Month: January 2007
Statute Law Database – free for all after all
The DCA has clarified its licensing terms for the SLD, confirming that it is indeed free for all as published. Its Copyright Notice has been amended and the SLD has been removed from the OPSI examples of Value Added Material. As well as being free “for non-commercial research, private study or internal circulation within your […]
Mind the gap
In response to the suggestion that the the number of abandoned blogs one comes across these days signals that “the (law) blogging phenomenon may have peaked“, Kevin O’Keefe is right on when he says that “Nothing could be further from the truth. Law blogs are in their infancy.” Other business-minded bloggers agree: Justin Patten believes […]
Developments in legal information
First published January 2007 in the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers. Here are some of the key developments in the field of (free) legal information provision in 2006 and some predictions for 2007. The Statute Law Database After a 10-year wait, the Statute Law Database was finally released to the public just in time for Christmas. […]
Commenting on Binary Law
Apologies for intermittent downtime recently, which has been caused by zillions of spam comments clogging up the works. Update: I’ve now implemented a captcha that requires commenters to enter a random word displayed as a graphic.
