Page 8 of 11
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.
Random House Disabling Kindle Speech
Image by Getty Images via Daylife Random House now disabling text-to-speech function of Kindle e-books: Random House has thrown the dreaded “kill switch” on about 40 of its titles, including authors such as Toni Morrison. Cory Doctorow adds some background: Back in February, the Authors Guild, a lobby group representing less than 10,000 writers, argued […]
May 2009 / 3 min.
10 Alternative Legal Research Sites
Looking for alternatives to expensive legal research through Westlaw and LexisNexis? Here’s a non-exhaustive list of ten alternative sources for legal research (aimed primarily at lawyers and law students) that are useful - and much cheaper.
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.
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.
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 is something that many in the tech industry have been doing for years (I’ve been […]
April 2009 / 3 min.
Microsoft Gets Slammed in Yet Another Patent Suit
Image via Wikipedia Microsoft Gets Slammed in Yet Another Patent Suit - Law Blog - WSJ: In what’s being billed as the fifth-largest patent award in historyaEUR”and the second largest this yearaEUR”a federal jury in Rhode Island on Wednesday ordered Microsoft to pay $388 million to Uniloc USA Inc. and Uniloc Singapore Private Ltd. for […]
April 2009 / 2 min.
Will the Internet Replace Universities?
Image by Wonderlane via Flickr Will the Internet Replace Universities? | Cosmic Variance | Discover Magazine: Via Brad DeLong, an article by Kevin Carey in the Chronicle of Higher Education starts with the obvious – the Internet is killing newspapers as we knew them – and asks whether the same will happen to universities. Kevin […]
April 2009 / 2 min.
Got an Hour? Create a Server in the Cloud
Image via Wikipedia From the “keeping up with technology” department comes this: Got an Hour? Create a Server in the Cloud - ReadWriteWeb: Dave Winer yesterday announced EC2 for Poets, a step-by-step guide to help you create a server on Amazon’s EC2. His how-to is so easy to understand that we had our own server […]
March 2009 / 2 min.