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1995

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1996

January

  • Harvard Law becomes fully wired

February

March

  • 11-Mar HLS Harvard Law School launches its first website

April

May

June

July

  • 22-Jul Gov Zittrain Jonathan Zittrain testifies before the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight regarding ICANN

August

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October

November

December

1997

January

  • Berkman Zittrain The Internet & Society course is offered at Harvard Law School by Lecturer Jonathan Zittrain '95
  • Sem. Int. Weblogs introduced to the Internet

February

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November

December

  • Faculty Fisher William Fisher teaches Intellectual Property in Cyberspace, one of the Berkman Center's first online courses

1998

January

February

March

  • 3-Mar Berkman Miller Professor Arthur Miller '58 creates Berkman's first interactive lecture and discussion series, free and open to the public: "Privacy in Cyberspace" http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/privacy99/

April

  • Article Miller Drudge Match: Cyberspace doesn't render libel law obsolete

May

  • 15-May Berkman Nesson Professor Nesson emails Bill Gates, suggesting Microsoft end its "Darth Vader problem" through buying Apple and giving it to a non-profit corporation.

June

July

August

September

  • Sem. Int. Google Inc. launched

October

  • 28-Oct Sem. Int. Digital Millenium Copyright Act signed into law by President Bill Clinton

November

December

  • Faculty Lessig Lawrence Lessig named first Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies
  • Faculty Zittrain Jonathan Zittrain named first Executive Director of the Berkman Center
  • Staff Wilbanks John Wilbanks becomes the Berkman Center's first Assistant Director

1999

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October

November

December

  • December Sem. Int. Recording Industry Association of America files lawsuit against Napster

2000

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September

October

November

15-Nov Berkman Zittrain Berkman holds "The Day the Music Died?", debating Harvard's policy on Napster and its siblings http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/daymusic.html

December

Book Lessig Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0465039138/harvardcyberconf

Paper Fisher Digital Music: Problems and Possibilities http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/tfisher/Music.html

2001

January

Faculty Zittrain Jonathan Zittrain named Berkman Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies

February

March

April

23-Apr Conference Zittrain Harvard hosts the nation's attorneys general for the 2001 National Association of Attorneys General Internet Law Institute

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

  • Sem. Int. Wikipedia launches the first public, collaborative encyclopedia

2002

January

Book Kirkman, Maclay, Best The Global Information Technology Report, 2001-2002 http://www.cid.harvard.edu/cr/gitrr_030202.html

February

March

March Fellow Moore Ghana Project begins http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ghana2002/index.html

April

May

30-May Conference Nesson Berkman hosts "Cybertree 2002," focusing on globalization, rehabilitation, and reparation http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/cybertree/

Paper Kariyawasam Readiness for the Networked World: Jamaica Assessment http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/2002-01

June

July

1-Jul Conference The first iLaw Program at Harvard Law School is held http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ilaw/participants

August

Paper Tor & Oliar Incentives to Create Under a "Lifetime-Plus-Years" Copyright Duration: Lessons from a Behavioral Economic Analysis for Eldred v. Ashcroft http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/2002-02

September

October

9-Oct Berkman Lessig U.S. Supreme Court hears oral argument in Eldred v. Ashcroft. Professor Lessig argues for Eric Eldred and petitioners. http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/openlaw/

November

15-Nov Conference Berkman hosts the Internet & Society 2002 conference, dubbed "A Community Experiment" http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/I&S2002/index_xflash.html

December

  • Faculty Palfrey John Plafrey named Berkman Center Executive Director
  • Faculty Fisher William Fisher named Faculty Director of the Berkman Center
  • Faculty Zittrain Jonathan Zittrain appointed to the Oxford University Chair of Internet Governance and Regulation

2003

January

January Fellow Zuckerman Ethan Zuckerman named Berkman Fellow

January Project Student Think Tank created http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/thinktank/projects.html

February

March

24-Mar Conference iLaw Program for 2003 held in Brazil http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ilaw/brazil03/participants

Paper Zittrain Internet Points of Control http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/2003-01

April

Project Winer The Berkman Center unveils its Weblogs at Harvard Law School initiative http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/

Paper Zittrain & Edelman Internet Filtering in China http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/2003-02

May

June

30-Jun Conference The 2003 iLaw Program is held at Stanford http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ilaw/stanford03/participants

July

August

Paper Gartner Copyright and Digital Media in a Post-Napster World http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/2003-05

Paper Zuckerman Global Attention Profiles - A working paper: First steps towards a quantitative approach to the study of media attention, http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/2003-06

