Carl Malamud

Malamud's method is to publish first and argue later. In 1993 he bought the US Securities and Exchange Commission's company filings and put them online free, a service the SEC took over itself two years later. Through Public.Resource.Org he has since posted court opinions, government videos, and safety and building codes that private bodies sold for hundreds of dollars despite their force of law. The state of Georgia and several standards bodies sued him. In Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org in 2020 the Supreme Court ruled that the state's official annotated code could not be copyrighted, so citizens could read the law they must obey.