LibWorm.com provides a librarian RSS filtering service. Over 1500 RSS librarian sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest headlines from journals and sites in the Law Libraries category. http://www.libworm.com/rss/index.php/Law-Libraries/9/ Fri, 05 Aug 2011 01:30:03 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/jkbaumga/2010/12/31/happy-new-year-3/ I like to wish j and her family, the other Scratchpad contributors and especially the Scratchpad readers a safe and wonderful Happy New Year! See you in 2011! Cheers Posted by Rich (Source: J's Scratchpad) Fri, 31 Dec 2010 17:26:57 +0100 895793 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LawLibrarianBlog/~3/vRJE0QWrtPU/tis-the-season-for-year-in-review-blog-posts.html My favorite year in review post has to be Sarah Glassmeyer's 2010 Was an Interesting Year. She writes (and I intentionally omit the context): I got nailed by a lot of balls in 2010. I’ll wait for the #Iam12 crowd... (Source: Law Librarian Blog) Fri, 31 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 895835 http://feeds.lexblog.com/~r/ediscoverylaw/klgates/~3/90tDDPExFNo/ By: Martha Dawson, Michael Goodfried, K&L Gates This article appeared in DRI’s E-Discovery Connection, Volume 5 Issue 3, on December 23, 2010 Consider how you, or someone you know, uses social networking sites; and consider how valuable this could be in litigation. • “Check out the photos from my climb of Mt. Rainier. It rocked! I guess my back injury wasn’t that bad after all.” • I can’t believe what my boss just did.” • “My kids are driving me crazy. Anyone want to borrow them for the night?” Are Social Networking Sites Discoverable? Social networking sites are internet sites on which individuals or companies can create profiles about themselves and share information with others.  Users can update their status, type blog entries, post pictures or videos, send email or instant messages, or post comments on the profiles of their contacts, among many other offerings.  One of the most important aspects of social networking sites is the ability to link up with other users as “friends” or “contacts,” and decide with whom to share information.  Users can control their privacy settings and choose which information to make publically available, share with their contacts, share with their contacts’ contacts (friends of friends), or show only to certain individuals.  Some of the most popular social networking sites are Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and LinkedIn. To read the full article, click here. (Source: Electronic Discovery Law) Fri, 31 Dec 2010 01:02:17 +0100 895757 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LawLibrarianBlog/~3/QgjtTY34as8/opening-reference-librarian-drake-university-law-library.html Drake University Law Library is seeking a Reference Librarian with a strong service orientation to help provide patron services to members of the Law School, Drake University, the local bench and bar, and the public. Located in Iowa’s capital city,... (Source: Law Librarian Blog) Thu, 30 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 895841 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LawLibrarianBlog/~3/T1kw7Kq_Zvk/using-ebooks-ereaders-in-your-library.html The Creekview High School Library (a/k/a The Unquiet Library) staff in Georgia have been documenting the library's process of acquiring and lending Kindles and Kindle book editions on The Unquiet Librarian blog and in a series of YouTube videos, which... (Source: Law Librarian Blog) Thu, 30 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 895840 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LawLibrarianBlog/~3/WAOl-tE67mM/want-to-be-the-next-public-printer-of-the-united-states.html Sounds like there is an opening but I didn't see an ad for the gig, at least not yet. From the GPO press release: Public Printer of the United States Bob Tapella announces his resignation as head of the U.S.... (Source: Law Librarian Blog) Thu, 30 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 895839 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LawLibrarianBlog/~3/LW4Wew1r0AA/friday-fun-law-school-fear-reckoning-.html (Source: Law Librarian Blog) Thu, 30 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 895838 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LawLibrarianBlog/~3/gS1gg5HxjkY/ebook-trends-that-will-change-the-future-of-publishing-sooner-rather-than-later-wexis-ebooks.html Philip Ruppel, president of McGraw-Hill Professional, identifies five eBook trends that will change the future of publishing: Enhanced E-Books Are Coming and Will Only Get Better The Device War Is Nearly Over The $9.99 E-Book Won’t Last Forever The Contextual... (Source: Law Librarian Blog) Thu, 30 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 895837 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LawLibrarianBlog/~3/wWG42_sDChA/president-obama-announces-recess-appointment-for-public-printer-cwa-senior-vice-president-william-j-.html From yesterday's White House Announcement: About William J. Boarman: Boarman recently served as President of the Printing, Publishing & Media Workers Sector of the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and the Senior Vice President of CWA. He has been associated... (Source: Law Librarian Blog) Thu, 30 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 895836 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LawLibrarianBlog/~3/q_cm21Zxrd4/opening-assistant-director-for-faculty-services-univ-of-south-carolina-school-of-law.html The Coleman Karesh Law Library, University of South Carolina School of Law, seeks motivated, experienced candidates for the position of Assistant Director for Faculty Services. The Law Library is an academic research library with the primary goal of supporting the... (Source: Law Librarian Blog) Wed, 29 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 895845 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LawLibrarianBlog/~3/PKUX8sjYJBk/putting-the-ipad-to-work.html Tablet Legal's Josh Barrett is posting a series of iPad apps reviews for lawyers which also may be of interest to law librarians who want to put their iPad to work for them. Here's Barrett's introduction to the series. So... (Source: Law Librarian Blog) Wed, 29 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 895844 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LawLibrarianBlog/~3/uD8eU1M3VyY/us-news-rankings-czar-urges-prospective-law-students-to-use-rankings-wisely.html According to a recent Kaplan Test Prep survey 30 percent of test takers say that a law school's ranking was the most critical factor in selecting a law school to apply to. US News rankings czar Bob Morse says this... (Source: Law Librarian Blog) Wed, 29 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 895843 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LawLibrarianBlog/~3/RIyX_ITrdJ0/voting-in-the-2010-aba-journal-blawg-100-will-end-cob-tomorrow.html "The Blawg 100 is compiled by ABA Journal staff and is largely a favorites’ list. Most are blawgs that are regularly updated, contain original content, opinion and/or analysis. Many are also on our radar because the Journal staff finds the... (Source: Law Librarian Blog) Wed, 29 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 895842 http://feeds.lexblog.com/~r/ediscoverylaw/klgates/~3/By2C8-Vivjc/ Willis v. Willis, 2010 WL 5186606 (N.Y. App. Div. Dec. 21, 2010) Plaintiff filed suit against her former husband and his current wife alleging defamation.  Specifically, plaintiff alleged that defamatory statements had been made in an email addressed to her and sent to her account - an account which was also regularly used by the former couple’s children.  One of the children read the email.  Plaintiff alleged that the act of sending the email to that account constituted publication for purposes of her claim. In the course of litigation, plaintiff used the same account to communicate with her attorneys.  Defendant sought production of those emails contending that they were not privileged.  Plaintiff sought a protective order.  The trial court ordered their production.  On appeal, the court found that plaintiff “failed to meet her burden of demonstrating … that the email communications … were made in confidence” and reasoned:According to the plaintiff, her children did not merely know the password to the e-mail account that she used to communicate with her attorneys, but the children regularly used the e-mail account, and, the plaintiff alleged, the defendants' mere act of sending an e-mail addressed solely to her on that account constituted "publication" for purposes of establishing a defamation cause of action.  Furthermore, the individuals who had unrestricted access to the plaintiff's attorney-client communications were not unrelated to the plaintiff's adversary or to her lawsuit (cf. Stroh v. General Motors Corp., 213 A.D.2d 267, 267-268).  