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Jonathan Zittrain's Presentations

2006

  • International Association of Privacy Professionals (keynote), Washington, D.C., forthcoming March 9, 2006.
  • World Economic Forum, “Digital Ecosystems,” February 28-March 1, 2006.
  • European Intellectual Property Institutes Network (keynote), Windsor, UK, February 17, 2006.
  • American Lawyer Media, 50th Anniversary Conference (keynote), New York, January 31, 2006.
  • World Economic Forum, “Militating Global Risk” (panelist), Davos, January 28, 2006.
    • “A World Without Intellectual Property” (moderator)
    • “Social Disruptive Production” (moderator)
  • “The Next Internet,” Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, January 23, 2006.

2005

  • Internet Content Rating Association (keynote), London, December 14, 2005.
  • All Parliamentary Internet Group (panelist), London, November 29, 2005.
  • Ministerial e-Government Conference 2005 (keynote), Manchester, UK, November 24, 2005.
  • The Rehnquist Court and the First Amendment (panelist), Washington University in St. Louis, November 18, 2005.
  • Consumer Reports Webwatch (keynote), Washington, D.C., October 26, 2005.
  • Law Faculty, University of Edinburgh, October 17, 2005.
  • “Reactivism” (panelist), Budapest, Hungary, October 14, 2005.
  • “State of Play” (panelist), New York Law School, October 8, 2005.
  • Cybersafety (keynote), Oxford University, September 8, 2005.
  • CIO 100 (keynote, moderator), San Diego, August 21-23, 2005.
  • Delivering Information Services, Harvard Business School, July 28, 2005.
  • National Environmental Information Exchange Network (keynote), Cambridge, MA, July 19, 2005.
  • “The Future of the Internet – And How to Stop It,” Harvard Law School Faculty Workshop, July 14, 2005.
  • iCommons Summit (moderator), June 24-26, 2005.
  • Internet Law Program, Cambridge, MA, June 22-24, 2005.
  • Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts Annual Workshop (keynote), June 16, 2005.
  • Oxford Discovery Programme (lecturer), Queen Mary 2, May 28-June 1, 2005.
  • Internet Law Program, Turin, Italy, May 24-27, 2005.
  • “The Struggle for Internet Governance: Searching for Common Ground” (panelist), Oxford Internet Institute, May 6, 2005.
  • “The Culture War” (moderator), The Connecticut Forum, Hartford, CT, April 22, 2005.
  • CSO Perspectives (keynote, moderator), Huntington Beach, CA, April 10-12, 2005.
  • Boston Audio Society, March 13, 2005.
  • “Homeland Security” (panelist), Purdue University, February 24, 2005.
  • “Privacy and Security” (keynote), Victoria, BC, February 10, 2005

2004

  • “Freedom vs. Control: Rights Management in the Digital Age” (keynote), American Society for Information Science & Technology, Cambridge, December 15, 2004.
  • Internet & Society 2004 (keynote), Cambridge, December 10, 2004.
  • Georgetown Law Center Faculty Workshop, November 19, 2004.
  • CIO: The Year Ahead (keynote, moderator), Scottsdale, AZ, November 7-9, 2004.
  • Penn-Temple-Wharton Colloquium, Philadelphia, PA, November 5, 2004.
  • College of Healtchare Information Mangement Executives (keynote), San Diego, October 29, 2004.
  • Boston University Intellectual Property Colloquium, September 10, 2004.
  • Delivering Information Services, Harvard Business School, July 29, 2004.
  • “SCO Moot Court,” O’Reilly Open Source Convention, July 26, 2004.
  • “SCO and the Challenge for Open Source” (panelist), USENIX ’04, June 28, 2004.
  • Policy Keynote, Eighth Annual Consumer Electronics Association CEO Summit, June 25, 2004.
  • “Regulation and Control of the Internet” (panelist), China’s Digital Future, U.C. Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, April 20, 2004.
  • Harvard Law School Internet Law Program 2004, May 13-15, 2004.
  • Keynote, 2004 Midyear Conference, National Association of State Chief Information Officers, April 26, 2004.
  • CSO Perspectives (moderator), April 18-20, 2004.
  • “Hacktivism: Between Crime and Activism” (panelist), Digital Cops in a Virtual Environment, Yale Law School, March 26-28, 2004.

