Original sentence: The Wired Magazine Article Who Owns The Law is an introduction to the access to legal information issue.The objective of the various research efforts in information access is to simplify and make it more effective for human users to access and further process large and unwieldy amounts of data and information
Edited sentence: Acts following the September 11 attacks, such as the Patriot Act, in the interest of security has led to restrictions on access to certain types of information as well as an increased government attempts at surveillance of individual's private information, such as their library records.However the extent of the public domain has been under attack in recent years, as database vendors expand the copyright and contract laws to eliminate concepts such as fair use.Librarians have always advocated free and open access to government information.Provision was made in copyright and patent law for information in the public domain.The Wired Magazine Article Who Owns The Law is a good introduction to the access to legal information issue.The objective of the various research efforts in information access is to simplify and more effective for human users to access and further process large and unwieldy amounts of data and information.UCITA, the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act has been defeated in most jurisdictions, but restrictions on the public domain still exist in more recent laws such as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)