Yesterday, in conjunction with Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) launched a Legal Education Commons at www.cali.org/lec.  It is designed to be a single searchable & taggable space for teachers of law to share materials and notes they use in teaching.  The initial launch includes access to over 700,000 federal court decisions (from public.resource.org) and 300 original illustrations from its CALI Lessons online tutorials.  All materials uploaded to the Legal Education Commons by faculty and staff at CALI member schools will be done under a Creative Commons Share Alike license, which allows the author to retain the original copyright in the material, but others will be allowed to use it, share it, and make derivative works from it as long as the users make proper attribution and license the derivative under the same (or a compatible) license.  Click here to read the full press release.