2003

  • Penn-Temple-Wharton Colloquium, November 7-8, 2003.
  • CIO Perspectives (moderator), November 2-4, 2003.
  • Comparative Intellectual Property and Cyberlaw Symposium, University of Ottawa, October 3, 2003.
  • “Personal Security vs. Personal Liberties” (moderator), The Connecticut Forum, September 18, 2003.
  • World Economic Forum Intellectual Property Round Table (moderator), September 16, 2003.
  • “The Internet and Society,” Internet Law Symposium, University of Denver College of Law, September 5, 2003.
  • Delivering Information Services, Harvard Business School, July 30, 2003.
  • Internet Law Program 2003, June 30-July 6, 2003.
  • “Digital Rights Management,” CIO Perspectives, April 29, 2003.
  • Regulatory Impediments to a Broadband World: Issues of Digital Rights and Spectrum Allocation, Harvard Business School Colloquium, April 25, 2003.
  • Internet Law Program 2003, March 24-28, 2003.
  • “ICANN and Internet Governance” (panelist), ICANN, ccTLD, and the Legacy Root: Domain Name Lawmaking and Governance in the New Millennium, Cardozo School of Law, March 17, 2003.
  • “An Evaluation of Movie Industry Strategies to Combat Internet Piracy – Learning from the Music Industry’s Mistakes?” (panelist),
  • Copyright and Fair Use: Present and Future Prospects, Harvard Journal on Law and Technology Symposium, March 15, 2003.
  • Current Issues in Cyberlaw, Penn State University, February 6, 2003.
  • Peer-to-peer networking and the future of online music distribution (panelist), Cyberposium 2003, Harvard Business School, January 18, 2003.

2002

  • University of Pennsylvania Legal Studies Workshop, November 8-9, 2002.
  • Copyright and Culture, MIT Communications Forum, November 6, 2002.
  • “Practical Copyright Issues in the Digital Age” (panelist), Suffolk University Law School, October 25, 2002.
  • Symposium on Intellectual Property, e-Commerce, and the Internet (presenter), Boston College Law School, October 18, 2002.
  • “The Rule of Law and the Information Age: Reconciling Private Rights and Public Interest - Legal Approaches,” Catholic University of America Law School, October 9, 2002.
  • CIO Perspectives, Corporate Ethics (moderator), October 7, 2002.
  • “Responses by the Research and Education Communities in Preserving the Public Domain and Promoting Open Access: New Legal Approaches in the Private Sector,” National Academy of Sciences, Symposium on the Role of Scientific and Technical Data and Information in the Public Domain, September 6, 2002.
  • Privacy in an Internet-driven World, On Point, WBUR, June 4, 2002.
  • The Distinguished Intellectual Property Lecture, Center for Law, Technology and the Arts, Case Western Reserve University, March 6, 2002.
  • “ICANN and WIPO at Work: Towards a Paradigm of International Telecommunications Governance?” (commentator), Brooklyn Law School, March 1, 2002.
  • “Balancing Civil Liberties and Public Safety in the Face of Terrorism” (moderator), World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, New York, February 1, 2002.

