Advanced Internet Research Techniques

This session provided tips for conducting advanced legal research on the internet including special operators for improving Google searches

eReserves, annotations, and registration: Copyright at the 11th Circuit

This presentation discusses eReserves, the 11th circuit and copyright issues surrounding the Georgia State University case heard by Judge Evans in 2008

What\u27s in a licensing agreement?

Now that you know the foundations of enforceable contracts, and want to have more familiarity with some nuts and bolts of contract language to become a better negotiator for your institutions, you will want to take this second webinar. Participants will learn:• What are the basic provisions or clauses of a contract?• What do these provisions obligate my institution to do? • What do these provisions obligate the other party to do? • What rights does my institution have if the other party breaks its obligations

An Introduction to Legal Research

As part of UGA Summer Academy Legal Camp two law librarians teamed up to give an introduction to legal research to high school students from across the country, including tips and strategies for using Google effectively

Contract Basics for Librarians and Others in Higher Ed

If you have signature or negotiation authority for your institution, and would like to get an overview of contracts to learn what your institution’s rights and obligations may be under a contract, this session is for you! Participants will learn: • Why it is important to understand how contracts work?• What does it mean for a contract to be enforceable in a US court? • How is an enforceable contract formed? • What could lead to contract breach

Essentials of a Publication Agreement

This session will focus on authors\u27 rights and publishing contracts. When academic publishers agree to publish academic works, they require the authors to sign agreements before doing so. In the past, these “agreements” – contracts, by another name – often have contained provisions that primarily benefit the publishers, including assigning intellectual property rights in the works to the publishers and limiting authors’ abilities to use their works after transferring their rights. Faculty authors often ask librarians for their guidance on how to read and negotiate publication agreements. As such, this session will discuss common provisions found in publishing contracts to help clarify their meaning and identify what to look for when reviewing these agreements

A Practical Workflow for OCR Telework

The article informs about the strategy librarians at the University of Georgia\u27s Alexander Campbell King Law Library used for applying Optical character recognition (OCR) to hundreds of documents during their multi-month COVID-19 pandemic lockdown; presenting a new opportunity for their OCR project because they needed work that staffers could do remotely; and how some staffers had duties that could only be performed in the building and were greatly limited after

Look before you leap: Legal pitfalls of crowdsourcing

ABSTRACT Crowdsourcing is quickly shifting the traditional landscape of how people work, invent, fund new enterprises, and create new artistic works. Such innovative shifts often run ahead of the law and raise new legal questions that may not yet have very definite answers. This paper considers five such legal issues that the crowdsourcing community (providers and customers) should discuss, both to inform their own practice and to advise future policy. Specifically, we consider employment law, patent inventorship, data security and the Federal Trade Commission, copyright ownership, and securities regulation of crowdfunding. Ultimately we offer three practical suggestions for crowdsourcing: be mindful of the law, define relationships in advance, and be open and honest with crowdworkers. While we limit the scope of legal regulation considered, we hope to provide a useful introduction to several areas where crowdsourcing and the law may (soon) intersect, and to offer some insight on how a court/lawyer may view them