Professor Zittrain Talks Cyberlaw on NPR
For the second installment in their current four part Cybercrime series, National Public Radio's Weekend Edition Sunday paid a visit to Berkman co-founder and Harvard Law School professor Jonathan Zittrain, where he is in Cambridge teaching his winter term Cyberlaw course.
Delivering a take on a cyberlaw priority list, Professor Zittrain shares the framework for his top issues - "maintaining a generative network open to innovation and creation by outsiders." Not a new idea, he has written on the subject at length in his paper, "The Generative Internet", and deeply tackles it in his forthcoming book, The Future of the Internet - And How to Stop It. Harking to the Berkman M.O., Jonathan speaks to cyberlaw's big picture: "considering distinct ways in which the networks and the objects hooked up to them are empowering people both to do great new things and to hurt each other terribly, and how can we maximize the former and minimize the latter."
Defamation on Wikipedia, privacy within social networking sites, and an impromptu interview-within-interview of computer hacker Kevin Mitnick conducted by Jonathan and Berkman affiliate Elizabeth Stark, flesh out the piece. You can give the piece a listen over on NPR site, and keep a eye out on the Berkman website for more from Jonathan and others on The Future of the Internet as continuing Berkman@10 discussions.
Delivering a take on a cyberlaw priority list, Professor Zittrain shares the framework for his top issues - "maintaining a generative network open to innovation and creation by outsiders." Not a new idea, he has written on the subject at length in his paper, "The Generative Internet", and deeply tackles it in his forthcoming book, The Future of the Internet - And How to Stop It. Harking to the Berkman M.O., Jonathan speaks to cyberlaw's big picture: "considering distinct ways in which the networks and the objects hooked up to them are empowering people both to do great new things and to hurt each other terribly, and how can we maximize the former and minimize the latter."
Defamation on Wikipedia, privacy within social networking sites, and an impromptu interview-within-interview of computer hacker Kevin Mitnick conducted by Jonathan and Berkman affiliate Elizabeth Stark, flesh out the piece. You can give the piece a listen over on NPR site, and keep a eye out on the Berkman website for more from Jonathan and others on The Future of the Internet as continuing Berkman@10 discussions.