Карл Маламуд: Американдық технологияшы, автор және ашық деректер жақтасы

Technologist, author, and public domain advocate

Carl Malamud (born July 2, 1959) is an American technologist, author, and public domain advocate, known for his foundation Public. Resource. Org. He founded the Internet Multicasting Service. During his time with this group, he was responsible for developing the first Internet radio station, for putting the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission's EDGAR database on line, and for creating the Internet 1996 World Exposition. Malamud is the author of eight books, including Exploring the Internet and A World's Fair. He was a visiting professor at the MIT Media Laboratory and is the former chairman of the Internet Software Consortium. He also is the co founder of Invisible Worlds, was a fellow at the Center for American Progress, and was a board member of the non profit Mozilla Foundation.

Malamud set up the nonprofit Public. Resource. Org, headquartered in Sebastopol, California, to work for the publication of public domain information from local, state, and federal government agencies. Among his achievements have been digitizing 588 government films for the Internet Archive and YouTube, publishing a 5 million page crawl of the Government Printing Office, and persuading the state of Oregon to not assert copyright over its legislative statutes. He has also been active in challenging the state of California's copyright claims on state laws by publishing copies of the criminal, building, and plumbing codes online. He has also challenged the information management policy of Smithsonian Networks, convinced C SPAN to liberalize its video archive access policy, and begun publishing court decisions. In 2009 he proposed, through the "Yes We Scan" campaign, that he serve as the Public Printer of the U. S., the head of the Government Printing Office. He is leading an effort, under the banner of Law. gov, to bring online all primary legal materials (including legal codes and case law) for open public access. An early Internet pioneer, he is the author of many early books about networking such as Analyzing Novell Networks and DEC Networks and Architectures. In September 2015, Malamud published a petition to the Government of the United Kingdom, calling for it to make the safety standards published by the European Union for toy safety freely available, rather than allowing them to continue being only available at high cost and subject to restrictive terms of use.

Carl Malamud is currently involved in several lawsuits through his organization Public. Resource. Org.

In 2009 Malamud announced his candidacy to become Public Printer of the United States and asked for the public to endorse him for the position. The role is filled by an appointment by the president and it is unusual that it would be the subject of a public campaign.