New York Times, September 29, by Noam Cohen
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/29/business/media/29link.html
“The law is pretty clear that laws and judicial opinions and regulations are not protected by copyright laws,” said Pamela Samuelson, a professor at Boalt Hall School of Law…. “That isn’t to say that people aren’t going to try.” A favorite method of trying, as Ms. Samuelson and other legal scholars explain, is to copyright the accoutrements surrounding the public material.