Saturday, December 27, 2003

Yahoo! News - Jackson Web Site Unites, Divides Legal ProfessionYahoo! News - Jackson Web Site Unites, Divides Legal Profession - "Some legal experts said that posting documents detailing the criminal charges against the 45-year-old entertainer was a breakthrough for public access. Others countered that it would undermine the spirit of the law and court proceedings, creating even more of a circus-like atmosphere. "
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Law student editors and reporters wanted. JURIST's Paper Chase will be expanding its operations beginning in January 2004. We need more law students to anchor our real-time legal news coverage, to edit and report legal news in specific subject-areas, and/or to cover legal events taking place in m [JURIST's Paper Chase]
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CSS: Copyrightable?. Yesterday's post began with a soliloquy on the relative ease of theft that comes along with standards-based design. This is an issue I'm deeply concerned about, for obvious reasons. I've had to tackle some hard questions head on when it... [mezzoblue]

An interesting discussion about the coyrightability of a CSS.  FWIW, I think that any given CSS can be copyrighted.  It is, after all, a creation that directly creates or influences the distinct layout of a website.  This is not trivial.  A CSS may also be considered to be protected under copyright as an intergal part of the complete website, which is definitely afforded copyright protection.


10:49:05 AM    comment []  

Web Guide to U.S. Supreme Court Research The Web Guide to U.S. Supreme Court Research is intended to facilitate the convenience and speed that we expect when turning to the Internet for our research needs. Often, we are unimpressed by the performance of search engines primarily because of problems with the quantity or relevancy of the results. This Web Guide attempts to overcome the shortcomings of general web searching by providing a selection of annotated links to the most reliable, substantive sites for U.S. Supreme Court research. The sites mentioned here focus predominantly on information that is freely, or inexpensively, available on the Internet.  [LLRX.com]
10:38:36 AM    comment []  

RSS Winterfest looks like a gathering of vendors.  Boring...  Last thing we need is another *yawn* vendor dominated conference (hype vehicle). [John Robb's Weblog]

This is a free webcast, January 21 and 22.  Worth taking a listen to.


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