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1995

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1996

January

  • Harvard Law becomes fully wired

February

  • 8-Feb Sem. Int. Barlow John Perry Barlow pens "A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace," declaring to the governments of the world that cyberspace is exempt from their rule. (the utopian view of the untouchability of cyberspace. this framework inspires a generation of internet pioneers.) http://homes.eff.org/~barlow/Declaration-Final.html

March

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

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July

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

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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

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

1998

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  • 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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  • 20-May Conference Lessig Harvard holds the Open Code/Open Content/Open Law conference, dedicated to building a digital commons. This later becomes the basis for Lessig's transformative book, Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace. http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/opencode/

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December

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

2000

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2001

January

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

February

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

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December

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

2002

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December

  • Faculty Palfrey John Palfrey 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

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October

  • 5-Oct Conference Winer Distinguished blogger and Berkman fellow Dave Winer hosts BloggerCon I . It popularizes the 'unconference' model for event structure. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BloggerCon
  • Article Zittrain The Copyright Cuffs

November

December

  • Winer Dave Winer named Berkman Fellow (Berkman Weblogs)

2004

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

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December

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

2005

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September

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

October

November

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

March

April

May

  • 12-May Conference Beyond Broadcast

June

July

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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

November

December

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

2007

January

February

  • 24-Feb Conference Beyond Broadcast 2007

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

  • Faculty Benkler Yochai Benkler becomes the Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal

Studies at Harvard Law School and Berkman Faculty Co-Director http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/home?wid=10&func=viewSubmission&sid=2754

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