From Law School News: The University of Wisconsin Law School’s Institute for Legal Studies will host its fourth Midwest Law and Society Retreat on September 19 and 20, 2008, at the Pyle Center on the …
Recommended Amendments to the Copyright Act for Libraries
Last Friday, Marquette Law Library hosted a very interesting presentation on “Amending the Copyright Act for Libraries” by Laura Gasaway (UNC Chapel Hill School of Law). Ms. Gasaway shared her experiences as co-chair of The …
Patent Searching Workshop at Milwaukee Public Library
Each month, the Milwaukee Public Library holds a free workshop on Patents 101: How to do a Patent Search. The next workshop is scheduled for Monday, April 28th from 1:30 p.m.-2:30 p.m. at the Central …
SEC Adds RSS Feeds
The SEC has begun offering RSS feeds of new filings. You can receive all filings received by the SEC or do a search by company, CIK or form type and subscribe to the results. Source: …
PreCYdent Tops Search Results
It seems that David Hobbie over at Caselines is very impressed with PreCYdent. He ran a sample search in several databases, both free and commercial, and was surprised with the results: I was stunned by …
Publishers Sue Georgia State University for Copyright Infringement
Inside Higher Ed has a good analysis of the copyright infringement suit against Georgia State University. Three major academic presses, backed by the Association of American Publishers, allege “systematic, widespread, and unauthorized copying and distribution” …
Google Shines Light on the Invisible Web
Information Week reports that Google has started testing ways to index data from the invisible Web, including “Web pages generated dynamically from a database, based on input such as might be provided through a Web …
Oregon Declares Statutes Copyrighted Material
The State of Oregon has declared that the Oregon Revised Statutes are copyrighted material and has sent cease and desist letters to sites like Justia and Public.Resource.Org that have been posting copies of the laws. …
Availability of 2006 U.S. Code
According to the Law Revision Counsel, by way of the GovDocs-l listserv, titles 1-9 of the 2006 edition of the official U.S. Code are now available on the House of Representatives U.S. Code Search site. …
National Library Week Freebies – Databases
The following databases are available free this week (some longer): Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals – Ovid actually offers a free database every month – See their Resource of the Month page ebrary is offering …