BERKMAN CENTER FOR INTERNET & SOCIETY AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY
May 6, 2009 // Upcoming events and digital media

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[1] [MONDAY 5/11/09] "Protecting Your Scholarship: Copyrights, Publication Agreements, and Open Access" with Kenneth Crews of Columbia University (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2009/05/crews)

[2] [TUESDAY 5/12/09] Berkman Center Luncheon Series on "How Shall the Commons Be Governed? New Challenges Facing the Digital Commons Sector" with David Bollier, Author of "Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own" (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2009/05/bollier)

[MONDAY] COPYRIGHTS, PUBLICATION AGREEMENTS, and OPEN ACCESS
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5/11/09, 12:00 PM, Lamont Library Forum Room
Free and Open to the Public
RSVP is requested (tdodson@hulmail.harvard.edu)
This talk is co-sponsored by the Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication, Harvard Law School Library, and the Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

Topic: Protecting Your Scholarship: Copyrights, Publication Agreements, and Open Access
Guest: Kenneth Crews, Columbia University

Kenneth Crews will provide an engaging review of the issues affecting authors and creators of copyrightable works. Copyrightable works include not only the traditional products of academic activity and inquiry, including books, articles, lectures and class notes, but also software, databases, websites, schematics, drawings, blueprints, renderings, movies, songs, lyrics, sculpture, choreography, landscape designs, and many other products of human creativity. As more channels become available for access to these works, the issues surrounding control and use are becoming ever more complex. Dr. Crews will discuss ways for scholars and other creators of copyrightable works to operate this new environment.

This event will be webcast live; for more information and a complete description, see the event web page: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2009/05/crews

[TUESDAY] BERKMAN LUNCHEON SERIES on HOW SHALL THE COMMONS BE GOVERNED?
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5/12/09, 12:30 PM ET, Berkman Center Conference Room
RSVP is required for those attending in person (rsvp@cyber.law.harvard.edu).

Topic: How Shall the Commons Be Governed? New Challenges Facing the Digital Commons Sector
Guest: David Bollier, Author of "Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own"

David Bollier will discuss the rise of the commons paradigm in the digital environment, the subject of his new book, "Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own" (New Press). The book traces the origins of free software, the Creative Commons licenses and the online “sharing economy” as well as the development of open business models, the open educational resources movement and open science innovations. In this talk, Bollier will examine how, as the commons sector matures, commoners are asserting differing notions of freedom, community boundaries, social norms and reliance on law to protect the integrity of their shared resources. The proliferation of new sorts of commons is raising new practical and philosophical questions about how best to structure and govern digital communities, and how we should begin to conceptualize the commons sector and its relationship to markets.

This event will be webcast live; for more information and a complete description, see the event web page: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2009/05/bollier

OTHER EVENTS OF NOTE
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[1] 4/09-5/09 Boston Cyberarts Festival (http://bostoncyberarts.org/)

[2] [TODAY] "The Future of 'Internet Campaigning': The Globalization of Local Elections." A discussion with Zephyr Teachout, visiting assistant professor of law at Duke University // Shorenstein Center (http://www.hks.harvard.edu/presspol/news_events/calendar.html)

[3] [TONIGHT] 5/6/09 "Machines with eyes and texting spies: The shifting lines of public/private" with Jonathan Zittrain, Judith Donath, and more // MIT Museum (http://smg.media.mit.edu/)

[4] 5/6/09 Annie Antón on "Designing Software Systems that Comply with Privacy Laws" // CRCS Privacy and Security Lunch Seminar (http://crcs.seas.harvard.edu/)

[5] 5/7/-5/8/09 "Cultures in Common: 50 Years of Reflection on Science, Technology, and Society" (http://www.hks.harvard.edu/sts/events/twocultures.htm)

[6] 5/19/09 Anti Spyware Coalition Public Meeting: Creating a Chain of Trust (http://antispywarecoalition.org/events/may2009.php)

[7] 6/18-6/20/09 19th Annual Conference for Law School Computing // CALI
(http://w.cali.org/conference/)

[8] 6/22-6/24/09 Open Translation Tools 2009 (http://aspirationtech.org/events/opentranslation/2009)

DIGITAL MEDIA: Watch and Listen
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Did you miss this week's luncheon talk? Catch up with Berkman videos, podcasts, pictures, and dig in to our archive at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive.

-RADIO BERKMAN: Why We Search with STEPHEN WOLFRAM and DAVID WEINBERGER (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/podcasts/radioberkman120)

-BERKMAN LUNCHEON SERIES with on "From the Crowd to the Cloud: Social Media in the Obama Administration" with ELIZABETH LOSH (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/events/luncheons/2009/05/losh)

-A Sneak Peak at Wolfram|Alpha with STEPHEN WOLFRAM and JONATHAN ZITTRAIN (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TIOH80Qg7Q). Screenshots from the talk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYhLsQPHNas&annotation_id=annotation_2993...)

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BERKMAN CALENDAR & UPCOMING EVENTS PREVIEW
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See our events calendar if you're curious about future luncheons, discussions, lectures, conferences, and more: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events. All of our events are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted.

[1] [TUESDAY 5/19/09] Berkman Center Luncheon Series "Video games and pro-social learning" with Gene Koo and Scott Seider (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2009/05/koo)

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The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University was founded to explore cyberspace, share in its study, and help pioneer its development. For more information, visit http://cyber.law.harvard.edu.