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Apple and AT&T Respond to FCC Questions; Apple's Answer Sheds Light on How the App Store Works

Posted on August 24, 2009
Responses to the Google Voice Dustup Apple AT&T Google (Redacted) On Friday, Apple and AT&T answered a series of questions posed by the FCC regarding the Google Voice app and the App Store's evaluation policies. See LLB's earlier post, Google...

Google Reader Adds More Social Media Features

Posted on August 23, 2009
According to the Google Reader Blog, users are now able to share content with the new "Sent to" feature. To enable this feature, click on the setting link and enable the services you would like to use (i.e., Facebook, Twitter,...

West Sued Over Drivers License and Related Information Database

Posted on August 23, 2009
West is being sued for privacy violations concerning drivers licenses and other personal driver information from 28 states and the District of Columbia. The complaint says that West violated the Driver's Privacy Protection Act by selling the information through one...

Europeans Cool to Google Book Settlement

Posted on August 23, 2009
More opposition is rising to the Google Book Settlement, this time from European publishers. Many publisher and rights societies are urging their members and authors to withdraw their publications from the Book Registry once it goes into effect. They New...

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Microsoft, Yahoo, Amazon to Oppose Google Book Settlement

Posted on August 22, 2009
The news appeared at the end of this week that Microsoft, Yahoo, and Amazon are joining forces to oppose the Google Book Rights Registry. The three are joining the Open Book Alliance, an umbrella organization that opposes the settlement, at...

Survey of Reaction to Model Unmasking Blogger Via Court Order

Posted on August 22, 2009
Another case affecting the anonymity of blogging came to a head when model Liskula Cohen pressed for and received a court order forcing Google to turn over information leading to the identity of the owner of the Skanks in NYC...

Samuelson Takes the Case Against the Google Book Search Settlement to the Masses

Posted on August 22, 2009
UC Berkeley law prof Pamela Samuelson is taking her critique of the Google Book Search Settlement to the masses in a series of articles in The Huffington Post. OK, maybe not the masses, to the readers of ... The Audacity...

Friday Fun: Follow Me to Pointless Babble

Posted on August 21, 2009
In 'Pointless Babble' Tops Twitter Use, Information Week's Antone Gonsalves reports the findings of Pear Analytics Twitter Study - August 2009 report: "40% of the tweets flowing on the site were about someone eating a sandwich or some other "pointless...

Guide to Wisconsin Legal Information Sources for Practitioners

Posted on August 21, 2009
Check out Bonnie Shucha and Heidi Yelk's Guide to Wisconsin Legal Information Sources. Using LibGuide's great app, it is a compilation of legal information sources for Wisconsin attorneys that emphasizing sources of free and low-cost information for case law, citators,...

Users Claim Facebook Violates Privacy Because It's a Social Networking Site

Posted on August 21, 2009
Apparently not understanding what a social network is, five Facebook users are suing the Company for violating California privacy laws because other users are looking at the photos they post, read their updates, etc. Hello plaintiffs, adjust your privacy settings...

CrimProf Blog is Back

Posted on August 21, 2009
The Law Professor Blogs Network's CrimProf Blog is back. Edited by Kevin Cole, Dean & Professor of Law, University of San Diego School of Law, and five USD Law criminal law profs, the blog was relaunched on Monday, August 17th....

Quicklaw Founder Hugh Lawford, 1933-2009

Posted on August 21, 2009
Hugh Lawford, former law professor at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario and the founder of the Quicklaw database, passed away Monday, August 17, 2009 at the age of 76. Library Boy observes "one indication of his immense influence is the...

Secretive Expansions?

Posted on August 21, 2009
I qualify premise this article by saying there is something about Thomas Cooley Law School that is cool and intriguing to me. I just like schools that are rebels with the status quo (I think Charleston also fits in this...

Fordham Law School Bans Military Reed Smith from Campus Interviews for 5 Years

Posted on August 21, 2009
Fordham Law School Dean William Michael Treanor recently decided to ban Reed Smith from recruiting on-campus for the next five years because the firm's last-minute withdrawal from on-campus interviewing was unprofessional. Above the Law broke the story Wednesday...

Scholarship alert: Legal Reference Services Quarterly special volume devoted to teaching legal research

Posted on August 21, 2009
Volume I of the Legal Reference Services Quarterly is devoted exclusively to articles about teaching legal research. Links to the individual articles, set forth below, can be found here. Here's the bibliography: Bintliff, Barbara. Legal research: MacCrate's "fundamental lawyering skill"...

