OpenLaw to Support Open Source Community

ralphclark writes "Some of you may already know of the OpenLaw project, hosted by the Harvard Law School-based Berkman Center for Internet and Society. The OpenLaw group is, in their own words "an experiment in crafting legal argument in an open forum". In other words: legal cases built, like open source, according to the principle that many eyeballs make bugs shallow." They are looking at taking it to a bigger level - click below to hear more from ralphclark. "

From ralphclark: I recently contacted Wendy Seltzer at OpenLaw to ask if they could assist the open source community in its struggle with the forces of evil (the MPAA and the DMCA and UCITA). After a brief dialogue she finally wrote back:

" I have been thinking more about this project and the tools we'll need for it, since I haven't gotten a negative response, indeed several positive ones, from people at the Berkman Center.

I think it's probably best to start low-maintenance, with a mailing list and a Web page, then to add components such as Web-based discussion and a collection of links and documents.

If you have suggestions for links to the key documents/Web pages, that would be a great help."

I think this is our clarion call: I've seen plenty of good quality debate on these issues here on Slashdot, and the most unsupportable viewpoints have been flamed to death by now so I'm sure there are lots of people reading this who have something valuable to contribute. You should e-mail your (sensible) suggestions to Open Law Feedback and she'll pick them up from there. One suggestion: When you mail, write your idea below in comments - than people can avoid duplication of effort.