The category covers many of the posts I made while I worked at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. It subsequently changed its name to the Berkman Klein Center.
On Monday, Oct. 31, the Massachusetts State House will be home to a bound-to-be-lively hearing on the Commonwealth’s recent move to support OpenDocument Format in the state’s procurement of software. I wrote to ask the relevenat Senator’s office if the Berkman Center could come and record the session for podcasting. After a few hours, we got a response … Read more
Nesson: “Trust the net to the great universities of the world. Lead the universities to grow strong in cyberspace. Make them repositories of the value of connection, portals of access to and ability to contribute to a global common wealth of knowledge. Just as with the growth of the proprietary domain in the last chapter … Read more
The edition of The Economist on the newstands (Oct. 22 – 28, 2005) has an extensive section — 18 pp. of the print version — on patents and technology, written by Kenneth Cukier. Must-reading for anyone interested in the future of information technologies, open source, licensing, and intellectual property law. Cukier tracks the growth of … Read more
Lawsuit filed today on the Google libraries project, with extraordinary counsel (no doubt) on both sides. The publishers assert copyright violation by Google for re-publishing digital versions of their copyrighted works that are kept in libraries such as the University of Michigan’s.
Yikes. This is bad.
We’re here at the State of Play III, a sold-out, electric event at NYLS of which the Berkman Center is a co-host. For a lawyer’s context in a few easy paragraphs, check out what my colleague Urs Gasser has to say about it, as he prepared to attend. If you are not here in NY, … Read more
How do you solve today’s security problems on the Internet, like viruses? Dr. Hossein Eslambolchi, the CTO and CIO of AT&T, is telling us here at the Berkman Center that we need to think again about end-to-end: 1) You have to build intelligence into the network, especially sensors, to solve problems like viruses. 2 + … Read more
Here is a bit more on what we are looking for in a managing director of the Berkman Center. The online application is via this link.
I can’t think of anything to say other than that I am thinking of our British friends. Others have done a better job of what to say. And a demonstration of why Flickr is so powerful.
We are here in the Langdell North (Vorenberg) classroom at Harvard Law School for the beginning of iLaw. It’s a fun time: while a course that provides a packed substantive tour of Internet law, it is at once something of a social event, something also of a reunion of people who have worked on these … Read more