While these individuals were the plaintiff's own children, they were also the children of her adversary, and the plaintiff's lawsuit is grounded upon the publication of the allegedly defamatory e-mail to one of the children. ... Tue, 28 Dec 2010 21:54:15 +0100 895759 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LawLibrarianBlog/~3/BibUDJIaUac/is-depaul-laws-new-dean-a-glutton-for-punishment.html "Announcing the new Dean three days before Xmas when no one is around actually is *Not* normal......but that's what DePaul University has done," wrote Chicago Law prof Brian Leiter about the timing of the announcement that Gregory Mark, Vice Dean,... (Source: Law Librarian Blog) Tue, 28 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 895848 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LawLibrarianBlog/~3/TWT51OCNc1w/dennis-kennedys-2010-blawggies.html Few have been as close a watcher of law blogging developments for so long as Dennis Kennedy has. His first Blawggie awards was published in December 2004. Over the years, awards categories have changed to reflect the changing landscape of... (Source: Law Librarian Blog) Tue, 28 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 895847 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LawLibrarianBlog/~3/bXRvbszjyEM/earl-c-borgeson-passing-of-a-respected-best-friend-to-many-in-the-law-library-community.html In We Love to Help Each Other, 91 L. Libr. J. 195 (1999) Earl Borgeson wrote "everything you might want in a 'best friend' you will want to find in a mentor." Many who knew Earl Borgeson fondly remember him... (Source: Law Librarian Blog) Tue, 28 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 895846 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LawLibrarianBlog/~3/EOfnirCJCHE/opening-law-librarian-supreme-court-of-nevada.html Under the general direction of the justices of the Supreme Court, the Law Librarian administers and manages the law library. The Law Librarian performs highly responsible administrative and legal research functions in directing professional level law library service to the... (Source: Law Librarian Blog) Mon, 27 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 895851 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LawLibrarianBlog/~3/Bm7l0crjhDc/ralph-nader-really-congressional-hearing-on-the-espionage-act-and-the-legal-and-constitutional-issue.html On December 16, 2010, the House Committee on the Judiciary conducted a hearing on the Espionage Act and the legal and constitutional issues raised by WikiLeaks. The link to the video webcast is available of this page. The witness list... (Source: Law Librarian Blog) Mon, 27 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 895850 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LawLibrarianBlog/~3/xCBGabH7CHk/addressing-us-national-interests-in-cyberspace-security.html "The United States’ overriding national interest in cyberspace is to preserve and extend the Internet as a tool for economic efficiency at home and as a facilitator for economic exchange internationally. The current level of criminal activity, espionage, and preparation... (Source: Law Librarian Blog) Mon, 27 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 895849 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LawLibrarianBlog/~3/IfKeOYM7_lw/20-gadgets-gizmos-meaning-former-christmas-gifts-and-services-and-products-that-became-obsolete-duri.html See HuffPostTech's look back at the things that have become obsolete. And what did you open under the Christmas tree that will become just as obsolete in a couple of years? [JH] (Source: Law Librarian Blog) Sun, 26 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 895852 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LawLibrarianBlog/~3/MtoKd89zdcE/where-is-the-legislation-that-banned-christmas.html A republication of LLB's Dec. 25, 2007 post. Cromwellian apologists, like the Cromwell Association, argue that there is no evidence to support the myth that Oliver Cromwell banned Christmas: There is no sign that Cromwell personally played a particularly large... (Source: Law Librarian Blog) Sat, 25 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 895853 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LawLibrarianBlog/~3/Df9EGlOa5co/wikileaks-founder-assanges-first-cable-news-intervice-since-being-released-fro-jail.html Details with MSNBC interview video here. [JH] (Source: Law Librarian Blog) Fri, 24 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 894850 http://feeds.lexblog.com/~r/ediscoverylaw/klgates/~3/GpP1hgI-JRY/ DeGeer v. Gillis, 2010 WL 5096563 (N.D. Ill. Dec. 8, 2010) Defendants and non-party Huron Consulting Services, LLC could not agree on the proper course of discovery.  After protracted communications consisting of accusations and demands, defendants sought to compel Huron to conduct additional searches for responsive ESI.  The court found that some additional searching was warranted and ordered counsel to meet and confer in person to establish the proper scope.  Citing the parties’ failure to cooperate as a “controlling factor” as to cost-shifting, the court ordered the parties to split the costs, with one exception.Defendants subpoenaed Huron seeking information relevant to ongoing litigation.  Huron complied, in part, but refused, for example, to restore certain back up tapes without cost-shifting and repeatedly declined to share the details of its searching with defendants.  Defendants, for their part, refused to provide Huron with search terms, despite repeated requests.  The details of the dispute are rather protracted.  Suffice it to say, even after Huron provided defendants with a general description of its database and search terms (pursuant to court order), no agreement could be reached regarding the proper scope of discovery and judcial intervention became necessary. Following its acknowledgement that non-parties are to be protected from unduly burdensome discovery, and highlighting the need for cooperation and early attention to e-discovery issues (attention which was lacking in this case), the court found that additional searching was warranted. ... Thu, 23 Dec 2010 18:25:07 +0100 894944 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LawLibrarianBlog/~3/bwWuWtbdbS8/imagine-no-web-servers-this-december-25th-marks-the-20th-anniversary-of-the-birth-of-the-www.html Contrary to popular belief and Christian celebration, the birth of the baby Jesus did not occur on December 25 -- more likely September 11, 3 BCE by the Gregorian calendar we use now. But the birth of the World Wide... (Source: Law Librarian Blog) Thu, 23 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 894852 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LawLibrarianBlog/~3/JL2As66k6-I/friday-fun-of-thursday-despite-budget-cuts-public-libraries-still-rock.html Here's a recent flashmob dance, involving people of all ages from the Greater Columbus Arts Council's out-of-school-time program, Art in the House, partner program TRANSIT ARTS, adults and seniors! It all happened at the Columbus Metropolitan Library and in the... (Source: Law Librarian Blog) Thu, 23 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 894851 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/6526 BERKMAN CENTER FOR INTERNET & SOCIETY AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY Upcoming events and digital media // December 22, 2010 [SAVE THE DATE 1/11] Berkman Center Luncheon Series: "The Master Switch" with Tim Wu, author of The Master Switch and Professor of Law at Columbia University (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2011/01/wu) [SAVE THE DATE] BERKMAN LUNCHEON SERIES on THE MASTER SWITCH ================================================================================== 1/11/11, 12:00pm ET, Harvard Law School **Please note earlier start time for this date only** RSVP is required for those attending in person to Amar Ashar (ashar@cyber.law.harvard.edu) Topic: The Master Switch Guests: Tim Wu, author of The Master Switch and Professor of Law at Columbia University Tim Wu presents his widely acclaimed new book THE MASTER SWITCH:  The Rise and Fall of Information Empires. "A Masterpiece" - Lawrence Lessig.   "A ripping yarn" - The Atlantic About Tim Tim Wu is an author, policy advocate and author of The Master Switch.  He is a professor at Columbia Law School, the chairman of media reform organization Free Press. Wu was recognized in 2006 as one of 50 leaders in science and technology by Scientific American magazine, and in 2007 Wu was listed as one of Harvard's 100 most influential graduates by 02138 magazine. Tim Wu's best known work is the development of Net Neutrality theory, but he has also written about copyright, international trade, and the study of law-breaking. He previously worked for Riverstone Networks in the telecommunications industry in Silicon Valley, and was a law clerk for Judge Richard Posner and Justice Stephen Breyer. He graduated from McGill University (B.Sc.), and Harvard Law School. Wu has written for the New Yorker, the Washington Post, Forbes, Slate magazine, and others. He can sometimes be found at Waterfront Bicycles, and he once worked at Hoo's Dumplings. ... Wed, 22 Dec 2010 18:48:00 +0100 894458 http://vancouverlawlib.blogspot.com/2010/12/clawbie-2010-nominations-roundup.html Another new high mark for the Clawbies in 2010: more than 50 tweeted mentions and nominations, in addition to the blog post nominations noted below. I won't republish all the twitter entries, but would like to continue my personal tradition of gathering the blogged nominations.Similar to last year, if you've blogged an endorsement of three fellow Canadian law bloggers, please drop me a note. I'll update this post a few times before we announce the winners on New Year's Eve.2010 CLawBie Blog Nominations:Donna SealeEntertainment & Media Law SignalAntonin Pribetic Dan Michaluk Chris JaglowitzErik MagrakenLeah OrrAndrew GageClioGary WiseTodd HarrisonDoug Cornelius David DooreyShaunna MireauMany thanks to everyone who's taken the time to participate! (Source: Vancouver Law Librarian Blog) Wed, 22 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 894939 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LawLibrarianBlog/~3/u7p7jhhKA4c/after-rudovsky.html As I am sure many recall, in Rudovsky v. West Publishing Corp.