BERKMAN CENTER FOR INTERNET & SOCIETY AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY
April 7, 2010 // Upcoming events and digital media

[1] [FRIDAY 4/9/10] Symposium: "Journalism's Digital Transition: Unique Legal Challenges and Opportunities", organized by the Citizen Media Law Project and Cyberlaw Clinic (http://www.omln.org/conference) -- REGISTER NOW!

[2] [TUESDAY 4/13/10] Berkman Center Luncheon Series: "Educating the Many, Not the Few: A Digital Model for Change" with Shai Reshef, University of the People (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2010/04/reshef)

[3] [THURSDAY 4/15/10] Berkman Special Event: "Building a More Diverse and Inclusive Legal Profession: A Call to Action" with Brad Smith, General Counsel of Microsoft (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2010/04/smith)

[SAVE THE DATE 6/28-30] You are invited to the COMMUNIA 2010 Conference on "University in Cyberspace", taking place in Torino, Italy. Visit http://www.communia2010.org/ to learn more and sign up for the announcement list.

[FRIDAY] JOURNALISM'S DIGITAL TRANSITION: UNIQUE LEGAL CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES
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4/9/10, All Day, Harvard Law School
$275, which includes all CLE/course materials
Discounted registration is available for students and those working in the public interest (contact staff@omln.org to learn more)

Journalism's Digital Transition: Unique Legal Challenges and Opportunities

The Berkman Center's Citizen Media Law Project and Cyberlaw Clinic are pleased to announce a one-day symposium and CLE program to celebrate the launch of the Online Media Legal Network (OMLN). OMLN is a legal referral service that connects qualifying online journalism ventures and digital media creators with lawyers willing to provide legal services on a pro bono or reduced-fee basis. It supports promising ventures and innovative thinkers in online and digital media by providing access to legal help that would otherwise be unavailable.

The program will bring together panels of academics, legal practitioners, and journalists. Topics include the legal issues arising from news aggregation and managing online communities, as well as the question of what comes next for journalism, and how the legal profession can assist (or hinder) journalism's digital transition.

The symposium will feature Joshua Benton of the Nieman Journalism Lab; Eric Goldman, Associate Professor, Santa Clara University School of Law; Jeff Howe, Contributing editor at Wired.com and author of Crowdsourcing; members of the Citizen Media Law Project and Cyberlaw Clinic, and many more!

To register or for more information and a complete description, see the event web page: http://www.omln.org/conference

Agenda: http://www.omln.org/conference/agenda

[TUESDAY] BERKMAN LUNCHEON SERIES on EDUCATING THE MANY, NOT THE FEW
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4/13/10, 12:30 PM ET, Berkman Center Conference Room @ 23 Everett St., Cambridge, MA
RSVP is required for those attending in person to Amar Ashar (ashar@cyber.law.harvard.edu)
This event will be webcast live

Topic: Educating the Many, Not the Few: A Digital Model for Change
Guest: Shai Reshef, University of the People

Named one of the most creative people in business by Fast Company magazine, entrepreneur Shai Reshef is tackling the education system that has failed millions. The lack of universal access to higher education impacts not only the lives of individuals—their income, health and quality of life—but the societies in which they live—crime rates, social awareness and economic stability. In response to the global need for democratized education, Reshef founded University of the People (UoPeople), the world’s first tuition-free online university, providing quality, accessible higher education to those who have the desire to learn but lack the resources. Harnessing the free exchange of information online and multiple pedagogical models, including eLearning and peer-to-peer learning, UoPeople demonstrates that, if governments invested just a fraction of their collective education budgets, the whole world could go to university.

Reshef’s session will address barriers and bridges to education, the impact of the Internet on learning platforms, UoPeople and the challenges he faces implementing this model. How are students of different cultures able to teach each other? How can a free university be effective? What is the impact of the freedom of information over the internet? What does UoPeople and similar education models mean for traditional brick & mortar universities? For more information on UoPeople, visit www.uopeople.org.

About Shai:

Shai Reshef is the Founder & President of the University of the People (UoPeople), the world’s first tuition free online university. An expert on the intersection of education and technology, Reshef currently serves as a high-level adviser to the United Nations’ Global Alliance for Information and Communication Technologies and Development. Reshef founded UoPeople following twenty years of experience in the international education sector. From 1989 to 2005, he served as Chairman of the Kidum Group—the largest for-profit educational services company based in Israel—and, between 2001 and 2004, he also chaired the University of Liverpool’s KIT eLearning, the first online university outside of the United States. Reshef holds a B.A., magna cum laude, from Tel Aviv University and an M.A. in Chinese Politics from the University of Michigan.

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/2010/04/reshef

[THURSDAY] BUILDING A MORE DIVERSE AND INCLUSIVE LEGAL PROFESSION
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4/15/10, 5:30 PM ET, Austin East Classroom, Austin Hall, Harvard Law School
RSVP is required for those attending in person via the form on this page: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2010/04/smith
Free and Open to the Public

Topic: Building a More Diverse and Inclusive Legal Profession: A Call to Action
Guest: Brad Smith, General Counsel of Microsoft

Brad Smith, General Counsel of Microsoft, will speak on "Building a More Diverse and Inclusive Legal Profession: A Call to Action".

