“Three copyright-related bills are currently in play at the start of 2012 – all of which take aim at any website beyond U.S. borders that distribute counterfeit or copyright infringing products. All three bills operate under the assumption that there…
Posts Tagged ‘Open’
SOPA/PIPA vs a Crowdsourced Alternative, the OPEN Act
12
Dec
U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and U.S. Congressman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) recently released a public draft of the Online Protection and Enforcement of Digital Trade (OPEN) Act as a bi-partisan alternative to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the…
Time to Start Writing: The 2012 AALL/LexisNexis Call for Papers
08
Nov
The AALL/LexisNexis Call for Papers Committee is soliciting articles in four divisions this year: Open Division: for active and retired AALL members and law librarians with five or more years of professional experience; New Members Division: for recent graduates and…
Fighting for Open Access in Academic Legal Publishing
28
Oct
During this year’s Open Access Week, CALI Director of Content Development Sarah Glassmeyer published the first post-launch announcement feature on the new CALI Spotlight blog. In Why We Fight, Sarah writes: I feel like OA doesn’t get as much traction…
ACRL Signs Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and the Humanities
20
Oct
Quoting from ACRL Insider: ACRL has long supported open access to scholarship as a central principle for reform in the system of scholarly communication. In ACRL’s new strategic plan, the plan for excellence, the goal in the area of research…
Checking Out Exotic Scraps and Marvellous Rarities on The Public Domain Review
20
Aug
A project of the Open Knowledge Foundation made possible by funding from the Shuttleworth Foundation, The Public Domain Reivew “aspires to become a bounteous gateway into the whopping plenitude that is the public domain, helping our readers to explore this…
Mendeley, World’s Largest Open Access Crowdsourced Research Database, Approaching 100 Million Document Uploads
06
Jul
In April of 2011, Mendeley was listed by the Telegraph as one of Europe’s Top 100 startups. Why? Because Mendeley has built the largest crowdsourced research database available under a Creative Commons license. It now has over 1 million members,…
A New Income Tax Revenue Stream? Bill Introduced to Legalize Online Poker
30
Jun
Actually it would legalize online poker if allowed in your state. HR 2366 [Open Congress] would establish a program for state licensing for Internet poker companies for winning (and losing) real money. What the heck, wouldn’t that be a “good…
Applications for the James Keane Award for Excellence in eLawyering Are Still Open.
20
Jan
The eLawyering Task Force of the Law Practice Management Section of the ABA is seeking recommendations and applications for the James Keane Award for Excellence in eLawyering which is awarded annually at ABA Tech Show in Chicago ( April 11-13, 2011). This will be the fourth year that the Award has been made. Previous award winners include Stephanie Kimbro for her work in creating the virtual law firm of KimbroLaw and Lee Rosen of the The Rosen Law Firm (both coincidentally located in North Carolina).
The purpose of this Award is to give recognition to law offices that have developed legal service innovations that are delivered over the Internet. The focus of the Award is on the innovative delivery of personal legal services, with special attention given to firms and entities that serve both moderate income individuals and the broad middle class.
The Award is technology-focused, in the sense that the Award Committee is seeking innovations that demonstrate the concept of eLawyering – which can be further defined as the delivery of online legal services. Examples of elawyering include the development of online web advisors, expert systems, innovative uses of web-enabled document automation, on-line client collaboration systems, and on-line dispute settlement systems, to name a few examples.
Nominees may be any individual lawyer, law firm or other deliverer of legal services to individuals within the United States.
The nominee can be a large or small law firm, public or private, or a legal services agency. More than one entry may be submitted, and the Task Force encourages self-nomination. The Application deadline has been extended to March 15, 2011.
For further information and an application form see: http://tinyurl.com/48xvcfq
