Legal Research

Casting your digital shadow
Bits explains the size of our individual digital shadows: The digital universe ? the pile of digital information that includes everything from e-mail to YouTube videos ? is growing faster than previously thought, according to a new study from the research firm IDC...

Digitization at Cornell
My time at Cornell is flying by1, and I’ve put together lots of notes on the law library. However, today I’m going to post about how Cornell University Libraries has developed a wonderful system for creating digital resources...

Jury tampering in the digital age
Gone are the days of goons showing up at your door or horse heads in your bed. This is the digital age, baby! Web 2.0! So, it should come as no surprise that jury tampering has also moved into the digital age...

Is It Time for a Uniform Law on Digital Identity
Recently TechCrunch's Erick Schonfeld published his wish list for a digital bill of rights consisting of The Right to Use and Reuse Content The Right To Control Digital Property On Your Own Device The Right To The Free Flow Of...

Journal of Digital Information
The Texas Digital Library, a consortium of Texas universities, publishes the open access Journal of Digital Information. The contents of the curent issue (Vol 9, No 27 (2008)) will give you an idea of its scope, if you’re not already familiar with the publication: Developing and Sustaining the Northwest Digital Archives, by Alan Kevin Cornish and [...

Just Released, Palfey and Gasser's Born Digital
All hell is about to break loose -- the first generation of "digital natives" is coming of age! That's not the message in John Palfrey and Urs Gasser's Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives (Basic Books, 2008)....

Apple Inc.
allegedly maintained an illegal monopoly on the digital music market.