(U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, No. 09-cv-000727-JF), the authors of Pennsylvania Criminal Procedure -- Law, Commentary and Forms, law profs David Rudovsky (Pennsylvania) and Leonard... (Source: Law Librarian Blog) Wed, 22 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 894854 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LawLibrarianBlog/~3/2wRKBtnFzAg/crs-on-dadt.html With President Obama signing the legislation repealing the military's Don't Ask Don't Tell policy, it's noted that there are two recent Congressional Research Service reports on DADT. The first is "Don't Ask, Don't Tell": The Law and Military Policy on... (Source: Law Librarian Blog) Wed, 22 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 894853 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2010/lucchese Tuesday, December 21, 12:30 pmBerkman Center, 23 Everett Street, second floorRSVP required for those attending in person (rsvp@cyber.law.harvard.edu)This event will be webcast live at 12:30 pm ET and archived on our site shortly after. In the same way that music's format shift from analog to digital democratized music distribution for artists, the next digital format shift is leveling the playing field for the creation of music applications. Any developer with talent and vision can now build an app that re-shapes the way we experience music.  Some of these apps do so on a large scale by including the totality of recorded music, or, on a smaller scale with specialized functions, like that T-Pain autotuner app everyone was talking about last year. In a few short years, app developers have already changed music's role in our lives with new solutions for music discovery and recommendation, blog and news aggregators, music games, location-based listening, interactive remix apps, social music sharing, and countless other new music experiences. However, most music application developers are locked out of the commercial music industry, unable to navigate the licensing maze, or to hire one of a few very well-connected deal makers necessary to launch a licensed service comprised of the same popular music available to larger players. In virtually every other market segment -- gaming, social networking, news, photography, etc. -- a developer just needs to build a great app. In the music space, that same developer also needs an army of lawyers and dealmakers. In this talk, The Echo Nest CEO Jim Lucchese will discuss the specific needs and vast potential of this growing music app development community, citing plenty of examples of new and innovative music applications. ... Tue, 21 Dec 2010 17:30:00 +0100 894314 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LawLibrarianBlog/~3/CRHIBelQy_Y/in-the-new-normal-of-institutional-buyers-diet-protein-content-matters.html Check out the video posted on 3 Geeks here. Greg Lambert writes "this video ... lays out where we seem to be with client vs. vendor relations right now. Bad economies, bad relations, and unrealistic expectations (on both sides) lead... (Source: Law Librarian Blog) Tue, 21 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 894857 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LawLibrarianBlog/~3/nJzp1tYy9ik/stanford-law-launching-major-study-of-the-legal-profession.html Stanford Law School recently announced that it has launched a comprehensive empirical study of the state of the legal profession supported by financial support from the Sidley Austin Foundation. Excerpts the press release: The objective of the multi-year study is... (Source: Law Librarian Blog) Tue, 21 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 894856 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LawLibrarianBlog/~3/GHlW3x1bRCw/fcc-adopts-basic-net-neutrality-rules.html The FCC voted 3-2 today to implement so-called net neutrality rules for the Internet. The rules were resisted by industry and their political allies as unnecessary while public advocacy grounds were disappointed that they did not go far enough in... (Source: Law Librarian Blog) Tue, 21 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 894855 http://feeds.lexblog.com/~r/ediscoverylaw/klgates/~3/nQHqX93SzVs/ By: Julie Anne Halter, K&L Gates, Seattle This article appeared in the Puget Sound Business Journal the week of December 10-16. In 2007, according to a report from the International Data Corporation, the “digital universe” contained 281 billion gigabytes of data. That’s the paper equivalent of roughly 2.25 million pages per person. Commentators predict that by 2011, the digital universe will be 10 times the size it was in 2006. If you consider the last time you wrote a handwritten letter, used a pay phone, or consulted a legal casebook, there is no denying that the world has evolved. And with it, litigation. To read more, click here (subscription required).  (Source: Electronic Discovery Law) Mon, 20 Dec 2010 18:09:49 +0100 894946 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/publications/2010/DDoS_Independent_Media_and_Human_Rights The Berkman Center for Internet & Society is pleased to share a new report, "Distributed Denial of Service Attacks Against Independent Media and Human Rights Sites" by Ethan Zuckerman, Hal Roberts, Ryan McGrady, Jillian York, John Palfrey Overview:Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) is an increasingly common Internet phenomenon capable of silencing Internet speech, usually for a brief interval but occasionally for longer. In this paper, we explore the specific phenomenon of DDoS attacks on independent media and human rights organizations, seeking to understand the nature and frequency of these attacks, their efficacy, and the responses available to sites under attack. Our report offers advice to independent media and human rights sites likely to be targeted by DDoS but comes to the uncomfortable conclusion that there is no easy solution to these attacks for many of these sites, particularly for attacks that exhaust network bandwidth.The full report is available online.Public results of the survey can be accessed here. A list of public media reports on DDoS can be accessed here.For more information on the Berkman Center's DDoS research project, visit: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/research/ddos. (Source: Berkman Blog) Mon, 20 Dec 2010 14:00:00 +0100 894128 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LawLibrarianBlog/~3/ALrIxl_uZEk/the-one-and-the-many-on-taking-giant-steps-forward-like-lawgov-and-the-national-digital-library-init.html "I don’t want to minimize [the] problems [of creating a national digitial library], but I think we should approach them with a can-do spirit. After all, we have acquired a great deal of experience with digitization. Every research library has... (Source: Law Librarian Blog) Mon, 20 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 894860 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LawLibrarianBlog/~3/kIA3_03gk-E/passing-of-a-giant-morris-l-cohen-1927-2010.html Morris Cohen, one of the most influential law librarians of the 20th century, died Saturday. His funeral will be held today. Former AALL President (1970-71), Cohen was Professor Emeritus of Law and Professorial Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School... (Source: Law Librarian Blog) Mon, 20 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 894859 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LawLibrarianBlog/~3/b2pU2N5Rvyg/montana-considering-how-to-handle-privacy-in-family-law-cases.html The Montana Supreme Court is considering revamping privacy rules that would limit the amount of sensitive personal information contained in documents filed in family law cases. Private information can include social security numbers, dates of birth, financial account numbers, medical... (Source: Law Librarian Blog) Mon, 20 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 894858 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LawLibrarianBlog/~3/EokhQavsKPA/pew-internet-survey-internet-use-in-higher-income-households.html Pew Internet reports that higher-income internet users are the most active participants in a range of online activities, when compared with those who have less income. From the report: 93% of higher-income users use email 80% access news online 71%... (Source: Law Librarian Blog) Sun, 19 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 894861 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LawLibrarianBlog/~3/NBWNNq9DgBc/new-and-updated-foreign-and-international-law-research-guides-from-globalex.html New Research Guides Introduction to the Norms and Institutions of the African Union by Girmachew Alemu Aneme Constitutional Law and Courts’ System in the Syrian Arab Republic by Khalil Mechantaf Updated Guides A Basic Guide to International Environmental Legal Research... (Source: Law Librarian Blog) Sat, 18 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 894862 http://feeds.lexblog.com/~r/ediscoverylaw/klgates/~3/padt1z_UxN8/ United States v. Warshak, 2010 WL 5071766 (6th Cir. Dec. 14, 2010) In this lengthy opinion, the court considered the question of whether an account holder has an expectation of privacy as to the contents of his emails.  Answering in the affirmative, the court held that “a subscriber enjoys a reasonable expectation privacy in the contents of his emails ‘that are stored with, or sent or received through, a commercial ISP’” and that “the government may not compel a commercial ISP to turn over the contents of a subscriber’s emails without first obtaining a warrant based on probable cause.”Defendant Warshak was convicted of a number of crimes related to his company's sales and accounting practices.  During its investigation of Warshak, the government compelled the preservation and ultimately the production of emails from an internet service provider with which he maintained an account.  This was accomplished, in large part, by serving a subpoena for the emails’ production pursuant to the Stored Communications Act, which “permits a ‘governmental entity’ to compel a service provider to disclose the contents of [electronic] communications in certain circumstances.”  On appeal of his conviction, Warshak asserted that the disclosure, absent a warrant, violated his Fourth Amendment rights. The court’s analysis, too lengthy and detailed to comprehensively summarize, focused in large part on the historical protections of the Fourth Amendment as applied to more “traditional forms of communication”, i.e. telephone calls and letters.  