Freeing American Case Law, Part II
AltLaw.org contains nearly 170,000 decisions dating back to the early 1990s from the U.S. Supreme Court and Federal Appellate courts. The site’s creators, Columbia Law School’s Timothy Wu and Stuart Sierra, and University of Colorado Law School’s Paul Ohm, said the site’s database would grow over time.
Columbia News ::: Columbia Law School Launches Free Database of U.S. Court Decisions
Following closely on the heels of this developmnet, Altlaw.org comes along with a collection of case law from US Federal Courts going back more than ten years. The key to this is that it is all in one place. Most of the cases included in this search engine are avaialble on sites scattered about the web, as shown in Emory Law’s Federal Courts FInder. The lack of a single free, public, non-commercial interface for searching case law has been a sort of Holy Grail for lots of folks, myself included, since we started putting case law on the web in the early nineties.
There is also a companion site, LawCommons.org, that promises to serve as a vehicle for releasding the technology and collections behind Altlaw.org. These 2 sites have the potential for becoming a major resource in the area of providing free access to American case law.
technorati tags:altlaw.org, lawcommons.org
links for 2007-08-25
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record your web browsing into a scripting language, replay it for fun and profit.
links for 2007-08-24
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Interesting.
links for 2007-08-23
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Exhibit is a lightweight structured data publishing framework that lets you create web pages with support for sorting, filtering, and rich visualizations by writing only HTML and optionally some CSS and Javascript code.
Buzzword – A WYSIWYP Web Doc Editor
Emily Chang – eHub: Buzzword, The First Real Word Processor for the Web – Seems neat, of course its a limited access ‘beta’ at the moment, but it is worth noting because it is written in Flash and AIR, so it should function in a browser and on the desktop.
Used Casebooks Sold for a Good Cause
CUA Columbus School of Law – Used Textbooks Open New Possibilities – It seems the used case book market has at least this much of an upside: it helps schools and student orgs raise funds for interesting and worthwhile projects. I wonder what happens to this sort of thing if the traditional case book publication odel is disrupted?
links for 2007-08-22
Adobe Extends Flash Video Support
kaourantin.net: What just happened to video on the web? – This post by an Adobe Flash engineer does a good job of expalining just what the new update supports.
Walmart Serves Up DRM-free MP3s
Wal-Mart Launches MP3 Music Download Tracks
BRISBANE, Calif., Aug. 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) announces the launch of “DRM-free” MP3 music downloads, now available online at http://www.walmart.com. At only 94 cents per track and $9.22 per album, the new MP3 digital format delivers value, convenience and the ability for customers to play music on nearly any device, including iPod(R), iPhone(R) and Zune(TM) portable media players. Wal-Mart is one of the first major retailers to offer MP3 digital tracks with music content from major record labels such as Universal and EMI Music.
This is a pretty good deal. It is part of a marketing test being done by Universal to assess the impact of selling DRM tracks online. I’d bet that the test is a success. There is also a large library of albums available for less than $8.00. Load ’em up.
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