Public.Resource.org Files Countersuit as “Georgia’s Legal Battle with Public Records Advocate Deepens”
From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
PublicResource.org, the nonprofit run by public records activist Carl Malamud, filed a countersuit late Monday seeking a jury trial to decide whether it has the right to publish an annotated version of Georgia code.
It was Malamud’s response to a July lawsuit by state legislative officials claiming that Malamud is engaged in a broader plot to force the government to spend taxpayer dollars to make annotated versions free for the public.resource.org website, where Malamud has posted a scan of the annotated code.
Read the Complete AJC Article (Includes Link to Countersuit)
See Also: Carl Malamud on Twitter
Answer to Complaint and Countersuit
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About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.
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