As to both, there is a reasonable expectation of privacy such that a warrant is required to intercept them.  Like email, both telephone calls and letters are open to access by a third party. ... Sat, 18 Dec 2010 01:29:50 +0100 893796 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/6518 What's being discussed...take your pick or browse below. * Joseph Reagle analyzes Wikipedia's first six weeks * Harry Lewis explains that the Fourth Amendment now applies to email * David Weinberger critiques Time's Person of the Year * John Palfrey downloads his first book-as-iPad app * Creative Commons celebrates its birthday with videos (CC-licensed, of course) * Weekly Global Voices: "@MedvedevRussia, Are You Listening? A Story of 6 Months on Twitter" * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * The full buzz. "The reconstruction is not perfect, there are patches that won't apply, manually moved articles, and text encodings that I don't manage to guess at. But it does permit some preliminary browsing, which leaves the following initial impressions: There is a lot of silly stuff in there.Tim Shell contributed a fair amount of content.Popular topics seemingly include philosophy, geography, the Dewey Decimal System, Ernest Hemingway, the United States (and its Constitution), Isaac Asimov, the Japan Constitution, Metallica, statistics, and -- my goodness, true to the Objectvist conspiracy theories -- a huge collection of articles on Atlas Shrugged." From Joseph Reagle's blog post "Wikipedia 10K redux" "I'm glad that Time took MZ [Mark Zuckerberg] over Julian Assange. Facebook is truly influential and important. WikiLeak’s importance is primarily symbolic, and it has been given that symbolic importance mainly by forces that want to use it as justification for killing what they don’t like about the Internet — its openness, its bottom-uppity character, its distrust of extrinsic controls...in other words, all that makes it the Internet." From David Weinberger's blog post "Face of the Year" "I chose to read NONOBJECT for its form, not so much its substance. ... Fri, 17 Dec 2010 21:34:11 +0100 893531 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/6513 The Berkman Center's Law Lab is pleased to announce the launch of the initial prototype for its Digital Law Library wiki . Initiated in 2010, and led by Law Lab Director Oliver Goodenough in close collaboration with Tracy Bach, a professor at Vermont Law School and Yaya Bodian, Maître Assistant at CREDILA, Université Cheikh Anta Dioin, in Dakar, Senegal, this effort is focused on cataloging and analyzing Senegalese and other West African law and putting it online in a searchable and easily accessible format. In partnership with local lawyers, professors, researchers, and students, the initial stage of this project seeks to improve online access to the laws and other materials for a variety of actors, including government representatives, NGOs, scholars, and citizens. The Law Lab has supported CREDILA in establishing this access-controlled curated wiki for Senegalese law, with a particular emphasis on commercial and business related laws. The site covers lawmaking in all three branches of Senegal, in addition the law of international bodies, like treaties, as well as that of regional organizations like ECOWAS and the AU. It also consists of both links to relevant websites containing Senegalese law, like those of government ministries, as well as original material not available online elsewhere (like the scholarly review published by CREDILA annually). Additional information regarding the project, which has been funded with generous support by the Kauffman Foundation and the wiki can be found at the Law Lab site. An introductory tutorial is forthcoming. As always, feedback is encouraged and most welcome. (Source: Berkman Blog) Fri, 17 Dec 2010 14:58:55 +0100 893532 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LawLibrarianBlog/~3/wx_wsg_zaRg/whats-up-with-amazon.html I don't get it. Ars Technica reports that one incest-themed fiction book was removed from the Kindle bookstore and from the archives of people who purchased it. Other reports indicated that at least three titles were removed from the store... (Source: Law Librarian Blog) Fri, 17 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 893492 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LawLibrarianBlog/~3/_CCKCZmGf2M/outsourcing-the-law-library-in-the-private-sector.html In Outsourcing Legal Information, Karen Sawatzky wrote I tend to live in the future. I think about what it will be like when I’ve paid off all my debts, how I’m going to celebrate a significant event coming up next... (Source: Law Librarian Blog) Fri, 17 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 893491 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LawLibrarianBlog/~3/9TSGazi30pE/friday-fun-brilliant-the-usa-according-to-google-autocomplete.html Mashable's Lauren Indvik writes, "Ever wonder what a map of the U.S. would look like if all of the states’ names were altered to match the suggestions offered by Google’s autocomplete search algorithm? Wonder no longer." The source of this... (Source: Law Librarian Blog) Fri, 17 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 893490 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LawLibrarianBlog/~3/8NMDOezvN0A/peeing-in-harvards-lamont-library-36-urine-soaked-lgbt-books-result-of-a-clumsy-library-staffer-not-.html That's the nutshell conclusion of Harvard University PD's investigation reported by The Harvard Crimson. "Though Harvard College Queer Students and Allies Co-Chair Marco Chan '11 expressed relief that the damage was the result of an accident and not a targeted... (Source: Law Librarian Blog) Fri, 17 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 893489 http://feeds.lexblog.com/~r/ediscoverylaw/klgates/~3/O7UmnYXfDZU/ Effective October 1, 2010, the UK has introduced Practice Direction 31B addressing in detail the disclosure of electronic documents.  According to the Ministry of Justice, this new Practice Direction “aims to focus the parties on the sources of electronic material and give guidance to those with less experience of dealing which such issues.”  A comprehensive discussion, the Practice Direction addresses a myriad of topics, including preservation, topics for discussion between the parties, reasonable searching, keyword and automated searching, the disclosure of metadata, and the format of production.  The Practice Direction also provides an “Electronic Documents Questionnaire” which may be exchanged by the parties “in order to provide information to each other in relation to the scope, extent and most suitable format for disclosure of Electronic Documents in the proceedings.”  The questionnaire, like Practice Direction 31B, is quite detailed and covers issues like the scope of a reasonable search, suggested search methodologies, preservation, and potential problems related to electronic disclosure. Practice Direction 31B is available here. (Source: Electronic Discovery Law) Fri, 17 Dec 2010 00:38:02 +0100 893797 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/6512 From the MediaBerkman blog:The idea that technology could want something seems kind of outlandish, almost like science fiction. But journalist Kevin Kelly is proposing a kind of technological self-determination in his new book What Technology Wants.It’s not exactly robots with souls that Kelly is suggesting. It’s more of an evolutionary theory of technological development, the idea that one technology naturally evolves from another. That the mobile phone, for instance, was an inevitable evolution from the telephone, or that the internet was a natural evolution from the spread of the personal computer.Well, not exactly inevitable. Best listen to David Weinberger’s interview with Kevin Kelly to hear him explain it himself.CONTINUE ON TO MediaBerkman FOR THE AUDIO AND MORE... (Source: Berkman Blog) Thu, 16 Dec 2010 22:04:15 +0100 893264 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LawLibrarianBlog/~3/Ygwm6j5t1fw/justice-scalia-uses-an-ipad-justice-kagan-a-kindle-to-read-briefs.html From the description provided for the below YouTube video: In this excerpt from C-SPAN's interview with Associate Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan (airing Sunday, December 19 at 6:30 p.m. ET on C-SPAN), Justice Kagan describes using an Amazon Kindle to... (Source: Law Librarian Blog) Thu, 16 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 893493 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/6510 BERKMAN CENTER FOR INTERNET & SOCIETY AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY Upcoming events and digital media // December 15, 2010 [TUESDAY 12/21] Berkman Center Luncheon Series: "Application Developers and the Future of Music" with Jim Lucchese, CEO of The Echo Nest (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2010/lucchese) Special announcement: The Berkman Center is currently accepting applications for 2011-2012 fellowships through our annual open call. The application deadline is 11:59 p.m. ET on December 15, 2010. http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/getinvolved/fellowships/opencall20112012 [TUESDAY] BERKMAN LUNCHEON SERIES on APPLICATION DEVELOPERS AND THE FUTURE OF MUSIC ================================================================================== 12/21/10, 12:30pm ET, Berkman Center Conference Room @ 23 Everett St., Cambridge, MA RSVP is required for those attending in person to Amar Ashar (ashar@cyber.law.harvard.edu) This event will be webcast live Topic: "Application Developers and the Future of Music" Guests: Jim Lucchese, CEO of The Echo Nest In the same way that music's format shift from analog to digital democratized music distribution for artists, the next digital format shift is leveling the