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This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Wednesday, December 18th, 2019.

I'm Caleb Brown.

What happens when the laws, the rules that govern you and your decisions are, in a sense,

behind a paywall.

In the case of Georgia v Public Resource.org, that's one of the issues at stake.

But according to Cato's Trevor Burris, a co-author of Cato's brief in that case, there

are some good reasons to believe this case is a closer

call than you might expect.

So Timothy B. Lee, formerly of the Cato Institute wrote in 2006 about what he termed the perverse

consequences of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and this notion that giving exclusivity over certain important things that the public

by all rights ought to have access to is at the very least severely

problematic. So here we are in 2019. What is the case of Georgia v Public Resource.org and what's implicated?

Well, the state of Georgia of course has a code of laws and it has what's called an

annotated code and anyone has ever been to law school

appreciates an annotated code it's not it's not just the laws written down to

...