2001

  • “Privacy and Information Security”; “September 11”; Information Security Forum, Toronto, October 14, 2001.
  • Testimony before the Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel, United States Copyright Office, Library of Congress, “In the Matter of: Digital Performance Right in Sound Recordings and Ephemeral Recordings,” August 24, 2001.
    • Supplemental testimony, October 19, 2001.
  • Harvard Law School Faculty Workshop Series, August 9, 2001.
  • Owner President Management, Harvard Business School, August 9, 2001.
  • MIT Media Lab Colloquium Series, August 1, 2001.
  • Delivering Information Services, Harvard Business School, August 1, 2001.
  • “The State of the Global Internet,” Harvard Law School Worldwide Alumni Congress, Paris, June 26, 2001.
  • “Regulating the Internet: What Do We Need to Know?” (keynote), International Communication Association 51st Annual Conference, May 25, 2001.
  • “Communication Research and Policy: History, Tactics, Strategy, Agenda” (panelist), Ford Foundation workshop, May 24, 2001.
  • “The Challenges of Cyberwar for American Foreign Policy” (moderator), 2001 Harvard Colloquium on International Affairs, May 5, 2001.
  • “Health Privacy,” National Association of Attorneys General, April 23, 2001.
  • “The Ubiquitous Net,” National Association of Attorneys General, April 23, 2001.
  • “Is the Internet Good for Democracy?” (moderator), Institute of Politics, JFK School of Government, April 19, 2001.
  • “Rights Management Systems for Privacy,” MIT Research Program on Communications Policy, March 22, 2001.
  • “The Hague Conference on Private International Law’s Proposed Convention on Jurisdiction and Foreign Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters,” Eleventh Conference on Computers, Freedom, and Privacy, March 8, 2001.
  • “Genetic Privacy: Legal and Ethical Frameworks” (moderator), Harvard Health Caucus, February 27, 2001.
  • Keynote, InfoSec World, Orlando, February 25, 2001.
  • “The deCSS Case,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, February 1, 2001.
  • “Napster,” Suffolk Law School, January 31, 2001.
  • “The Right to Privacy” (moderator), “www.taxingthe.net,” “Tomorrow’s Internet: Total Anarchy or Total Control?”, “What Limits for Big Brother?”, World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, Davos, January 24-30, 2001.

2000

  • “Pressing Technology Issues,” Program for Newly Elected Members of Congress, Institute of Politics, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Dec. 16, 2000.
  • “The Kept Non-Profit,” When Exempt Organizations Conduct Exempt Activities As Taxable Enterprises, Seminar on Emerging Issues in Philanthropy, Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, Nov. 30, 2000.
  • “Institutions in Cyberspace: ICANN as Metaphor” (respondent), John F. Kennedy School of Government, Nov. 29, 2000.
  • “The Day the Music Died? Harvard’s Policy on Napster and Its Siblings – Past, Present and Future” (moderator), November 15, 2000.
  • “New Generic Top-Level Domains” (moderator), ICANN Pressing Issues 2000, Los Angeles, November 12, 2000.
  • Technology and Development (moderator), eDevelopment: Enabling Communities to Shape Their Future, October 19, 2000.
  • “The New Redcoats,” Old South Meeting House, Boston, October 19, 2000.
  • “The Private Internet,” Institute of Politics, JFK School of Government, October 13, 2000.
  • A Day with the ICANN North-American Candidates (moderator), Harvard Law School, October 2, 2000.
  • Valenti v. Lessig: The Future of Intellectual Property (moderator), Harvard Law School, October 1, 2000.
