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The article presents a reprint of the article "The Birth of Baby Blue: Legal minds differ on whether The Bluebook is subject to copyright protection" that appeared in the February 2015 issue. It focuses on controversies related to copyright protection of "The Bluebook," a legal citation manual in the U.S. It mentions claims made by lawyers representing The Bluebook's publishing consortium Harvard-Yale-Columbia-Penn on copyright protection of the manual and copyright infringement issues.

Presents the two sides of the debate over the adoption of a universal system for citations. Possible effect of a format-neutral system; Letting the forces of creativity and the market work; Absence of threat from court bulletin boards to quality of citations; Proposal to modernize citation in Wisconsin.

Looks at some of the major changes on the Bluebook legal citation guide. Format for public domain citations; Guidelines for citing the Internet; Citation of sentencing guidelines.

Reports that the American Bar Association (ABA) House of Delegates has endorsed a form of universal case citation that would make finding cases through electronic services easier. Typical feature of a US Court of Appeals citation; Objections of the Conference of Chief Justices; Other actions taken by the House of Delegates.

Reports on states' search for legal citation systems less dependent on specific publishers and the bound-volume format. Traditional use of the regional reporting system developed by West Publishing Co.; Controversies over page numbers; Competition among smaller CD-ROM vendors in offering citation systems.