The concern over C-60 involves a section of the bill that deals with remedies open to copyright holders. That section contains the following language: "…the owner of copyright in a work or other subject-matter is not entitled to any remedy other than an injunction against a provider of information location tools who infringes that copyright by making or caching a reproduction of the work or other subject matter."

This from a decent piece last week by Elinor Mills, a staff writer at CNET News.com. Presumably the bad drafting will be straightened out before it gets debated in the Fall. . . . [more]

You may have wondered what exactly Lexis is.  Here is a found poem on the subject

Here is the explanation that Googlism provides at http://www.googlism.com/index.htm?ism=lexis&type=1:

 Googlism for: lexis

lexis is our professional content management
lexis is the study of vocabulary in
lexis is no more available
lexis is an online service that provides a wide range of full
lexis is focus
lexis is available to all law students
lexis is closed or phone line is bad
lexis is a library with newspaper
lexis is available via the web for students at www
lexis is http
lexis is a . . . [more]

The attached URL is to an interesting post on the Google Library project in which the blogger makes the interesting comment that

In spite of their inherent slowness, organizing information is a job that’s still best done by people, and in most places those people are called librarians. I admit librarians can’t begin to sort all the available information, but at least for them preserving, categorizing, and creating access to the information that people need is a higher priority than content–targeted advertising. The insistence of librarians on continuing to use what might seem like arcane and antiquated systems — such

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Biblioacid is a French weblog, in French, natch, on IT and libraries. In its own (English) words:

Biblioacid is a weblog focused on libraries and technologies, led by 2 French librarians. We aim to inform our French colleagues about what’s going on in librarianship abroad today, to give our opinion about the changes occuring in the library world, and (why not?) to give French-reading librarians abroad an insight of librarianship from a French perspective. Biblioacid is combined with a pdf-formatted e-zine issued every other month (more or less).

All comments, suggestions and contributions are most welcome…

It’s always a . . . [more]

Juru, an exprimental IBM development from Haifa written in Java, is a

full text search library written in Java and dedicated to small/mid-size collections where precision is a must. It efficiently applies state-of-the-art search algorithms producing highest-quality search results.

Apparently it’s already inside WebSphere Portal, but an implementation called Tamnun Juru Desktop search puts a browser interface over the search facility, "tamnun" meaning "octopus" in Hebrew. One of the good things about this, apart from its independence from the expensive WebSphrere, is that unlike Google Desktop to date Juru searches Notes.

I’m not sure if it’s commercially available, but . . . [more]

Those of you who subscribe to beSpacific will already have seen this. But just in case: Tarlton Law Library at the University of Texas at Austin, one of the great law libraries, has created a website on "Current copyright literature." Tobe Liebert, the creator of the service, says the site will likely be updated a couple of times a week. No RSS feed, alas.

UPDATE: August 7, 2005
Tobe Liebert writes to say that there’s now an RSS feed for the service. The URL is: http://web.austin.utexas.edu/law_library/copyright/rss.cfm. . . . [more]

Yahoo's research labs have come up with a product called Mindset (“Mindset: Intent-driven Search”).

Welcome to Slaw, the co-operative weblog that aims to share information and insights about the intersection of technology and legal research in Canada.

This is the first posting, and as such needs to get quickly out of the way to make room for postings of substance.

 Enjoy, contribute, learn, teach… It’s Slaw. . . . [more]