Berkman Center for Internet & Society

Berkman Buzz: Week of August 4, 2008

Herdict, Scrabulous, the South African blogosphere and more...in this week's BUZZ!

Digital Natives: encounter with the RIAA (finale)

Two weeks ago, the Digital Natives Reporters in the Field series brought you the first two parts of "The Ballad of Zack McCune" -- an exploration of digital natives and illegal downloading, guided by Berkman summer intern Zack McCune's encounter with the RIAA. This week, the series brings you the conclusion of Zack's tale, created by Digital Natives summer interns Nikki Leon and John Randall...

The Citizen Media Law Project on Understanding Your Legal Risks When You Blog or Publish Online

From the Citizen Media Law Project blog...Over the next few weeks I'll be posting about various topics we cover in the CMLP's Citizen Media Legal Guide...Today, I'll start with the risks associated with publishing online...

ONEonONE interviews with Tuesday luncheon guests

This week, the Berkman Tuesday Luncheon Series is on summer vacation. We pick back up again next week, on August 12, with Ryan Goodman and Andrew Woods of the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law: "Understanding Social Action, Promoting Human Rights." This week, by way of preview/review and to keep you fed, a few individual interviews from our spring 2008 luncheon guests, on Berkman's YouTube channel...

Berkman Buzz: Week of July 28, 2008

Phorm, advocacy journalism, body slams and more...in this week's BUZZ!

China, Internet filtering, and the Olympics

The 2008 Olympics open in Beijing in about a week, and Internet filtering practices in China have again made international headlines as journalists and others experience the so-called Great Firewall firsthand; or, as our colleagues at the OpenNet Initiative blogged yesterday, "On the Olympic stage, the Great Firewall remains a player."

Digital Natives: Alumni Magazines for the Web Set

It's week three of the Digital Natives Reporters in the Field series. This week Digital Natives summer interns Nikki Leon and John Randall give us "Is Harvard Magazine Coping in a Digital Age?"

Citizen Media Law Project Legal Guide: final sections now live

From the Citizen Media Law Project blog... Today, we are launching the final sections of the Citizen Media Law Project's online guide to media law covering the risks associated with publishing online, including defamation and privacy law...

Using audio clip for criticism is fair use

District Court spanks Michael Savage suit

From the Citizen Media Law Project blog... In a huge victory for freedom of speech, on Friday a federal district court in California dismissed conservative talk show host Michael Savage’s lawsuit against the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)...

Q + A with Jon Ippolito and John Bell on Open Source Art

In preparation for tomorrow's luncheon, "Can Creativity Be Crowdsourced?" with Jon Ippolito and John Bell, Berkman intern Zachary McCune posed some questions about art, networked society, and the shape of artistic collaboration in the digital age...

Berkman Buzz: Week of July 21, 2008

The FCC proposes a filtered version of the internet, one Berkman intern learns a tough lesson about illegal downloads, Nicaragua's President Ortega faces online opposition, and more...in this week's BUZZ!

Filtered national broadband?

In a set of formal Comments filed with the Federal Communications Commission yesterday afternoon, a group of Berkman Center fellows, faculty, and friends argued that the FCC’s proposed free filtered national broadband would not be worthy of the name "Internet"...

Digital Natives: encounter with the RIAA

Launched last Wednesday, the Digital Natives Reporters in the Field series gets fully underway this week with the first two parts of a brand-new piece created by Digital Natives summer interns Nikki Leon and John Randall: "The Ballad of Zack McCune" -- an exploration of digital natives and illegal downloading...

The world of Global Voices, rising

Global Voices Online has announced an Executive Director! In August, Ivan Sigal will take the helm, joining Managing Director Georgia Popplewell and GVO's international team and growing network...

Berkman Buzz: Week of July 14, 2008

An "iPatiot Act," eBay v. Tiffany, Science Commons and more...in this week's BUZZ!

Thinking through section 201 of the Global Online Freedom Act

Over on the Future of the Internet blog, Berkman summer intern Brendan Ballou takes a look at the Global Online Freedom Act being considered by Congress...