The Court of Appeal in California (Sixth Appellate District) has ruled in favor of Jason O’Grady in his dispute with Apple Computer. It’s a pretty resounding opinion (linked here (PDF)), covering a lot of ground, including trade secret, the Stored Communications Act, and various other issues related to whether a corporation can stop a publisher … Read more
One of Berkman’s all-time great graduates, Ory Okolloh, has launched Mzalendo, which is watching over the Kenyan parliament. Subscribe to their RSS feed; bound to tell important stories, and to be an important story itself. They are “a volunteer run project whose mission is to ‘keep an eye on the Kenyan Parliament.’ The project was … Read more
John Bracken (Media SITREP), off the grid for 2 weeks, has used his absence to encourage a guest blogger, Yaucono, who writes of happy coffee memories: “Yaucono kept me awake, aware, soothed, and rooted in my culture and values in the midst of the most unsettling experience of my young life – not just the … Read more
The organizers of a conference I’m just leaving mentioned to me a curious fact: they invited 6 prominent bloggers — not to be named here (and I am certainly not including myself in this category) — to attend the event, called The Leaders Project. Not a single one responded, not even to RSVP “no.” I … Read more
The process of experiencing news of those Born Digital – the Digital Natives — is famously different from the generations they succeed. DNs don’t read the New York Times or their local paper cover-to-cover over coffee in the morning, nor return home to hear the news read by Walter Cronkhite or Dan Rather (then discuss … Read more
In preparing for the final lecture of a two-day seminar that Urs Gasser and I are teaching here at the University of St. Gallen, I was going back through one of the books that got me interested in Internet law in the first place — Nicholas Negroponte’s seminal book in atom form, Being Digital (1995). … Read more
Alas, I was in DC on Friday and Saturday, so I missed the celebration and serious set of inquiries of Beyond Broadcast. Fortunately for me and others who were not there, John Bracken, program officer at the MacArthur Foundation, has a set of highlights from the conference and its reverberations.
This morning, we are hosting an eminent group of academics here at Harvard Law School for a symposium on blogging and legal scholarship. Prof. Paul Caron is leading off right now. You can tune in to the webcast, if you are not local to Cambridge. (If you needed any further incentive to watch, Prof. Michael … Read more
I just received in the mail the hard-copy edition of the Sixteenth Annual Theodore H. White Lecture, hosted by the Joan Shorenstein Center at the Kennedy School at Harvard. Peter Beinart, editor-at-large of the New Republic gave the lecture on October 27, 2005. The full text is worth reading. (It is available online as a … Read more
On behalf of the directors of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, I am delighted to invite you to our spring conference, “Bloggership: How Blogs are Transforming Legal Scholarship,” to be held Friday, April 28, 2006. Please join us for a series of four panel discussions featuring some of the … Read more