The Wayback Machine and More From Brewster Kahle
Really nice 2-page spread on Brewster Kahle, “The internet’s librarian,” in this week’s issue of The Economist. The Economist March 7th – 13th 2009 Technology Quarterly insert Brain scan The...
View ArticleeYou Guide – European Union Guide to Internet Rights
The European Commission has created a Web site for citizens to learn about EU Internet law, e-commerce, privacy rights online, and copying digital content. Although not designed for attorneys, the...
View ArticleUsing Bing Search Engine for Foreign Legal Research
The Bing search engine seems to be indexing specific resources from LexisNexis. For example, a search of [france lexis] produced the following result in position number four: www.lexis.com...
View ArticleFrench Legal Guides from EducNet – Guides Juridique Legamedia
The French Ministry of Higher Education and Research has posted a handful of thematic legal guides on their EducNet site. Guides are able for copyright, protection of children online, cultural...
View ArticleUn-Legislative History
Wikipedia is often a boon for quick legal research about well-publicized matters. It’s a great way to find where a statute is codified, or the background of a famous case. When it comes to...
View ArticleSave the Tweets: Library Acquisition of Online Materials
The latest issue of AIPLA Quarterly Journal (Volume 39, Issue Number 2, Spring 2011) just landed upon my desk, and at page 269 I found this article calling for “digital acquisition rights”: Save the...
View ArticleThe goodness of porn
The staff of the Stanford Law Library must abide by two simple rules: 1. Be nice; 2. no porn. I start my day in the office by reading four newspapers: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal,...
View ArticleMichael Hart, Father of Project Gutenberg
Today’s New York Times includes the lengthy obituary: “Michael Hart, a Pioneer of E-Books, Dies at 64.” The obit tells the story of the fascinating history of Project Gutenberg, which was born when Mr....
View ArticleIneffective Assistance of Library: The Failings and the Future of Prison Law...
By Jonathan Abel, in Volume 101, Issue #5 of The Georgetown Law Journal (June 2013). Here’s the abstract: The prison law library has long been a potent symbol of the inmate’s right to access the...
View ArticleWorld Economic Forum (WEF) White Paper: Internet Fragmentation
The World Economic Forum (WEF) has recently posted the white paper Internet Fragmentation: An Overview (January 2016) From the Executive Summary (page 3/6 of the PDF) of the document: …the Internet is...
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