Learning Copyright Law Whether I Want to Or Not Even though I work in a law library when the MLIS is done I’m not going to law school for a JD. Law librarianship is not my future. I like the more touchy-feely humanities. But that doesn’t mean legal stuff isn’t rubbing off a bit. Like copyright. In school we spent a whole week on Submitted: on 26th Feb 2010 Tags: · The · When · WhenThe Rule of Law, By Tom Bingham What do we mean by the rule of law? For some people, says Tom Bingham, it amounts to little more than "Hooray for our side". For Bingham himself, however, it is "the nearest we are likely to approach to a universal secular religion". Bingham has held office as Master of the Rolls, Lord Chief Justice and Senior Law Lord: he is our leading jurist. In this short but profoundly important book, he exam... Submitted: on 31st Jan 2010 Tags: · The · What · Important Book · WhatMagazine: Yog’s Law Wins – Open to All Submissions Yog’s Law as coined by James D. Macdonald: Money flows toward the writer For me NextRead Magazine isn’t about the money. As I said if I wanted money I’d be producing porn and not thinking of an ezine. Seeing buying a magazine to be considered for inclusion is seen as breaking the above law and has taken way Submitted: on 2nd Mar 2010 Tags: · The · James · Magazine · Money · The Writer · WantedA literature-wrecking law ? I'd love to know more about this proposed legislation -- a "law for the protection of literature and authors" -- that Haaretz inveighs against in their editorial, The literature-wrecking law: The Knesset members behind this bill describe it as being of "prime social importance," saying it will change literary life in Israel by sett... Submitted: on 18th Feb 2010 Tags: · The · Authors · Literary · LiteratureThe case for the rule of law Why a new book about Britain's greatest constitutional riddle should be compulsory reading for MPs – and everyone else The morning after the next general election every MP should be given a copy of Tom Bingham's The Rule of Law (publishers Allen Lane), and forced to read it. If that had been done in 1997, the scandalous dismemberment of civil liberties and freedoms which have chara... Submitted: on 15th Feb 2010 Tags: · The · New Book · Publishers · Reading · ScandalousTexts from Last Night is Better than Law School, by Ben Bator and Lauren Leto (View entire post here) The recipe for success on the Internet is a maddeningly abstract concoction that is mostly a combination of mistakes. We had things that were better deserving of our time for starters (law school for Lauren, unemployment for Ben). Also, we both had way too much experience in our subject matter for anything else, so we pretty much had to make this site work. Some... Submitted: on 26th Jan 2010 Tags: · The · Ben · internetNew Hitch in FDR Papers-Deal Back in November I noted that a body of FDR papers might soon be available to researchers after a law was passed waiving NARA claims over the documents (on condition that they then be donated to the NARA-run FDR Presidential Library). President Obama signed the law this week, but now, the NYTimes reports, a bankruptcy filing by the papers' owners (Sun-Times Media Group) may throw a major wren... Submitted: on 3rd Feb 2010 Tags: · TheMischa Barton on Law and Order: SVU No longer on the show but Mischa Barton can never really exit the beautiful life (at least for a few more years), and now she's set to appear on Law and Order: SVU, going back to the world's oldest profession in portraying a hooker named 'Gladys' on the NBC show. The casting was verified by the show's executive producer Neal Baer via TV Guide, after he revealed some clues ... Submitted: on 6th Jan 2010 Tags: · The · RevealedReasonable, yet appalling | Austen Ivereigh Terry Pratchett's arguments for changing the law on assisted suicide will convince many. But the prospect is a grim one Terry Pratchett's case for the law to allow assisted suicide is tremendously reasonable. His own desire for a carefully planned passing – listening to Thomas Tallis on his iPod, while glugging a fatal elixir – is carefully considered. He wishes (and who woul... Submitted: on 3rd Feb 2010 Tags: · The · Desire · Passing · Terry Pratchett · ThomasUK Web Archive launches with plea for law change British Library will by next year have archived 6,000 of estimated 8m sites and is being slowed down by need for permission A digital black hole will open in Britain's national memory without a change in the law to ensure the capture and recording of UK websites, the head of the British Library has warned. After six years struggling to establish the UK Web Archive, launched today, Dame Lynne ... Submitted: on 25th Feb 2010 Tags: · The · uk · Black Hole · British Library · Six · uk
