Carl Malamud

Carl Malamud (1959– ) is a technologist, author, and public domain advocate, currently known for his foundation resource.org. He was the founder of the Internet Multicasting Service. During his time with this group, he was responsible for creating the first Internet radio stationFact|date=May 2008, for putting the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's EDGAR database on-lineFact|date=May 2008, and for creating the Internet 1996 World Exposition.

Carl is the author of eight books, including "Exploring the Internet" and "A World's Fair". [cite book
last = Malamud | first = Carl | authorlink = Carl Malamud
title = Exploring the Internet: A Technical Travelogue
publisher = Prentice Hall | series = | url = http://museum.media.org/eti/
year = 1992 | month = September
isbn = 0132968983 | pages = 379 | language = English] [cite book
last = Malamud | first = Carl | authorlink = Carl Malamud
title = A World's Fair for the Global Village
publisher = The MIT Press | series =
year = 1997 | month = August | day = 8
isbn = 0262133385 | pages = 304] He was a visiting professor at the MIT Media Laboratory and was the former chairman of the Internet Software Consortium. He also was 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. [cite web
title=Bob Lisbonne and Carl Malamud Join the Mozilla Foundation Board
url = http://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2006/11/22/bob-lisbonne-and-carl-malamud-join-the-mozilla-foundation-board/
last = Baker | first = Mitchell | authorlink = Mitchell Baker
accessdate = 2008-05-27 | publisher = The Weblog of Mitchell Baker | date= 2006-11-22] [cite web
title= Carl Malamud and Public.Resource.Org
url = http://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2007/05/22/carl-malamud-and-publicresourceorg/
last = Baker | first = Mitchell | authorlink = Mitchell Baker
accessdate = 2008-05-27 | publisher = The Weblog of Mitchell Baker | date= 2007-05-22]

resource.org and public domain initiatives

Most recently, Malamud has set up the nonprofit resource.org, headquartered in Sebastopol, California, to organize the publication of public domain information from across the country.Fact|date=October 2008

He has also challenged the information management policy of Smithsonian Networks, convinced CSPAN to liberalize their video archive access policy, and begun publishing court decisions. [cite web
title= Smithsonian Sunshine | url = http://radar.oreilly.com/2006/04/smithsonian-sunshine.html
last = O'Reilly | first = Tim | authorlink = Tim O'Reilly
accessdate = 2008-05-27 | publisher = O'Reilly Media, Inc. | date= 2006-04-05] [Citation
last = Malamud | first = Carl | author-link = Carl Malamud
publication-date = | date = 2006-05-25 | year = 2006
title = Testimony of Carl Malamud
series = Hearing on Smithsonian Institution Business Ventures
publisher = United States House of Representatives
url = http://public.resource.org/smithsonian.html
accessdate = 2008-05-27 ] [cite web
url = http://jamesfallows.theatlantic.com/archives/2007/03/another_win_for_carl_malamud_o.php
title = Another win for Carl Malamud (or: news you won't see in the May 2007 issue of the Atlantic)
date = 2007-03-09 | accessdate = 2008-05-27
last = Fallows | first = James | authorlink = James Fallows
publisher = The Atlantic.com] [cite web
url = http://public.resource.org/dear_brian.html
last = Malamud | first = Carl | authorlink = Carl Malamud
title = Congressional Hearings, Fair Use, and the Public Domain
publisher = public.resource.org | accessdate = 2008-05-27 | date = 2007-02-27] [cite news
last = Markoff | first = John |authorlink = John Markoff
url = http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/20/technology/20westlaw.html
title = A Quest to Get More Court Rulings Online, and Free
publisher = The New York Times | date = 2007-08-20 | accessdate = 2008-05-27]

He has also written many early books about networking such as "Analyzing Novell Networks" and "DEC Networks and Architectures". [cite book
last = Malamud | first = Carl | authorlink = Carl Malamud
title = Analyzing Novell Networks
publisher = Van Nostrand Reinhold
edition = 2nd | year = 1992 | month = July
isbn = 0442013027 | pages = 340 | language = English] [cite book
last = Malamud | first = Carl | authorlink = Carl Malamud
title = Dec Networks and Architectures | series = J. Ranade Dec Series | publisher = Intertext Publications
year = 1989 | month = February
isbn = 0070398224 | pages = 472 | language = English] .

In 2008, Malamud convinced the state of Oregon to stop claiming copyright on their laws. 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. [cite web
first=Nathan |last=Halverson
work=The Press Democrat
url=http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20080903/NEWS/809030309/1350&title=Getting_access__one_document_at_a_time
title=He's giving you access, one document at a time
accessdate=2008-09-04]

References

External links

*http://media.org/carl.html
* [http://www.nndb.com/people/880/000048736/ Carl Malamud] Entry on NNDB
* [http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2006/04/b1554385.html Dear Secretary Small]
* [http://public.resource.org public.resource.org]