Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
According to the Wall Street Journal Law Blog, the Supreme Court has denied cert to Authors Guild, et al. v. Google, Inc., in which the Authors Guild and individual writers argued that Google engaged in copyright infringement “on an epic scale” by digitizing, indexing, and displaying snippets of print books in internet search results. From …
Today, Judge Denny Chin ruled in favor of Google in what may be a landmark case that would enhance Fair Use for digital items. Google argued that scanning in books and publishing ‘snippets’ of the books online (over 20 million and counting) was within the realm of Fair Use, an argument accepted by the Court. …
Want to jump in a time machine? The UW Digital Collections (UWDC) is the place to do it. Over the past twelve years, the UWDC has digitized thousands of images and other media from Wisconsin and around the world. One element of librarianship is preservation and it is always exciting to see such wonderful and …
CAPTCHAs are those distorted letters that you have to enter after some internet transactions to verify that you’re actually a human. I recently learned that some CAPTCHAs are being used to help digitize old printed material by asking users to decipher scanned words from books that computerized optical character recognition failed to recognize. That is …
WiLS (Wisconsin Library Services) has recently announced a new Digitization on Demand service. This service will provide complete digital copies of works from UW Madison Memorial Library’s Special Collections and the Mills Music library that are within public domain. Works will be scanned in their entirety for a library patron to use at their point …
The Daily Cardinal has a very thorough article on the Google Books initiative and its implications for the UW Madison campus. The article discusses: staffing concerns at campus libraries copyright issues and the status of the settlement how digitizing materials will increase access to important scholarly and historical works Look for quotes from Law School …
The Real Estate Collection is a new resource from the UW Digital Collections Center. It contains materials and examples of commercial work in real estate done by celebrated University of Wisconsin professor James A. Graaskamp and others. James Graaskamp taught real estate at the UW-Madison from 1964 to 1988 and was chairman of the Real …
A settlement has been reached in the class action lawsuit against Google over access to copyrighted material in Google Books. From the AP: According to a statement issued Tuesday by the Authors Guild, the Association of American Publishers and Google, the agreement “will expand online access to millions of in-copyright books and other written materials …
Seattlepi reports on a the Workshop on the Future of the Legal Course Book at Seattle University Law School. Traditional publishers are confused about what professors want and where the industry is going…. Teachers want more flexibility, such as the ability to add their own information to text, insert audio files and provide links. They …
According to a GPO Request for Information: The United States Government Printing Office (GPO) plans to digitize the entire collection of legacy materials that have been disseminated through the Federal Depository Library Program. The estimated size of the collection is approximately 2.2 million documents, which amounts to about 90 million pages. Source: GOVDOCS-L list