[p2p-research] P2P law presentation and cleaning?

[Samuel Rose]

Mark Elliot is working on  this initiative in Australia as well:
http://abri.org.au/bin/view/ABRI/

I cc'ed Mark on this, and maybe he'll update us on this , or anything he
knows on the subject. Marcin also expressed interest a while back in a kind
of "open source law" that helps people better understand the nature and
meaning of laws already on the books, their rights, etc. (copied him too)

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 12:01 AM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Dear Marco,
>
> as far as I know, the US and the UK have most traction on this ... see
> below for sources
>
> but the good fight is going on everywhere:
> http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-argument-for-open-access-to-public-sector-data/2008/09/01
>
> some background:
>
> wiki:
>
> http://p2pfoundation.net/Open_Government_Data ;
> http://p2pfoundation.net/Open_Government_Open_Source_Hacking
>
> http://p2pfoundation.net/Open_Data ;
> http://p2pfoundation.net/Open_Data_Commons ;
> http://p2pfoundation.net/Open_Data_Movement
>
> keeping track of the issue via
> http://delicious.com/mbauwens/Open-Government-Data ;
> http://delicious.com/mbauwens/Open-Data
>
> and our politics session, keeps tabs on many open politics projects
> regarding transparent govt:
>
> http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Politics
>
> see also http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Open
>
> On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 3:28 AM, M. Fioretti <mfioretti at nexaima.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> probably several of you already know this guy, but here's an
>> initiative which, besides being good in itself, also has a potential
>> "p2p production" side:
>>
>> "Carl Malamud... wants California -- and every other federal, state
>> and local agency -- to drop their copyright claims on law, contending
>> it will pave the way for innovators to create new ways of searching
>> and presenting laws."
>>
>> Full story at:
>>
>> http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20080903/NEWS/809030309/1350&title=Getting_access__one_document_at_a_time
>>
>> Related note/question/proposal: theoretically, having all those texts
>> online in an editable form would be great for producing
>> collaboratively, through a wiki, a much cleaner, understandable,
>> slimmer (=democratic?) corpus of laws. It would be the first step to
>> allow everybody to produce and propose:
>>
>> - simpler texts of existing laws, ie formulations which have the same
>>  legal meaning of the current one but don't require a law degree and
>>  a pint of analgesics to understand them. Here in Italy we have
>>  several words which ONLY exist in the text of some laws...
>>
>> - works that prove that a law is redundant/overlapping/
>>  obsolete/unapplicable or in plain contrast with other existing laws,
>>  making it much simpler to gather popular support for proposals to
>>  abolish, rewrite or improve that law
>>
>> I even talked with a lawyer friend of mine last year because I'd have
>> liked to put together something like this in Italy, but the same
>> problem Malamud is fighting plus other complications and, of course,
>> lack of time, made the idea die almost immediately. Does something
>> like this already exist in other countries?
>>
>>     Marco
>>
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