Public.Resource.Org

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Public.Resource.Org is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation dedicated to publishing and sharing public domain materials in the United States.^[1] It was founded by Carl Malamud and is based out of Sebastopol, California. Their motto is “Making Government Information More Accessible”. As of 2008^[update], the organization operated on an annual budget of around US$1 million, most of which was spent on acquiring the rights to and scanning public works. Malamud estimates it would take another $10 million to acquire and digitize all of the public code materials that are not publicly available from every state.^{[citation needed]}

Despite being in the public domain as works created by employees of the United States government in the course of their employment, decisions by the Federal Courts of the United States have not been accessible on reasonable terms. Public.Resource.Org has worked to obtain copies of the Federal Appeals Courts decisions and Federal District Court decisions. The organization has obtained and integrated the Appeals Courts decisions and obtained copies of a substantial portion of the District Court decisions.^[2]