Posted on August 8th, 2008 by Derek Bambauer
The New York state legislature passed, and Governor David Patterson signed, a bill dealing with textbook pricing (the Textbook Access Act) that incidentally bans faculty members from selling “complimentary” copies of textbooks. This sounded bad at first, because I’ve got a nice little side business on eBay with the books I randomly receive for courses [...]
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Filed under: Books, Copyright, Education & Copyright, Law School, Scholarship
Posted on July 5th, 2008 by William McGeveran
If you follow trademark law you must bookmark this invaluable web site at the University of Texas at Austin Law Library. It lists every new trademark law article weekly. Fabulous (though I wish it linked to online versions of the articles too).
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Filed under: Digital Media, Law School, Scholarship, Trademarks
Posted on June 17th, 2008 by Tim Armstrong
I’m traveling to Baltimore tomorrow, where I’ll be speaking later this week at UMD, one of the few law schools that can claim to be older than my own. The occasion is this year’s CALI Conference for Law School Computing, and I’ll be delivering an updated version of my talk on the open access movement.
As [...]
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Filed under: Copyright, Digital Media, Education & Copyright, Internet & Society, Law School, Open Access, Peer Production
Posted on May 15th, 2008 by Derek Bambauer
What does it mean if you invite John McCain to speak at your school’s commencement?
For one thing, it means your dean is smart enough to want news coverage with lots of shots of your school’s logo. But does it mean your institution agrees with any / all of McCain’s positions?
I was pondering this question after [...]
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Filed under: Cognitive Decisionmaking, Court Decisions, Law School, Media
Posted on May 7th, 2008 by Tim Armstrong
I’ve been sitting on this post for what seems like an eternity, but the news embargo has been lifted, and we’re all free to share the fantastic news from Harvard Law School, where the faculty voted unanimously to provide open access to faculty scholarship in an online repository. This makes Harvard the nation’s first [...]
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Filed under: Berkman, Law School, Open Access, Scholarship
Posted on April 15th, 2008 by Derek Bambauer
My friend and colleague Noah Hall has just launched an excellent new blog that examines water law, with a particular focus on the Great Lakes. What’s he discussing? Fights over bottled water, the challenges of climate change, pending Supreme Court cases - all great stuff. Noah’s one of the leading experts on water law, as [...]
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Filed under: Blogging, Blogroll, Court Decisions, Law School, international
Posted on March 18th, 2008 by Derek Bambauer
Info/Law isn’t going anywhere, but I am. In the fall, I’ll take up residence as an assistant prof at Brooklyn Law School, which has kindly offered to put up with my collection of tech cartoons, Legos, and Lotus memorabilia. It will be hard to leave my friends at Wayne State, but I hope to entice [...]
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Filed under: Blogging, Law School, Scholarship
Posted on March 9th, 2008 by William McGeveran
I have been relatively absent from the blog for a few weeks as I worked to complete two pieces of writing that have consumed all my time and brainpower. Both concern trademark “fair use” — the defenses available to those who use trademarks to facilitate their free expression.
The first piece, Four Free Speech Goals [...]
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Filed under: Blogging, Law School, Scholarship, Trademarks
Posted on February 28th, 2008 by Derek Bambauer
Pretty drunk, apparently. The key issue is whether you’ll drive it well, or instead plow into a reef and spill millions of gallons of oil into a fragile ecosystem.
My friend and colleague Colette Routel has written an amicus brief on the Exxon case (that’s the Exxon Valdez case). She’s also explained the case to the [...]
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Filed under: Court Decisions, Law School, Minnesota, Scholarship, Video, civil procedure, international
Posted on February 22nd, 2008 by Tim Armstrong
I’m stuck at CVG, waiting for my repeatedly rescheduled flight to Des Moines for Peter Yu’s 2008 IP Scholars Roundtable. (The weather’s been bad here, and all the outbound Des Moines flights between my originally scheduled one last night and right now have been canceled). If I eventually do make it, it will [...]
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Filed under: Cincinnati, Copyright, Law School, Scholarship