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Copyright Challenge in New Push for Open Government Data [1]

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Carl Malamud, a hero in providing access to information, has posted online [2] the 38-volume California Code of Regulations, over which the state claims copyright ownership. He's been doing things like this for a while, but the California code is a big deal in every respect.

The Santa Rosa (Calif.) Press Democrat has the story [3].

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Source URL (modified on 09/05/2008 - 6:13pm): https://www.dmlp.org/blog/2008/copyright-challenge-new-push-open-government-data

Links
[1] https://www.dmlp.org/blog/2008/copyright-challenge-new-push-open-government-data
[2] http://public.resource.org/bsc.ca.gov/index.html
[3] http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20080903/NEWS/809030309/1033/news&title=Getting_access__one_document_at_a_time
[4] https://www.dmlp.org/jurisdiction/united-states/california
[5] https://www.dmlp.org/subject-area/access-government-information
[6] https://www.dmlp.org/subject-area/copyright