Bob Berring, professor at Berkeley Law, talks about the differences between what free legal information on the Web offers versus professionally organized and authoritative legal research.
As Berring notes, free access to information (in this case the laws that govern us) and the crowdsourced editorial efforts needed to structure this information into a useable system are perhaps worthwhile because they'll spur corporate entities into producing better info products, but the free stuff will never replace the commerical offerings. Just look at the encyclopedia business. Consider the editorial expertise of Brittanica Online and the comprehensiveness of their offering!
As Berring notes, free access to information (in this case the laws that govern us) and the crowdsourced editorial efforts needed to structure this information into a useable system are perhaps worthwhile because they'll spur corporate entities into producing better info products, but the free stuff will never replace the commerical offerings. Just look at the encyclopedia business. Consider the editorial expertise of Brittanica Online and the comprehensiveness of their offering!
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