On Friday, November 14th, Professor Fryderyk Zoll joined members of the Berkman Center team and several Harvard Law students to discuss standard contract terms of the European Union.
14 nov 2003
News.com reports that students at Penn State don't want their tuition money spent to protect them from RIAA lawsuits.
7 nov 2003
As Diebold invokes the Digital Millennium Copyright Act against students and others who have posted on their websites correspondence linking the company to the Republican Party, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Stanford's Center for Internet and Society plan to answer with a suit of their own, as reported on CNet.
6 nov 2003
Frederic Haber, General Counsel for the Copyright Clearance Center, led a lunchtime discussion today, November 4th, at the Berkman Center.
4 nov 2003
After a year of laying a foundation in digital media research in conjunction with research partner and supporter Gartner|G2, the Berkman Center proudly launches today its Digital Media Project.
3 nov 2003
The Workshop on Global ICT Education Program, held October 29 and 30 at MIT, brought together an Advisory Council for the Program, which aims to offer training courses to young ICT leaders of developing countries.
30 oct 2003
In "The End of Hide and Seek," Professor Jonathan Zittrain details his reasons for inserting a radio frequency identification chip under the skin of his dog, the adorable Mrs.
29 oct 2003
CyberPrivacy, the newest Berkman Center BOLD series, launches today, October 28th, at noon Eastern time.
28 oct 2003
Dr. Tony Feghali of the American University of Beirut joined the Berkman Center for a luncheon discussion on Monday, October 27th.
27 oct 2003
As reported in the Boston Globe and New York Times, two MIT students created Libraries Access to Music Project, backed by MIT and Microsoft.
27 oct 2003
The Berkman Center proudly presented Yossi Vardi, Founding Investor of ICQ, on October 21st, 2003.
23 oct 2003
This program is free and open to everyone. CyberPrivacy, a new BOLD series led by Professor John Nockleby of Loyola Law School, will launch on October 28th, 2003.
23 oct 2003
John Kingston, Director of the Joseph Bell Centre for Forensic Statistics and Legal Reasoning visited the Berkman Center on October 21.
22 oct 2003
In yesterday's New Jersey Star-Ledger, the article Prof to music labels: Lay off 'cyber-pirate' suits and try a tax (mini-registration required) calls Professor William Fisher "a guy at Harvard" with a "modest proposal." The alternate-compensation plan is discussed by Fisher, Berkman Fellow John Perry Barlow, and the RIAA.
22 oct 2003
On Wednesday, October 22, 2003 at 1:00 p.m., there will be a joint meeting of the Computer and Internet Law Committee and Intellectual Property Law Committee at the Boston Bar Association - "The Internet Music Copyright Wars." Come hear a lively point/counterpoint discussion on a topic of great interest to anyone who listens to music and has a computer (and particularly a teenager) at home -- the music file swapping lawsuits brought by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
22 oct 2003
The ILaw 2003 International Participants' Weblog, created by a participant from ILaw Stanford which took place in June/July 2003, collects items related to Internet Law from across the globe in an easily digested format.
21 oct 2003
The Berkman Center is proud to welcome Michael Best as its newest fellow for the 2003-2004 academic year. Mike will focus on the use of computers and communication in social and economic development. He is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor jointly appointed to the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and the College of Computing at Georgia Tech where he also is Nunn Security Mid-Career Fellow.
20 oct 2003
BloggerCon Speaker Ed Cone writes about Berkman Fellow Jim Moore in an editorial in the Greensboro, North Carolina News & Record.
20 oct 2003
On Monday, Berkman Fellow Dr. Urs Gasser (LL.M.
17 oct 2003