Post Tagged with: "Law"

Major Canadian Law Firms Victims of Cyber Attacks

The Globe reports that hackers have penetrated four major Toronto law firms over the past seven months, using sophisticated cyber attacks.  The article does not name the firms.

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April 6, 2011 1 comment News

Public.Resource.Org Makes Available 1.8 Million Legal Decisions

Public.Resource.Org and Fastcase have announced that they will release a large and free archive of U.S. federal case law, including all Courts of Appeals decisions from 1950 to the present and all Supreme Court decisions since 1754. The archive will be public domain and usable by anyone for any purpose.

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November 15, 2007 Comments are Disabled News

New Media, New Doctrines…Unfinished Business

Last week I spoke at the 8th International Conference on Law Via the Internet, a conference that focuses on global free access to law.  My presentation is here.

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October 30, 2007 Comments are Disabled News

UK To Open Access to Legal Database

The BBC has the details on what is described as a "sea-change" in the way government information becomes available to the public.

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January 12, 2007 Comments are Disabled News

Rights vs. Needs

Several people have written to ask for a comment on this week's O' Canada panel at the Future of Music Summit in Washington, DC.  In addition to my participation (and Walter McDonough's moderation) the panel featured CRIA President Graham Henderson, CMRRA's David Basskin, and MP Sarmite Bulte.  Much of the […]

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September 14, 2005 Comments are Disabled News