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The amendments were: (i) the words "It also includes legal documents created as a result of public funding." were added to the end of para 2 after 'boards of enquiry': (ii) the words "To provide to the end users of public legal information clear information concerning any conditions of re-use of that
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The amendments were: (i) in the title of the Declaration, 'public' was changed to 'free'; (ii) the words 'where possible' were deleted from the second bullet point 'where possible, free of charge'; (iii) addition of the description of a legal information institute and the encouragement to participate
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In October 2002 the meeting of LIIs in Montreal at the 4th Law via Internet Conference, made the following declaration as a joint statement of their philosophy of access to law. There were some further modifications of the Declaration at the Sydney meeting of LIIs in 2003 and at the Paris meeting in
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Public legal information means legal information produced by public bodies that have a duty to produce law and make it public. It includes primary sources of law, such as legislation, case law and treaties, as well as various secondary (interpretative) public sources, such as reports on preparatory
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The FALM website lists 63 active members as of July 2017, together with the coverage (geographical area or political grouping) for which each member provides databases, and the year in which it became a member of FALM, as well as links to member websites.
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To meet at least annually, and to invite other organisations who are legal information institutes to subscribe to this declaration and join those meetings, according to procedures to be established by the parties to this
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To cooperate in order to achieve these goals and, in particular, to assist organisations in developing countries to achieve these goals, recognising the reciprocal advantages that all obtain from access to each other's
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Independent non-profit organisations have the right to publish public legal information and the government bodies that create or control that information should provide access to it so that it can be published.
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Public legal information from all countries and international institutions is part of the common heritage of humanity. Maximising access to this information promotes justice and the rule of law;
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To provide to the end users of public legal information clear information concerning any conditions of re-use of that information, where this is feasible.
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Galindo, F 'Free Access to the Law in Latin America: Brasil, Argentina, Mexico and Uruguay as Examples' in Peruginelli and Ragona (Eds), 2009
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work and law reform, and resulting from boards of inquiry. It also includes legal documents created as a result of public funding.
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Promotion, to governments and other organisations, of public policy conducive to the accessibility of public legal information;
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Public legal information is digital common property and should be accessible to all on a non-profit basis and free of charge;
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in networks; and (iv) addition of the final bullet point about an annual meeting to the list of areas of agreed cooperation.
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To help each other and to support, within their means, other organisations that share these goals with respect to,
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To promote and support free access to public legal information throughout the world, principally via the Internet;
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All legal information institutes are encouraged to participate in regional or global free access to law networks.
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Publishes via the internet public legal information originating from more than one public body;
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information, where this is feasible." were added to the final list of bullet points.
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Law via the Internet: Free Access, Quality of Information, Effectiveness of Rights
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Legal information institutes of the world, meeting in Montreal, declare that,
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in their names, usually prefixed by a national or regional identifier.
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Does not impede others from publishing public legal information; and
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Provides free, full and anonymous public access to that information;
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Public.Resource.Org § Access to United States legal resources
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Supports the objectives set out in this Declaration.
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Legal Information Institute
Thomas R. Bruce
Peter W. Martin
Cornell Law School
Comparative law wiki
Legal awareness
Ravel Law
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Public.Resource.Org § Access to United States legal resources
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"Members of the Free Access to Law Movement (FALM)"
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'Legal Information Institutes and the Free Access to Law Movement'
'Free access to legal information, LIIs, and the Free Access to Law Movement'
'Open access to law in developing countries'
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