State Jury Instructions Should Be Free

By: dmc-admin//February 4, 2008//

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It seems to me that standard jury instructions should be free of charge, available on the Internet, and neither private parties nor non-profit groups should be able to copyright them and charge for them. The Seventh Circuit’s instructions are available for free on the Internet; why not Wisconsin’s? I’m no expert in copyright law, so I don’t know whether a lawsuit challenging such a copyright would have merit. If I’m completely off-base here, let me know (politely of course), but I think it would be great if the Court were to find the University of Wisconsin’s copyright invalid.

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