Posts Tagged: Free access to law

Library of Congress Registers Law.gov Domain Name

Registration of the the Law.gov Internet domain name by the Library of Congress appears to be complete, according to the Law.gov domain name registration record in the WHOIS database of .gov domain names published by U.S. General Services Administration Office of Integrated Technology Services (OITS). To display the record, go to the OITS WHOIS databaseRead… Read more »

Video of 2010 Conference on Privacy and Public Access to Court Records

Video is now available of some programs from the 7th Conference on Privacy and Public Access to Court Records, held 4-5 March 2010 in Williamsburg, Virginia, USA. The posted programs are: Where Have We Been and Where Are We Going?; Some Emerging Issues in E-Filing and E-Privacy; and Public Electronic Access to Federal Court RecordsRead… Read more »

FreeLegalWeb Now Available: New UK Free Access to Law Service

FreeLegalWeb — a new UK free access to law service — is now available in beta. FreeLegalWeb aims to offer free-of-charge online access to primary law of the UK, user-generated legal commentary, and relevant resources available on the free Web, all linked automatically by a content-analysis system. According to the service’s About page, the betaRead… Read more »

US Patent & Trademark Data Available Free in Bulk XML / TIFF from Google

Full text XML, TIFF images, and bibliographic data for U.S. patents and trademarks are now available for bulk download free of charge from Google, according to a June 2, 2010 press release from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The trademark information includes data from 1870 to present, and the patent information includes dataRead… Read more »

Video Available for Chicago Law.gov Workshop

Video is now available for the Chicago Law.gov Workshop, held 21 May 2010 at The Chicago-Kent College of Law in Chicago, Illinois, USA. The workshop was co-sponsored by CALI: The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction and The Oyez Project. Click here for the workshop program. Click here for archived Twitter tweets from the workshop (scrollRead… Read more »

Video Available for Law.gov U.S. House of Representatives Event

Video is now available for the Law.gov Event at the U.S. House of Representatives held 25 May 2010 at the Longworth House Office Building in Washington, DC, USA. Click here for the conference program. Click here for archived Twitter tweets from the workshop (scroll down to tweets from May 25, 2010). Click here for informationRead… Read more »

Video Available for Law.gov Core Specifications Task Force Meeting 26 May 2010

Video is now available for the first meeting of the Law.gov Core Specifications Task Force held 26 May 2010 at the offices of Google in Washington, DC, USA. This event is also being referred to as the Law.gov Open Source Workshop, the Open Source Law.gov Workshop, and Open Source Procurement for Law.Gov. Click here forRead… Read more »

Video: Malamud on Law.Gov: America’s Operating System, Open Source

Video is now available for Carl Malamud’s address entitled Law.Gov: America’s Operating System, Open Source, given at Gov 2.0 Expo 2010, on 27 May 2010, in Washington, DC, USA. The address details new findings about copyright restrictions on legal materials in the U.S., and offers an update on the progress of the Law.gov legal openRead… Read more »

Video Available for Berkeley/SOMA Workshop Law.gov Workshop

Video is now available for the Berkeley/SOMA Law.gov Workshop held 12 May 2010 at The Mitchell Kapor Foundation in San Francisco, California, USA. Click here for the conference program. Click here for archived Twitter tweets from the workshop (scroll down to tweets from May 12, 2010). Click here for information about the Law.gov legal openRead… Read more »