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Representing yourself in propria persona
Image via Wikipedia In the Unites States, litigants and criminal defendants generally have the right to represent themselves “in propria persona” (often abbreviated “pro per,” or referred to by a similar Latin expression, “pro se”). The right in United States law is deeply entrenched with notions of broad access to justice through the court system. […]
May 2009 / 1 min.
Six Small Marketing Steps
Right now, as you read this, someone out there needs the service you provide. - Aviva Cuyler, Small Marketing Steps with Big Impact from GPSolo Magazine I recommend you read through this whole article, which has a good deal of useful details and suggestions, along with “action items” for each topic. The focus is on […]
May 2009 / 2 min.
Employees Will Find Ways to Route Around Corporate Firewalls
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 and public proxy services to circumvent security protocols, corporate firewalls and filtering mechanisms. Companies are […]
May 2009 / 2 min.
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 & Economics would be another, related attempt to bring math and the law together.) One […]
April 2009 / 4 min.
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 models, but it would limit public access to the research. Publishers continue to resist the […]
April 2009 / 1 min.
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 obsessively use disclaimers, waivers, and contracts throughout your daily life. If you make your co-rec […]
April 2009 / 2 min.
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 New York Times. Enterprising Canadians were selling the sheet music of popular songs via mail […]
April 2009 / 3 min.
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 and one can go here to review my take on all previous bar ethics opinions […]
April 2009 / 2 min.
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 libraries, and the people who use libraries, it is the exceptions and limitations to the […]
April 2009 / 1 min.
Open-Access Law
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 free legal research tools continue to improve as new ones emerge and legal researchers everywhere are better off […]
April 2009 / 3 min.