September

October

  • Article Zittrain The Copyright Cuffs

November

December

  • Winer Dave Winer named Berkman Fellow (Berkman Weblogs)

2004

January

February

5-Feb Berkman Glasser John Palfrey speaks at the first meeting of the Harvard-Yale Cyberscholar Working Group http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/cyberscholar_working_group

Paper Gordon Illegal Internet Networks in the Developing World http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/2004-03

March

30-Mar Paper Fisher et al. iTunes: How Copyright, Contract, and Technology Shape the Business of Digital Media – A Case Study http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/media/uploads/53/GreenPaperiTunes03.04.pdf

April

  • 17-Apr Conference Winer Dave Winer and the Berkman Center host BloggerCon II

May

June

Paper Gasser iTunes: How Copyright, Contract, and Technology Shape the Business of Digital Media -- A Case Study, http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/2004-08

July

August

September

October

November

December

  • Project Zuckerman, MacKinnon Berkman Fellows Ethan Zuckerman and Rebecca MacKinnon launch international news-blog aggregator Global Voices Online

2005

January

  • Staff Maclay Berkman Fellow Colin Maclay named Berkman Center Managing Director

February

Feb Berkman Kaplan The Berkman Center joins with IBM and Oracle in forming the Open ePolicy Group http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/epolicy/people

Paper Rundle NetDialogue: A Mechanism to Promote Transparency and Public Dialogue in International Net Governance http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/2005-09

March

April

May

Paper Weinberger Tagging and Why It Matters http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/2005-07

June

22-Jun Conference The 2005 iLaw Program is held at Harvard Law School http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ilaw/harvard_2005

July

Paper Palfrey, Johnson, Crawford Trusting the Net: Peer Production of Internet Governance http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/wsis/home

August

September

October

November

Chapter Lessig, Palfrey, Rundle "Net Dialogue Perspectives on International Net Governance," http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/uploads/577/Net_Dialogue_WSIS_Digital_Reach_book__Lessig_Palfrey_Rundle.pdf

December

  • Chapter Palfrey "Holding Out for an Interoperable DRM Standard,"

Paper MacKinnon Blogging, Journalism, and Credibility http://cyber.law.harvard.edu:8080/webcred/wp-content/webcredfinalpdf_01.pdf

2006

January

30-Jan Speech Fisher In Rome, Terry Fisher delivers his speech, "The Future Digital Economy: Digital Content - Creation, Distribution, and Access"

January Project Zittrain, Palfrey With support from Google, Lenovo, and Sun, the Berkman Center launches StopBadware.org http://stopbadware.org/

February

15-Feb Gov Palfrey John Palfrey testifies before the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Africa, Global Human Rights and International Operations regarding Chinese Internet filtering

Paper Zittrain "A History of Online Gatekeeping," http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=905862

March

April

28-Apr Conference Berkman hosts a conference on "Bloggership," asking how blogs are transforming legal scholarship http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/bloggership

May

25-May Conference The 2006 iLaw Program is held in Torino http://ilaw.ieiit.cnr.it/index.html

Paper Gasser & Ernst From Shakespeare to DJ Danger Mouse: A Quick Look at Copyright and User Creativity in the Digital Age http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=909223

Paper Zittrain The Generative Internet http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=847124

June

July

August

4-Aug Conference Wikipedia enthusiasts descend on Cambridge for the Berkman-hosted Wikimania 2006 http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Paper Fisher & McGeveran The Digital Learning Challenge: Obstacles to Educational Uses of Copyrighted Material in the Digital Age," http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/2006-09

September

12-Sep Berkman Nesson Harvard Law School offers "CyberOne: Law in the Court of Public Opinion," the first Harvard University course available in Second Life

26-Sep Gov Fisher William Fisher testifies before the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness regarding online file sharing by students

October

Paper Priest "The Future of Music and Film Piracy in China," http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=827825

Paper Armstrong "Digital Rights Management and the Process of Fair Use," http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=885371

November

December

  • Faculty Zittrain Jonathan Zittrain named Berkman Visiting Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies

2007

January

Paper Zittrain Spam Works: Evidence from Stock Touts and Corresponding Market Activity http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=920553

February

Paper Rundle Interoperability In the New Digital Identity Infrastructure http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=962701

March

April

May

  • 18-May Conference Palfrey, Zittrain OpenNet Initiative hosts its first public conference at Oxford to discuss the results of its research and map the ONI's future
  • 31-May Conference Berkman hosts the 6th Havard Conference on Internet & Soicety (IS2k7), discussing the new role of the university http://www.is2k7.org/

June

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