Does anyone have any idea (concrete or educated guess) whether access
to JURIS in the post Westlaw era will be fee based or gratis to the
public?
Was it legislation or public pressure that won public access to
JURIS? If it was legislation, is there anything in the legislation
that might answer the previous question? Anyone have a cite to this
legislation (if it exists)? (Better yet a machine readable copy of
the legislation that they can email?)
The scenario that I am getting seems to be that any materials that
West claims a copyright to will be removed from JURIS prior to
giving the public access to the system. Is this substantially
correct? If this is correct, does this mean that things like the
Supreme Court opinions and the Fed Supp. and F. 2d all of which I
presume were obtained from West are likely to be removed and not
available to the general public?
Or is all this being formulated at the Justice Dept. now? If so, do
they have some deadline (legislative or otherwise) by which they
will go public?
Thank you for the information.
Henry Manaster
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