Hat tip to Chicago Law prof Brian Leiter for calling attention to the Jan. 26, 2012 Bloomberg Law interview of NYT reporter David Segal. You know who he is, right? (The author of a long running series of New York…
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David Segal’s Bloomberg Law Interview: "Largely focusing on real issues"
01
Feb
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Posted in Law School News & Views
"Julie of the Wolves" or Julie Eaten by the Wolves
10
Jan
HarperCollins is suing digital publisher Open Road Integrated Media for copyright infringement over the digital rights to Jean Craighead George’s Julie of the Wolves, a children’s book published in 1972 based on a 1971 contract with the author which gave…
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Posted in Litigation in the News
Author Questions Royalty Rates on eBooks
22
Dec
There’s an interesting story on the Washington Post website where Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Chabon discusses the publication of his works as ebooks. He controls the rights to his earlier works which he has licensed to Open Road Integrated…
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Posted in Publishing Industry
An eBook Divide
12
Dec
eBooks seem to hog up a lot of space in both the information and legal professional trade presses these days. On pg 12 of the December 2011 Information Today issue, there is an article on “Ebook trends” (the author used…
An eBook Divide
12
Dec
eBooks seem to hog up a lot of space in both the information and legal professional trade presses these days. On pg 12 of the December 2011 Information Today issue, there is an article on “Ebook trends” (the author used…
Google To Seek Dismissal of the Book Scanning Case
07
Dec
Google is asking the District Court to dismiss the claims brought against it by the Author’s Guild et al. This comes as settlement talks still appear to be ongoing, though nowhere near any agreement. I don’t know if this is…
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Posted in Books, Digital Collections, Litigation in the News
Are We/They Worth It? Collective Bargaining for Public Employees
24
Oct
In the October 14th Chronicle of Higher Education article “Faculty Unions Ponder New Strategies in Changed Political Climate,” author Schmidt reports on the largely successful campaigns in both Ohio and Wisconsin to defeat the right of faculty unions to engage…
Lost and Found: The Castro Arizona Law Alternative Careers Handbook
06
Oct
Commenting on LLB’s Perhaps Fidel Castro Isn’t a Good Example of an Alternative Career: Arizona Law’s Handbook Disappears from the Web, the author of In Tough Job Market, Law Grads Use J.D.s for Nonlegal Work (US News, Sept. 30, 2011),…
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TR Legal’s Mike Dahn on WestlawNext, WestSearch, and Haters: Part 2
05
Oct
Part 2 of Jason Wilson’s interview with Mike Dahn is now online. Do check out Mike’s response to Jason’s question: Lately we’ve seen a very lengthy criticism of WestlawNext by an anonymous author over at LLB. Any response to that?…
"Why not offer legal protections to the ugly, as we do with racial, ethnic and religious minorities, women and handicapped individuals?"
05
Sep
Ah, OK. Well, it is Labor Day. Here’s the conclusion of Daniel S. Hamermesh’s (Univ of Texas econ prof and author of Why Attractive People Are More Successful (Princeton UP, Aug. 2011)) recent NYT Sunday think piece, Ugly? You May…
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Posted in Current Affairs
