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Columbia University has published a searchable database of over 10,000 documents, from which scanned images were made, that comprise The Papers of John Jay, 1745-1829, Governor of New York and Supreme Court Justice.
See this link from LexisNexis for training materials and topical tutorials, links to research materials and a bibliography of articles on summer associate training programs.
As a follow-up to my previous posting on Massachusetts House Bill 2743, see these related articles: Activists assail antipiracy proposal – Argue civil rights would be violated under Mass. law and MPAA’s Drive for Tougher Fraud Laws Hits Bump.
The innovative Yale Journal of Law & Technology (YJoLT) is now using a blog publishing application, provides links to other Yale sponsored blogs and legal-tech content, and offers readers the choice between viewing the journal articles in Word of PDF. See this article from the current issue, Copyright’s Digital Reformulation, by Brodi Kemp (YLS 2004). …
On April 15, the Social Security Administration launched a redesigned website, Social Security Online, along with a new url. See the press release here, as well as the helpful fact sheet that details the new features and services available from the site, which now meets accessibility requirements. Please note that the agency continues to provide …
The Department of Homeland Security has hired a Chief Privacy Officer, attorney Nuala O’Connor Kelly. According to this government bio, she was formerly Chief Counsel for the Dept. of Commerce Technology Administration, and prior to that, she served as Vice President-Data Protection and Chief Privacy Officer for Emerging Technologies of the online media services company, …
On April 14, New Jersey Governor James E.McGreevey signed S. 1355, which revises New Jersey’s computer crime law to incorporate recent technological changes. See the Assembly Telecommunications and Utilities Committee statement for details of the bill, which “adds definitions of “Internet,” “personal identifying information,””alter, damage or destroy”, and “user of computer services” and makes other …
Trends in the Evolution of the Public Web, 1998 – 2002 “examines three key trends in the development of the public Web — size and growth, internationalization, and metadata usage — based on data from the OCLC Office of Research Web Characterization Project , an initiative that explores fundamental questions about the Web and its …
According to Federal Computer Week, the Dudley Knox Library of the Naval Postgraduate School, at the request of the DOJ, will create and implement a digital library of resources on homeland security issues to be made available to “students at the school, employees of the departments of Justice and Homeland Security, and likely other federal …
Pursuant to the E-Government Act of 2002, this announcement from the White House this afternoon: “The Office of Electronic Government was officially launched today, signaling a permanent commitment to the President’s E-Government initiatives. Mark Forman, Administrator for E-Government and Information Technology, who is heading the new office, is leading a live on-line discussion on the …
From the Library of Economics and Liberty, this April 7 interview with Larry Lessig covers the Eldred copyright case and the recent Supreme Court decision, the Creative Commons copyright project, and discussion of the following questions: “Should the law treat intellectual and physical property differently? What are the key economic aspects of digital property? How …
RSS: Gateway to News and Blog Content, Part 1 This column examines how content from blogs, news sites, and other sources is distributed via RSS feeds. Feeds are a great way for anyone to receive customized new information from a growing number of sources.