Source: http://copyright.lib.harvard.edu/states/maryland/
Timestamp: 2019-04-20 09:19:14+00:00

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The Maryland state code is in a public-access portal run by Lexis-Nexis, which does not allow direct linking. To access specific parts of the state code, go to the initial disclaimer page and search or navigate.
Maryland has had some form of public records law since the 1800s. See Belt v. Prince George's Cnty. Abstract Co., 73 Md. 289, 20 A. 982 (1890). Access to government records in Maryland is determined by the Public Information Act (PIA).
PIA does not permit a records custodian to condition access to records on the requestor's disclosure of the purpose of the request. Md. GP § 4-204. Some records, however, may not be provided for commercial purposes, Md. GP § 4-355(b), and restrictions on use also apply to several specific types of records; see chapters 2 and 3 of the Maryland Public Information Act Manual.
Maryland Attorney General, Maryland Public Information Act, available at http://www.oag.state.md.us/Opengov/pia.htm.
Reporter's Committee for Freedom of the Press, Open Government Guide: Access to Public Records and Meetings in Maryland, available at http://www.rcfp.org/rcfp/orders/docs/ogg/MD.pdf.
Maryland State Archives, available at http://msa.maryland.gov/.
Maryland State Law Library, available at http://www.lawlib.state.md.us/.
Belt v. Prince George's Cnty. Abstract Co., 73 Md. 289, 20 A. 982 (1890).
Md. Code Ann., State Gov't § 4-101.
Md. Code Ann., State Gov't § 4-204.
Md. Code Ann., State Gov't § 4-313.
Md. Code Ann., State Gov't § 10-616.
MD LOCAL GOVT § 1-401, available at http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmStatutesText.aspx?article=glg&section=1-401&ext=html&session=2015RS&tab=subject5.
Md. Code Ann., Agric. § 10-502.
Md. Code Ann., Cts. & Jud. Proc. § 13-203.
MD PUBLIC UTIL § 17-205.
Md. Code Ann., Lab. & Empl. § 11-705.
Wicomico County Spatial Data License Agreement, available at http://www.esrgc.org/pdf/wico_data/wico_la.pdf.
Edward A. Pisacreta & Jonathan P. Mollod, Licensing and Commercialization Issues for Geographic Data, 45 Les Nouvelles 1, 5 (2010).
 Judicial opinions cannot be copyrighted. The Supreme Court in Banks v. Manchester, 128 U.S. 244, 9 S. Ct. 36, 32 L. Ed. 425 (1888) invalidated an asserted copyright by a private publisher, an Ohio citizen, for copyright in the state court reports, holding that any content written by a judge cannot be copyrighted because "[t]he whole work done by the judges constitutes the authentic exposition and interpretation of the law, which, binding every citizen, is free for publication to all, whether it is a declaration of unwritten law, or an interpretation of a constitution or a statute." See also Nash v. Lathrop, 142 Mass. 29, 35, 6 N.E. 559, 560 (1886) and Wheaton v. Peters, 33 U.S. 591, 668, 8 L. Ed. 1055 (1834). Only materials ancillary to the court opinion such as the "title-page, table of cases, head notes, statements of facts, arguments of counsel, and index" may be copyrighted. Callaghan v. Myers, 128 U.S. 617, 649, 9 S. Ct. 177, 185, 32 L. Ed. 547 (1888).

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