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Copyright Office Issues Report On Mass Digitization

04 Nov

Anyone who may have read my post on BNA content being available through Google News may have clicked on the link I gave to the specific BNA content. If so, the story Copyright Office Report Outlines Issues Surrounding Mass Digitization…

 

Baltimore Law Budget Increase Raises Some Questions

19 Oct

Sometimes there is a strange convergence in the way events unfold. In Monday’s post I wrote how Senators Coburn and Boxer highlighted the situation at Baltimore where tuition increased significantly but the school retained a fraction of that money. Their…

 

LSAC Working to Audit LSAT and GPA Statistics Provided By Law Schools

11 Oct

One the heels of my post yesterday, Senator Boxer Calls Out ABA On Jobs Data And Scholarships, comes news that the LSAC has had a change of heart and will now audit LSAT and GPA scores reported annually by law…

 

Is Vendor Software Consuming Law as We Have Known It?

04 Oct

No the title of this post is not referring to just online legal search although certainly the great unknowing about how some “upgraded” legal search engines work certainly is part of the issue. So, thinking about how much of our…

 

A Little Weekend Reading for the Vinyl Gen: The Jurisprudence of Bob Dylan

30 Sep

Perhaps also of interest to the Post-Vinyl Gen, New York Law School prof Michael L. Perlin’s Tangled Up in Law: The Jurisprudence of Bob Dylan [SSRN]. From the abstract: A careful examination of Bob Dylan’s lyrics reveals a writer -…

 

"From soup to nuts, the legal system needs an overhaul:" Glassmeyer’s Record-setting Blog Post

29 Sep

Quoting Sarah Glassmeyer from her Everything Sucks post. about which she tweets “I try for a new record on how many times a person can use the word ‘suck.'” I countered something like 35 times and that was just in…

 

Are eBooks Destined to Become the "8-track Tape" of the 21st Century?

29 Sep

In the context of current law eBook offerings, I think we can conclude from Jean O’Grady’s recent Dewey B Strategic post the answer to the title question is “yes.” (“The more I talk to publishers about the model for “circulating”…

 

A Bit More On The Rudovsky Case

23 Sep

I wrote a post a while back called The Rudovsky Case and Quality Control. The thrust of the case is that West Publishing (the defendant) libeled two authors, David Rudovsky and Leonard Sosnov, by updating their treatise called Pennsylvania Criminal…

 

Reminder: Dewey B Strategic’s Survey on the Best and Worst Legal Publishing Mergers Closes Today

23 Sep

Here’s the post with link to the survey. Watch for Jean O’Grady’s forthcoming summary and survey findings on Dewey B Strategic. [JH]

 

Have You Test Driven HeinOnline’s New Across-All-Subcriptions Search Engine?

23 Sep

And the Company isn’t branding it HeinOnlineNext and isn’t requiring a premium upgrade charge to use its search engine enhancement. Well, we wouldn’t expect Hein & Co. to do either or both… . From the HeinOnline blog post: This past…