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Posted on November 20, 2009 at 01:54 pm by pfriedman

This is a terrific new innovation. Today, from Google: Starting today, we're enabling people everywhere to find and read full text legal opinions from U.S. federal and state district, appellate and supreme courts using Google Scholar. You can find these opinions by searching for cases (like Planned Parenthood v. Casey), or by topics (like desegregation) or other queries that you are interested in. For example, go to Google Scholar, click on the "Legal opinions and journals" radio button, and... Posted on November 17, 2009 at 09:51 am by pfriedman

The range between online fluency and online ignorance is remarkable these days. It is largely, though certainly not entirely, generational. One example of this gap in fluency was the discovery by one of my more technically proficient students in a case we read in my Contracts course of ignorance regarding the technical implications of an online transaction. The ignorance, in my student's opinion, undermined entirely the judge's reasoning. Ars Technica brings up another example, this one perhaps... Posted on November 17, 2009 at 09:34 am by pfriedman

Via A Filmmaker's Life, today I came upon Cinereach, a company that awards $500,000 in grants to "artful and narrative documentary film." The 2010 Grant Cycle apparently begins soon: 2010 Winter Grant Cycle Letter of Inquiry Submissions Open:October 15, 2009 Letter of Inquiry Deadline: December 1, 2009 Full Proposals Requested from Selected Applicants:January 2010 Grant Awards Announced: February 2010 Posted on September 12, 2009 at 09:08 am by admin

One of the biggest misconceptions in copyright law is that mailing yourself your own work (e.g., a screenplay or CD of music) will establish a copyright. I was once at a Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts meeting where this issue came up. The crowd was almost ready to mutiny on the lawyer answering questions because he [...] Posted on September 5, 2009 at 01:11 pm by admin

Earlier, I wrote about the Van Damme v. Gelber case decided on July 27, 2009. One of the interesting aspects of the case is that the issue of timing arose. The seller insisted that the money for the painting had to be received by a particular date. Because of a bank mistake, the money arrived [...] Posted on August 31, 2009 at 02:37 pm by admin

The International Foundation for Art Research (IFAR) has launched a website that gives visitors access to cultural property laws around the world. Their Art & Cultural Property Educational Resources is easy to use and comprehensive. Here's the Art Newspaper's summary: A section on "International Cultural Property" and export laws contains legislation from around 100 countries. IFAR [...] Posted on May 1, 2009 at 01:35 pm by Kimberly Alderman

Derek Fincham has posted to SSRN the final version of his paper, How Adopting the Lex Originis Rule Can Impede the Flow of Illicit Cultural Property. Fancy this, I'd never heard of the Lex Originis rule, but my guess is that it means that the law of the place in which an item of cultural [...] Posted on April 22, 2009 at 08:51 am by Kimberly Alderman

We talked about the 900-year-old Preah Vihear temple last year after its nomination as a World Heritage Site reignited nationalistic tensions between Cambodia and Thailand, spurring controversy. The Preah Vihear temple was already damaged by armed confrontations that have taken place on the temple grounds, and now there are problems with vandals further damaging the [...] Posted on April 21, 2009 at 08:41 am by Kimberly Alderman