The Real Paul Jones (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
Shava Nerad gets Boing Boing and Google News love for her post at Gather “Iconoclasm: Wall Street — the chickens come home to roost” (September 15 - but getting much more attention today). Carl Malamud and Public.Resource.org get serious NYTimes attention in “Who Owns the Law? Arguments May Ensue” as he battles to keep the laws [...]
Law Librarian Blog (Free subscription) | 09/26/2008
Carl Malamud on Open Government Data. Check out CNET's profile of Carl Malamud in Tech activist takes on governments over 'copyrighted' laws. See also PublicResource.org's statement of open government data principles which give his work and the great Lego animation...
WisBlawg - From the UW Law Library (Free subscription) | 09/25/2008
Thanks to Greg Lambert for passing on this CNet article about open-law activist, Carl Malamud. He's devoted his life to liberating laws, regulations, court cases, and the other myriad detritus that governments produce daily, but often lock up in proprietary...
Law Librarian Blog (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
One of our favorite public access activists Carl Malamud is being sued for copyright infringement by the State of California for posting the California Code of Regulations on Public.Resource.org. "We exercise our copyright to benefit the people of California," Linda...
Justia Legal Marketing Blog (Free subscription) | 09/08/2008
Hi Friends,As many of you know (at least those in the Open Government & Law Groups), Free Public Information Hero Carl Malamud and Public.Resource.org have been working to get state codes, building codes, electrical codes and other state and city...
Virtual Library Cat's Eye View (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
There was a good article in the Times last week about Carl Malamud's effort to makes laws and regulations, including things like building codes, available for free online. It's worth checking out for anyone interested in how copyright law relates to government information. (There is more on whether states can copyright their laws on this Harvard blog .) Ernster, the Virtual Library Cat...
The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
Carl Malamud , who for years has been trying to let you have Internet access to government documents that you supposedly should have access to, is making news again. You now have Internet access to federal court decisions, Securities and Exchange Commission documents, patent documents, congressional bills and copyright registrations. This was not the case all that long ago, and you can...
Law Librarian Blog (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
Carl Malamud, President & CEO Public.Resource.Org, is in negotiations with the Government Printing Office to obtain an electronic copy of the Code of Federal Regulations. According to his request, Public.Resource.Org intends to make the CFR "available in raw format on...
MAKE: Blog (Free subscription) | 09/27/2008
The online operating manual for your government is now more complete... Not the type of "code" we're usually posing here! From a paper-choked sublet office in Sebastopol, Carl Malamud is operating a kind of nonprofit Napster, with offerings a little less sexy than the music of Metallica, Dr. Dre and Green Day. Example: 404.1. All plumbing fixtures, other than water closets and urinals,...
Furdlog (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
... your hands. [...] “So many people have been moving into the public domain and putting up fences,” [Carl Malamud] said in an interview from his office in Sebastopol, Calif., where he runs a one-man operation, public.resource.org , on a budget of about $1 million a year. Much of that money goes to buy material, usually in print form, that he then scans into his computer and makes available...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 09/27/2008
From a paper-choked sublet office in Sebastopol, Carl Malamud is operating a kind of nonprofit Napster, with offerings a little less sexy than the music of Metallica, Dr. Dre and Green Day. Example: 404.1. All plumbing fixtures, other than water closets and...
Cnet (Free subscription) | 09/25/2008
In the 1990s, Carl Malamud prompted the SEC and Patent Office to put their databases online. Now he's focusing more broadly on liberating government data, which is often sold for a princely sum.
LexLibris (Free subscription) | 09/23/2008
Carl Malamud and Public.Resource.Org, Inc. is at work again, freeing what should be free. He has purchased the Code of Federal Regulations from GPO and is making it publicly available without charge. This is the raw, SGML and images version that GPO sells for over $17,000. Carl says: Our intent in purchasing this product is to make it available in raw format on the Internet for...
Governing.com: 13th Floor (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
Posted by Ellen Perlman Carl Malamud of Sebastopol, California, is a lawbreaker, a miscreant, a reprobate. Get this. He photocopies state laws and regulations! Yes, you heard me correctly. Get this man off the streets! (But keep him out of...
Computerworld Blogs (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
... are part of what's called the Matrix, and, no, I don't mean the movie. The Matrix, as defined by Carl Malamud, is the superset of all interconnected networks. Now, unlike then, you can get to these networks over the Internet, but you'll find yourself blocked from getting very deep into them without permission. As for the Internet itself, it didn't really have search tools then. It...
