According to Law.com. Carl Malamud invites to enhance the federal case law library by downloading millions of pages of decisions stretching back more than 250 years, all free of charge.
His latest online "public works" project is a Web site, public.resource.org, which will open up all Supreme Court opinions dating back to the 1700s and all U.S. appeals courts decisions dating back to 1950. The activist's efforts for the nonprofit group present a potential challenge to paid legal research services Thomson and LexisNexis.
Malamud's northern California-based group last week received full delivery of content from legal research company Fastcase, which agreed in November to sell the information with no strings attached. Malamud's group has spent the past several days reformatting the data to post on the Web site, an event that will occur sometime this week.
"We're about getting bulk data and making it available," free of charge, to the public, Malamud told the Law Tribune last week. "I want to see all federal case law downloadable in bulk."
He noted that there are no restrictions on the use of the information after it's downloaded and that it's up to individuals to create Web sites that utilize the information.
Any initiative that "makes case law available for free in new and different ways is something all librarians are in favor of," said Darcy Kirk, associate dean for library and technology and law professor at the University of Connecticut.
His latest online "public works" project is a Web site, public.resource.org, which will open up all Supreme Court opinions dating back to the 1700s and all U.S. appeals courts decisions dating back to 1950. The activist's efforts for the nonprofit group present a potential challenge to paid legal research services Thomson and LexisNexis.
Malamud's northern California-based group last week received full delivery of content from legal research company Fastcase, which agreed in November to sell the information with no strings attached. Malamud's group has spent the past several days reformatting the data to post on the Web site, an event that will occur sometime this week.
"We're about getting bulk data and making it available," free of charge, to the public, Malamud told the Law Tribune last week. "I want to see all federal case law downloadable in bulk."
He noted that there are no restrictions on the use of the information after it's downloaded and that it's up to individuals to create Web sites that utilize the information.
Any initiative that "makes case law available for free in new and different ways is something all librarians are in favor of," said Darcy Kirk, associate dean for library and technology and law professor at the University of Connecticut.
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