paidContent’s Laura Hazard Owen reviews the class action lawsuit filed on August 9, 2011 in the US District Court for the Northern District of California against Apple, Hachette, Simon & Schuster, Macmillan, HarperCollins and Penguin alleging the defendants unlawfully fixed…
Archive for the ‘Electronic Resource’ Category
eReading Application Showdown
05
Aug
India Amos has launched a series of articles to analyze eReaders by functionality titled E-Reading Application Showdown on Digital Book World: The Publishing Community for the 21st Century. The areas she plans to discuss are Annotation Typography Colors and themes…
Time for a Test Drive: Law Revision Counsel Office Releases New USC Website in Beta, Comments and Questions Solicited
03
Aug
The Office of the Law Revision Counsel’s announcement: The Office of the Law Revision Counsel of the United States House of Representatives has been working to create a new website for the Office and the United States Code. The website…
No Digital Library Monopoly, Public or Private
28
Jul
Randal Picker, Univ. of Chicago Leffmann Professor of Commercial Law and Senior Fellow, The Computation Institute of the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory, addresses the future of digital libraries in the context of the rejection of the GBS…
On Tearing Down the Berlin Wall Known as Copyrighted State Statutes
22
Jul
Fastcase’s Ed Walters recounts the great State of Oregon take-down notice matter which called for the removal of the State’s copyright protected statutes from Justia in 2008. The issue was resolved with the help of Public.Resource.org’s Carl Malamud. Justia was…
Freeing Digitally Conceived Text, Part 3: The Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act is a Good First Step But Not a Major Accomplishment
21
Jul
Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act From the Prefatory Note’s Introduction Providing information online is integral to the conduct of state government in the 21st century. The ease and speed with which information can be created, updated, and distributed electronically, especially…
Textbook Rental Comes To The Kindle
18
Jul
The promise of electronic textbooks has been with us for awhile. Anyone remember the competing platforms of Folio on Lexis and Premise on West? Both companies sold electronic versions of their casebooks in the 1990s, though they were heavily drenched…
On "not inconsequential economic advantages"
14
Jul
We believe that public bodies have a duty to make law public and accessible free-of-charge, and that these objectives are further advanced if our courts, legislatures and government agencies commit to the production of official versions of primary legal materials…
