Law.Gov Issues Principles and Declaration

"The founder of Law.Gov, Carl Malamud believes everyone should be able to find the laws that affect them. “Law.Gov is an idea, an idea that the primary legal materials of the United States should be readily available to all, and that governmental institutions should make these materials available in bulk as distributed, authenticated, well-formatted data.” Mr. Malamud has the credentials, since he is behind public.resource.org, has liberated the building and public safety codes adopted by states and municipalities (despite claims of copyright by the code originators; see the Veeck case below), EDGAR corporate records, and other public government information. Fifteen public Law.Gov workshops were held throughout the nation starting at Stanford Law School in January 2010 and ending at Harvard Law School in June. “...The workshops resulted in a consensus on 10 core principles.” The core principles can be found in the sidebar below and at http://resource.org/law.gov/ ..."