playing field for the creation of music applications. Any developer with talent and vision can now build an app that re-shapes the way we experience music. Some of these apps do so on a large scale by including the totality of recorded music, or, on a smaller scale with specialized functions, like that T-Pain autotuner app everyone was talking about last year. In a few short years, app developers have already changed music's role in our lives with new solutions for music discovery and recommendation, blog and news aggregators, music games, location-based listening, interactive remix apps, social music sharing, and countless other new music experiences. ... Wed, 15 Dec 2010 16:13:14 +0100 893062 http://vancouverlawlib.blogspot.com/2010/12/welcome-bc-injury-lawyers-blog.html Just a quick note to welcome Stem client Waterstone Law to the blogosphere. The firm's ICBC and Personal Injury groups launched the BC Injury Lawyers Blog last week.Here' a screen capture of the design Stem put together:Congratulations & best blogging wishes! (Source: Vancouver Law Librarian Blog) Wed, 15 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 893794 http://vancouverlawlib.blogspot.com/2010/12/proximity-operator-for-google-searches.html Noted by Simon Fodden at Slaw yesterday, Tara Calishain at ResearchBuzz has a roundup of Google's Around operator.The protocol is "AROUND(x), where x is the maximum distance between two search terms." (Source: Vancouver Law Librarian Blog) Wed, 15 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 893792 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LawLibrarianBlog/~3/A7OYCEPMzjE/law-saas-or-it-from-the-other-side-of-the-international-date-line.html In a recent guest blog post on 3 Geeks, The End of Corporate IT, Ryan McClead wrote "I have seen the future and there is no IT. Oh, there will be people called IT personnel and there will be external... (Source: Law Librarian Blog) Wed, 15 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 893496 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LawLibrarianBlog/~3/6KcpQy4qVAQ/does-gpo-now-the-google-printing-office-.html Google has been quietly capitalizing on its various library and publisher partnerships with its Google ebookstore project. In addition to its more commercial titles offered for sale at the site, it will also be offering over 1800 government publications from... (Source: Law Librarian Blog) Wed, 15 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 893495 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LawLibrarianBlog/~3/7sTkx6fOdus/sixth-circuit-rules-email-is-protected-by-the-fourth-amendment.html The Sixth Circuit issued the most extraordinary opinion yesterday, U.S. v. Warshak. It is, apparently, the first case to declare that email, and the people who use it (virtually everybody, except teens) have a reasonable expectation of privacy in its... (Source: Law Librarian Blog) Wed, 15 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 893494 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2010/12/marshall Tuesday, December 14, 12:30 pmBerkman Center, 23 Everett Street, second floorRSVP required for those attending in person (rsvp@cyber.law.harvard.edu)This event will be webcast live at 12:30 pm ET and archived on our site shortly after.Driven by the proliferation of accessible music and video-production software and the connective possibilities of the social web, public culture is being remade in the wake of user-generated content, including the ever curious category of world music. So-called platforms such as YouTube or Jamglue play host to new genres, dance steps, and remixes from around the world, incubating local scenes and circulating aspiring artists' productions to peers near and far. In contrast to its creation by a consortium of British music-industry players in the 1980s, a multinational network of grassroots producers, DJs, and bloggers are renegotiating and redefining the freighted but inclusive term. But while this bottom-up revision of world music can be seen as a valuable development, queasy connections with its earlier incarnation, and the power relations and ideas about difference it embodied, also persist.  About WayneWayne Marshall is an ethnomusicologist focusing on the musical and cultural production of the Caribbean and the Americas, and their circulation in the wider world, with particular attention to digital technologies. While a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT, he's writing a book on music, networked media, and transnational youth culture. He recently co-edited and contributed to Reggaeton (Duke University Press 2009) and has published in journals such as Popular Music and Callaloo while writing for popular outlets like The Wire and the Boston Phoenix. He holds a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has taught courses at Brandeis, Brown, University of Chicago, and Harvard Extension School. He is also an active DJ and maintains and runs the blog and website, www. ... Tue, 14 Dec 2010 17:30:00 +0100 892667 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LawLibrarianBlog/~3/KGcUniL45Xk/another-sign-of-the-times-in-the-shed-west-era-need-used-shelving.html If you do, contact Laurie Miller, Pierce County Law Library, Tacoma, WA or me ... I've got 100s a couple of thousand linear feet. [JH] (Source: Law Librarian Blog) Tue, 14 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 893498 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LawLibrarianBlog/~3/EeBkb9nwjjE/there-is-a-special-place-in-hell-for-legal-vendor-price-gouging.html Recently a commentator to this LLB post wrote "There is a special place in hell for charging that much money." He was referring to West's $800 charge for three volumes of the ALR Later Case Service for ALR 2d. "There... (Source: Law Librarian Blog) Tue, 14 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 893497 http://feeds.lexblog.com/~r/ediscoverylaw/klgates/~3/joTtZhR_a48/ Radian Asset Assurance, Inc. v. Coll. of the Christian Bros. of New Mexico, 2010 WL 4928866 (D.N.M. Oct. 22, 2010) Plaintiff opposed the court’s proposal to order defendant’s production of backup tapes pursuant to an order of non-waiver and argued that defendant should have to search and produce its own electronically stored information (“ESI”) and that the burden and cost of doing so should not be shifted to plaintiff.  Rejecting the notion that such an order amounted to cost-shifting and upon finding the ESI “not reasonably accessible,” the court ordered the tapes’ production pursuant to an order under Rule 502(d).*In the course of discovery, disagreement arose regarding the production of ESI on backup tapes.  The court proposed production of the tapes subject to an order under Rule 502(d) which would preserve defendant’s claims of privilege.  Plaintiff objected, arguing that the defendant “should be required to search its own ESI and produce discoverable materials -- just as [plaintiff] did -- and that the burden and cost of doing so should not be shifted.”  Specifically, plaintiff argued that “(i) the College should bear its own cost of production; (ii) the College has not met its burden of showing that producing the [ESI on backup tapes] would create an undue burden; (iii) producing the [backup tapes] violates rule 34(b)(2)(E) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure; (iv) producing all the [backup tapes] amounts to an impermissible "data dump"; and (v) rule 502 is not a cost-shifting tool.” The court addressed each of plaintiff’s arguments in turn and ultimately rejected each. ... Mon, 13 Dec 2010 21:09:14 +0100 893798 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/newsroom/digital_public_library December 13, 2010 – The Berkman Center for Internet and Society today announced that it will host a research and planning initiative for a “Digital Public Library of America.” With funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Berkman will convene a large and diverse group of stakeholders in a planning program to define the scope, architecture, costs and administration for a proposed Digital Public Library of America. “We’re grateful to Berkman for coordinating this historic effort to create a Digital Public Library of America and to fulfill the vision of an open, distributed network of comprehensive online resources that draws on the nation’s living heritage to educate, inform and empower everyone in this and future generations,” said Doron Weber, Vice President at the Sloan Foundation. “The Berkman Center’s impressive depth of research on the Internet makes it an ideal leader for the planning program. We hope to emerge with a concrete workplan and a governance structure that represents the consensus of the country’s libraries, universities, archives and museums for moving forward together with a shared vision.” Planning activities will be guided by a Steering Committee of library and foundation leaders, which promises to announce a full slate of activities in early 2011.  The Committee plans to bring together representatives from the educational community, public and research libraries, cultural organizations, state and local government, publishers, authors, and private industry in a series of meetings and workshops to examine strategies for improving public access to comprehensive online resources. One meeting is already in the works: David Ferriero, Archivist of the United States of America, has offered to host a plenary meeting that will assemble stakeholders in early summer 2011.  