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All publicly funded content should be in the public domain.
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| A few years ago I hosted a mini-series for CBC Radio called The
| Contrarians, a show about "unpopular ideas that just might be
| right". Each week I'd take a controversial opinion and try it
| on for size. Sometimes the show was serious, sometimes it was
| silly- I rarely agreed with the positions I took, but operated
| on the principle that no idea is so radical or offensive that
| we should be forbidden to contemplate it (if only to learn why
| we should discard it). The CBC brass was incredibly supportive
| of the project and I was given license to explore a lot of
| unorthodox subject matter.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2009/09/14/all-publicly-funded.html
Recent:
Federal Courts Sound The Alarm Against RECAP; Worried About PACER Profits
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| We've been excited to see what would happen with the RECAP Firefox extension,
| which is being used to help free up public domain court documents that have
| been locked up behind the PACER paywall. However, there were also questions
| about how the folks who run and/or benefit from PACER would react.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090824/0452165974.shtml
Federal court using scare tactics to block sharing of public records
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| It appears that the US Courts, concerned about competition from software that
| offers the possibility of widespread free access to documents filed on
| federal judicial dockets, for which the public would otherwise have to pay
| the courts at the rate of 8 cents a page, are ready to resort to scare
| tactics to discourage lawyers from using that software.
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http://pubcit.typepad.com/clpblog/2009/08/federal-court-using-scare-tactics-to-block-sharing-of-public-records.html
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