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The Lexis-Westlaw Duopoly and the Proprietization of Law

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A powerful objection to the proposal for a publicly editable open-source legal-information platform is that private actors would manipulate the meta-information to sabotage opposing legal actions.

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The problems with Lexis and Westlaw are representative of the more general problematics associated with the proprietization of functional knowledge. Bergstrom (2001) showed that nonprofit economics journals were generally superior to commercial economics journals, despite the fact that similar commercial journals charged almost ten times as much for subscriptions to their journals.

Elliott, you might want to check out the article "Who Owns the Law" for some more ammunition for your argument. -- RickSchwartz - 27 Oct 2008

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