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Google+Study: Employees Will Find Ways to Route Around Corporate Firewalls – ReadWriteWeb: The study also found that users will go to great lengths to route around corporate networks and often use tools like Gbridge, encrypted tunneling applications, and various private … Continued
Monthly Archives: April 2009
An Evidence-Based Approach to Law and Science
John Pfaff has been writing a series of articles for PrawfsBlawg over the last month or so, focusing on “Empirical Legal Scholarship” (ELS). ELS brings empirical social science research, including especially statistical studies, into the realm of the law. (Law … Continued
NIH Open Access Continues to be Attacked
Image via Wikipedia Marketplace: Publicly funded research for a price: Publicly funded research doesn’t seem so public when the public has to pay to read the results in a journal. A proposed law would help publishing companies preserve their business … Continued
Reusable Example Privacy Policy and Terms of Use
So you’ve decided your new Web site needs a privacy policy or terms of service. Why? Perhaps you are collecting personal information, or providing a service that visitors may come to depend on. (Or maybe you’re just a lawyer and … Continued
Music Pirates in Canada!
“MUSIC PIRATES IN CANADA: American Publishers Say They Are Suffering by Copyright Violations There – Steps Taken for Redress” While this sounds like a headline ripped from a newspaper of today, it actually comes from an 1897 article in the … Continued
Lawyers and Technology: The Mystery of Metadata
Image by StarrGazr via Flickr Jim Calloway writes about a new opinion by the New Hampshire Bar Ethics Committee: The New Hampshire Bar Association issued Ethics Committee Opinion 2008-2009/4 on April 16, 2009. I’ve written at length on this subject … Continued
Libraries and Fair Use
Simon Chester at Slaw.ca has an excellent article up about World Book and Copyright Day. Of particular importance, I think, is the point the fair use (an exception to the regular restrictions on use provided for under copyright law): For … Continued
Open-Access Law
Image via Wikipedia The Lawyers Weekly (of Canada) writes about free vs. paid online legal research tools: Cost-conscious lawyers may ask themselves: Can we get by using only freely available research tools? Chances are, the answer today is no. But … Continued
Copyright as Antidote to DRM
Image via Wikipedia Consider this idea: without copyright protection for digital media, we would have even more Digital Rights Management. Why? Because without it, recouping up-front investment without restricting distribution would be difficult or impossible. Since I often see a … Continued
Rosetta Stone Files for an IPO
Image via Wikipedia Marketplace on NPR: Will this IPO translate into turnaround?: Rosetta Stone, the language software maker, is one of the few companies to file an IPO this year. With a strong market debut, will other companies follow suit? … Continued
Challenging the Strong Presumption of Patent Validity
Patent Law Blog (Patently-O): Challenging the Strong Presumption of Patent Validity One of the next major legal challenges to patent rights will be against the strong presumption of validity associated with the patent grant. Section 282 of the patent act … Continued
Social media for law students (and everyone else)
Image via CrunchBase Social media tools allow everyone, not just information technology aficionados, to create and maintain their online professional persona. They have become key tools as online research has become ubiquitous. Using Google to look up potential new hires … Continued
Jobs for new lawyers are hard to come by
Image via Wikipedia It’s no secret that the job market is in shambles, and the legal job market is really no exception. It should come as no surprise that the market is particularly tough for new graduates, people who a … Continued
10 Reasons for a Law Student to Blog
Image by TW Collins via Flickr 10. Make money fast! Hardly. Blogging may pay the bills for some, but law blogging is hardly going to pay for the coffee you need to get through the semester, much less your books. … Continued
Review of Early Spring: An Ecologist and Her Children Wake to a Warming World
Breaking the silence about Spring – RealClimate: Did you know that in 1965 the U.S. Department of Agriculture planted a particular variety of lilac in more than seventy locations around the U.S. Northeast, to detect the onset of spring – … Continued
Information as Property from the Scholarly Kitchen
I found this interesting discussion of IP today: Information, however, has properties that make it sufficiently different from physical objects to question whether the property model is a good metaphor for information. Unlike natural resources, information is non-depletable. Overuse of … Continued
