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HOMEABOUT About Slaw Our Contributors Contributing to Slaw FEATURES The Column SlawNET Docs du jour Theme Weeks RESOURCES Search Tools Journal Feeds Information Sources ARCHIVES By Date By Category By Old Category By Author Alphabetical List Add to a bookmark service More: on News Sources | by Ted Tjaden  Google Hosts Life Photos by Simon Fodden on November 19th, 2008 Google is in the process of hosting the archive of photographs owned by Life magazine, making them available via Google Images search. At the moment about 2 million photos are online, with another 8 million to come, some dating back to the 1860s and the birth of photography.This has no direct relevance to law, of course, and so is off-topic for Slaw. But the publication of 10 million images from America’s past might be of general interest to our readers. As well, this move has Google entering the publishing field in a big way.There’s a ton of stuff here for Canadians: e.g. 50 images tagged “Lester Pearson”, 200 tagged “Canada”, 131 tagged “Vancouver” etc. Copyright is held by Time Inc., and there will be the opportunity to purchase printed copies of photographs. But I have to wonder how sanguine Google and Time are about the likelihood that copyright in these objects will be respected in any serious way: this is a giant, enticing display of eye candy placed on your doorstep, and the store security personnel are either absent or on an extended lunch break. It’s true that there’s a great big LIFE watermark marring each online large version, but that can easily be excised in most cases without destroying the value of the work.You can search the Life archive either by using the special purpose search page or by introducing source:life into a regular Images search. Have some mid-week fun and treat yourself to fifteen minutes of visual history.  Respond: Make a comment Share: Add to a bookmark service More: on Uncategorized | by Simon Fodden  Copyright laws weaving a wicked web by David Canton on November 19th, 2008 That’s the title of my Free Press article from Monday. As it seems to be getting a large number of hits on my own blog, I thought it worthwhile to post it here as well. I can’t reproduce it here for contractual reasons - the full article is here.The gist of it is that in both the Canadian and US elections, there were instances where those running for office were frsutrated by the very laws they enacted or positions they took on proposed legislation. McCain complained to Youtube that they took down content based on allegations of copyright infringement - a result of the DMCA that he supported. The Conservatives included content in ads that allegedly violated copyright - that might have been acceptable if fair dealing rights were expanded as some have suggested.From the article:In both countries, the same politicians who enact or try to enact tough copyright laws, have exhibited the very behaviours they wanted to stop in others.This shows how important it is for lawmakers to carefully think through the practical ramifications of legislation.Hopefully, these examples will give Canadian politicians pause for thought when it comes time to bring forth a new copyright reform bill. Respond: Make a comment | Read the 1 comment Share: Add to a bookmark service More: on Uncategorized | by David Canton  Effective Litigation Knowledge Management by Ted Tjaden on November 19th, 2008 Yesterday I attended and spoke at Day 2 of the Canadian Law & Technology Forum in Toronto. There were several new products I learned about in addition to taking away a few new ideas, and I will try to post to SLAW some of my thoughts on the conference over the next few days on topics discussed (including outsourcing of legal services, both domestically and abroad; e-discovery; litigation case management software, really cool stuff from Adobe 9.0, and records management).My paper and presentation was entitled “Effective Litigation Knowledge Management” in which I first discussed the explicit knowledge that litigators need and use (such as pleadings, facta, research memos, and checklists) and the tacit knowledge they need and use (such as trial preparation and strategy, how to cross-examine witnesesses, “know-who” and so on). Technology of course is usually better-suited to manage explicit litigation knowledge, with in-person training and mentoring being more effective to transfer tacit litigation knowledge (although technology can play important roles in how we train litigators - video-taping of seminars, advice from senior litigators on selected topics, and, for example, mock cross-examinations).Given my background as a former litigator and current lawyer/law librarian, I also explained my approach to litigation knowledge management in combining a “library” approach and a “knowledge management” approach on how to best support litigators in practice (for example, where internal precedents for pleadings or facta on a particular issue cannot be found, look to the library to obtain external commercially-published litigation precedents through online resources such as Williston and Rolls Court Forms on LexisNexis Quicklaw (for Ontario), O’Briens Internet or Litigator on WestlaweCARSWELL (in addition to using print sources of litigation precedents, such as Bullen & Leake and Jacob’s Precedents of Pleadings, 16th ed.).Likewise, where internal research memos and other work product cannot answer a particular issue, the “library” can supplement internal work product through research and access to external sources of law (online database, print resources and so on).I pointed out the challenges facing litigators: increased volume of documents, an increase in the amount of digitally-born documents, and pressures to keep costs reasonable at the same time as providing top quality advice and services.Technology can help with some of these challenges: matter-centric document management systems are a key starting point to keep documents organized. A well-designed intranet can be the portal through which litigators browse and search for internal and external resources. Secure extranets can allow clients or experts to access documents remotely. And litigation case management software (such as Summation or Concordance) can help process and organize large volumes of documents (I discussed a number of other technologies as well).Increasingly, the trend is towards smarter enterprise search (Recommind, Autonomy, and Interwoven Universal Search, and SharePoint 2007 search, to name a few of the smarter search engines some law firms are using).Likewise, given the number of internal documents in any large law firm, expect to see an increase in the use of technology, such as auto-profilers or taggers, to do the indexing and tagging that has, for most firms, been done by human beings (there are just too many documents for human processing).I made other points, including a rant about how unfortunate it is our Canadian court registries are not “online” as they are in the US where you can have remote online access to many American court registry dockets (which can be a good source of precedents for pleadings and facta). Respond: Make a comment Share: Add to a bookmark service More: on Knowledge Management | by Ted Tjaden  The ABA Journal by David Bilinsky on November 18th, 2008 The ABA Journal is surveying lawyers about the job market and the current state of the economy. They would like to spread the word and encourage as many readers as possible Here is the link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=9Dhw2g7bX_2bxfq4mW8eB1Cg_3d_3dSurvey results will be published in the January ABA Journal. They state that answers will be kept confidential and used only in combination with all other responses received. If you have any questions or suggestions, please feel free to contact Stephanie Francis Ward, Legal Affairs Writer, ABA Journal. Respond: Make a comment Share: Add to a bookmark service More: on Uncategorized | by David Bilinsky Divorce Stats for 2005 Available by Simon Fodden on November 18th, 2008 Statistics Canada has released data on divorces in Canada for 2005. 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