About Brad:

Brad Smith is Microsoft's general counsel and senior vice president, Legal and Corporate Affairs. He leads the company's Department of Legal and Corporate Affairs (LCA), which has just over 1,000 employees and is responsible for the company's legal work, its intellectual property portfolio, and its government affairs and philanthropic work. He also serves as Microsoft's corporate secretary and its chief compliance officer.

Since becoming general counsel in 2002, Smith has overseen numerous negotiations leading to competition law and intellectual property agreements with governments and with companies across the IT sector. He has helped spearhead the growth in the company's intellectual property portfolio and the launch of global campaigns to bring enforcement actions against those engaged in software piracy and counterfeiting, malware, consumer fraud, and other digital crimes. As software has migrated online and into a computing "cloud," one of LCA's current principal goals is to help establish the legal foundation for this next generation of technology.

This event will be webcast live; for more information and a complete description, see the event web page: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2010/04/smith

[SAVE THE DATE] COMMUNIA 2010 CONFERENCE: UNIVERSITY IN CYBERSPACE
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6/28-30/10, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy

Universities are entrusted with the increasingly important responsibility of creating, sharing, and fostering use of knowledge on behalf of society, and to that end, are the recipients of tremendous investments of time, money, space, authority and freedom. Universities have embraced this role in diverse fashions, varying by tradition, period, and discipline, but we now ask them to go further. As we progress ever more deeply into a networked age, our knowledge institutions are faced with concomitant opportunities. They are challenged by society to become a driving force to create and disseminate knowledge - using innovative, effective, and dynamic approaches - derived from and for the networked world.

The COMMUNIA 2010 International Conference will provide a venue for exploring these points, with the twofold objective of defining a shared vision of the future of universities as knowledge institutions and of identifying the main steps leading from vision to reality.

To learn more and sign up for the announcements list, please visit http://www.communia2010.org/.

OTHER EVENTS OF NOTE
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[1] 4/8: Cyber IR Seminar: The Geopolitics of Cyberspace -- From Militarization to Arms Control with Ron Deibert // MIT CSAIL (http://www.csail.mit.edu/events/eventcalendar/calendar.php?show=event&id...)

[2] 4/9: Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology // MIT Okawa Center for Future Children (http://media.mit.edu/events/2010/04/09/rethinking-education-age-technolo...)

[3] 4/13: Using the Web to Connect Your Community & Encourage Civic Engagement in Cambridge // MIT Center for Future Civic Media (http://civic.mit.edu/event/using-the-web-to-connect-your-community-encou...)

[4] 4/15: Ten Ways to Conceive of the Derivative Work Right in Copyright Law (featuring Julie Cohen and Jonathan Zittrain) // Suffolk University (http://madisonian.net/conferences/2010/03/11/derivative-works-at-suffolk...)

[5] 4/16: NET Institute Conference on Network Economics // NYC (http://www.netinst.org/2010_conference.htm)

[6] 4/16-17: Gleitsman Social Change Film Forum: Can Film Change the World? // Harvard Center for Public Leadership (http://content.ksg.harvard.edu/leadership/index.php?option=com_content&t...)

[7] 4/21: ISD: Digital Power and Its Discontents // Georgetown University (http://events.georgetown.edu/events/index.cfm?Action=View&CalendarID=359...)

[8] 4/27: Privacy Reconsidered in the Age of Facebook // ACLU of Massachusetts (http://aclum.org/events/index.php)

[9] 4/28-30: Futureweb (http://futureweb2010.wordpress.com/)

[10] 4/27: Internet Security, Internet Freedom // Center for Information Technology Policy (http://citp.princeton.edu/internet-security-internet-freedom/)

[11] 4/28-4/30: FutureWeb: WWWhere Are We Heading? // North Carolina (http://futureweb2010.wordpress.com/)

[12] 5/4: NERCOMP: Copyright and IP for Image Use (http://www.nercomp.org/events/event_single.aspx?id=6005)

[13] 5/11: Free Press Summit // Washington, DC (http://summit.freepress.net/)

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.

-Berkman Luncheon Series: CHRISTIAN SANDVIG on "The Television Cannot Be Revolutionized" (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/events/luncheon/2010/04/sandvig)

-Berkman Luncheon Series: MICHAEL SLABY on "The Values of Technology" (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/events/luncheon/2010/03/slaby)

-Berkman Law Lab Series: JEFF HANCOCK on "Technology and Deception" (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/events/lawab/2010/04/hancock)

-RADIO BERKMAN 147: Digital Hermits and the People Who Scare Them (Adventures in Anonymity III) (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/podcasts/radioberkman147)

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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.

4/30-5/1: ROFLCon II at MIT (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2010/04/roflcon)

6/28-6/30: COMMUNIA Conference 2010: Universities & the commons/cyberspace (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/5608)

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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.