Berkman Book Release: The Future of the Internet - And How to Stop It (Cambridge, MA)
Friday, April 186:00 PMLangdell North Classroom of Langdell HallHarvard Law SchoolMapRSVPs are helpful but not required. Please RSVP to Becca Tabasky, rtabasky AT cyber.law.harvard.eduread more
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Berkman Blog - April 17, 2008 Author: ashar Tags: Berkman@10
Risk and Insurance Management Society 2008 Annual Conference & Exhibition
April 27 – May 1, 2008 San Diego Convention Center 111 West Harbor Drive San Diego, CA 92101 www.visitsandiego.com
K&L Gates partner David R. Cohen will be one of the speakers presenting “An Ounce of Prevention: Your 12-Step Guide to Avoiding e-Discovery Disasters," on Monday, April 28 from 3:30 to 5:00 p.m. This session will introduce risk managers, as well as counsel, to the hot topic of e-discovery and discuss concrete steps to reduce risk exposure and costs related to records management and e-discovery. A series of 5- to 10-minute videotaped vignettes will show scenes from a sample...
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Electronic Discovery Law - April 17, 2008 Tags: Events
Publishers Sue Georgia State University for Copyright Infringement
Inside Higher Ed has a good analysis of the copyright infringement suit against Georgia State University. Three major academic presses, backed by the Association of American Publishers, allege "systematic, widespread, and unauthorized copying and distribution" at the university through the library electronic course reserve system, Blackboard, departmental Web sites and individual course syllabi posted online.
See also the NYT story and the press release from the AAP.
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WisBlawg - From the UW Law Library - April 17, 2008 Tags: Courts
Google Shines Light on the Invisible Web
Information Week reports that Google has started testing ways to index data from the invisible Web, including "Web pages generated dynamically from a database, based on input such as might be provided through a Web submission form." (For more on the invisible Web, see my Wisconsin Lawyer article, Searching Smarter)
Given that the invisible Web, also know as the deep Web or hidden Web, is approximately 400 to 550 times larger than the visible Web, that could amount to a lot more data accessible via Google.
Over at Search Engine Land, Danny Sullivan points out that "Google's not the first to do something like this. Com...
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WisBlawg - From the UW Law Library - April 17, 2008 Tags: Web
One week left to submit papers for iSummit's First Interdisciplinary Research Workshop on Free Culture
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Berkman Blog - April 17, 2008 Author: syoung
Apple Responds to Community Concerns
From the StopBadware blog...read more
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Berkman Blog - April 17, 2008 Author: syoung
Geoff Plant Appointed To BC Law Institute
Attorney General Wally Oppal announced the appointment of Geoff Plant to the British Columbia Law Institute for a three-year term beginning February 7, 2008.
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BC Courthouse Library Society News - April 17, 2008
Supreme Court of Canada Case: Expert Evidence
The Supreme Court of Canada released the following decision today:
R. v. Gibson, 2008 SCC 16; File Nos. 31546, 31613 (Breathalyser Reading)
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BC Courthouse Library Society News - April 17, 2008
"Blawg of the Day LawLine Journal"
Posted by Tom Mighell: LawLine is a phone service of the Legal Services Society of British Columbia, that provides free...
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Stark County Law Library Blog - April 17, 2008 Author: Nancy Tags: Blogs/Blogging
"Breaking Free: How to Travel and Work Remotely"
From the e-newsletter: (Rebecca Long Okura) - When Rebecca Long Okura, managing attorney of her own firm, met her soul...
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Stark County Law Library Blog - April 17, 2008 Author: Nancy Tags: Uncategorized
"Some Friday Writing about Writing: Does Punctuation Matter? Is Writing without Typos Outdated?"
Posted by StephanieWestAllen: Even though they were written in earnest, you may find the below column (at least half of...
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Stark County Law Library Blog - April 17, 2008 Author: Nancy Tags: Legal Writing
"Internal Mentoring Programs: The Wrong Approach"
Posted by Michelle Golden: This post is for professional service firms who are thinking of starting a mentoring program or...
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Stark County Law Library Blog - April 17, 2008 Author: Nancy Tags: Law Practice Management
"Deposition Podcasts: Advanced Techniques"
Posted by Evan Schaeffer: For free deposition advice, why not try my three podcasts on advanced deposition techniques? Originally posted...
