Law in the Internet Society

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53 Vill. L. Rev. 1, 24

A. Lexis and Westlaw
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 [[]["For other academic disciplines, commercial publishing has the significant drawback of making it really expensive for scholars to get access to what's happening in their fields. Open access reduces the cost of access dramatically, whether or not it encourages scholars to read the work. In law, scholars already have ready access to their colleagues' work. And they still don't read it. What's the point of making the work ... free?]] ... Once LexisNexis? and Westlaw started putting full texts of law reviews on their databases, the authority of print started to recede, leaving the authority of the publisher and, to a lesser extent, the authority of limited access. A lot of law professors these days never actually handle original physical copies of law review articles...
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Law as property

Who owns the law?, NYTimes


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