When IP goes bad: Berkman retaliates against cyberlaw™
From Berkman Fellow David Weinberger...
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A cyberlawyer named Eric Menhart has trademarked “cyberlaw,” according to slashdot.
In response, the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law is changing its address from cyber.harvard.edu to eric.menhart.harvard.edu, will rename its annual conference to the EricMenhart conference, and is petitioning Google to do a search-and-replace on the 75,400 pages containing harvard berkman cyberlaw.
All your EricMenhart™ are belong to us.
[Legal notices: I don’t speak for the Berkman Center. And one of those jokes was Ethan Zuckerman’s.]...
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Item #1
A cyberlawyer named Eric Menhart has trademarked “cyberlaw,” according to slashdot.
In response, the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law is changing its address from cyber.harvard.edu to eric.menhart.harvard.edu, will rename its annual conference to the EricMenhart conference, and is petitioning Google to do a search-and-replace on the 75,400 pages containing harvard berkman cyberlaw.
All your EricMenhart™ are belong to us.
[Legal notices: I don’t speak for the Berkman Center. And one of those jokes was Ethan Zuckerman’s.]...
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