Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
Return to normal view · Wider · Narrower Return to normal view · Wider · Narrower Yesterday, a U.S. District Court for the Central District of California judge ruled that the long-claimed copyright in the song, “Happy Birthday” is invalid. From the New York Times: The decision, by Judge George H. King of United States District Court in Los Angeles, is a blow …
Return to normal view · Wider · Narrower Return to normal view · Wider · Narrower Return to normal view · Wider · Narrower According to a press release from ProQuest, “the full text of its scholarly content – including journals and working papers – is now indexed in Google Scholar, enabling Google Scholar users to seamlessly discover and access their library’s ProQuest collections.” Here’s more: The collaboration …
Today the Ninth Circuit Court ruled in favor of Stephanie Lenz in a Fair Use case that may have long-reaching consequences. In 2007, Lenz posted a 29 second video to Youtube of her baby dancing and bouncing to the Prince song “Let’s Go Crazy”. Universal, at the time the owner of the copyright on …
Return to normal view · Wider · Narrower Rebecca S. Trammell, Law Library Director of Stetson University College of Law has recently completed a dissertation on Technology & Legal Research: What Is Taught & What Is Used in the Practice of Law. Using data from three sources (the 2013 ALWD Survey; a review of syllabi; and the 2014 law …
Return to normal view · Wider · Narrower Please be advised that public access to Westlaw will no longer be available at the UW Law Library after August 30th. We have cancelled our subscription to Westlaw Patron Access. Access to Westlaw is now limited to UW Law School students, faculty, and staff. However, LexisNexis Academic is still available at …
I recently discovered a new, free tool called Smallpdf that allows you to do some sophisticated PDF management that you can’t do with the free Adobe Acrobat Reader. For example, with Smallpdf, you can convert your PDF into many different types of file formats, including JPG, Word, PPT, or even Excel – or from any …
Warner/Chappell Music, a subsidiary of Warner Music Group, has long claimed to own the rights to “Happy Birthday to You,” probably the most recognized English language song in the world. However, new evidence unearthed by librarians at the University of Pittsburgh Law Library calls that claim into question. According to PittLaw, Warner/Chappell’s claim is based …
Here is the latest faculty and staff scholarship from the University of Wisconsin Law School Legal Studies Research Papers series found on SSRN. “Realizing the Promise of Padilla Through a Law School/Public Defender Collaboration” 2015 Wisconsin Law Review 339 by STACY TAEUBER The Supreme Court’s 2010 decision in Padilla v. Kentucky thrust the issue of …
2015 has been a whirlwind year of change for UW Libraries, even though most of it is not obvious to users. The campus (and entire UW system!) recently switched our library catalog platform and modified several of our web discovery tools. Zotero, a free and very helpful citation manager used by many Law School faculty …
Late last night, Wisconsin’s Joint Committee on Finance passed a motion (motion #999) to the Wisconsin state budget that would exempt “deliberative materials” like legislative drafting records and legislative briefings from Wisconsin’s open records laws. From the Capital Times: Included in the 24-page motion were five sections of proposed changes that would severely restrict access …