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 last—community-centered development—perhaps most in need of strengthening.

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Efforts to make legal information freely accessible online represent currents within a much broader stream that is the mass digitization movement. Exemplified by large-scale projects like Google Books, the Internet Archive, and Project Gutenberg, the digitization movement has long since succeeded in making the complete works of Shakespeare and Dickens, among countless others, freely accessible to a global audience. The all-encompassing ambitions of the largest digitization initiatives have, almost by happenstance, swept some legal materials within their ambit; it is possible, for example, to find early volumes of the Harvard Law Review on Google Books, or to read the United States Reports on the