Lawpundit has a particularly interesting discussion on Commons based legal resources.
Open resources seem to be particularly well suited to the lawyer. Lawyers generate and consume them to a degree exceeding even that of scientists but have to pay hugely to expensive journals to get them. Given the need for up-to-date information it seems justifiable to pay specialist publishers to gather such data. But equally it seems to be the case that if lawyers can form their own resource pool then everyone else would benefit.
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