Ferriero said, “It is exciting to contemplate a future where the cultural heritage of our country is available at your fingertips. ... Mon, 13 Dec 2010 20:44:53 +0100 892478 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LawLibrarianBlog/~3/r5_yADO45s8/lobbying-to-reform-abas-placement-data-reporting-requirements.html Today and tomorrow the ABA Questionnaire Committee will be conducting meetings on the timely and controversial topic of the collection and reporting of placement data. Thanks to Brian Leiter's Law School Reports blog post last week, USD Law Dean Kevin... (Source: Law Librarian Blog) Mon, 13 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 893501 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LawLibrarianBlog/~3/_iEhSocejfA/judge-holds-health-care-purchase-mandate-unconsitutional.html The federal judge in Richmond overseeing Virginia's challenge to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act declared the individual mandate provision unconstitutional. The provision, he says, exceeds the powers of Congress under The commerce Clause and implicates the Tenth Amendment... (Source: Law Librarian Blog) Mon, 13 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 893500 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LawLibrarianBlog/~3/iJa1WWhZAiQ/supreme-court-action-today.html There are two cases out of the Supreme Court today. The more interesting of the two is the case they didn't actually decide, which is Costco Wholesale Corporation v. Omega, S.A. (08-1423). That case involved the sale of gray market... (Source: Law Librarian Blog) Mon, 13 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 893499 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LawLibrarianBlog/~3/HrSgPfvRqiE/tackling-the-app-publishing-question.html Quoting from the lead paragraph from Publishers Weekly's How Publishers Are Tackling the App Question: Are apps marketing devices for authors and books, or a new revenue stream? This is just one of many questions publishers are asking as they... (Source: Law Librarian Blog) Sun, 12 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 893502 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/ydEM/~3/_8x1ycm_OAc/non-profit-financial-research-a-blog-post-by-becka-rich.html My most excellent colleague Becka Rich, Faculty Services/Reference Librarian, is one of the bloggers on the American Association of Law Libraries Research Instruction and Patron Services Special Interest Section blog, http://ripslawlibrarian.wordpress.com/ (Source: novalawcity) Sun, 12 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 892605 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LawLibrarianBlog/~3/2ClcrhOfJhk/crs-on-presidential-libraries.html Everything anyone would want to know about the law of presidential libraries is contained in the recent CRS report: The Presidential Libraries Act and the Establishment of Presidential Libraries (R41513, December 1, 2010). [MG] (Source: Law Librarian Blog) Sat, 11 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 893503 http://feeds.lexblog.com/~r/ediscoverylaw/klgates/~3/ZSB3_fg5bGg/ Oxxford Info. Tech., Ltd. v. Novantas, LLC, 910 N.Y.S.2d 77 (N.Y. App. Div. 2010) In this case, the parties stipulated to a Confidentiality Order requiring that business information exchanged during the course of discovery would be returned or destroyed at the end of litigation.  Relying on the agreement, defendants provided access to “their core business secrets.”  When the case settled, plaintiff’s counsel discovered that defendants’ information had been backed up to “numerous back-up tapes” on their law firm’s computer system.  Plaintiff then sought to modify the confidentiality agreement to allow the firm to retain the information “subject to proposed safeguards designed to protect the confidentiality of the information” in light of the cost of deleting the information from the tapes.  The motion was denied and plaintiff appealed.On appeal, the court found that “such cost does not outweigh defendants’ bargained-for interest in the post-litigation destruction of its business information in outsider’s hands, or otherwise warrant the proposed modification” and reasoned that “[p]laintiff voluntarily consented to the Confidentiality Order” and that “its counsel, who have demonstrated experience in and sophisticated knowledge of electronic discovery matters, should have foreseen the problem and addressed it” when the agreement was negotiated.  Accordingly, the denial of plainitff's motion was unanimously affirmed. A full copy of the order is available here. (Source: Electronic Discovery Law) Sat, 11 Dec 2010 01:08:45 +0100 892421 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/6502 What's being discussed...take your pick or browse below.* John Palfrey hits the radio to talk about controversial site RateBU.com * Alum Derek Bambauer discusses the USICE's seizure of 82 domains. * Jonathan Zittrain evaluates the latest developments for net neutrality. * The OpenNet Initiative looks at Net censorship in Syria.Special Section: This Week on WikiLeaks * Clay Shirky envisions what a post-WikiLeaks future looks like.* Jonathan Zittrain and Molly Sauter provide an A-Z of WikiLeaks.* Dan Gillmor argues a defense of WikiLeaks.* David Weinberger explains why he stands with the Net.* The OpenNet Initiative analyzes Twitter's trending topics vis-a-vis #WikiLeaks.* Radio Berkman 171: WikiLeaks and the Information Wars.* Weekly Global Voices: "Special Coverage: WikiLeaks and the World 2010"Special announcement: The Berkman Center is currently accepting applications for 2011-2012 fellowships through our annual open call.  The application deadline is 11:59 p.m. ET on December 15, 2010.* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *The full buzz."The site has generated a lot of controversy, too, as well as some legal questions. WBUR’s Deborah Becker spoke with Internet law expert John Palfrey about the legal implications of this site on Thursday’s Morning Edition." From WBUR.org, "Expert: Controversial BU Site Governed More by Contract Between Entities" "Every country in the world believes that some material on the Net qualifies inherently for censorship. It’s obvious! In this respect, we’re no different from China. So, we should give up pretensions of American exceptionalism for information controls – for us, it’s IP; for Saudi Arabia, it’s porn; for France, it’s hate speech. Only the quality of the legal process differentiates censors. ... Fri, 10 Dec 2010 20:53:40 +0100 891954 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/6501 The Berkman Center for Internet & Society is pleased to announce the release of a new paper, "Political Change in the Digital Age: The Fragility and Promise of Online Organizing," by Bruce Etling, Robert Faris, and John Palfrey. From the paper's abstract: In this paper, we discuss the possible impact of digital technologies in authoritarian and semi-authoritarian regimes.   We conclude that policymakers and scholars that have been most optimistic about the impact of digital tools have over-emphasized the role of information, specifically access to alternative and independent sources of information and unfiltered access to the Internet. We argue, in contrast, that more attention should be paid to the means of overcoming the difficulties of online organization in the face of authoritarian governments in an increasingly digital geopolitical environment. You can find the full text of the paper over at the Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard Repository. (Source: Berkman Blog) Fri, 10 Dec 2010 20:00:14 +0100 891955 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LawLibrarianBlog/~3/fSU5hLXgOsk/book-on-leaked-cables-pulled-from-amazon-by-author.html Another bit of weird fallout from the WikiLeaks episode is that Amazon U.K. was hosting an ebook analyzing the leaked cables. Some supporters of WikiLeaks called this hipocrisy on the part of Amazon, after that company booted WikiLeaks from its... (Source: Law Librarian Blog) Fri, 10 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 891802 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LawLibrarianBlog/~3/D1Aroswo1P4/former-wikileaks-members-plan-to-launch-their-own-whistleblowing-site.html Dissatisfied with WikiLeaks concentrating on publishing material about the US while other information was neglected, a group of former WikiLeaks members intend to take a broader approach. Their site is expected to launch later this month. The effort is headed... (Source: Law Librarian Blog) Fri, 10 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 891801 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LawLibrarianBlog/~3/riCtpj11NaE/reminder-lawlibcons-topic-this-afternoon-is-the-future-of-legal-information-interface-design.html Rich Leiter and the LawLibCon crew will talk about the future of interface design for legal information products with Jason Wilson, Vice President, Jones McClure Publishing, Ed Walters, CEO, Fastcase, and academic law librarian and electronic services specialist, Tom Boone,... (Source: Law Librarian Blog) Fri, 10 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 891800 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LawLibrarianBlog/~3/R8UrcROkG4Y/the-legal-research-blunders-of-harvey-dent-using-westlaw.html This video was created by a student taking Sarah Gotschall and Shaun Esposito's ALR class at the Univ. of Arizona College of Law. Great class assignment! In case you missed it, last week's Friday Fun featured an animated cartoon from... (Source: Law Librarian Blog) Fri, 10 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 891799 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LawLibrarianBlog/~3/cWGIPfujmGM/time-for-lawgov-and-aall-to-better-coordinate-national-inventory-of-legal-materials-efforts-lawgov-l.html The purpose of LAW.GOV's Legal Bug Tracker is to alert the Project when someone finds primary legal materials that violate one of LAW.GOV's 10 core principles. One might say this is a crowdsourcing activity that complements AALL's National Inventory of... (Source: Law Librarian Blog) Fri, 10 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 891798 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LawLibrarianBlog/~3/p6LUDiOTESY/tis-the-season.html This is the time of year