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Is virtual lawyering the future?
An interesting paragraph from an article dealing with the idea of “Good Enough” – services or products that may not have all the “bells and whistles” of their more-expensive competitors, but do enough at the right price to be runaway successes: It turns out to be a remarkably efficient way of offering what Granat calls legal transaction services – tasks that are document intensive. For everything from wills to adoptions to shareholder agreements, elawyering has numerous advantages.
September 2009 / 3 min.
Court transcripts and copyright awards
Should a court reporter own the copyright on his or her work product, and be able to force everyone to pay for it into the future. “No,” says an appeals court, overruling a lower court decision to the contrary.
August 2009 / 1 min.
Google Books adds open-standard downloads
For anyone using any kind of electronic reader – including a regular computer – this addition to Google Books may well prove quite useful: EPUB as a download format.
August 2009 / 2 min.
What’s the proper basis for copyright law?
Sometimes I feel that I spend an inordinate amount of time attacking copyright, as if I wished to eliminate it. I do not. But I do feel the balance is off. But how should we find the proper balance? If the real purpose of copyright law is to “promote the progress,” then why not make […]
August 2009 / 1 min.
The case of the disappearing case law
The cloud consists of data and services that live on someone else’s servers. Although the term itself is new(ish), the basic idea is embodied by traditional legal research services like LexisNexis and Westlaw – data lives on someone else’s servers, not your own. Thus, someone else controls the data, not you. And someone else can delete or modify the data, and you’d never know…
August 2009 / 2 min.
Should the government need a warrant to access your Google Books history?
Should accessing content via the Google Books service provide the same protections as one would receive when relying on a bookstore? The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the ACLU say, “Yes.”
August 2009 / 2 min.
What modern copyright law means to our culture
What does it mean to our culture that we have imposed the most draconian restrictions on the reuse of intellectual creations than at any other time?
August 2009 / 2 min.
What does it mean to be in the public domain? Thoughts about the AP licensing scheme.
The AP has begin trying to license content through a payment scheme. Some of the content – as recently demonstrated by James Grimmelmann “purchasing” a Thomas Jefferson quote – is in the public domain. Does the AP have the right to sell/license this public-domain content? What does it mean to be in the public domain?
August 2009 / 3 min.
Different social networks for different purposes
Different social networks serve different purposes. Keep them straight, but always remember that what you post online could end up anywhere and post accordingly.
August 2009 / 2 min.
Can Amazon’s Kindle disrupt the current textbook market?
BizOp News asks the question: “Is the Kindle DX: Amazon’s 9.7” Wireless Reading Device (Latest Generation) a disruptive device for the textbook market?”
July 2009 / 2 min.