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Thursday, September 25, 2008
Law - "Tech activist takes on governments over 'copyrighted' laws"
Updating these earlier ILB entries on making building codes and similar documents available online, CNET's Declan McCullagh has a great column today that begins:
SEBASTOPOL, Calif.--From a corner of a nondescript office building at the edge of wine country, Carl Malamud is masterminding an electronic guerrilla war against governments across the nation.Most geeks tend to be a bit obsessive, and Malamud is no exception. 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 databases or allow for-profit companies to sell for princely sums.
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