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Link Rot: Georgetown Law Library Finds 38 Percent of Online Documents Disappear from Web Pages Within Five Years
| Data Files, Digital Preservation, Libraries, Preservation, Reports, Resources
From the Georgetown Law School (via Free Government Information): The Georgetown Law Library and members of the Chesapeake Digital Preservation Group have released new data that shows within a five-year period, nearly 38 percent of online legal reports and web pages preserved through the library’s efforts have disappeared from their original web addresses. “The results […]
From Euroalert: The European Commission set out a plan for safer internet and better internet content for children and teenagers. In particular, the new strategy is to build up the market for interactive, creative and educational content online, in a partnership between the European Commission and Member States, mobile phone operators, handset manufacturers and providers […]
From Brill Publishing: Brill is pleased to announce that it has acquired all publication rights to the Foreign Law Guide. As of today, the Foreign Law Guide will be published under the prestigious Martinus Nijhoff imprint out of Brill’s Boston office. Founded in 1988 by editors Thomas H. Reynolds and Arturo A. Flores [both from […]
LA Times Op-Ed by Pamela Samuelson: “A Universal Digital Library is Within Reach”
| Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users
Pamela Samuelson is a professor at the Berkeley Law School & the UC Berkeley School of Information. Samuelson is also the director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology. From the LA Times Op-Ed: Ideally, a digital library would provide access not only to books free from copyright constraints (those published before 1923), but […]
Details and a couple of highlights via DealBreaker and Business Insider. Documents Available here (Browse Only) We’re not sure how many of the docs have been crawled by Google at this time. However, by using: site:http://www.jenner.com/lehman/docs/ [keyword(s)] in the search box should be able to do some keyword searching of the material.
U.S. Copyright Office Posts Requests for Information About Crowdsourcing and Developing a “Virtual Card Catalog” of Historical Records
| Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Libraries, Resources
The U.S. Copyright Office (part of The Library of Congress) has posted TWO Requests For Information (RFI) . The first is RFI is to learn about utilizing crowdsourcing to capture data from historical catalog cards dating from 1870 to 1977. The second RFI is to learn about purchasing or developing software for a “virtual card catalog” […]
From an LII Blog Post: The LII’s U.S. Code collection received a major upgrade last week with the addition of USC-prelim. Thanks to our friends at the U.S. House of Representatives Office of the Law Revision Counsel (OLRC), the LII now includes all newly codified legislation for each title on a separate tab within each […]
New From ALA: Community Practices in the Fair Use of Video in Libraries
| Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users
From an ALA District Dispatch Post by Carrie Russell: Librarians at schools, colleges and universities play an important role helping their users understand and apply copyright law. This makes sense because educational institutions are sites for learning, and the advancement of learning is the purpose of the copyright. Congress recognized the unique status of non-profit […]
From The State (via The Item) The U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned six guilty verdicts in a 2010 high-profile cockfighting trial because of a rogue juror’s use of the Internet during supposedly sealed-off jury deliberations. That juror, known only as Juror 177, then shared with some fellow members what he had learned […]
Copyright: New Organization: Linked Content Coalition Launches in Europe
| Data Files, Management and Leadership, News, Patrons and Users, Publishing
From the News Release: Executives from news media, publishing, TV, film, music, IT and internet media businesses (see list here) have got together with existing standards and licensing organisations to work in coalition on a cross-media global project that will result in better and easier management of copyright in the online world. [Clip] Its remit […]
