Posts filed under 'Intellectual Property'
Thursday, December 7 at Harvard Law School
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Law schools don’t just educate new lawyers; they house vibrant communities that research, develop, and share legal knowledge. How might law schools take advantage of our increasingly networked environment or use emerging network technologies to foster robust learning communities? Can such communities bridge between the academy and practice?
On the occasion of Harvard Law School’s most significant curriculum revision since the 1870s, join law professors, professional educators, practicing attorneys, and technologists to discuss the coming transformation of legal education.
To learn more about this event, including the panelists, visit Berkman Fellow Gene Koo’s blog.
December 8th, 2006
Timo Hannay, Director of Web Publishing at Nature Publishing Group in London hosts a discussion about the potential of the Internet for scientific research and discovery as part of the Berkman Center’s Tuesday Luncheon Series.
(Photo of Timo Hannay right, by Gavin Bell)
The web was invented by a scientist for scientists. Yet, partly because of its intrinsic conservatism, science has in some ways been slow to make the most of what the web has to offer. Timo Hannay will look at some examples of scientists (and even science publishers) exploiting the web in interesting ways, and discuss what this might mean for the future of science itself. For more info, check out Hannay’s blog.
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October 19th, 2006
Recently the Berkman Center released “The Digital Learning Challenge: Obstacles to Educational Uses of Copyrighted Material in the Digital Age,” a year-long study on the relationship between copyright law and education. Overseen by Prof. William Fisher and conducted by Berkman fellow William McGeveran, the paper studies whether innovative uses of digital technology were hampered by copyright restrictions.
In this MediaBerkman special, Colin Rhinesmith and Amanda Michel looked closely into the paper’s case studies by interviewing Prof. William Fisher, Berkman fellow Bill McGeveran, Berkman student fellow Jackie Harlow, Washington College of Law Professor Peter Jaszi, WGBH Deputy General Counsel Jay Fialkov, New World Records Vice President and Trustee Lisa Kahlden, and George Mason Professor/Associate Director or the Center for History and New Media Mills Kelly.
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Produced by Amanda Michel and Colin Rhinesmith.
Attribution: Music used in this AudioBerkman podcast includes several tracks sampled off the album “Love and you and I” from Lizzi, available at Magnatune. Track samples include: “Me”, “You belong”, “Remedy”, “Lay down”, “Only you”, and “Gone”.
October 17th, 2006
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Dan Burk of the University of Minnesota Law School hosts a discussion about the adoption of open source strategies for science as part of the Berkman Center’s Tuesday Luncheon Series.
This video was originally shared on blip.tv by VideoBerkman with a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.
October 13th, 2006
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Dan Burk of the University of Minnesota Law School hosts a discussion about the adoption of open source strategies for science as part of the Berkman Centers Tuesday Luncheon Series.
In the age of bioinformatics and e-science, the scientific community is increasingly advocating licensing strategies drawn from open source software development. But the culture and practice of scientific research community differs in significant ways from that of open source coding, posing new legal and cultural challenges to the adoption of open source strategies for science.
October 13th, 2006
Dan Burk of the University of Minnesota Law School hosts a discussion about the adoption of open source strategies for science as part of the Berkman Center’s Tuesday Luncheon Series.
In the age of bioinformatics and e-science, the scientific community is increasingly advocating licensing strategies drawn from open source software development. But the culture and practice of scientific research community differs in significant ways from that of open source coding, posing new legal and cultural challenges to the adoption of open source strategies for science.
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Download Dan Burk’s Powerpoint presentation from today’s luncheon by following this link.
October 10th, 2006
Lewis Hyde, Berkman Fellow and Creative Writing Professor at Kenyon College, talks about “What Ben Franklin teaches us about intellectual property.”
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Produced by Colin Rhinesmith on June 28, 2006
July 10th, 2006
Yochai Benkler, Professor of Law at Yale University, explores the effects of laws that regulate information production and exchange on the distribution of control over information flows, knowledge, and culture in the digital environment.
Professor Benkler discusses these and other topics from his new book, The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom. The Wealth of Networks is a comprehensive social theory of the Internet and the networked information economy. In it, Professor Benkler describes how patterns of information, knowledge, and cultural production are changingand shows that the way information and knowledge are made available can either limit or enlarge the ways people can create and express themselves.
Professor Lawrence Lessig of Stanford Law School has written about Yochai Benklers book, The Wealth of Networks. He says, This is by far the most important and powerful book written in the fields that matter most to me in the last ten years. Read it, Professor Lessig says. Understand it. You are not serious about these issues on either side of these debates unless you have read this book.
Yochai Benklers lecture was presented on April 18, 2006 at Harvard Law School, hosted by The Berkman Center for Internet & Society.
Produced by Colin Rhinesmith.
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Attribution: Music from this episode of AudioBerkman was sampled and remixed using a track from Antony Raijekov titled Be Brave (Dub-TripHop RMX).
April 23rd, 2006
William McGeveran, Jackie Harlow, and Professor William W. Fisher III present a progress report on their year-long research project about Educational Uses of Content in the Digital Age, funded by a grant from the Mellon Foundation.
The project considers (1) the ways in which digitization alters the use of content by teachers and scholars in their educational mission; (2) what obstacles (legal, technical, or institutional) prevent the full potential of digital learning; and (3) what reforms might improve the situation. Professor Fisher is the lead investigator. Berkman Fellow William McGeveran and Berkman student fellow Jackie Harlow are coordinating the project.
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April 19th, 2006
The success of the blog in helping Internet users communicate is undeniable, but what happens when this medium is used not just to share ideas but to share music, too? The MP3 blog is a new and fast growing phenomenon that stretches our understanding of copryight, fair use, the purpose of a blog. Is the MP3 blog just a new version of filesharing, or is it a new medium that could transform the way we will listen to music in the future? AudioBerkman’s Benjamen Walker has this report (available for stream and download).
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MP3 Blogs in the Piece
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*Note, an earlier version of this piece, “Blog Jockeys,” also aired on the NPR show, On the Media.
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