when vendors send us cards (print or the e version), cookies, candy, and other sorts of goodies. This week, I received a very appropos card from one of my vendors. It actually was a... (Source: Law Librarian Blog) Fri, 10 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 891797 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LawLibrarianBlog/~3/b9GOgCv2pCc/12102010-human-rights-day-promotes-defenders-who-act-to-end-discrimination.html The UN's annual Human Rights Day honors the General Assembly of the United Nations adoption and proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on December 10, 1948. The theme for Human Rights Day 2010 is human rights defenders who... (Source: Law Librarian Blog) Fri, 10 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 891796 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Wisblawg-FromTheUwLawLibrary/~3/rSzBiajEC0A/mobile_uw_iphone_app.html The UW Madison has released a free iPhone app called Mobile UW. Keep up to date on campus news, events and sports. Or find your way around campus on foot, car or by Madison Metro bus. Or watch campus video content, along with other handy features. Features: Campus map: Navigate the UW-Madison campus. View all locations of a type, such as libraries, parking (campus and public) and visitor attractions. Or see detailed information about a location, including walking and driving directions from your current location. Campus buses: Find Madison Metro route and schedule information on the go. Find stops near your current location or by bus stop number and see when buses are scheduled to arrive at a specific stop. Directory: Lookup campus directory information on your phone. Search for a person by first or last name and save that person's contact information in your iPhone's Contacts app. Call, e-mail or view a map of that person's office location. News: Keep up to date with university news. Read features, news for students and employees or news by topics such as research, learning or student life. Events: Look up events by category, date or map location. See what's happening near you by viewing the day's events highlighted on the campus map. Get the details for any event, as well as walking or driving directions from your current location. Athletics: Stay up to date with the latest Badgers news and results. View news and blog updates, team schedules and scores and video features. Video: View campus video content, including Big Ten Network academic programming, teaching and learning stories and research profiles and projects. Campus safety: Stay safe with emergency contact information for SAFEWalk, SAFERide cab and SAFEride bus programs; UW Police (Non-Emergency), University Health Services Crisis Line, and the Division of Student Life. (Source: WisBlawg - From the UW Law Library) Thu, 09 Dec 2010 20:27:10 +0100 892414 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/6498 From the MediaBerkman blog: Our emails have been dinging off the hook here at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, with notes from journalists and concerned citizens trying to make some sense of the story-in-progress that is Wikileaks.So today we pull together some of the brightest minds at the Berkman Center to talk about Wikileaks, with Jonathan Zittrain and Lawrence Lessig moderating.Zittrain, Lessig, and the Berkman Center Fellows explore many facets surrounding the Wikileaks imbroglio, including the values of transparency and freedom of speech; the legality and ethics of the Wikileaks data dump; the role of the news media; and the involvement of government and private tech organizations to take Wikileaks down.Thanks so much to all the journalists, commenters, and tweeters who sent in their questions. See some additional resources below.CONTINUE OVER TO MediaBerkman FOR THE AUDIO AND MORE... (Source: Berkman Blog) Thu, 09 Dec 2010 15:02:21 +0100 891526 http://vancouverlawlib.blogspot.com/2010/12/one-really-good-idea-every-day.html Jordan Furlong has a post up at Stem this morning, but I wanted to add my personal support to the new website Attorney at Work, which launched earlier today.The idea behind this site is to give practicing lawyers "one really good idea every day" through their emailed daily dispatch. The content is intentionally styled in a short and factual manner, and intended to deliver each day's idea as succinctly as possible.AAW is the brought to us by the team of Merrilyn Astin Tarlton, Joan Feldman and Mark Feldman. And full disclosure, both Jordan and myself are helping out. My first submission on the use of RSS readers is also published on the site.There are more than 100 experts who have committed to contributing, and an advisory group that looks very strong. But most of all, I'm confident we can depend on Merrilyn, Joan and Mark to deliver the hard work and ongoing commitment required to make a project like this successful.I wish them every success, and would encourage VLLB readers to check out their website ... and to consider subscribing. It's free, so why not? :) (Source: Vancouver Law Librarian Blog) Thu, 09 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 892413 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LawLibrarianBlog/~3/R3wSIFIVaTc/texting-in-class-survey-findings-and-recommendations.html Deborah Tindell and Robert Bohlander, Wilkes University psychology professors, surveyed 269 students anonymously about students texting in class. Among their findings: 95 percent of students bring their phones to class every day. 91 percent have used their phones to text... (Source: Law Librarian Blog) Thu, 09 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 891806 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LawLibrarianBlog/~3/LrlTEAlQs9k/justice-kennedy-i-will-look-in-corpus-juris-secundum-or-alr-or-something-.html So said Justice Kennedy about "licensing" in yesterday's oral argument in Chamber of Commerce v. Whiting. Link to the compete transcript at SCOTUSblog. For details and analysis, see CUNY Law's Professor of Law & University Distinguished Professor Ruthann Robson's Constitutional... (Source: Law Librarian Blog) Thu, 09 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 891805 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LawLibrarianBlog/~3/NNrR02Nkr84/in-re-wikileaks-s-4004-shield-act-goes-after-wikileaks-eff-calls-for-standing-up-against-internet-ce.html Excerpts from EFF's Call to Action by Shari Steele, Join EFF in Standing up Against Internet Censorship: The debate about the wisdom of releasing secret government documents has turned into a massive attack on the right of intermediaries to publish... (Source: Law Librarian Blog) Thu, 09 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 891804 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LawLibrarianBlog/~3/rrLJd9xx3FY/political-philosophy-of-wikileaks-founder-examined.html "Rethinking Conspiracy: The Political Philosophy of Julian Assange" by Northwestern Philosophy Prof Peter Ludlow is a short essay based on Ludlow's reading of Assange's writings. The text can be downloaded at Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog. [JH] (Source: Law Librarian Blog) Thu, 09 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 891803 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/6496 BERKMAN CENTER FOR INTERNET & SOCIETY AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY Upcoming events and digital media // December 8, 2010 [TUESDAY 12/14] Berkman Center Luncheon Series: "The Unstable Platforms and Uneasy Peers of Brave New World Music" with Wayne Marshall, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2010/12/marshall) Special announcement: The Berkman Center is currently accepting applications for 2011-2012 fellowships through our annual open call.  The application deadline is 11:59 p.m. ET on December 15, 2010. http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/getinvolved/fellowships/opencall20112012 [TUESDAY] BERKMAN LUNCHEON SERIES on THE UNSTABLE PLATFORMS AND UNEASY PEERS OF BRAVE NEW WORLD MUSIC ================================================================================== 12/14/10, 12:30pm ET, Berkman Center Conference Room @ 23 Everett St., Cambridge, MA RSVP is required for those attending in person to Amar Ashar (ashar@cyber.law.harvard.edu) This event will be webcast live Topic: "The Unstable Platforms and Uneasy Peers of Brave New World Music" Guests: Wayne Marshall, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT Driven by the proliferation of accessible music and video-production software and the connective possibilities of the social web, public culture is being remade in the wake of user-generated content, including the ever curious category of world music. So-called platforms such as YouTube or Jamglue play host to new genres, dance steps, and remixes from around the world, incubating local scenes and circulating aspiring artists' productions to peers near and far. In contrast to its creation by a consortium of British music-industry players in the 1980s, a multinational network of grassroots producers, DJs, and bloggers are renegotiating and redefining the freighted but inclusive term. ... Wed, 08 Dec 2010 16:59:45 +0100 891267 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LawLibrarianBlog/~3/s36OfoRl3U8/business-models-for-offshore-legal-outsourcing.html Case Western Reserve Law prof Cassandra Burke Robertson has posted A Collaborative Model of Offshore Legal Outsourcing on SSRN. Here’s the abstract: International outsourcing has come to the legal profession. The ABA and other bar associations have given it their... (Source: Law Librarian Blog) Wed, 08 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 891811 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LawLibrarianBlog/~3/DR2rasOyK9g/big-law-career-curriculum-needs.html "The Snark" offers "some curriculum suggestions to the law schools out there that are the focus