations may have their own protection
- The publisher may forbid everyone from reading the law
Legal references
- RA 8293, Sections 172-175: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1997/ra_8293_1997.html
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