One-day workshop examining what the right to information should look like in relation to platforms and how it can be implemented in a manner that protects user privacy...
The Berkman Center's Internet & Democracy Projected hosted an event on "Digitally-Empowered Activists: Getting the Tools to the People Who Need Them," in Istanbul, Turkey.
Judith Donath, Berkman Fellow and MIT Media Lab Social Media Group
In this talk, Judith Donath, a Berkman Fellow and Director of the MIT Social Media Group, discussed how design affects identity, reputation, and trust by presenting several design…
Chris Conley, Berkman Fellow and Anupam Chander, Yale Law School Visiting Professor
Chris Conley will give a presentation on "Understanding Online Surveillance", and Anupam Chander, Yale Law School Visiting Professor will discuss "Trade 2.0"
Deb Roy, Director of MIT Media Lab’s Cognitive Machines group, and Chair of the Academic Program in Media Arts and Sciences, spoke about studying language development by focusing…
Marvin Ammori, General Counsel of Free Press, discussed "Network Neutrality and the FCC’s Internet Policy Statement: Biased Thoughts from a Lawyer Working with SavetheInternet.com…
Pam Samuelson, Professor of Law at UC Berkley, Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and Berkman Center Faculty Fellow
Pam Samuelson offered thoughts about why copyright reform is needed, why it will be difficult to undertake, and why notwithstanding these difficulties, it may nonetheless be worth…
Berkman Fellow David Weinberger lead a discussion titled "Who are the Web’s leaders?", questioning whether online leadership will effect leadership off the Web.
François Lévêque, Visiting professor at the Boalt Hall School of Law, UC Berkeley
The number of patents worldwide has increased enormously in the past 20 years, as has the number of technology standards. Standard setting organizations (“SSOs”) have proliferated…
John Palfrey and Urs Gasser Present New Research on Interoperability
This joint report followed the Roadmap to Open ICT Ecosystems released in 2005, as it navigates the nuanced territory of consumer, corporate, and governmental interests in the…
Gary Kebbel of the Knight Foundation talked about "The Knight News Challenge and Digital Innovation: Challenges Posed by Intellectual Property, International Giving, and Grant…
ISP Fellow Shlomit Wagman on, "A New Model of Liability for Defective Software", Kevin Driscoll from MIT Comparative Media Studies on "Thanx 4 Da Add: How Soulja Boy Hacked Mainstream Music," and Professor Eric Gordon of Emerson University and Berkman…
"A New Model of Liability for Defective Software" - ISP Fellow Shlomit Wagman * Abstract * Software is a product with unique characteristics. Law…
Christine Harold, author of OurSpace and Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication, University of Washington discussed "Inventing Publics: Kairos and Intellectual…
Thanks to new technology, the grand vision of a library containing every book in the world is now within our grasp. The Open Library Project, a loose collection of technologists,…
