Did you hear about the latest proposed effort to combat online media piracy? This comes via a proposal from the performing Rights Society (PRS) in the United Kingdom, or the UK’s equivalent of ASCAP and BMI. The central proposition is…
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A New Genre: ISP Data Cap Policy Killed My Internet
25
Jul
In Data Caps Are Screwing Things Up, Public Knowledge blogger Michael Weinberg writes “[t]he story of Andre Vrignaud may well end up being the template for the soon-to-be-popular genre of ‘I just hit my data cap and now I cannot…
Google Rolls Out Limited Launch of Google Scholar Citations
22
Jul
On July 20th, Google rolled out a limited launch of its new citation tracker because “[t]his is a new direction for us and we plan to use the experience and feedback from the limited launch to improve the service.” From…
Near Real-Time Link Rot, AALL-Style: Time to Bury the Antitrust Compliance Policy Statement: Talk about Transparency and Accountability!
18
Jul
Since Library Consumer Advocacy Caucus Chair Michael Ginsborg posted his link to AALL’s AALL Antitrust Compliance Policy, which was live earlier this morning when his post was republished on LLB, the link is now dead. It will send you to…
Haiku Trend Emerging in Law Blogs
15
Jul
… such as this one from Supreme Court Haiku of the Day: The Law of the Land in Seventeen Syllables for the SCOTUS decision in J. McIntyre Machinery v. Nicastro: Hand hurt by machine Maker did not target state No…
Nightmare for Public Library After Its Twitter Account Was Hacked
11
Jul
An Indian company reportedly hacked into the Hennepin County Library’s Twitter account and changed the library system’s URL, email, password and its content on July 6th. Senior Librarian Meg Knodl spent her day off trying to contact Twitter, regain control…
On the Peasant-Landload Relationship in the Ancien Regime: Ignoring Tradition-Bound "Professional" Rhetorical Norms of Restraint and Civility to Promote Reforms
08
Jul
The “scam blogger” movement refers to those in the law-related blogoshere who criticize the legal academy for continuing to spin the story of “Come to law school. Sure, you’ll take out loans, but it will all be worth it in…
Data Caps Killed My Internet Redux
I’ve been reading the commentary of Andrew Vrignaud highlighted in Joe Hodnicki’s July 25,2011 post A New Genre: ISP Data Cap Policy Killed My Internet. Many major ISPs introduced data caps over the last few years. AT&T, one of the…
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