This morning, Prof. Mizuko (Mimi) Ito is at Phillips Academy, Andover, to lead us, as a faculty, in a community conversation to start off the year. Mimi is setting forth the core data and arguments behind Connected Learning, which is our professional development theme at Andover for the year. She has us all on an … Read more
A new Berkman/Gartner study on the power of recommendations and the impact on digital media sales, by Mike McGuire and Derek Slater, is to be published today.
Urs Gasser has been back the past few days in the US, his first trip back since he left for his professorship at the Univ. of St. Gallen. (Prof. Dr. Gasser remains a faculty fellow with us at the Berkman Center.) Along with summer intern Gabriela Ruiz Begue, he has released a short, accessible paper … Read more
So much for the automatic kind: the best Grokster roundups are by people: see Donna, Ernest, Derek et al.
According to TechWorld, “Microsoft and the entertainment industry’s holy grail of controlling copyright through the motherboard has moved a step closer with Intel now embedding digital rights management (DRM) within in its latest dual-core processor Pentium D and accompanying 945 chipset. But as well as the much-touted digital rights management hardware, the chips also include … Read more
1.0 What have we learned at the Blogging, Journalism and Credibility gathering? We started this event — and an associated little firestorm — by broaching the topic of credibility on the web. It was something, we thought, that both journalists and bloggers ought to have a role in working on. Over the past two days … Read more
This semester, I’m teaching a class at Harvard Law School entitled “Cyberlaw and the Global Economy,” and I’m going to invite my students to use weblogs as a means of class participation. The idea is to put online participation through writing to blogs on par, or close to par, with in-class participation. I expect that some … Read more
One of the things that bothers me about US Internet law and policy is the various definitions of “ISP” in law and policy (compare DMCA to CDA, e.g.). Even within the DMCA there is discrepancy. It will be interesting to see how this case impacts the ISP liability regime — interesting because of the facts … Read more