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Court Decisions OnlineI came back from a ten day trip to see the smiling face of my old pal (and tenant at O'Reilly Media's offices in Sebastopol), Carl Malamud of public.resource.org, on the front page of the business section of our local paper, the Santa Rosa Press Democrat. The headline says it all: 1.8 million rulings online -- and free: A scrappy Sebastopol Internet pioneer who pushed the federal government to put corporate filings and patent documents online for anyone to see has made his first big move to force the U.S. court system to do the same. I should note that Carl's previous work, which led to the availability of SEC data online, did not destroy the financial publishing industry. Instead, it grew the size and importance of the total pie by making that information more accessible. Allowing Google and Yahoo! to index court cases will make our legal system more open, and making its data accessible will encourage more innovation in legal publishing.
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