Intellectual Property Law

Like A Stack of Books 348 Feet Tall

By Posted by Alan Wexelblat

Creative Commons is boosting signal for Public.Resource.Org, who announced that they have put online - for free, with no restrictions on reuse - a vast source of US caselaw. The total is over 1.8 million pages, including all SCOTUS and US Court of Appeals decisions since 1950. At this point it's a vast mountain of data, released in an XHTML form that should be amenable to searching, sorting, and reuse. What will come of mining that mountain is still to be seen.

Full post as published by Copyfight - The Politics of IP on February 13, 2008 (boomark / email).