For far too long, getting access to important documents has meant having a very expensive subscription to an exclusive service. This has held true across disciplines, including politics, law, and academia. The Internet is starting to change this, lowering the cost of storing and transferring information to nearly nothing. With the help of pioneers like [...]
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Legal and Academic Open Access
February 13th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: OpenHouse · harvard · legalresearch · lessig · malamud · mit · publicresource · west
OTA comment, US CTO
December 9th, 2007 · No Comments
From a response I just wrote to a comment on a Lessig blog post about dreaming up a US CTO position:
The OTA was recently reinstated, although in a different form, when Congress passed (and President Bush signed) the most recent legislative branch appropriations bill. I work for the Sunlight Foundation, and we helped push [...]
Tags: CTO · OpenHouse · executive · jurisdiction · lessig · ota
Two Internet Cultural Shift Videos
November 7th, 2007 · 1 Comment
Even though that video centers on intellectual property issues, Lessig talks about how his focus came to shift away from hoping Congress would pass rational policy. He remarks that the "economies of influence" that dictate congressional policy are fundamentally corrupt, as a system. That made me reflect that Sunlight’s mission is, [...]
Tags: Congress · OpenHouse · Structured Data · TED · corruption · intellectual property · lessig · web 2.0
Lessig Resources
October 14th, 2007 · 1 Comment
Here’s Lawrence Lessig’s excellent recent speech on his new work on corruption:
Certainly also worth our attention is this page on his wiki, where he lists resources and research.
Tags: OpenHouse · corruption · lessig
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