Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
From PC Magazine: The Copyright Office within the LOC on Monday ruled that jailbreaking a smartphone – particularly Apple’s iPhone – is permissible under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s (DMCA) fair use provisions. From Search Engine Watch: [The Copyright Office also] granted an exemption for people remixing videos on YouTube, declaring it is not a …
I’ve created a Twitter feed for WisBlawg. All WisBlawg blog posts will appear there as well as some additional shorter tweets.
Metadata is a topic of increasing importance to legal practitioners in sending and receiving electronic documents. The latest issue of InsideTrack from the State Bar of Wisconsin has a good article outlining the basics of metadata and why attorneys should be concerned about it. Part II of this article, which will appear in the July …
From ABA Site-tation: At the end of March, Minnesota’s Lawyers Professional Responsibility Board approved a new ethics opinion addressing lawyers’ ethical obligations regarding metadata. Opinion No. 22, available in PDF format on the LPRB’s website, addresses the three primary metadata questions: what is a lawyer’s duty when sending electronic documents; what is a lawyer’s duty …
The UW Law School now has a Twitter feed. Marquette University Law School has a feed as well. For a list of other law schools on Twitter, see the Social Media Law Student.
The Philadelphia Bar Association recently issued an advisory opinion stating that it is unethical to have a third party “friend” a witness on Facebook for the purpose of gaining information about that person. From the opinion: The inquirer believes that the [Facebook & MySpace] pages maintained by the witness may contain information relevant to the …
Steve Miller of the Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau informs me that the LRB now has a Twitter feed. They’ll be tweeting about recent acquisitions and new publications from the LRB.
Online Best Colleges has compiled a list of the Top 100 Twitter Feeds for Law Students. It is an interesting list of feeds from various legal folks and organizations, including law students, firms, attorneys, academics, law librarians, and more. Whether these are, in truth, the “top” law related Twitter feeds is hard to say, but …
Beginning on October 1st, Wisconsin will begin collecting a 5% sales taxes on Internet downloads of music, games, books, ring tones and other video entertainment. The District of Columbia and 15 states have similar laws. From JS Online: [Governor] Doyle has been fighting for the change for years. He and other state officials say it …
From Yahoo News: A 43-year-old Japanese woman whose sudden divorce in a virtual game world made her so angry that she killed her online husband’s digital persona has been arrested on suspicion of hacking, police said Thursday… The woman used login information she got from the 33-year-old office worker when their characters were happily married, …