A new Web site, Mygazines.com, encourages users to upload PDFs of entire magazines in order to share them with others. Apparently, the site’s founder never bothered to consult with a copyright lawyer before launching his new venture.
“It’s pretty hard to see how it’s anything other than a straightforward set of copyright violations,”
Several bloggers are talking today about a blog post saying that FindLaw violated Google’s guidelines by selling links. That post accused FindLaw of scamming customers. My reaction was: Is this the pot calling the kettle black?
The blog post comes from a site called GetLawyerLeads.com. This is a company that creates shell…
Legendary trial lawyer Gerry Spence is our special guest this week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer. Spence came to national prominence for handling the Karen Silkwood case and was most recently in the news for winning an acquittal for Michigan lawyer Geoffrey Fieger. He has…
Law.com today published Social Networking: For Lawyers Only? This is the second installment in my two-part look at social and professional networking sites for lawyers. The first part, published in June, is available here. This second part focuses on networking sites designed specifically for legal professionals. See also my review last week…
A new Web site for pairing consumers with attorneys will be rolled out at the American Bar Association annual meeting in New York this week, although it will not formally launch to consumers until September. Called WhoCanISue.com, it is being developed by a Florida lawyer-turned-entrepreneur named Curtis Wolfe. The site is not yet operating,…
As online professional networking gains traction within the legal community, Martindale-Hubbell has been quietly testing its own networking site, Martindale-Hubbell Connected, which it plans to launch publicly late this year or early in 2009.
The company made much ado earlier this month about its partnership with professional networking site LinkedIn. But…
The lawyer rating site Avvo unveiled a major redesign of its Web site last night in order to enhance user access to its three main features: Lawyer Search, Answers & Advice and Legal Guides. It also formally launched its Legal Guides, a series of brief overviews of legal topics written by private attorneys or…
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Justice John M. Greaney will join the faculty of Suffolk University Law School in December and become director of its Macaronis Institute for Trial and Appellate Advocacy, the school announced today. Under state law, Greaney would have been required to retire in April,…
Indulge me as I blow my own horn. The American Society of Business Publication Editors this week awarded me its national silver award for best contributed column in a publication with a circulation under 80,000. I received the award for the “Web Watch” column I write for the…
A $1 billion lawsuit by Viacom accuses Google’s video-sharing Web site, YouTube, of violating its copyrights. Last week, Google and Viacom reached an agreement to allow Google to mask user information from records before handing them over to Viacom. On this week’s legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, my co-host J. Craig…
I’ve repeated this story enough times that I’m no longer sure it is even true: Way back in 1995, at the annual meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries, we introduced volume one, number one, of legal.online, the first-ever newsletter about how lawyers could use the Internet. And as we stood there…
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