  • World Economic Forum Global Issues Group, London, September 28-29, 2000.
  • “e-Democracy: Gradual Change or Revolution?” (moderator), Institute of Politics Forum, John F. Kennedy School of Government, September 20, 2000.
  • “Privacy, Data Security, and HIPAA Compliance,” The eHealth Colloquium, Aug. 24, 2000.
  • The Internet and Federal Courts: Issues and Obstacles, Testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives, Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property, Committee on the Judiciary, June 29, 2000.
  • “Collaboration Among Competitors,” Energy and e-Business Summit, Cambridge Energy Research Associates, June 27, 2000.
  • “Politics & the Net,” JFK School of Government Institute of Politics, June 27, 2000.
  • “The Internet, Macbeth, and You,” International Festival of Arts and Ideas, New Haven, June 26, 2000.
  • “Building a Strategy for the Industry” (moderator), Fourth Annual Consumer Electronics CEO Summit, June 23, 2000.
  • “Recent Developments in Cyberlaw,” Human Services, Technology, and the Law, Office of the General Counsel, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, June 12, 2000.
  • “The Microsoft Remedy,” The Connection with Christopher Lydon, WBUR 90.9 FM radio, Boston, June 8, 2000.
  • “The Right to Know: How Far Does It Go?” (moderator), Third Biennial Harvard Conference on Internet & Society, June 1, 2000.
  • “How Paranoid Should We Be?” (moderator), Third Biennial Harvard Conference on Internet & Society, June 1, 2000.
  • “Private Sheriffs,” Faculty workshop, Visions of Governance in the 21st Century Project, John F. Kennedy School of Government, May 24, 2000.
  • “Students as Colleagues and Critics: Basic Techniques for Online Collaboration,” Harvard Faculty Workshop on the Use of Technology in Teaching, May 17, 2000.
  • “Barbed Wire on the Electronic Frontier: Private Sheriffs and Their Private Weapons,” University of Pittsburgh School of Law, April 20, 2000.
  • Testimony before the U.S. Senate, Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, on S. 2255, a proposed extension of the Internet Tax Freedom Act, April 12, 2000.
  • “Law Enforcement, Competition, Consumer Protection, Privacy: Tensions on Tomorrow’s Internet for the Attorneys General,” National Association of Attorneys General, Washington, DC, March 23, 2000.
  • “The Year in Entertainment Litigation” (moderator), Harvard Law School Annual Entertainment Law Conference, March 10, 2000.
  • “Pioneers on the Virtual Frontier: Asian Americans & the Internet” (moderator), Sixth Annual National Asian American Conference on Law and Public Policy, Mar. 4, 2000.
  • “A Tangled Web: Medical Information, Ethics, and the Internet” (panelist), Harvard Medical School, March 2, 2000.
  • “Intellectual Property: Will Technology Kill It or Make It Stronger?”, Signal or Noise: The Future of Music on the Net, Harvard Law School, February 25, 2000.
  • “Teaching With Technology,” Harvard Law School Graduate Student Colloquium, February 17, 2000.
  • “What the Publisher Can Teach the Patient: Intellectual Property and Privacy in an Era of Trusted Privication,” Cyberspace and Privacy: A New Legal Paradigm?, Stanford Law Review symposium, February 7, 2000.
  • “Ten Web Sites That Will Change the World,” “The Internet: The Real Road Ahead,” “The Business of Privacy,” World Economic Forum, Davos, January 27-31, 2000.
  • “Tomorrow’s Internet and Its Implications for Law & Law Enforcement,” National Association of Attorneys General, Palo Alto, January 11, 2000.
  • “The Impact of Technology on Law and Legal Culture” (panelist), American Association of Law Schools, Annual Meeting, January 6, 2000

