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Is the crisis in attorney hiring due to the failure of legal education?
Image by ZaNiaC via Flickr Jordan Furlong at Slaw.ca suggests that the current trend of big firms paying associates not to work for them is indicative of a larger crisis, created by an educational system that doesn’t provide new lawyers with the skills they need: [T]he profession is going to go through a crisis, one […]
June 2009 / 2 min.
Evolution vs. Revolution: Overcoming Resistance to Change
Image via CrunchBase Speaking in the context of technology, Michael Crandell at GigaOM writes: Take yourself back for a moment to 1990, to the era of dueling operating systems: OS/2 and Windows. At the time, many people still used MS-DOS, and Windows was new (and klunky). Microsoft had cooperated with IBM to create OS/2 to […]
June 2009 / 3 min.
Thomson Reuters Lawsuit Against Zotero Dismissed
Image via Wikipedia Sean, a Zotero co-director, announced yesterday that the lawsuit filed by Thomson Reuters (makers of EndNote) was dismissed yesterday: I’m delighted to announce that this morning the Fairfax Circuit Court dismissed the lawsuit filed against Zotero by Thomson Reuters. The lawsuit had claimed that the Center for History and New Media “reverse-engineered” […]
June 2009 / 1 min.
Track Changes in Terms of Service
Image via Wikipedia The Electronic Frontier Foundation has introduced a useful new tool called TOSBack: Terms-Of-Service and other website policies form the foundation of your relationship with social networking sites, online businesses, and other Internet communities. But most people become aware of these terms only when there’s a problem. TOSBack was created to help you […]
June 2009 / 1 min.
Adapting the Law to New Theories of Science
John Pfaff continues his interesting discussion of science, the adversarial process, and the law at PrawfsBlawg: So far I have looked at how to incorporate systematic reviews into our current legal framework, whether through court-appointed Rule 706 experts or through special masters or technical advisors assisting judges in their Daubert or Frye decisions. In both […]
June 2009 / 2 min.
Does Copyright Foster or Hinder Innovation?
May 2009 / 0 min.
Are Tweets Copyrightable?
Brock Shinen writes an in-depth article from the perspective of an intellectual property and entertainment lawyer that says, “No.”
May 2009 / 2 min.
Have “Real-Time” Services Altered the Balance of the DMCA?
Image via Wikipedia The DMCA has a bad reputation with those who prefer to see greater freedom of information flow. Its anti-circumvention provisions provisions have attracted particular antipathy, and many believe the DMCA takedown provisions are regularly abused. The point of the DMCA, I believe, was to further the general goal of IP protection in […]
May 2009 / 3 min.
Journalist Shield Laws and Bloggers
Image via Wikipedia Should so-called “shield laws,” intended to provide protection for journalists from being forced to reveal their confidential sources, apply to bloggers? The current answer seems to be “no,” although the question must be asked on a jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction basis. In the United States, there is no federal shield law, for journalists or bloggers. […]
May 2009 / 2 min.
What You Write Could Get You Sued
Image by AFP/Getty Images via Daylife From the Wall Street Journal comes an article cheerfully titled Bloggers, Beware: What You Write Can Get You Sued - WSJ.com Be careful what you post online. You could get sued. In March 2008, Shellee Hale of Bellevue, Wash., posted in several online forums about a hacker attack on […]
May 2009 / 2 min.