Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
Are you one of the 550,000+ people who have registered for Public Service Loan Forgiveness? This is the federal program that forgives the remaining balance on qualifying student loans after 10 years of payments while working full-time for a qualifying public service employer. If so, you’ll likely want to read the article in yesterday’s New …
One of the UW Law School’s clinics is making news, this time on WPR. The Law and Entrepreneurship clinic helped out over 300 clients in the past year, navigating tricky issues involving beginning new businesses. For more details and an interview with Anne Smith, check out WPR’s page on the L&E clinic here.
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 …
From the FDLP News: The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) marks its 154th anniversary of opening for business today. Since March 4, 1861, GPO has seen many changes as the agency continually adapted to changing technologies. In the ink-on-paper era, this meant moving from hand-set to machine typesetting, from slower to high-speed presses, and …
Late last week, a Wisconsin Law Journal article (Subscription required) discussed how the focus of recent bills proposing changes to Wisconsin’s Court Access Website (CCAP) may be changing. The senators who sponsored the bill have received feedback and are re-evaluating what the best step may be to improve CCAP. The original bill proposed splitting CCAP …
CCAP, Wisconsin’s online access to Circuit Court Records, may be altered if pending legislation passes. Introduced by Senator Lena Taylor (D-Milwaukee) in the Senate and Representative Evan Goyke (D-Milwaukee) in the Assembly, the bill is designed to give persons who were wrongfully arrested a chance to clear their records. Currently, the records that can be …
The New York Times reports that Google is closing a loophole which allowed users to access large numbers of articles on subscription-based sites without paying for them. The company’s “First Click Free” program, which publishers of pay sites can choose to participate in, is designed to allow readers to get a taste of a site’s …
If you read the Wall Street Journal online, you’ve surely noticed that many of the articles are available in preview only. A subscription is required to view the full content. But, as The Business Insider explains, these same articles are available at no cost when searched via Google. The WSJ wants to be indexed in …
From the Blog of the Legal Times: Legal Times, which has reported on the D.C. legal and lobbying communities since 1978, is merging with one of its sibling publications, The National Law Journal. The combined publication will focus on national legal news, with a special emphasis on Washington, and it will carry the name The …
From Channel 3000: The Capital Times, Madison’s 90-year-old newspaper announced Thursday it will stop printing a daily newspaper, reduce staff and focus on Internet operations. For more, read the full article. Dane 101 also posts their reaction.