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Are universities about selling information?

I don't believe universities (in their best form, at least) are easily replicated by technological means of information dissemination. But despite the advantages their physicality and tradition offers, many universities…
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Is scientific peer review censorship?

Does scientific peer review constitute censorship? There is a sense in which peer reviewers -- especially in the sciences -- do act in a kind of censorial capacity.
0February 26, 2010
Yelp sued, argues lawsuit is without merit

Yelp was recently sued in federal district court in Los Angeles for "extortion." The plaintiffs say Yelp salespeople demanded monthly payments in exchange for removing or toning down negative reviews. The plaintiffs say…
2February 21, 2010
Are books -- electronic or not -- becoming "fringe media"?

Kevin Kelleher of GigaOM believes that "books are becoming a fringe media." I say: true for non-fiction, not so much for fiction.

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- 0May 11, 2009
  Are Westlaw and LexisNexis simply selling "free" information?
  
  Image by mattlary via Flickr Minneapolis News — Westlaw rises to legal publishing fame by selling free information: West makes its money by selling free, public information — specifi…
- 0February 8, 2010
  You do not get an "A for effort" with copyright
  
  In reaction to claims that copyright exists to protect creators because of the effort they've put into their work, Techdirt points us to a Supreme Court case that clearly says otherwise. History and precedent back it up.
- 2January 7, 2010
  How to write attributions for the Creative Commons licensed images you…
  
  I've found that pictures shared under a Creative Commons (CC) license (of all flavors) are a great resource for bloggers who want artwork to accompany their posts. I've also realized that not everyone, myself included,…
- 0January 25, 2010
  Want clients? Be helpful and do good
  
  "Be helpful and do good" is a deceptively simple strategy: just go out and help people, and clients will find you. (Just don't forget to make it easy to be found!)
- 0January 25, 2010
  Want clients? Be helpful and do good
  
  "Be helpful and do good" is a deceptively simple strategy: just go out and help people, and clients will find you. (Just don't forget to make it easy to be found!)
- 5May 12, 2009
  10 Alternative Legal Research Sites
  
  Looking for alternatives to expensive legal research through Westlaw and LexisNexis? Here's a non-exhaustive list of ten alternative sources for legal research (aimed primarily at lawyers and law students) that are…
- 2August 21, 2009
  The case of the disappearing case law
  
  The cloud consists of data and services that live on someone else's servers. Although the term itself is new(ish), the basic idea is embodied by traditional legal research services like LexisNexis and Westlaw -- data…
- 0January 25, 2010
  Want clients? Be helpful and do good
  
  "Be helpful and do good" is a deceptively simple strategy: just go out and help people, and clients will find you. (Just don't forget to make it easy to be found!)
- 0May 11, 2009
  Are Westlaw and LexisNexis simply selling "free" information?
  
  Image by mattlary via Flickr Minneapolis News — Westlaw rises to legal publishing fame by selling free information: West makes its money by selling free, public information — specifi…
- 2January 7, 2010
  How to write attributions for the Creative Commons licensed images you…
  
  I've found that pictures shared under a Creative Commons (CC) license (of all flavors) are a great resource for bloggers who want artwork to accompany their posts. I've also realized that not everyone, myself included,…
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- 0June 11, 2008
  "Universities should not be in the social justice business"
  
  This is a quote from Stanley Fish in an editorial in the New York Times, entitled Think Again. I highly recommend the discussion. It’s a well-reasoned and articulate argument for think�…
- 2May 21, 2009
  Journalist Shield Laws and Bloggers
  
  Image via Wikipedia…
- 2July 9, 2007
  My Top Ten General Legal Research Sites for U.S. Law
  
  10. Wikipedia…
- 0June 5, 2009
  Adapting the Law to New Theories of Science
  
  John Pfaff continues his interesting discussion of science, the adversarial process, and the law at PrawfsBlawg:…
- 0June 5, 2009
  Adapting the Law to New Theories of Science
  
  John Pfaff continues his interesting discussion of science, the adversarial process, and the law at PrawfsBlawg:…
- 0January 20, 2010
  Applying the Fourth Amendment to data in the cloud
  
  In a Note called Defogging the Cloud: Applying Fourth Amendment Principles to Evolving Privacy Expectations in Cloud Computing, David A. Couillard explores the potential applicability of the Fourth Amendment to data…
- 0June 16, 2009
  Narratives and evidence in the litigation of high-tech patents
  
  Colleen Chien has a paper in SSRN, dated April of 2009, that explores the narrative of patents, from the epithet of "troll" applied to patent owners who seek only to leverage their patent through licensing, and not…
- 0June 10, 2009
  The dual nature of the U.S. Constitution
  
  It is so much more fun to "expound" on the "adaptable" Constitution and simply pretend that the "hard-wired" one can always be "worked around." But what if it can't? What if there is a gorilla (or rattlesnake) in the…
- 0April 23, 2009
  Lawyers and Technology: The Mystery of Metadata
  
  Image by StarrGazr via Flickr Jim Calloway writes about a new opinion by the New Hampshire Bar Ethics Committee: The New Hampshire Bar Association issued Ethics Committee Opinion 2008 – 2009/4 on April 16, …
- 0April 10, 2009
  Law, War, and the History of Time
  
  Image by AlaskanLibrarian via Flickr Law, War, and the History of Time — Balkinization: I’ve posted a new paper on SSRN on a theme I’ve blogged about here and here: Law, War, and the History of Time. While I…
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