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Apparently they claim their format is copyrighted, not the laws Isaac Send a noteboard - 27/02/2010 05:20:26 AM
Which in all fairness seems like incredible bull too, but apparently has some rationale from the link you posted, comment 18:

"Although the Committee does not claim a copyright in the text of the law itself, the Committee does claim a copyright in the arrangement and subject-matter compilation of Oregon statutory law, the prefatory and explanatory notes, the leadlines and numbering for each statutory section, the tables, index and annotations and such other incidents as are the work product of the Committee in the compilation and publication of Oregon law. Many of these elements appear unchanged on your website, with no copyright notice or attribution given to the Committee. Moreover, at the bottom of each web page on which a segment of the Oregon Revised Statutes appears, Justia Inc. claims its own copyright."

The way you format and design non-copyright material CAN be copyrighted. Also, Justia doesn't seem to be able to work from a postion of good faith since they simply replaced the Committee's copyright notice with their own copyright.
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Oregon claims that its laws are copyrighted, so potentially yes. - 27/02/2010 05:04:27 AM 606 Views
Apparently they claim their format is copyrighted, not the laws - 27/02/2010 05:20:26 AM 405 Views
In a purely semantic and theoretical sense it probably could - 27/02/2010 05:41:16 AM 540 Views

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