There are other business models. Westlaw / Lexis Nexus's customers and competitors who do not have this curated information, can get together (via an intermedia

There are other business models. Westlaw / Lexis Nexus's customers and competitors who do not have this curated information, can get together (via an intermediary perhaps) to curate them better. See for example this open law data project in the UK, run by the National Archives: http://blog.okfn.org/2012/10/04/worlds-first-real-commercial-open-data-curation-project/ http://blog.okfn.org/2012/10/04/worlds-first-real-commercial...