Berkman Center

Gearing Up for BloggerCon

On October 4th, 2003, weblog enthusiasts from every discipline imaginable will descend on the Harvard Law campus for BloggerCon, a conference celebrating the art and science of weblogs.

21 aug 2003

Peruvian Activist Translates "Second Superpower"

Berkman Fellow James Moore's paper, "The Second Superpower Rears Its Beautiful Head" has been translated into Spanish by Rosa Mendoza, Peruvian activist and faculty member at Escuela Para el Desarrollo in Gender, Development and Organizational Management.

20 aug 2003

Maclay's Call to Action for Panama

Director of the Berkman Center's International Technologies Group Colin Maclay recently published an Op-Ed in Panama's La Prensa.

19 aug 2003

Announcing the Release of H2O v1.1.0

The Berkman Center is proud to announce the 1.1.0 release of the H2O system.

14 aug 2003

Digital Media Paper Published

The Berkman Center is pleased to announce the publication of "Copyright and Digital Media in the Post-Napster World." Part of the Berkman Center's Digital Media Project with Gartner G2, the paper is aimed at extending our understanding of the current landscape and unresolved questions related to the distribution, use, and control of digital media.

12 aug 2003

Digital Media in Cyberspace Event - 9/18/03

GartnerG2 and the Berkman Center are engaged in ongoing research on how the intersection of digital media and intellectual property law are influencing, and being influenced by, media-company business models, consumer behavior and technology evolution.

8 aug 2003

Zuckerman Addresses Media Bias in "Global Attention Profiles"

Berkman Center Fellow Ethan Zuckerman has released "Global Attention Profiles," a working paper exploring the patterns of news media outlets' attention to various nations.

7 aug 2003

BloggerCon Local Host Committee Convenes

With BloggerCon only two months away (October 4, 2003), planning and preparations are moving quickly.

30 jul 2003

Berkman @ Oxford Internet Institute

The Berkman Center is proud to be a co-sponsor of the Oxford Internet Institute Summer Doctoral Programme taking place July 22-August 9. The program brings together students from around the world to study with leading academics in the field in order to share and discuss their research.

30 jul 2003

It's Getting Chilly in Here

Chilling Effects has joined EFF and others in providing online help for those targeted by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for possible copyright violations.

28 jul 2003

Christopher Lydon Blogs Out Loud

Berkman Fellow Christopher Lydon has become a keen early adopter of the audio blogging phenomenon.

28 jul 2003

RSS 2.0 Spec Under Creative Commons License

UserLand Software is transferring all right, title and interest in the RSS 2.0 specification to the Berkman Center, and we are re-releasing it, verbatim, to the public via Creative Commons' Attribution/ ShareAlike license.

21 jul 2003

Fisher Unveils Compulsory Licensing Scheme

Berkman Center Faculty Director William Fisher outlines in this CNET piece his proposal [PDF] for resolving the current legal conflicts over unauthorized distribution of copyrighted material.

16 jul 2003

John Palfrey: "Fair Use" Unreliable Defense

Executive Director John Palfrey argues in a recent post that weblog writers ought to use Creative Commons licenses affirmatively to assert their IP rights rather than relying on the (unreliable) fair use defense: "I have some bad news: fair use is unreliable as a defense in this day and age, on the Web in particular. I very often hear technical people rely on fair use as a reason for doing something, and those people are almost always overstating its reach." Bonus: Check out the Creative Commons weblog for a post on how the Oyez project is using CC licenses to distribute audio recordings of the arguments before the Supreme Court, plus a Wired piece by Katie Dean on same.

15 jul 2003

ILAW Wrap Up

ILAW participant Frank Field has notes and links to weblog commentary on the program, conveniently keyed to the program agenda.

10 jul 2003

ILAW: Faculty Wrap Up, Q & A

We've arrived at the final session here @ ILAW, wherein the participants get to ask the faculty questions about any part of the program, and the faculty does its very best to answer.

9 jul 2003

ILAW: Zittrain and Shaffer van Houweling on Privacy

The first topic on this last day of ILAW is online privacy, taught by professors Jonathan Zittrain and Molly Shaffer Van Houweling.

9 jul 2003

ILAW: Fisher on Patents

First up this morning @ ILAW: Professor William "Terry" Fisher on patents.

9 jul 2003

ILAW: Lessig on Law, Code and Architecture

Here, my complete notes from Larry Lessig's session here at ILAW yesterday on law, code and architecture--plus Aaron Swartz, Frank Field and Jim Flowers on same.

9 jul 2003

Live from ILAW

I'm writing from Stanford, California today, where, a few hours from now, we'll be presenting this summer's Internet Law Program.

9 jul 2003

Berkman Center for Internet & Society

Gearing Up for BloggerCon

Peruvian Activist Translates "Second Superpower"

Maclay's Call to Action for Panama

Announcing the Release of H2O v1.1.0

Digital Media Paper Published

Digital Media in Cyberspace Event - 9/18/03

Zuckerman Addresses Media Bias in "Global Attention Profiles"

BloggerCon Local Host Committee Convenes

Berkman @ Oxford Internet Institute

It's Getting Chilly in Here

Christopher Lydon Blogs Out Loud

RSS 2.0 Spec Under Creative Commons License

Fisher Unveils Compulsory Licensing Scheme

John Palfrey: "Fair Use" Unreliable Defense

ILAW Wrap Up

ILAW: Faculty Wrap Up, Q & A

ILAW: Zittrain and Shaffer van Houweling on Privacy

ILAW: Fisher on Patents

ILAW: Lessig on Law, Code and Architecture

Live from ILAW

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