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More on Oregon
Carl Malamud’s Oregon page is now updated with the testimony from last week’s hearing: http://public.resource.org/oregon.gov/ Continue reading
Big News – Oregon
From Tim Stanley's Justia blog:
"Oregon's Legislative Counsel Committee had a meeting this morning to discuss the copyright claim on the Oregon Revised Statutes. After taking legal counsel from Dexter Johnson, talking with Karl Olson, Carl Malamud, three Oregon citizens and myself, they unanimously voted to not to enforce any copyright claims on the Oregon Revised Statutes. This great!!!"And, I just read this on BoingBoing:
Continue reading"Justia and Public.Resource.Org were invited, along with Karl Olson our counsel, to testify before the Oregon Legislative Counsel Committee. We were joined by a public panel of wikipedians and open source advocates." "The process was incredibly well organized. There was a comprehensive briefing packet prepared for the committee, the members asked lots of intelligent questions, and then Dexter Johnson the Legislative Counsel recommended to the committee that they waive assertion of copyright on their statutes. The Majority Leader placed the motion, the President of the Senate called the vote, and the vote was unanimous. This was democracy in action and was great to watch."
Capitol Words
Today, The Sunlight Foundation announces a new project called Capitol Words which gives an at-a-glance view into the daily proceedings of the United States Congress through the simplest lens available-a single word.
For every day that Congress is in session, Capitol Words displays the most frequently used word in the Congressional Record.For more about the project see John Wonderlich's post on The Open House Project website. Of course, it has a widget (see below what it looks like and get the code here), an RSS feed, and an API. Try it, use it, re-use it! Continue reading
Oregon Revised Statutes – Copyright Hearing Update
[cross posted on Legal Research Plus] For those of you following the question regarding the copyright of Oregon's Revised Statutes, you might want to visit: public.resource.org/oregon. The State of Oregon has scheduled a hearing for June 19, 2008 to “consider its copyright policy in light of technological developments and the Internet.” And, the Public.Resource site now has links to the testimony submitted by Carl Malamud, Tim Stanley and Karl Olson. Also, if you want to listen to the hearing on Thursday, June 19th, there is a Real Video feed available . Continue reading