Cyberscholars at Yale; Celebrating the Online Media Legal Network's Second Anniversary

Harvard-MIT-Yale Cyberscholar Working Group

Wednesday, December 7, 6:30PM, Yale Law School.

The "Harvard-MIT-Yale Cyberscholar Working Group" is a forum for fellows and affiliates of the MIT, Yale Law School Information Society Project, and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University to discuss their ongoing research. This month's presenters will include Ramesh Subramanian, Gabriel Ferrucci Professor of Computer Information Systems at the School of Business, Quinnipiac University, and Visiting Fellow at the Yale Law School’s “Information Society Project, on "Murray Turoff and the Evolution of Computer Mediated Communication." RSVP Required. more information on our website>

Celebrating the Online Media Legal Network's (OMLN) 2nd Anniversary

Tuesday, December 13, 12:30pm ET, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, 23 Everett St, Cambridge, MA. This event will be webcast live.

The Online Media Legal Network ("OMLN") was created at the end of 2009 by David Ardia, Kim Isbell, and Helen Fu as part of the Citizen Media Law Project, in order to respond to the lack of experienced legal advice available to independent news organizations, online content creators, and solo digital journalists. As the OMLN nears the end of its second year, it has helped over 160 clients with more than 330 separate legal matters, and has more than 225 firms, clinics and individual attorneys in its roster with coverage in all 50 U.S. states. At this event, timed to celebrate the OMLN's second anniversary, the staff of the OMLN will discuss the history and growth of the project, the accumulated data regarding the nature and geographic distribution of clients and legal issues that have come to the OMLN, and the OMLN's efforts to meet those needs. They will also discuss potential future uses of the OMLN in connection with research and tracking of legal trends. RSVP Required. more information on our website>

Book Talk: John Palfrey (+ special guests) on Intellectual Property Strategy

Most entrepreneurs, corporate managers and nonprofit administrators leave intellectual property issues to the legal department, unaware that an organization’s intellectual property can help accomplish a range of management goals, from accessing new markets to improving existing products to generating new revenue streams. John Palfrey — Henry N. Ess Professor of Law and Vice Dean for Library and Information Resources at Harvard Law School — discusses his new book, Intellectual Property Strategy (MIT Press), which argues for strategies that go beyond the traditional highly restrictive “sword and shield” approach, suggesting that flexibility and creativity are essential to a profitable long-term intellectual property strategy — especially in an era of changing attitudes about media. He is joined by a variety of guests, including Jonathan Zittrain, Lawrence Lessig, Phil Malone, Terry Fisher, and Eric von Hippel, and demonstrates an iPad app based on the book that offers interactive media features with leaders in the IP field. video/audio on our website>