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Due to changes in copyright law since the United States joined the Berne Convention, a growing number of copyright holders cannot be located. ... While past literature has focused on desired commercial uses of these so-called orphan works, the recent case of The Authors Guild v. HathiTrust has brought the issue of educational, nonprofit uses of these works to the fore. This Comment begins by describing the HathiTrust Orphan Works Project and what it renames the neglected works problem. Next, it examines the legality of the project under current copyright law, focusing mainly on fair use under section 107, and concludes that it is unclear whether the project violates copyright law. Finally it analyzes whether this result fits the policy goals of copyright, and because it does not, proposes both legislative and judicial changes to copyright law to make it clear that in the proper circumstances, nonprofit, educational uses of neglected works do not violate copyright law. - F. Tim Knight

:: SSRN In the academic law library hiring process, candidates are assessed based on a variety of factors. The study conducted here focuses on education - specifically the institutional rank of degree-granting law and library science institutions - to explore how the rank of one's graduate education might influence hiring decisions at academic law libraries. - F. Tim Knight

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:: SSRN This invited Essay considers the future of law data and system reform. - F. Tim Knight

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The increasing availability of digital versions of court documents, coupled with increases in the power and sophistication of computational methods of textual analysis, promises to enable both the creation of new avenues of scholarly inquiry and the refinement of old ones. This Article advances that project in three respects. First, it examines the potential for automated content analysis to mitigate one of the methodological problems that afflicts both content analysis and traditional legal scholarship — their acceptance on faith of the proposition that judicial opinions accurately report information about the cases they resolve and courts‘ decisional processes. Because automated methods can quickly process large amounts of text, they allow for assessment of the correspondence between opinions and other documents in the case, thereby providing a window into how closely opinions track the information provided by the litigants. Second, it explores one such novel measure ... :: SSRN - F. Tim Knight

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Music materials, particularly scores and recordings, pose unique demands that must be considered for successful discovery. Some of the unique needs posed by music materials can be addressed simply by ensuring that needed fields are appropriately displayed and indexed in discovery interfaces. Other problems are more difficult to solve. This document discusses the issues and when possible gives concrete recommendations for discovery interfaces. - F. Tim Knight

"This Article examines the doctrine of originality in U.S. copyright law and proposes a reconfigured, three-part test that can better analyze issues of first impression involving works created with new digital technologies. The proposed test, encapsulated by the concept of digital originality, provides much needed guidance to courts to address the increasing complexities of digital creations in the twenty-first century." :: SSRN - F. Tim Knight

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"... a Web based environment for building Semantic Web applications and services. It is a hosted system which provides an efficient, robust storage infrastructure for documents and metadata. The Platform is accessed using a suite of Web based services which provide sophisticated data management, query, indexing and search feature." - F. Tim Knight

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CEN MetaLex standardizes the way in which sources of law and references to sources of law are to be represented in XML. It was developed by the CEN Workshop on an Open XML Interchange Format for Legal and Legislative Resources (MetaLex). - F. Tim Knight

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LLD - Semantic Web Standards - F. Tim Knight

"... retrieves information about resources of interest by (internally) traversing the RDF graph for a resource, by matching to standard ontologies and other relevant knowledge on the Web about the resource. ... provides support for requests input as free text strings52 and for looking up URIs from a text label, in addition to the norm, querying from an absolute URI."--Dadzie paper - F. Tim Knight

"... provides a public entry point to retrieve and browse LD resources from a set of repositories stored on the Talis platform39. Where available (in the RDF data) human-readable labels are used to format the results (retrieved as URIs). Dipper also enables extraction of the results of queries to RDF/XML, NTriples40, Turtle and JSON."--Dadzie paper - F. Tim Knight

"Marbles improves the user experience by performing (resourceintensive) processing on the server. Fresnel lenses are used to format SW resources for presentation to end users, presented as property-value pairs in a table. Different coloured marbles are used to distinguish the sources of the information retrieved, which are presented as a list of URIs ... Marbles provides, additionally, a SPARQL endpoint. Marbles may also be installed locally, allowing information to be saved to and retrieved from local data stores."--Dadzie paper - F. Tim Knight