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| February 2023 | Final legal briefs in the ongoing case were due, with ASTM et al. appealing the previous court decision to the D.C. Circuit. |
| March 2022 | Judge Tanya S. Chutkan issued an opinion allowing Public.Resource.Org to reproduce 184 standards under fair use, partially reproduce 1 standard, and deny reproduction of 32 standards that were found to differ substantively from those incorporated by law. |
| 2020 | The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that the Official Code of Georgia Annotated (OCGA) cannot be copyrighted, ultimately supporting Public.Resource.Org's position. |
| 2019 | Public.Resource.org collaborated with Jawaharlal Nehru University and Sci-Hub to gather a collection of research literature for data mining, sparking discussions about knowledge sharing and copyright restrictions. |
| 2018 | The D.C. Circuit reversed and remanded the previous court decision, holding that fair use doctrines had been improperly applied in the original ruling against Public.Resource.Org. |
| 2015 | Carl Malamud purchased a 186-volume hard copy of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated (OCGA) and published its contents on Public.Resource.Org, challenging the state's copyright claim. |
| 2013 | Public.Resource.Org was sued by the American Society for Testing and Materials, the National Fire Protection Association, and the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers for scanning and making available building codes and fire codes that these organizations claimed were their copyrighted property. |
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