I've just finished reading Carl Malamud's remarkable pamphlet, By the People, the transcript of an address he gave to the Government 2.0 Summit in Washington, D.C., on September 10, 2009. Carl is the beloved "rogue librarian" who has done so much to liberate tax-funded government works, from movies to court rulings to the text of laws themselves, putting these public domain works on the Internet where they belong.
By the People is an inspirational and education piece on the history of the US Government Printing Office and the radical ethic that said that the governments documents belonged to the citizens who footed the bill for their production. Today, with the Internet making it more possible than ever for all of us to inspect the workings of our governments and benefit from their creations, that ethic is more important (and more endangered) than ever.
- Yes We Scan! Carl Malamud for Public Printer of the USA – Boing Boing
- Carl Malamud, rogue archivist, in Wired – Boing Boing
- Begging states to try to enforce ridiculous assertion that the law …
- Public Resource demands the source code to America's operating …
- Watch America's public domain video treasures, rescue the public …
- Hundreds ask Smithsonian not to sell out to Showtime – Boing Boing
- Watch the 1967 Bob Hope special, save America's public domain …