pre-2000

  • “Online/In-class,” Technology in Education Program, Harvard Graduate School of Education, December 6, 1999.
  • “Competition in Top-Level Domains” (moderator), ICANN & the Public Interest: Pressing Issues, Los Angeles, October 31, 1999.
  • “Towards Internet 2.0,” European Network Conference, Hale & Dorr, Oct. 25, 1999.
  • “Evaluating the Costs and Benefits of Taxing Internet Commerce,” International Tax Program, Harvard Law School, October 15, 1999.
  • “Why Aren’t Libraries at the Center of the Internet?”, Digital Reference Conference 1999, Harvard Graduate School of Education, October 14, 1999.
  • “IP & the Net,” Boston College Law School American Inn of Court, Oct. 13, 1999.
  • “The Evolution of Law in Cyberspace,” Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law, September 27, 1999.
  • “Institutional Designs for Internet Governance: The Story of ICANN,” Technology Policy Research Conference, Alexandria, Virginia, September 27, 1999.
  • “Proprietary and Open Domains” (keynote), American Research Libraries Directors’ Summit, Keystone, Colorado, September 25, 1999.
  • “The Administration of Justice in a Networked Environment” (keynote), Sixth Annual Court Technology Conference, National Center for State Courts, Los Angeles, September 14, 1999.
  • “How (Not) to Regulate the Internet” (panelist), Section on Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice, American Bar Association, Atlanta, August 6, 1999.
  • “AOL & Microsoft: The War Over Instant Messaging,” BBC World Service, World Business Report, August 5, 1999.
  • “Domain Name System Privatization: Is ICANN Out of Control?”, Testimony before the Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight, Committee on Commerce, U.S. House of Representatives, July 22, 1999; to be reprinted in Berkeley Technology Law Journal (forthcoming 1999).
  • “Internet Governance,” Program of Instruction for Lawyers, Harvard Law School, June 22, 1999.
  • “Law, Code, and Kids,” Newton Human Rights Commission, June 8, 1999.
  • “The Limits of Intellectual Property Online,” Los Angeles Intellectual Property Law Association, June 6, 1999.
  • “Government Regulation of the Net,” Pyramid Research, April 25, 1999.
  • “Competition and the Deployment of Advanced Telecommunications Capability” (moderator), Harvard Law School, April 17, 1999.
  • “Copyright on the Line: Blame It on Rio? Or Title 17?” (moderator), Computers, Freedom, & Privacy 1999, Washington, D.C., April 7, 1999.
  • “United States v. Microsoft: What’s the Remedy?” Connecticut Law Review Symposium, Hartford, March 26, 1999.
  • “Responding to Hate on the Internet: Filters and Free Speech,” ADL Civil Rights Luncheon, Boston, March 24, 1999.
  • “Your Digital Footprints,” The Connection With Christopher Lydon, WBUR 90.9 FM radio, Boston, March 24, 1999.
  • “Filtering Pornography,” www.cybersex.firstamendment, Institute of Bill of Rights Law, College of William and Mary, March 19, 1999.
  • “The Body Commerce,” MCLE Computer & Telecommunications Law Institute, March 16, 1999.
  • “Law in a Connected World,” LawTech+ Conference keynote, Ottawa, Feb. 11, 1999.
  • “First Amendment Implications of Convergence,” Fordham Intellectual Property Symposium, Media & Entertainment Law Journal, February 9, 1999; reprinted in 9 Fordham Intell. Prop. Media & Ent. L.J. 401, 421-460 (1999).
  • “Representation in Cyberspace: Membership Options for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)” (moderator), Harvard Law School, Cambridge, January 23, 1999.
  • “Legal/Technical Architectures of Cyberspace” (moderator), MIT/Harvard Law School, December 6, 1998.
  • “Government Regulation of the Net,” Gov’t CIO Summit, Charleston, Nov. 17, 1998.
  • “Accountability, Membership, and Representation” (moderator), Public Meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), Cambridge, November 14, 1998.
  • “Internet Taxation,” Harvard Law School International Tax Program, Oct. 22, 1998.
  • “The Medical Industry and the Internet,” Technology and Healthcare Marketing, Washington, October 13, 1998.
  • “The War for the Web,” The Connection With Christopher Lydon, WBUR 90.9 FM radio, Boston, July 29, 1998.
  • “Trademarks and Domain Names” (moderator), International Forum on the White Paper, Geneva, July 25, 1998.
  • “Legal Issues in Electronic Commerce,” Massachusetts Interactive Media Council, June 25, 1998.
  • “Implications of Trusted Systems” (moderator), Harvard University Second International Conference on Internet & Society, May 27, 1998.
  • “The Internet in China: Perils and Opportunities for the United States,” Council on Foreign Relations, New York, May 11, 1998.
  • “Privacy, Property, and Family in the Age of Genetic Testing” (moderator), Harvard Law School, May 2, 1998.
  • “Introducing Technorealism: A New Way to Think About Technology, Politics, and Culture — Technorealism Applied” (moderator), Harvard Law, March 19, 1998.
  • “China and the Internet” (moderator), Digital China/Harvard, Harvard Law School, March 6, 1998.
  • “Suing Spammers,” Eighth Annual Conference on Computers, Freedom, and Privacy, Austin, Texas, February 20, 1998.
  • “Internet Tax,” John F. Kennedy School of Government, February 11, 1998.
  • “The Internet in China” (moderator), Harvard Asia Business Conference, Harvard Business School, January 30, 1998.
  • “Internet Framing, Linking, and Packaging,” Boston Bar Foundation CLE program, January 22, 1998.
  • “The Secrets Behind the Domain Name Battles,” Harvard Information Infrastructure Project brown bag lunch series, John F. Kennedy School of Government, November 19, 1997.
  • “Cyberteaching,” keynote via satellite (with Charles Nesson), ALTA ’97, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, October 3, 1997.
  • “Privacy in the Information Age,” Brown University, October 1988.