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New Industry Report Shows Fair Use Worth Trillions to the Economy

Posted on April 28, 2010
The Computer and Communication Industry Association (CCIA) issued its own report on copyright, this time focusing on the value of fair use to the economy. The figures show that as of 2007, fair use generated $4.7 trillion (yes, trillion) in...

HouseLive.gov Launched: Video Feeds from the House of Representatives Floor Proceedings

Posted on April 28, 2010
The House of Representatives has launched HouseLive.gov Beta, offering streaming video feeds of the legislative floor proceedings. The site also hosts searchable and downloadable video archives going back to the start of the 111th Congress. The video archives are cross-referenced...

Apple places one iPad buyer on "double-secret probation."

Posted on April 28, 2010
As new iPad buyers may know, Apple only allows you to buy two of the devices. Whether that means "two at a time" or two in total, is not explicitly clear. While it's likely the latter, in either case this...

Open Access in a Closed Universe: Thompson Reuter, Reed Elsevier, Wolters Kluwer and the Monetization Opportunities of Distribution Channels in the Legal Information Marketplace

Posted on April 27, 2010
While a bit dated in the reported financial data for legal publishers, Olufunmilayo Arewa's Open Access in a Closed Universe: Lexis, Westlaw, Law Schools, and the Legal Information Market, 10 Lewis & Clark Law Review 797 (2006) [SSRN] presents a...

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"It has come to our attention that we are charging off considerable Westlaw costs due to Westlaw searches that can be run more efficiently..."

Posted on April 27, 2010
Greg Lambert reports about a BigLaw memo sent out to all associates mandating any associate that "utilizes or intends to utilize Westlaw" to attend a training session to learn the firm's "Best Practices" at Inefficient Westlaw Searches Causes One National...

Supreme Court to Hear Violent Games Case

Posted on April 27, 2010
Making the news is the announcement from the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday that it will hear the challenge to the California law that bans the sale of violent video games to children. The law never went into effect because...

Harrington on WestlawNext: Thumbs Up But Only for Researching Primary Law; Thumbs Down for KeyCite, Headnotes, Secondary Source Searching and Making WLN Available to Law School Students in Its Current State

Posted on April 26, 2010
Ryan Harrington's review of WestlawNext was recently published on AALL Spectrum Blog. Harrington, a reference librarian at Yale's Lillian Goldman Law Library, finds "the product to be a vast improvement over the previous model, but still flawed." In sum, the...

Like Share Prices for Non-Blue Chip Companies, the Only Thing That's Certain is US News Rankings Annually Fluctuate Up and Down for Most Law Schools

Posted on April 26, 2010
Conglomerate blogger Usha Rodrigues recently offered neophyte law profs advice on what to say about the US News Law School Rankings in any casual conversations that might arise: Step 1: State: "Of course the rankings don't mean anything." (Pause and....

Opening: Technical Services Analyst, Debevoise & Plimpton, NYC

Posted on April 26, 2010
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, an AmLaw 50 international law firm with over 700 attorneys, is one of the leading law firms in the country. Debevoise is committed to hiring dedicated and talented individuals as members of our administrative community. We...

Just how big is the social media phenomenon? This counter tells you.

Posted on April 25, 2010
Here's a really cool graphic (much like the national debt clock that used to hang in Times Square) showing the amount of social media activity taking place at any given moment. There are tabs along the top of the graphic...

Illinois considers taxing iTunes downloads

Posted on April 25, 2010
You can be sure this isn't going to be very popular among Millennials; Governor Quinn of Illinois is proposing legislation to subject iTunes downloads (including music, movies and e-books) to the state's 6.25% sales tax. The proposal is one of...

47% of American Households Who Pay Owe No Income Tax

Posted on April 24, 2010
And that factoid is up from 38% in 2007 but while the figure has "become shorthand for the notion that the wealthy face a much higher tax burden than they once did while growing numbers of Americans are effectively on...

Fifth Anniversary of YouTube's First Video Upload

Posted on April 24, 2010
With the recent kerfuffle over YouTube dropping Hitler parody videos, the fifth anniversary of YouTube's first video upload may have been overlooked. The 19-second long "Me at the zoo" video was uploaded on April 23, 2005. It features one of...

A New, Albeit Salacious, Meaning to the Touch-based Interface: Porn Company Claims to Have Hacked the iPad

Posted on April 24, 2010
CNN's Doug Gross is reporting that one of the world's biggest porn companies claims it hacked a way to stream its videos onto the iPad, skipping the Apple store completely, and giving a new, albeit salacious, meaning to the touch-based...

