Carl Malamud is the founder of Public.Resource.org, a non-profit working to promote open access to government information on the Internet, especially in bulk, downloadable form. He is also a catalyst who makes seemingly impossible things happen. His latest project is Law.gov, where he is leading the effort to make all primary legal materials available to the public. Public.Resource.org already has published the archive of U.S. Supreme Court opinions as well as all opinions from federal circuit courts; the U.S. Patent database, the Code of Federal Regulations, an archive of court briefs, as well as federal video archives and California’s Building Codes, just to name a few. This is not Carl’s first rodeo: in 1993, he put the EDGAR database online and later transferred it back to the Securities and Exchange Commission, as well as starting the first Internet radio station.
