Wendy today presented about OpenLaw and Chilling Effects.  Good coverage here, here and here.  As usual, Donna Wentworth has done a great job keeping us all in the loop.

Read more..

[Other good sources: Aaron Swartz’s live notes on this session, which appears to be a fairly true transcript, moreso than my notes below.  The style of these notes below is taking from “scribing,” which is meant to be a redaction of the key statements made during the session.  Check here for Roger’s notes.  And, of…

Read more..

Prof. Charles Nesson is moderating a panel on business models and the open source movement.  * Ed Boyajian of Red Hat, who says they’re in the black, talked about the enterprise solution opportunity and the good news of getting support from the capital markets at the right moment.  * Gregor Rothfuss of Wyona (a service…

Read more..

A few thoughts as the three-day Open Source Content Management (OSCOM) Conference opens here this morning in Cambridge on the HLS campus.  Some of the key questions we (as the Berkman Center) are particularly interested in exploring: * Interoperability of open source applications (including interop of blogging tools, which Dave Winer will address in his…

Read more..

Donna Wentworth will be blogging key parts of the 3-day OSCOM conference, which kicks off tomorrow and runs through Friday, May 30.  If you can’t be here in Cambridge for it (we’re hosting on the Harvard Law School campus, primarily in the Ames Courtroom), check out http://blogs.law.harvard.edu for excellent, contextualized coverage from Donna — and hopefully others.

Read more..

Professor Lessig wants your help on behalf of the public domain.  He’s got a few specific requests, which include spreading the word about the proposed act (still in its nascent stages) and writing to your Congressman and Senators (yes, it’s quaint, but yes, it does matter).  In case you want a little help in drafting your correspondence, Derek…

Read more..

For taking a strong stance against MediaCon, as reported in the Boston Globe.  Congressman Markey, a Democratic who represents Malden, Massachusetts and the surrounding area, introduced legislation that would block the FCC’s ability to raise the cap on the number of stations owned by large industry players, in the name of “diversity and localism.” 

Read more..

Worth the read, particularly if you’re thinking of the Web and pedagogy in some fashion.  I don’t know the author (Oliver Wrede, who presented it at BlogTalk this past week) but was impressed by the amount of work and thought that went into the piece.  Made me wish I’d been there.

Read more..

Or, this animal tries to cover its tracks.  A person in the know points out that Gator didn’t like the archived version of their old page re: advertising, so they’ve asked for it to be excluded.  The URL has been “archived but not indexed.”

Read more..

See Seth Finkelstein’s blog post of last night for a critique of the thinking around the methodology in Ben Edelman’s Gator study.  Seth has done many good works in this field — he’s been cited by the EFF and others for his efforts — and is certainly worth listening to as a general matter.  I don’t happen to agree with…

Read more..

Wonderful news, via Ren Bucholz at EFF, that the Colorado S-DMCA has been vetoed by Governor Owens.  Here’s the veto notice from the Governor.  The Governor cites the overbreadth (read: lousy drafting) of the bill in his veto message.  Congratulations, EFF and Colorado activists!

Read more..

As of 7:21 p.m. this evening, Gator stops responding to requests from the Berkman Center’s servers (which run the tests for Ben Edelman’s research).  We’ve heard from them, though.

Read more..