of nasty hate mail from disgruntled alumni." Big Law Boot Camp: "The Big Law Preparatory Curriculum should be offered as an elective seminar that... (Source: Law Librarian Blog) Wed, 08 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 891810 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LawLibrarianBlog/~3/gwChZF-vm6s/columbias-school-of-international-and-public-affairs-withdraws-its-warning-to-students-about-not-rea.html Last week, Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs Office of Career Services sent an email to students saying that an alumnus who works at the State Department had recommended that current students not tweet or post links to... (Source: Law Librarian Blog) Wed, 08 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 891809 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LawLibrarianBlog/~3/blg0OS49Rhc/a-tsa-protest-woman-arrives-at-airport-security-wearing-nothing-but-.html Just about every time I go through airport security -- shoes coming off, belt, coat, pants pockets being emptied, you know the drill -- I usually joke with others in line that one of these times I'm going to just... (Source: Law Librarian Blog) Wed, 08 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 891808 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LawLibrarianBlog/~3/2aYPUL3QWTs/yet-another-possible-new-law-school.html This one will be in Delaware, if the feasibility study works out. The University of Delaware is considering the establishment of the state's first public law school. The proposed school would be located on the UD Newark Campus. That location... (Source: Law Librarian Blog) Wed, 08 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 891807 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2010/12/udell Tuesday, December 7, 12:30 pmBerkman Center, 23 Everett Street, second floorRSVP required for those attending in person (rsvp@cyber.law.harvard.edu)This event will be webcast live at 12:30 pm ET and archived on our site shortly after.The elmcity project invites everyone who publishes community calendar events to: Realize that event data published in a structured format, unlike data published as HTML or PDF, can be routed through pub/sub syndication networks. Make public calendars available in the appropriate structured format: iCalendar (RFC 5545), the venerable Internet standard supported by all major calendar applications and services. Recognize that iCalendar is the RSS of calendars. It can enable a calendar-sphere in which, as in the blogosphere, everyone can publish their own feeds and also subscribe to feeds from other people or from network services. Help build the data web by owning the parts of it for which we ourselves are the authoritative sources. The elmcity project delivers enabling technical infrastructure for this new approach to the community calendar. The project's calendar syndication service is free; it runs open source code on the Microsoft Azure platform; it provides all of its syndicated data in open formats. The real challenge isn't technical, though, it's conceptual. Most people don't know how they could (or why they should) be the authoritative publishers of their own data. Missing concepts include: The pub/sub communication pattern Indirection ("pass-by-reference" vs "pass-by-value") Structured versus unstructured data Data provenance Service composition Along with reading, writing, and arithmetic, these Fourth R principles will empower an informed and engaged 21st-century citizenry. ... Tue, 07 Dec 2010 17:30:00 +0100 891125 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/6494 Are you a lawyer interested in dealing with emerging legal issues related to law, journalism, and new media on the Internet?  The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School is seeking an Assistant Project Director/Program Fellow commencing in early 2011 to assist with the Berkman Center’s Digital Media Law Project (formerly the Citizen Media Law Project).  We are accepting applications on a rolling basis until the position is filled, and applications for this fellowship opportunity must be submitted through the Harvard Human Resources website at: https://sjobs.brassring.com/1033/asp/tg/cim_jobdetail.asp?jobId=762654&P....The official HR language is below, followed by additional context and information.  Questions about the position should be directed to David Ardia (dardia [at] cyber.law.harvard.edu).Berkman Center Program Fellow/Assistant Project Director, Digital Media Law ProjectResponsibilities Reports to the Director of the Berkman Center’s Digital Media Law Project and works in conjunction with the Director of the Cyberlaw Clinic. The Digital Media Law Project (DMLP) works to ensure that individuals and organizations involved in online journalism and digital media have access to the legal resources, education, and help that they need to thrive.  The DMLP, which began operations as the “Citizen Media Law Project” in May 2007, focuses its work on three broad areas: legal education and training; litigation and pro bono legal services; and the collection and analysis of legal threats facing online speakers and publishers.  For more information on the DMLP, visit: http://www.DMLP.org/. ... Tue, 07 Dec 2010 16:53:00 +0100 891123 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LawLibrarianBlog/~3/LmbUjKpy81I/amlaws-law-firm-leaders-survey-finds-recession-prompted-changes.html "The American Lawyer's 2010 survey of leaders of Am Law 200 firms, which suggests that many of the changes implemented during the recession - smaller associate classes, postponed start dates for new hires, reductions in the equity pool and scaled-back... (Source: Law Librarian Blog) Tue, 07 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 891815 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LawLibrarianBlog/~3/0K1lA9KKpOM/2010-winners-of-ltn-vendor-satisfaction-awards-announced-lexisnexis-4-thomson-reuters-2.html Based on the LTN Technology Satisfaction Survey, this year's LTN Vendor Award results were compiled from a nationwide sample of more than 500 participating senior individuals involved in recommending or purchasing legal technology products at law firms. Gold, silver and... (Source: Law Librarian Blog) Tue, 07 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 891814 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LawLibrarianBlog/~3/dc_RL8zYGbU/library-of-congress-blocks-wikileaks-to-crs.html Some of the fallout from the Wikileaks has taken the form of removing access to the site from government employees. That, apparently, includes analysts working with the Congressional Research Service. There seems to be some soul searching over this. On... (Source: Law Librarian Blog) Tue, 07 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 891813 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LawLibrarianBlog/~3/TQ-_bN8ZkN4/research-aids-and-tools-to-assist-diplomacy-wonks-wanting-to-study-wikileaks-disclosure-of-us-diplom.html As previously noted on LLB, our friends north of the border, Slaw, called attention to the the National Security Archive's guide that explains how to decipher a US State Department cable. Might come in handy for wannbe diplomacy wonks for... (Source: Law Librarian Blog) Tue, 07 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 891812 http://feeds.lexblog.com/~r/ediscoverylaw/klgates/~3/kusl2mQbpNc/ In the matter of amendment of Wis. Stat. §§ 802.10, 804.01, 804.08, 804.09, 804.12, and 805.07, No. 09-01A (Wis. Nov. 10, 2010) On November 10, 2010, despite the opinion of the Judicial Council Evidence and Civil Procedure Committee that Wisconsin did not need a mandatory confer rule, the Wisconsin Supreme Court entered an order adopting an amendment to Wis. Stat. § 804.01 prohibiting parties from engaging in electronic discovery until after the parties confer regarding several specified issues.  The rule states that “[n]o party may serve a request to produce or inspect under s. 804.09 seeking the discovery of electronically stored information or respond to an interrogatory under s. 804.08(3) by producing electronically stored information, until after the parties confer regarding all of the following, unless excused by the court …”  The mandated issues for discussion include the scope of electronic discovery, the preservation of ESI, the format of production, and the costs of the proposed discovery and the extent to which such costs shall be limited, among other things.  If a party fails to participate or if agreement cannot be reached, judicial intervention may be sought.  The purpose of such a rule, as expressed in its attendant note, is to “manage the costs of the discovery of electronically stored information.”The amendment was adopted despite a strong dissent which expressed the concern that such a mandate “has the potential to diminish both fairness and efficiency along with the potential of increasing the time and expense of litigation. ... Tue, 07 Dec 2010 01:19:34 +0100 890985 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/ydEM/~3/UgrnIwYbqqs/law-school-exam-tips-a-followup.html As a follow-up to my post about exam tips, a quotation from an article about law school education I had intended to use to introduce my previous blog post: (Source: novalawcity) Mon, 06 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 890909 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Wisblawg-FromTheUwLawLibrary/~3/zTInYfn9sgE/free_online_access_to_examples.html From the John Marshall Law School Library blog: Examples and Explanations, the popular series of study guides, are available online via Google Books. Aspen Publishers has made extensive previews of the titles available for FREE. The full content of each title is not included in the preview, but you will find that a large majority of the pages are available. (Source: WisBlawg - From the UW Law Library) Fri, 03 Dec 2010 22:08:28 +0100 890981