Decision issued today in Hachette v. Internet Archive

Chris Freeland at Internet Archive Blogs.

The Quintessential Law Library and Librarian in a Digital Era

Femi Cadmus, Cornell Law School, at The Green Bag.

"Libraries, like most institutions and industries today, are faced with disruptive technologies that challenge their relevancy in a digital era. As a result, erstwhile notions and nostalgia associated with the quintessential library and librarian are changing rapidly.

"This is a compelling era to reimagine the library, retaining essential traditions alongside the new technologies, which facilitate the preservation, discoverability, accessibility, and delivery of information. It is also an opportunity for libraries to respond creatively and innovatively to change. ..."

E-filing: How to Craft Effective Motions and Briefs in the Digital Era

'It’s not just the facts, Ma’am. In the real world, the look of motions and briefs, especially ones that are e-filed, can affect a judge’s reaction to a case.'

Laura Lavey, O’Neil Cannon Hollman DeJong & Laing S.C., Milwaukee, and Chad Baruch, Johnston Tobey Baruch, Dallas, at Wisconsin Lawyer

The Kindle & the Remaking of Civilization

Glenn Arbery at Imaginative Conservative.

The missing JS archives and the digital age's great failure

Jay Bullock at OnMilwaukee

"Increasingly, though, when I do go back to my previous online writing, I find lots of what the internet has come to term 'linkrot,' broken links to web pages that are no longer available. Just to make the point, I picked out a random post of mine from 2008; three of five links to specific stories or other bloggers in that post now go to 404 pages. The links have rotted; there is no way for you to judge whether I fairly or accurately characterized those sources at the time."

The Digital Revolution and the Future of Law Reviews

At Marquette Law Review, Volume 99, Issue 4, Summer 2016, "a lightly edited version of Professor [Thomas W.] Merrill’s remarks at the University Club of Milwaukee on April 8, 2016" at the Review's Annual Banquet.

"The specific topic I wish to address is how the digital revolution is likely to affect law reviews, especially the 800 student-edited law reviews, in the coming years."