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Code is law: Carl Malamud has posted a whole bunch of state codes on PublicResource.org. Need the Alaska Fire Code? The Denver Mechanical Code? How about the Michigan Plumbing Code? If we are so interested in open source computer code, what about open source law? Public...; Tags: Code, Standards, Carl Malamud, Quality, Open Source, Business Operations, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-09-02
Congressional hearings now safe for the Web: Following a report in the New York Times ZD Government post here that video of US House and Senate hearings are actually the intellectual property of C-Span, which uses its own equipment to record the sessions by agreement with the government, programmer Carl Malamud hacked up a way to capture...; Tags: Government technology, Congress; Blog posts 2007-02-27

Courts' PACER system hides law, exposes private data: Sunlight is said to be the best disinfectant. Electric light is the most efficient policeman. It has always been my view that when the people of this Nation watch their Government in action, they come to better understand how our governing institutions work and equip themselves to hold those institutions...; Tags: Private Data, Law, Court, E-government, Social Security, Telecom & Utilities, Government, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2009-04-09
Oregon says its law is copyright: Carl Malamud at resource.org and Tim Stanley at Justia are fighting off cease and desist letters from the State of Oregon. The state is asserting a copyright interest in the state code, even though the law is by definition public domain. After a conference call in which...; Tags: Oregon, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-05-13
Archive of court decisions in need of Web 2.0 applications: My local paper has a piece about Carl Malamud's court.gov project, which thus far has uploaded 1.8 million Supreme Court and federal opinions to the Web. Apparently, this is one of Carl's primary missions these days, to make court decisions, which are public domain, as available...; Tags: Web, Annotation, Malamud, Lexis, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-02-13

Changing the way we find, reference, and talk about the law: Tim O'Reilly and John Markoff have good writeups on public.resource.org, which aims among other things to create "an unencumbered repository of all [U.S.] federal and state case law and codes." In a letter to legal publisher Thomson/West, public.resource.org President and CEO Carl Malamud seeks clarity as to the extent...; Tags: Blogging, Denise Howell, Internet, Law, Online Communications, Search, Wiki; Blog posts 2007-08-22
An open source tax credit?: John Irons and Carl Malamud right, both fellows at the liberal Center for American Progress think tank, have developed a proposal they call the Open Source Tax Credit. The idea is that corporations can write-off their work developing software in many ways, but individuals can't. And they should.While I hate...; Tags: open source; Blog posts 2006-03-17

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