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Year: 2015

CA District Court Invalidates "Happy Birthday" Copyright

Posted on September 24, 2015

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 …

Posted in Entertainment, Intellectual Property

Scholarly Content from ProQuest Now Discoverable in Google Scholar

Posted on September 24, 2015

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 …

Posted in Data & Databases

Lenz v. Universal ruling: Fair Use must be considered…even with a dancing baby.

Posted on September 14, 2015

  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 …

Posted in Intellectual Property, News, Web

Study Identifies Gaps in the Research Sources Being Taught in Law School

Posted on September 14, 2015

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 …

Posted in Data & Databases, Law Students, Tools

Availability of Westlaw at UW Law Library

Posted on August 25, 2015

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 …

Posted in Uncategorized

Free Tool to Convert, Merge/Split, Compress & Unlock PDF Files

Posted on August 10, 2015

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 …

Posted in Tools

"Happy Birthday" Copyright Smoking Gun Unearthed by Law Librarians

Posted on July 31, 2015

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 …

Posted in Libraries & Librarians

Recent UW Law School Faculty and Staff Scholarship

Posted on July 22, 2015

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 …

Posted in UW Law School

A Zotero Update and work-around for the UW Catalog

Posted on July 7, 2015

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 …

Posted in citation, Libraries & Librarians, Web

JFC Motion Would Severely Restrict Access to WI Drafting Records and other Legislative "Deliberative Materials"

Posted on July 3, 2015

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. …

Posted in Legislation & Regs
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