Berkman Center for Internet & Society

Berkman Luncheon Series

All You Need is Love (& a manager, an accountant, & a web designer)

Making it as a Musician in an Increasingly Networked World, with Future of Music Coalition's Kristin Thomson and Berkman Fellow Erin McKeown

On April 10, join Future of Music Coalition's Kristin Thomson and Berkman Fellow Erin McKeown as they discuss the changing landscape for musicians and music fans. Drawing on data collected through FMC’s groundbreaking Artist Revenue Streams project, a multi-method, cross-genre examination of musicians' and composers' revenue streams in the US, the talk will focus on how musicians are managing their assets, building teams and allocating their time in this increasingly networked world.

Public Access To Federally Funded Research: Copyright And Other Issues

Does mandating free online access to papers resulting from federally funded research violate the Copyright Act or treaty obligations? A distinguished pair of panelists will discuss this question, in the context of the broader policy issues raised by such open access mandates. They will consider the pending Federal Research Public Access Act, as well as the National Institutes of Health Public Access Policy. This event will be webcast live at 12:00PM ET today.

Berkman Luncheon Series

The Growth and Decay of Shared Knowledge

Dennis Tenen, fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society

In this talk, Dennis will discuss our intuitions about knowledge domains and the methods by which such intuitions could be modeled empirically. Along the way, we will have the chance to unpack the "information as organism" metaphor, to construct taxonomies of epistemological lifeforms, and to consider evolutionary pressures on knowledge systems.

Berkman Luncheon Series

The Digital Dialectic

Virginia Heffernan, Yahoo News

The Digital Dialectic: analog culture, digital culture and what's next.

A conversation with Julie Brill, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission

with Professor John Palfrey, Harvard Law School & Berkman Center for Internet & Society

John Palfrey of the Berkman Center will engage the Commissioner on the Federal Trade Commission’s policy and enforcement initiatives in the area of online privacy and data security. Every day we hear about privacy issues surrounding Facebook, Google, mobile apps, smartphones, Big Data and data brokers. Learn about the Federal Trade Commission’s efforts to protect consumers in this area.