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Owning Our Genes - Here's Why That's a Bad Idea

I think most of us are taken aback by the concept that someone could own the “intellectual property” of human genes. I mean, that’s us! And we never said you could. But in this stran… more →

Information Fluency

The One-Way Mirror: Enhancing Participation and Securing Privacy for Government 2.0

Paul Lomio wrote 1 month ago: “The One-Way Mirror: Enhancing Participation and Securing Privacy for Government 2.0″ Da … more →

Tags: Government Information, transparency in government, Transparency, PUBLIC RECORDS, Privacy, Data protecton, Web 2.0, democracy, social networking

Brief Fight Likely to End in Compromise — 1 comment

Paul Lomio wrote 1 month ago: From tomorrow’s (Friday’s) San Francisco Recorder: Brief Fight Likely to End in Compromi … more →

Tags: Copyright, PUBLIC RECORDS, Data protecton, Briefs, access to information, information rights, Court Rules, Westlaw, LexisNexis

Judicial Information Management in an Electronic Age: Old Standards, New Challenges — 1 comment

Paul Lomio wrote 2 months ago: “Judicial Information Management in an Electronic Age: Old Standards, New Challenges” Fe … more →

Tags: access to information, Data protecton, ECF, Electronic court filing, information rights, pacer, Privacy, PUBLIC RECORDS, Publishing

E-books going mainstream? Getting "Napsterized?" and "Advantage Google"

Paul Lomio wrote 2 months ago: Really eye-opening (to me, anyway) article in the Sunday Business section of today’s New York … more →

Tags: access to information, Antitrust, Copyright, Data protecton, E-Books, History of legal publishing, information rights, Piracy, Publishing

Geeks seek to make the law Googleable; RECAP in WSJ

Paul Lomio wrote 4 months ago: Buried on page W13 of today’s Wall Street Journal  is a must-read piece by Katherine Mangu-War … more →

Tags: open access, Government Information, legal publishing, Malamud, FREE Resources, transparency in government, Transparency, Legal Research & Writing, Sharing work product

Read the Letter - Update: LexisNexis and Westlaw Violating Copyright? — 1 comment

Erika Wayne wrote 5 months ago: Yesterday, Paul blogged about the Daily Journal article: “California Courts Come Under Fire fo … more →

Tags: Copyright, california law, Briefs, information rights, Dockets, fair use doctrine, Attorney work product, Westlaw, LexisNexis

LexisNexis and Westlaw violating copyright? — 8 comments

Paul Lomio wrote 5 months ago: Interesting story in today’s Daily Journal: California Courts Come Under Fire for Giving Legal … more →

Tags: Copyright, Briefs, information rights, Law Firm Economics, fair use doctrine, Attorney work product, Westlaw, LexisNexis, Ed Connor

Google Books in the News

Paul Lomio wrote 5 months ago: European Union to scrutinize Google Books settlement; Congress may hold hearing “The European … more →

Tags: access to information, Copyright, E-Books, EU, european union, Information costs, information rights, Libraries, Publishing

Latin america’s information technologies: promises and realities

almuzara wrote 5 months ago: Estela MASTROMATTEO (Universidad Central de Venezuela) This contribution emphasizes that in order to … more →

Tags: I Meeting, pragmatics, Information society, Information Technologies, Latin America

Library Science : The Information Society An International Journal - Table of Contents, Vol. 25, Issue: 1-3, 2009

cenlibbku wrote 5 months ago: The Information Society An International Journal – Table of Contents Volume 25 Issue 1 2009 Di … more →

Tags: Qualitative Sharing, information culture

Lexicon & Army Surveillance Doc — 1 comment

Susan wrote 6 months ago: There’s a new edition of On Their Own Terms up at FAS.  Included in the 4th edition are quite … more →

Tags: FOIA, History, U.S. government secrecy

Owning Our Genes - Here's Why That's a Bad Idea — 1 comment

Barbara wrote 7 months ago: I think most of us are taken aback by the concept that someone could own the “intellectual pro … more →

Tags: genetic code, academic science, Research Ethics, Patents, intellectul property, Idiocy

"micropayments of personal information"

Barbara wrote 7 months ago: Jess, you might want to avoid this post, since it’s guaranteed to creep you out. Computerworld … more →

News Media - 0; Wikipedia - 1 — 1 comment

Barbara wrote 7 months ago: A student in Ireland decided to test how the mainstream media gathers information by inserting a hig … more →

Tags: Controversies

มิติทางสังคมและจริยธรรมของเทคโนโลยีสารสนเทศ

soraj wrote 7 months ago: การประชุมวิชาการ “มิติทางสังคมและจริยธรรมของเทคโนโลยีสารสนเทศ” ห้อง 105 อาคารมหาจุฬาลงกรณ์ จุฬาลงกรณ … more →

Tags: Conference, Information Technology, Web 2.0, Internet, Social dimensions, ethics, data security

Complaint in CALR billing case posted

Paul Lomio wrote 7 months ago: In regards to our earlier post, “Lawsuit alleges Chadbourne overcharged for computerized legal … more →

Tags: Computer Assisted Legal Research, Law Firms, legal ethics, Professional Responsibility, Information costs, Law Library Economics, Law Firm Economics, Chadbourne & Parke, J. Virgil Waggoner

Lawsuit alleges Chadbourne overcharged for computerized legal research — 2 comments

Paul Lomio wrote 7 months ago: Everything is negotiable.  Most law firms have flat rate contracts with LexisNexis and/or Westlaw.  … more →

Tags: Computer Assisted Legal Research, ethics, Information costs, Law Firm Economics, Law Firms, legal ethics, Legal Profession, Professional Responsibility, Chadbourne & Parke

Pseudo-Scientific Publications — 1 comment

Barbara wrote 7 months ago: Here’s a link to a story I mentioned briefly on Monday (when everyone was so sleepy and I was … more →

Tags: Controversies

Maps, Culture, Controversy — 3 comments

Barbara wrote 7 months ago: Google Earth added viewable layers of historical maps of Japan and encountered an unexpected problem … more →

Tags: Controversies


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