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June 08, 2007

Setting info free

Dan Gillmor points to public.resource.org, a nonprofit that encourages us to buy info from government archives and then upload it to the Internet Archive, where all can find these uncopyrighted materials for free.

Putting the public domain into the public domain. As Dan says, how subversive! [Tags: public_domain copyright internet_archive public_resource dan_gillmor everything_is_miscellaneous]

Posted by D. Weinberger at June 8, 2007 03:00 PM


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A side benefit of Dan's subversive plan is that we might also be able to put Matthew Lesko (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Lesko) out of business. Losing his fraudulent ads would be worth the effort by itself.

Posted by: Tim | June 8, 2007 03:11 PM


The Public Domain is a valuable resource for all of us, and it is a treasure that should be protected by and for all of us. When I go to the library, I love to take all the latest bestsellers and bring them home and OCR the heck out of them and post them on the Internet; I'm preparing for their eventual public domainness. I've always been a go-getter, and I think that if you stop for a minute and "sniff the flowers" as it were, then you will realize that this is all too short a thing and you have to go out and figure out why it takes so long for the intermittent dog summer days interspersed with the rain rain go away of the funereal outlook that pushes us all to the edge and then pulls us back even though really we just want to dive dive dive until the edge is above our feet and the apparent growth of the boulders and buttes below are shrowded by our own growing shadow until a bang and a silence and a plume of smoke and a meep meep.

Posted by: Skip Oberon | June 21, 2007 10:28 AM


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