Friday Fun Part 2: Hitler, as "Downfall producer" orders a DMCA takedown

Posted on April 23, 2010
The popular Hitler parody videos that remix the bunker scene from the German film, "The Downfall: Hitler and the End of the Third Reich" are disappearing from YouTube, thanks to Constantin Film (the movie?s producer and distributor) and YouTube?s censorship-friendly...

Friday Fun: Decline of Print Newspapers Has Serious Consequences

Posted on April 23, 2010
From the fine folks at The Onion. [JH] How Will The End Of Print Journalism Affect Old Loons Who Hoard Newspapers?

Google Launches Government Requests Tool Providing Data on Content Removal Requests

Posted on April 23, 2010
On April 20, 2010, Google launched Government Requests which provides data on the number of government requests the Company has received to remove content and the pecentage of those requests the Company complied with on a country-by-country basis in a...

SharePoint and Librarians: Background Article, Survey Results and Webinar

Posted on April 23, 2010
Lorette S.J. Weldon examines how SharePoint is used within the library for collaboration, capturing and organizing corporate knowledge, and organizing digital content in The Odd Couple: SharePoint and Librarians (LRRX). She also reviews the results from her survey, "SharePoint Usage...

Opening: Reference Librarian, New Mexico Supreme Court Law Library

Posted on April 23, 2010
The New Mexico Supreme Court Law Library in Santa Fe, New Mexico has an opening for a Law Librarian II. The online posting is at http://www.nmcourts.gov/jobs/jobselectpage.php The position closes at 5 p.m. on April 30, 2010. Please direct all applications...

Student Site Seeks Transparency in Law Graduate Employment

Posted on April 23, 2010
The ABA Journal is reporting on two Vanderbilt Law Students who created a web site, Law School Transparency, to try and get more legitimate employment information for law school graduates. The premise is that employment data reported to the ABA...

Draft Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) Officially Released

Posted on April 22, 2010
Negotiators for Australia, Canada, the European Union countries, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland and the United States finally released a consolidated draft text of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) (dated April 2010) to the public yesterday after...

The Unchanging Foundation of Copyright

Posted on April 22, 2010
Copyright Clearance Center CEO Tracey Armstrong discusses her belief that copyright holders have the right to price and term their works and the ways in which this can be achieved in the digital world in Edward Nawotka's All Information Doesn?t...

Workshare's Best Practices Guide on Metadata

Posted on April 22, 2010
From the Company's press release: Workshare's free downloadable best practices paper explains what metadata is, how metadata may remain in a document --even if it is not visible or is hidden by black highlights for example-- and finally the best...

More on ACTA

Posted on April 22, 2010
The ACTA provisions that generate the most criticisms are those dealing with the potential for three strikes laws and circumventing digital rights management implementations. The secretive nature of the earlier drafts suggested imposing a three strikes requirement as the bits...

This Earth Day Prompts the Following Westlaw Patron Access Account Question

Posted on April 22, 2010
Why does Westlaw's Patron Access accounts require print-outs of search results? Or will the so-called beta test Patron Access account system that allows emailing output ever be implemented for all law libraries? American Loggers and other cable series may like...

Independent Development of TR "Bench & Bar" Moble Apps Coming Someday?

Posted on April 22, 2010
I agree with Greg Lambert who writes that TR's StreetApps Challenge is an interesting way to test out the 'crowd' to help them build TR API-based mobile apps for their financial products. Why not "Bench & Bar" apps for their...

FDsys Status Report: Over Budget, Behind Schedule, Scope of Migration Reduced and GPO Focused on Fixing Deployed System

Posted on April 21, 2010
By the end of FY 2010 the first phase of the FDsys program will be substantially over budget, from an original cost of $16 million to an estimated cost of $42 million for contractor support. The project is well behind...

New and Updated GlobaLex Research Guides

Posted on April 21, 2010
Published this month by GlobaLex. New Research Guide: The Constitutional Law and the Legal System of the Kingdom of Bahrain by Khalil Mechantaf Updated Guides: Basic Information and Online Sources for NAFTA and CAFTA Research (North American Free Trade Agreement...

IALL Meeting in The Hague/Rotterdam

Posted on April 21, 2010
The International Association of Law Libraries's (IALL) 29th annual course on international law librarianship will be held in The Hague/Rotterdam, Sep. 5-8, 2010. Titled "Dutch Gateways to International Law," it will examine: (1) the broad reach of international law; (2)...

Oxford Announces Bibliography Database

Posted on April 21, 2010
Oxford University Press is announcing a new online research service, Oxford Bibliographies Online, with availability for some topics this spring. Each subject bibliography is positioned as a combination of an encyclopedia and an annotated bibliography...

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