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Google+Image by Getty Images via Daylife Amazon retreats on Kindle’s text-to-speech issue | Digital Media – CNET News: Apparently, Amazon won’t fight the publishing industry on the issue of whether the Kindle 2′s text-to-speech function violates copyright. The retailer, which … Continued
Monthly Archives: February 2009
Legal Scholarship, Electronic Publishing, and Open Access
Image via Wikipedia SSRN-Legal Scholarship, Electronic Publishing, and Open Access: Transformation or Steadfast Stagnation? by Stephanie Plotin: Abstract: This article uses a social shaping of technology perspective, which studies the complex interactions between technology and the culture of a discipline, … Continued
The Office of Legal Counsel
Image via Wikipedia Is the Office of Legal Counsel Constitutional? Some notes on the American Conseil Constitutionnel – Balkinization: The bottom line is that the OLC has become one of the most important law making bodies in our constitutional system, … Continued
Copyright Fight Brewing Over Amazon's Kindle 2
Copyright Fight Brewing Over Amazon’s Kindle 2 | Threat Level from Wired.com: “They don’t have the right to read a book out loud,” said Paul Aiken, executive director of the Authors Guild. “That’s an audio right, which is derivative under … Continued
Science, pseudoscience, and the law
Science, pseudoscience, and the law >> Slaw: Following up on Simon’s vaccines post from earlier this week comes the encouraging news that on Thursday (happy 200, Charles Darwin) the U.S. Court of Federal Claims issued decisions in three vaccine-related test … Continued
Reflecting on Darwin
As many are probably aware, the 12th of February was the 200th anniversary of Darwin’s birth. It seems appropriate, then, to reflect on the latest attempts to challenge evolutionary biology through a belief in what is called “intelligent design.” But … Continued
Making Court Archives Available to All
From the New York Times, “An Effort to Upgrade a Court Archive System to Free and Easy“: For those searching for federal court decisions, briefs and other legal papers, there is no Google. Instead, there is Pacer, the government-run Public … Continued
Another Attempt to Repeal Open Access
Peter Suber writes: Yesterday Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) re-introduced the Fair Copyright in Research Works Act. . . . The premise of the bill, urged by the publishing lobby, is that the NIH policy somehow violates copyright law. The premise … Continued
Cooperative Workers May Not be Fired in Retaliation
From the New York Times: Employees fired after cooperating in sexual harassment investigations may sue for retaliation, the Supreme Court ruled Monday in a case concerning the scope of a federal law barring sex discrimination in the workplace. If it … Continued
The Exclusionary Rule at Risk
A longstanding part of U.S. law, known as the exclusionary rule, is getting bruised. The rule requires courts to exclude – or throw out – some evidence seized by law enforcement through illegal searches. But a ruling last month by … Continued
