With original documents of important legislation made available through SimplifyCongress.org, citizens will be able to read, compose and share with others their reactions to and readings of the sections within proposed bills, providing the public with simple and accessible tools for understanding Congress.

Shown to the final class of the seminar Copyright and Cyberlaw, this presentation and paper portray the curious case of Jon Skeet, a man who writes books on C++ under traditional copyright, and releases that same guidance on a Creative Commons-licensed site.

Transparency and openness are the new virtues of the Obama administration, but did these ideas begin with his presidency, or more importantly, will they be relevant for future leaders and their American constituents?