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
On Wednesday night, HLS feted Prof. William W. (“Terry”) Fisher III as he received the Hale and Dorr Intellectual Property chair. It was an exceptional event: a standing-room-only crowd in Austin East and a lecture, prompted by Dean Elena Kagan’s inauguration of a new-to-HLS-but-nonetheless-venerable tradition, on the state of the field of the freshly-chaired professor. The … Read more
Next week, on Tuesday, October 21, 2003, the Berkman Center is pleased to host Yossi Vardi, Principal of International Technologies Ventures and one of Israel’s leading venture capitalists, for his speech at Harvard Law School. Mr. Vardi is widely regarded as a leading thinker about the role of technology in society. His lecture will be held … Read more
Christopher Lydon, one to whom we all should listen, has started a blog. This will be one to watch. Next stop for XL: audio blogs.
The Globe story on the tough job of the college CIOs has some of the key issues outlined: e.g., how do you ensure the free expression of ideas over the university network while complying with the DMCA?