Library of Congress Threatens Washington Watch Wiki

BackRow writes "Washington Watch, a site devoted to tracking the cost of federal legislation, has raised the hackles of the Library of Congress with a new wiki that makes an unfavorable comparison to the LOC's THOMAS legislative search engine. After Jim Harper, Washington Watch's creator and the director of information policy at the Cato Institute, announced the wiki, he received a nastygram from the LOC." Quoting: "After the announcement, he was contacted by Matt Raymond, the Director of Communications at the Library (and the author of the Library of Congress' blog). Raymond said that he possessed 'statutory and regulatory authority governing unauthorized use of the Library's name and logo and those of Library subunits and programs,' and he asked that Harper stop using the names 'Library of Congress' and 'THOMAS' in his marketing materials."

Comments

Obvious Solution

[Qzukk]

Call it the Library of Progress, and refer to JEFFERSON.

Cato Institute? Eh, whatever.

[metrometro]

"Director of information policy at the Cato Institute..." Oh, I'm sorry, am I supposed to continue giving a shit after that?

you misunderstand

[commodoresloat]

as long as your right to criticize the King of Thailand is unfettered, you live in a free country.

Re:The LOC is wrong

[Brickwall]

since it just fits into their image of the USG as a bunch of corrupt, wasteful, generally inept bureaucrats.

Er, just exactly how does this image conflict with reality?

Re:I pay may taxes.

[PsychoSlashDot]

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