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Posts Tagged ‘consumers’

Pssst … Want to Counter Commercially Drafted Proposed Legislation? A thought about advocating for fair use legislation under state contract law

07 Dec

When I first heard about the American Legislative Exchange Council’s extensive collection of in-house drafted “model” bills, I thought, hum … perhaps consumers advocating for fair use in commercial electronic information resources might want to give this non-profit a call….

 

Senator Boxer Calls Out ABA On Jobs Data And Scholarships

10 Oct

Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) sent a letter to the American Bar Association last Thursday asking the organization take steps to protect law student consumers. She is “disappointed” to learn that the ABA is not requiring law schools to report the…

 

Google’s Eric Schmidt Appears Before The Senate Judiciary Committee

22 Sep

Google’s chairman, Eric Schmidt, appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday. The witness testimony is available in prepared remarks and an archived webcast. The hearing was titled “The Power of Google: Serving Consumers or Threatening Competition?” Other witnesses included Jeff…

 

The World of Actionable Actions, Part III: Who Protects Individual Buyers of Commercial Legal Resources When Their Legitimate but Ill-informed Expectations Aren’t Fulfilled by Their Acquisitions?

13 Jul

The means to achieve our major legal publishing vendors wet dream of selling directly to consumers, instead of being mediated by expects (ah, that would be us), has arrived. It’s call eCommerce and eCommerce sites like West-Mart illustrate that our…

 

What Drives Web Behavior?

11 Jun

The below poster [click to enlarge; download link] proports to illustrate how consumers behave on the Internet. It was provided to the Digital Inspirations blog by Microsoft PR. See Our Internet Routine for comments and a link to a summary…