An organization that pushes for transparency in government is being sued by the state of Georgia... for violating copyright law when the group posted Georgia's state statute online.

Georgia says the annotated version of its state laws belongs to a publisher... and legal experts say it's not the only state that has handed over those rights to a private company.

For more...KCBS Radio news anchor Rebecca Corral spoke with law professor Leslie Street. She's the Director of Mercer University's Law Library and has written a new law review article on the issue.