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November 27, 2007
Expanding the info commons
Do people still speak of "the info commons"?
Carl Malamud and PublicResource.Org are doing wonderful, wonderful things. Here's something very new and very useful:
Public.Resource.Org and Fastcase, Inc. announced ... that they will release a large and free archive of federal case law, including all Courts of Appeals decisions from 1950 to the present and all Supreme Court decisions since 1754. The archive will be public domain and usable by anyone for any purpose....
The agreement calls for definitive paperwork approved by both parties within 30 days with Public.Resource.Org making developer snapshots of the archive available in early 2008. Public.Resource.Org is represented by the Electronic Frontier Foundation in this transaction. The cases will be marked with a new Creative Commons mark—CC-Ø—that signals that there are no copyrights or other related rights attached to the content.
Posted by misseli at 02:39 PM
November 09, 2007
An unrelated snippet
This has almost nothing to do with librarianship. If you can see a relationship, you're a better thinker than I, Gunga Din ...
But, this is the first writing I've done "in a legal context" that is being seen by more than just a single prof. So, this is a bit of a milestone for me. I think the term of art for the appropriate response is ... Woot!
Posted by misseli at 10:08 AM