{"title":"On the Road to the Emerald City: Reducing the Cost of Living in the New Legal Information Landscape","authors":"Scott Finet","doi":"10.1300/J113V17N01_02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J113V17N01_02","url":null,"abstract":"Summary This article confronts the often unquestioned assumptions of the “cost-efficiency” model which promises both lower costs and enhanced effectiveness. Electronic information as a complete substitute for other formats is also questioned.","PeriodicalId":247309,"journal":{"name":"The Political Economy of Legal Information: The New Landscape","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133314008","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Does the Law Governing Public Access to Judicial Opinions Mandate Citation Reform? It Depends","authors":"K. Browne","doi":"10.1300/J113V17N01_08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J113V17N01_08","url":null,"abstract":"Summary This article asks whether the law governing public access to judicial opinions mandates citation reform. An overview of the citation reform issue is provided followed by a discussion of various legal theories that may support the need for citation reform. The author includes considerations of the First Amendment, Substantive and Procedural Due Process, Equal Protection, The Freedom of Information Act and Copyright Law as well as state statutory provisions and the general common law.","PeriodicalId":247309,"journal":{"name":"The Political Economy of Legal Information: The New Landscape","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123400738","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Merger: What Will It Cost Law Libraries?","authors":"Joe K. Stephens","doi":"10.1300/J113V17N01_03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J113V17N01_03","url":null,"abstract":"Summary This article addresses pricing questions raised by the 1996 acquisition of West Publishing Company by The Thomson Corporation by considering what happened to Lawyer's Co-op/Bancroft-Whitney treatise titles transferred to CB-C following the Thomson acquisition of Lawyer's Co-op. Although the sample of titles examined is small, it appears that price increases have been well above increases in the legal publications industry generally, and this suggests the need to monitor West titles carefully.","PeriodicalId":247309,"journal":{"name":"The Political Economy of Legal Information: The New Landscape","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134433933","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Economic Analysis and Copyright Law: Are New Models Needed in the Digital Age?","authors":"Samuel E. Trosow","doi":"10.1300/J113V17N01_10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J113V17N01_10","url":null,"abstract":"Summary Economic analysis has played a central role in the development of intellectual property policy. Since information exhibits characteristics of a public good, both non-rival consumption and non-exclusivity, information markets are prone to market failure. This requires a policy response in the form of a subsidy or direct government provision. The monopoly rights granted to owners of intellectual property can be viewed as a form of subsidy intended to avert market failure. But in the digital environment, the tendency to market failure increases as information is more susceptible to copying and distribution with neither significant additional cost nor loss of quality. While a wide range of policy tools are available to meet the challenges of the new digital environment, the range of current legislative proposals shows that the expansion of property rights in information is the only approach being given serious consideration. This paper reviews these proposals as well as the wide variety of other appro...","PeriodicalId":247309,"journal":{"name":"The Political Economy of Legal Information: The New Landscape","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127459644","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Rise of the Small: The Effects of Industry Consolidation on Small Legal Publishers","authors":"Susan M. Yoder","doi":"10.4324/9781315862286-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315862286-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":247309,"journal":{"name":"The Political Economy of Legal Information: The New Landscape","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130721485","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Legal Publishers' List: Librarians Cooperate to Discern the Corporate Affiliations of U.S. Legal Publishers","authors":"R. Richards","doi":"10.1300/J113V17N01_04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J113V17N01_04","url":null,"abstract":"Summary Mergers and acquisitions in the U.S. legal publishing industry have created significant problems for librarians and staff in identifying the publisher of a given title, and in knowing whom to contact for claiming and invoicing problems. Elaborating on an in-service resource developed at the University of Colorado Law Library, librarians from all over the world have cooperated to create a list of legal publishers' corporate affiliations, available on the World Wide Web. The current version of the list, which is found at http://www.Colorado.EDU/Law/lawlib/ts/legpub.htm follows.","PeriodicalId":247309,"journal":{"name":"The Political Economy of Legal Information: The New Landscape","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127380689","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Economic Logic of Copyright","authors":"Deborah Chalsty","doi":"10.1300/J113V17N01_09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J113V17N01_09","url":null,"abstract":"Summary Current efforts in Congress to strengthen the copyright protection afforded databases should seriously concern all librarians but especially those in legal reference. The reliance on databases, primarily those of Lexis-Nexis and Westlaw, make the users of such services particularly vulnerable to the exercise of monopoly power that copyright grants. An understanding of the unique economic characteristics of “information” and its relation to the public domain is essential to evaluating the economic, let alone social-democratic, impact of current proposals. This paper argues “economic logic” in and of itself does not necessarily support the provision of stronger copyright in general and for databases in particular.","PeriodicalId":247309,"journal":{"name":"The Political Economy of Legal Information: The New Landscape","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131074015","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Are Non-Profit Internet Publishers the Future of Legal Information?","authors":"John Joergensen","doi":"10.1300/J113V17N01_05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J113V17N01_05","url":null,"abstract":"Summary The author discusses some of the issues involved with publishing legal material on the Internet in a non-profit setting. He describes how these problems are being addressed at Rutgers School of Law-Camden in its New Jersey Courts Publishing Project. Suggestions for cooperation among non-profit legal publishers are made.","PeriodicalId":247309,"journal":{"name":"The Political Economy of Legal Information: The New Landscape","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134273975","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"State Government Procurement of Electronic Legal Services","authors":"M. Neary","doi":"10.4324/9781315862286-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315862286-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":247309,"journal":{"name":"The Political Economy of Legal Information: The New Landscape","volume":"80 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126260925","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction: “The Political Economy of Legal Information: The New Landscape”","authors":"Samuel E. Trosow","doi":"10.1300/J113V17N01_01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J113V17N01_01","url":null,"abstract":"Contents Introduction \"The Political Economy of Legal Information\" * On the Road to the Emerald City: Reducing the Cost of Living in the New Legal Information Landscape * The Merger: What Will it Cost Law Libraries? * A Legal Publishers' List: Librarians Cooperate to Discern the Corporate Affiliations of U.S. Legal Publishers * Are Non-Profit Internet Publishers the Future of Legal Information? * State Government Procurement of Electronic Legal Services * The Rise of the Small: The Effects of Industry Consolidation on Small Legal Publishers* Does the Law Governing Public Access to Judicial Opinions Mandate Citation Reform?: It Depends * The Economic Logic of Copyright * Economic Analysis and Copyright Law: Are New Models Needed in the Digital Age? * Index * Reference Notes Included","PeriodicalId":247309,"journal":{"name":"The Political Economy of Legal Information: The New Landscape","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127254765","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}