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Stark County Law Library Blog - April 17, 2008 Author: Nancy Tags: Podcasts/Podcasting
"Another Worry for Divorce Lawyers: YouTube"
Posted by Carolyn Elefant: Tricia Walsh-Smith just may be a divorce lawyer's worst nightmare. Ordinarily, lawyers spend most of their...
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Stark County Law Library Blog - April 17, 2008 Author: Nancy Tags: Uncategorized
"What Every Attorney Needs to Know About Accepting Credit Cards, Without Getting Fleeced!"
From the e-newsletter: (Chris Rempel) - Figuring out how best to accept credit card payments from your clients can be...
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Stark County Law Library Blog - April 17, 2008 Author: Nancy Tags: Business of Lawyering
Chicago Law Disables Internet Access in Classrooms
According to the National Law Journal
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novalawcity - April 17, 2008 Author: Robert Hudson
State Claims Copyright in Statutes' Arrangement and Subject-matter
The Citizen Media law Project has a nice post considering the State of Oregon's assertions of copyright over the state code. citmedialaw
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novalawcity - April 17, 2008 Author: Robert Hudson
Crawford on Kindle and eBooks
Walt Crawford, Director and Managing Editor of the PALINET Leadership Network, takes a look at Kindle and eBooks in the April 2008 issue of Cites & Insights. See Old Media/New Media Perspective: Thinking About Kindle and Ebooks [HTML | PDF...
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Law Librarian Blog - April 17, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Information Technology Publishing Industry
Vision 2020: Digital Ubiquity and University Transformation
The University of Cincinnati College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning (DAAP) is hosting Vision 2020: Digital Ubiquity & University Transformation: 2008 Higher Education Leadership Summit, August 6-8, 2008. The conference is co-sponsored by Apple. Details on the conference website....
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Law Librarian Blog - April 17, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Meetings
The Implications of Climate Change Litigation for International Environmental Law-Making
Check out David Hunter's (American University, Washington College of Law) The Implications of Climate Change Litigation for International Environmental Law-Making, available from SSRN. Here's the abstract: Climate advocates are increasingly raising specific climate change concerns before domestic courts, human rights...
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Law Librarian Blog - April 17, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Scholarship
Religion, Politics and Law in Contemporary Islam: Three Recent Titles for Law Library Collections
1. The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State by Noah Feldman List Price: $22.95 Hardcover: 200 pages Publisher: Princeton University Press (March 3, 2008) ISBN-10: 0691120455 ISBN-13: 978-0691120454 Book Description: Western powers call it a threat to democracy. Islamist...
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Law Librarian Blog - April 17, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: New Publications
Professional Reading: Telling Stories to Clients and Students
Check out Steven Johansen's (Lewis & Clark) This is Not the Whole Truth: The Ethics of Telling Stories to Clients [SSRN]. Here's the abstract: This is not the whole truth. Rather, it is a tale of deception. More precisely, it...
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Law Librarian Blog - April 17, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Professional Readings
Reflections on LLB's 1,000,000th Page View
Sometime today Law Librarian Blog should receive its 1,000,000th page view. It's a milestone I have been looking forward to but I don't exactly know why. Except as a marketing metric for advertisers, traffic stats tell us nothing about a...
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Law Librarian Blog - April 17, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: About This Blog
Georgia State Sued for Course ePacket Practices
In a complaint filed Tuesday in United States District Court in Atlanta, Cambridge UP, Oxford UP and Sage Publications sued Georgia State University, asserting “systematic, widespread and unauthorized copying and distribution of a vast amount of copyrighted works” by the...
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Law Librarian Blog - April 17, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Litigation in the News
Harry Potter Trial Wraps
Ongoing WSJ coverage: Court encourages parties to settle here. Partial settlement here. Opinionating by an IP attorney here. Last day here. Who will win? Take the poll and check the comments. [JJ]
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Law Librarian Blog - April 17, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Litigation in the News
Organizing Digital Research
I've received a few questions lately about how to organize digital research for the academic. The askers have been interested in some product that will allow them to bring together email, web sites, web pages, PDFs, word docs, etc., in...
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Law Librarian Blog - April 17, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Products & Services
