Carl Malamud, the founder of of Public.Resource.Org, believes that public domain information should be free. In the New York Times Sunday edition there was a story about
Public Resource's latest project: a database that will contain all of US caselaw - more than 10 million pages - that will be freely available online. The project website just went live yesterday.
This is just one of Public Resource's ambitious project, an organization whose purposes are "to create, architect, design, implement, operate and maintain public works projects on the Internet for Educational, Charitable, and Scientific Purposes to the benefit of the general public and the public interest; to increase and diffuse knowledge about the Internet in its broadest sense; to promote and facilitate the expansion, development, and growth of the public infrastructure of the Internet by any means consistent with the public interest through other activities, including, but not limited to, publications, meetings, conferences, training, educational seminars, and the issuance of grants and other financial support to educational institutions, foundations and other organizations.
You can read more about the project on the OReilly Radar blog; the posting includes a letter from Mr. Malamud to Thomson West asking them to explain what information they consider to be proprietary versus public domain.
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