Day archives: April 25th, 2021

Inside the Future 50: Why these companies thrived in the pandemic—and could grow even faster coming out of it

“As we move past the one-year mark since the COVID-19 crisis first spread to businesses and markets around the globe, it’s clear that the competitive landscape has been significantly reshaped. New winners and new losers emerged in many industries, with the difference often explained by their responses to the pandemic and the new needs it …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Legal Research

Why Informal Information Sharing is Holding Your Organization Back

Via LLRX – Why Informal Information Sharing is Holding Your Organization Back – This article by Mary Ellen Bates is an excerpt from her recent presentation “The Strategic Value of Copyright Licensing Solutions,” to which she also provides a video link. Bates discusses ways published information is being used throughout organizations that you may not have …

Subjects: Copyright, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, April 24, 2021

Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, April 24, 2021 – Privacy and security issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly …

Subjects: AI, Civil Liberties, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy

Non-Fungible Tokens Force a Copyright Reckoning

IP Watchdog: “NFTs may actually mark the new era in online content; an era where we eventually see every digital copy tagged with a serial number to trace and prosecute counterfeiting….From the advent of the internet, digital commodities and technologies have ceaselessly presented new hurdles for intellectual property (IP) owners and protectors. The cycle of …

Subjects: Copyright, Economy, Financial System, Legal Research

3D Print 18,000 Famous Sculptures, Statues & Artworks

Open Culture – 3D Print 18,000 Famous Sculptures, Statues & Artworks: Rodin’s Thinker, Michelangelo’s David & More: “…Items that took the ancients untold hours to sculpt from marble and stone can be reproduced in considerably less time, provided you’ve got the technology and the know-how to use it. Since we last wrote about this free, …

Subjects: Internet

Adding information from your law blog to Wikipedia

Kevin O’Keefe – Lexblog: “via an existing entry or a footnote makes good sense. Contributing to the advancement of the law. Making reliable and credible legal information more accessible to legal professions and the public. Wikipedia appears on page one of Google’s search results forty-six percent of the time. Others are citing legal blogs, and …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Marketing, Search Engines

Upwork examines the impact of remote work on socialization

TechRepublic – “The post-pandemic landscape will include plenty of options for professionals to interact outside the home, a new report finds. The freelancing platform Upwork wanted to find out where workers would be perched post-pandemic and to determine the impact remote work has had on professionals as it relates to socialization. Its economist, Adam Ozimek, …

Subjects: Economy, Health Care, Knowledge Management

How do audiences decide what news to trust?

Fairness and accuracy aren’t the only things that matter: “A new Reuters Institute report finds that editorial standards and journalistic practices may be less important for trust in news than audience impressions about brand reputations and the look and feel of how information is presented. By Benjamin Toff, Sumitra Badrinathan, Camila Mont’Alverne, and Amy Ross …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Social Media