James Grimmelmann has an interesting new essay, “Copyright, Technology, and Access to the Law,” on the challenges of ensuring that the public has effective knowledge of the laws. This might sound like an easy problem, but Grimmelmann combines his…
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Copyright, Technology, and Access to the Law
June 24th, 2008 — Copyright, Government transparency, Recommended Reading, Shared News
New bill advances open data, but could be better for reuse
June 11th, 2008 — Computing in the Cloud, Government transparency, Shared News
Senators Obama, Coburn, McCain, and Carper have introduced the Strengthening Transparency and Accountability in Federal Spending Act of 2008 (S. 3077), which would modify their 2006 transparency act. That first bill created USASpending.gov, a searchabl…
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