Justia has begun sharing its summaries of U.S. state and federal court decisions with online legal research provider Fastcase, according to a press release issued 20 December 2011.
This arrangement is of interest to the legal informatics community, because it constitutes another example of the sharing of metadata among alternative legal information providers, for purposes of enhancing access to legal information and increasing competition in the commercial legal research services market. The arrangement is also of interest because it represents cooperation between an online legal information provider that primarily offers information for free, and one that operates primarily on a fee-based or contractual model.
Justia offers its case summaries free of charge, while Fastcase will include the summaries in its commercial legal research service.
For more information, please see the press release.
Tags: Computer assisted legal research, Digital legal publishing, Fastcase, Justia, Justia Daily Opinion Summaries, Legal descriptive metadata, Legal metadata
