The Family Guide to Digital Freedom

Many states claim copyright on their laws. If you're lucky, you may be able to read them for free online, but if you want to download the whole text on your computer, maybe to modify it as a basis to propose a better law, you have to pay for it. Even if it's a law of your Country, made and enforced with your tax money.

Carl Malamud, a Sebastopol resident with an impressive track record of pushing for digital access to public information wants California - and every other federal, state and local agency - to drop their copyright claims on law, contending it will pave the way for innovators to create new ways of searching and presenting laws. Full story at Press Democrat.