UPDATE: The court docket (via PACER shows) that a summons was served to Public.Resource.org today and the organization has until August 14, 2015 to answer. From Mike Masnick at Techdirt: Two years ago, we wrote about the state of Georgia ridiculously threatening to sue Carl Malamud and his site Public.Resource.org for copyright infringement… for publishing […]
Techdirt: “State Of Georgia Sues Carl Malamud For Copyright Infringement For Publishing The State’s Own Laws”
Full Text of Carl Malamud's Remarks at DPLA Plenary Event in DC
Here’s the Full Text of Mr. Malamud’s remarks. “Bridges, Reservoirs and Other Metaphors for a Digital Public Library of America” (5 Pages; PDF) October 21, 2011 Two Paragraphs From the Text: Our opportunity is to build a bridge to Washington and that means we need to get much more serious about public works projects for […]
"Government-recorded Hearings Now Being Added to the Video Library"
From the C-SPAN Video Library Blog The C-SPAN Video Library now contains committee hearings produced by House and Senate committees. C-SPAN can only record a limited number of committees every day. However, a number of House and Senate committees have installed their own equipment to webcast their committee proceedings. These webcasts are now scattered across […]
"SXSW 2011: The Year of the Librarian"
Yes, that’s the actual headline. Cool! (-: From an Article by Phoebe Connelly, TheAtlantic.com: I kept coming back to the librarians as I talked to people at SXSWi because this micro-track mirrored what I saw tweeted and written about the conference as a whole. Interactive didn’t feel blindly focused on discovering the killer app. Tech […]