{"id":559,"date":"2007-02-26T12:25:18","date_gmt":"2007-02-26T16:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/shlep\/2007\/02\/26\/two-cents-and-more-for-a-monday-morning"},"modified":"2007-02-26T15:03:13","modified_gmt":"2007-02-26T19:03:13","slug":"two-cents-and-more-for-a-monday-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/2007\/02\/26\/two-cents-and-more-for-a-monday-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"two cents and more for a Monday morning"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"pennyS\"\u00a0\u00a0 \"pennyS\"\u00a0\u00a0 If you’re looking for some quick shlepper<\/em> pointers, we’ve got a few today.<\/p>\n

Which party was acting like a jackass?<\/strong> \"donkeyS\"\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

If the House Republican Study<\/em> Committee spent a few minutes studying shlep\u00a0 <\/em>(e.g.<\/em>, see\u00a0“copy permission and copyfraud<\/a>” and “fair use and copyright<\/a>“), it wouldn’t have falsely accused House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of “pirating” 16 clips of House floor debate that had appeared on C-Span, when she included them on her weblog The Gavel<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 See today’s New York Times<\/em>, “Which Videos Are Protected? Lawmakers Get a Lesson<\/a>,” Feb. 26, 2007.\u00a0 Although NYT <\/em>says that members of Congress are “learning the complexities of copyright law, much the way the casual YouTube user has learned,”\u00a0the relevant point here\u00a0is really not all that complex: “works” made by the federal government (such as shots taken by House cameras on the floor)\u00a0are in the public domain.\u00a0 On the other hand, C-Span asserts its copyright over materials shot by its own<\/em> cameras at other congressional functions.\u00a0\u00a0If the Study Committee needs a bit of fast cribbing, it might try either the podcast<\/a> or transcript<\/a> of Nolo.com’s piece “Blogs, Websites and Podcasts: When Do You Need Permission?”\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0\"podium\"\u00a0\u00a0Generational Generalities<\/strong>:\u00a0 If Bruce MacEwen at AdamSmithEsq <\/em>is correct in his posting on the law library of the future<\/a>, the congressional staffers discussed above are likely to use very different research tools, depending on their ages.\u00a0 Bruce says that “librarians need to understand that they are dealing with four generations of lawyers in terms of attitudes towards media, technology, and research.”\u00a0 He then “roughly” characterizes each\u00a0generation.\u00a0\u00a0Give it a read and tell us how accurate you think he is.\u00a0\u00a0(via Bob Coffield, at his Health Care\u00a0Law Blog<\/em>,\u00a0in Blawg Review 97<\/em><\/a>; many thanks to Bob for pointing to our recent piece on Leaving Children Home Alone<\/a>)\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"sleuth\"\u00a0\u00a0Before Using a Public Record Retriever. . .<\/strong>\u00a0 PRB’s Public Records Blog<\/em> offers a useful Essential Checklist When Using Public Record Retrievers<\/a>.\u00a0 The list will help you clarify just what you’re looking for and help make sure your expectations and those of the hired retriever are in sync before the research begins. TVCAlert<\/em><\/a>\u00a0points out “Of course, the one big question not on this list that you will want to ask the retriever is ‘what is the cost?’\u00a0 This answer cannot be determined until the ten items [on the list] are clear to both parties.” (see our prior post researching public records<\/a>)\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0\"TrustBusterTeddyS\"\u00a0 One that Oscar Forgot<\/strong>:\u00a0 Last night’s Academy Awards ceremony apparently overlooked a real contender in the Short-form documentary category.\u00a0 Russel Mokhibor wrote a glowing review of Fair Fight in the Marketplace<\/a><\/em> in the Feb. 21, 2007 edition of Corporate Crime Reporter<\/em><\/a>.<\/em>\u00a0 Mokhibor is impressed (and surprised) that a 30-minute primer on antitrust could be so interesting and informative. The review notes that “The movie, narrated by National Public Radio\u2019s Mara Liasson, traces the history of the antitrust laws \u2013 and keeps it interesting for young people with cartoon depictions of price fixing and television clips of kids competing.”\u00a0 The English-language film will have Spanish and Mandarin subtitles (the review has an interesting explanation for the Mandarin). There’s even a special edition<\/a> with commentary for high schoolers. The reviewer also gushes that:<\/p>\n

“[T]he film actually becomes gripping educational television \u2013 am I losing my bearings here? \u2013 when it profiles the Mylan Labs<\/em>, ADM<\/em> and Microsoft<\/em> cases.”\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Perhaps the film, which is the brainchild of Bert Foer, president of the American Antitrust Institute<\/a>, will be eligible for an Oscar next year, as it will have its broadcast premiere on PBS in April.\u00a0\u00a0 You can see it online at any time here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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