Alert law librarian at Louisville's Brandeis U. averts potential tragedy

Posted on August 21, 2009
This librarian deserves a medal for preventing what may have turned into yet another on-campus shooting rampage reports the Louisville Courier-Journal (with a hat tip to Above the Law for cluing me into the story). According to the paper, a...

Disclaimer for Providing Public Access to Commercial Legal Research Service Databases

Posted on August 20, 2009
LC's Michael Ashenfelder reports on the transfer of digital content from universities, publishers, web archivists and other organizations to the Library of Congress in 21st Century Shipping, D-Lib Magazine, July/August 2009. The amount of data is amazing...

Harvard Law Review Speech Code Comment Ignites FIRE-storm

Posted on August 20, 2009
At issue, an April 2009 Harvard Law Review commentwhich argues that DeJohn v. Temple University, 537 F.3d 301 (3d Cir. 2008), the most recent and leading federal court of appeals precedent to strike down a campus speech code, was decided...

Just Released, The Case for Congress: Separation of Powers and the War on Terror

Posted on August 20, 2009
The Case for Congress: Separation of Powers and the War on Terror (Ashgate, August 2009) examines the constitutional relationship between Congress and the President in the post-September 11 world. The authors, Victor Hansen and Lawrence Friedman, argue that Congress should...

CRS on Health Care Topics

Posted on August 20, 2009
The Congressional Research Service tackles the issue of health care reform in reports dated April 19, 2009 and updated to July 29, 2009. The reports are called Health Care Reform: An Introduction. Related issue briefs on topics such as care...

Tintin Book "Removed" by Brooklyn Public Library

Posted on August 20, 2009
The New York Times is reporting that the Brooklyn Public Library has removed a copy of Tintin au Congo to a collection that is kept under lock and key. An appointment days in advance are necessary to view the title....

U.S. News 2010 College Rankings Now Available

Posted on August 20, 2009
Lead-off page here. View U.S. News ranking of national universities here. [JH]

Confidential Settlement Requires Federal Court Judge to Pull Eight Published Rulings from Westlaw and LexisNexis

Posted on August 20, 2009
U.S. District Judge Lawrence Stengel vacated his opinions and directed Westlaw and Lexis to pull eight of his published rulings in Klein v. Amtrak, an attractive nuisance case, to honor the terms of a confidential settlement after the Third U.S....

The Future of Westlaw and LexisNexis Pricing or How the "Radical Transformation of the Legal Publishing Marketplace" May Not Save Law Libraries Much Money

Posted on August 19, 2009
When I left library school for a mid-sized Chicago SEC law firm in 1980 I thought I arrived in legal research heaven. Don't worry about Lexis costs for research. Go ahead and use Dow Jones online to get the latest...

New and Forthcoming State Bibliographies Now Being Published by Hein

Posted on August 19, 2009
Hat tip to Hein for taken on the publication of the state bibliographies for AALL's Government Documents SIS. Here is Hein's sales flyer. Note the new, updated and forthcoming bibliograhies for New Mexico, Tennessee, South Carolina, Oregon, North Dakota, Oklahoma,...

Professional Readings: Sag's The Google Book Settlement and the Fair Use Counterfactual

Posted on August 19, 2009
Hat tip to Digital Koans for calling attention to Matthew Sag's (DePaul) The Google Book Settlement and the Fair Use Counterfactual [SSRN]. Here's the abstract: This Article compares the Google Book Search Settlement to the most likely outcome of the...

Vault's Top 100 Law Firm Rankings

Posted on August 19, 2009
The official Vault law firm rankings for 2010 was released yesterday. It is based on 15,000+ associates who ranked the prestige of their peer firms. (Got to wonder how many of the survey respondents are still employed.) Here's the top...

The Beloit College annual "mindset" list describing the life experience of this year's college freshmen

Posted on August 19, 2009
Yes, friends, it's that time of year again when we get reminded just how old - and out of touch - we are compared to this year's crop of entering freshmen college students. So grab your anti-depressant of choice and...

D.C. Adopts Standards for Unmasking Internet Posters in Defamation Cases

Posted on August 19, 2009
A very interesting case just came out of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. The case involves a company seeking the identity of an anonymous tipster who accused a company of using unlicensed software to a trade association who...

"Wouldn't It Be Cool" IT Tech Staff Moments and the Learned Caution of Public Service Staff

Posted on August 18, 2009
The digital divide inside the library may be characterized as the difference between "wouldn't it be cool" moments of IT tech staff and the cautious reaction from public service staffers about them as Kate Sheehan does in this thoughtful ALA...

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