Berkman Center for Internet & Society

Upcoming: ILAW Cambridge, June 22-24

The Berkman Center for Internet & Society’s Internet Law Program addresses the most controversial cyberlaw issues being debated by lawmakers in the U.S.

Lou Dobbs Tonight on Microsoft Filtering in China

The Lou Dobbs show tonight features discussion of whether web service companies should comply with the internet regulations of restrictive countries, focusing on Microsoft's recent admission that it filters some MSN Spaces content in China.

Today: Homeland Security Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee Meeting

Today the Berkman Center and Harvard Law School are hosting the Department of Homeland Security Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee Meeting, a public hearing for the US Department of Homeland Security on privacy and technology.

Guest Blogger -- J.D. Lasica

We've started a new Berkman tradition -- every Tuesday Luncheon Series guest speaker will grace the Berkman homepage with a guest post.  Our first guest blogger is J.D.

New OECD Report on Digital Music

The OECD earlier today released a report on the digital music industry as part of the OECD project on digital broadband content.

Tomorrow's Guest Speaker: JD Lasica, author of "Darknet"

J.D. Lasica is a writer, journalist, blogger and consultant who just completed "Darknet: Remixing the Future of Entertainment," a book about the personal media revolution.

Last Day to RSVP for Homeland Security Public Hearing

The Berkman Center and Harvard Law School are hosting The Department of Homeland Security Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee Meeting, a public hearing for the US Department of Homeland Security June 14-15.

Congratulations to Harvard Law School Graduates

Details of Clayton's Talk at Berkman

Richard Clayton, a Ph.D.

Filtering Expert to Meet with Berkman Community

Richard Clayton recently presented "Failures in a Hybrid Content Blocking System" at the PET2005 workshop in Croatia, and will speak to the Berkman community tomorrow about the technical challenges to accurate filtering.

Friday Event

Berkman Fellow and OpenNet Initiative(ONI) member Derek Bambauer will present the country study, "Internet Filtering in China 2004-2005," today at a forum on "China After June 4th."  The forum will be held from 2:00 - 5:00PM at the Harvard-Yenching Auditorium, 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, on the campus of Harvard University.  The forum will also feature Dr.

Berkman in the News

Terry Fisher and ILAW are today's news in Italy's La Stampa.

Tuesday Luncheon Series: Holmes Wilson, ParticipatoryPolitics.org

Downhill Battle's Participatory Culture Foundation recently launched ParticipatoryPolitics.org.

Opportunity

The Berkman Center is hiring an IT Support Assistant II.

ILAW Turin, Day Three

ILAW Turin, Day Two

The second day of ILAW Turin dealt with issues concerning Digital Media.

ILAW Turin Starts Today

This morning Jonathan Zittrain lectured on the history of the Internet and foreshadowed its many possible futures.  The ILAW Turin audience responded with questions about Internet regulation, and then broke into a discussion on how to preserve the open nature of the Internet given increasing security concerns worldwide.  Yochai Benkler lectured later on the rise of the networked information economy.ILAW is a three-day instructional program with the world's leading experts on cyberlaw. The program looks through the lens of the law at developing Internet trends which are most significant to business, consumer and technology interests.

First ILAW Module Released

Every participant at ILAW is provided with learning modules in advance of the conference.  The modules are essays written by ILAW faculty and cover topics that will help participants understand the basics of cyberlaw before attending the conference.

Palfrey Interviewed on NPR's "On the Media"

NPR's "On the Media" featured John Palfrey, Executive Director of the Berkman Center, yesterday in a segment concerning internet governance and regulation.

Introducing “Open Source”

Christopher Lydon, a fellow at the Berkman Center and the Center for Economic and Civic Opinion at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, will launch his new radio program, Open Source, Monday, May 30 on Boston's WGBH and Seattle's KUOW.  Lydon has been a distinctive voice in print, television, radio, and the blogosphere for more than 30 years.