Read it here. This would only be suggested on a legal librarian’s blog.
Monthly Archives: February 2013
Should “Content Holders” Have Such Control Over Internet Service Providers and Users?
See the information here.
Of particular note: “No personal information about consumers is shared between the content owners and ISPs, and ISPs are not involved in the process of identifying copyrighted content.”
That says it all. The ISPs have become mercenaries of the entertainment industry.
Slaw Article Tags Legal Encyclopedias as a Common Law Tradition
Writing on Slaw on The “Great Encyclopedias” of Legal Research, Gary P. Rodrigues describes the common law tradition of legal encyclopedia publishing.
The roots of such encyclopedias are in a systematic attempt to reduce to an authoritative format, the common law and statutory law of a given jurisdiction. They eschew “legal realism” and artfully weave a statement of the law as set forth by judges, statutes, and rules (even though these sources may not always provide a complete picture of reality on the ground) by way of analyzing and organizing those judicial decisions, statutes and other rules relevant to the topic or point of law.
West’s Corpus Juris Secundum has been a national (U.S.) legal encyclopedia for roughly a century. Forerunner Corpus Juris was introduced in 1914. (The Wikipedia entry has the year as 1911.)
