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.
The LA Times has a very interesting story on the law suits by big entertainment companies against one of the dirt-floored businesses in central Los Angeles that sells pinatas in the image of characters subject to copyright and trademark protections. I am quoted in that story as saying that a group of large entertainment companies have … Read more
Iran chooses a new president today. Follow Hoder‘s journey back home to cover the election.
JD Lasica, who presented today at our Tuesday lunch series and the author of Darknet, is the first-ever guest blogger to write to the Berkman Center’s homepage.
Richard Clayton of the University of Cambridge’s computer science labs is here with us today at the Berkman Center as a participant in our luncheon series. He describes his scholarly efforts focused on BT (Britain’s largest telecommunications provider) and its blocking program: “I’ve been looking at BT’s CleanFeed system (it’s [sic] proper name is the … Read more
It’s been a big few weeks for radio around the Berkman Center. Today’s installments: Public Radio International’s Here and Now, based at WBUR in Boston, devoted part of a show earlier today on the possible extension of the domain name space to include a “.xxx” gTLD. BBC’s The World is running a show later today … Read more
Stephanie Rosenbloom of the New York Times writes about that photograph from college that just won’t go away.
Our partner at Gartner|G2, Mike McGuire (blog) has a lovely review of Yahoo!’s Music Unlimited, in which he and Allen Weiner highlight the promise of the initiative as well as areas for improvement (such as incomplete integration with 360, for instance). Via Derek.
The DC Court of Appeals has stricken the FCC’s broadcast flag rules, a few months ahead of their proposed implementation. Congratulations to Art and Gigi of Public Knowledge and others who stood up to this one.
Reading not too far into Derek’s post about the recent i2hub lawsuits, I am pretty sure I know what he’s getting at and if I’m right I agree with him wholeheartedly: it’s a terrible idea to turn universities into the copyright police, as the cops who are required to carry the water of copyright holders. … Read more
My favorite day of the year is Election Day. Going to vote makes me completely emotional, every time, even for those municipal primaries that draw 4% of the vote. Today I lucked into being in Britain on their Election Day, which has not made me emotional. There’s a ho-hum atmosphere among those I’ve talked to, … Read more