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Nov 18, 2005

Film and Fair Use

Today the Center for Social Media at American University released "A Documentary Filmmakers' Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use," which details the situations in which today…

Nov 18, 2005

Circumventing Censorship

The BBC reports on yesterday's events at WSIS and ONI's latest report, "Filtering in Tunisia: 2005."  Also check out The Times of London article, "Read all about it.

Nov 17, 2005

Expression Under Repression at WSIS (the UN's World Summit on the Information Society)

Rebecca MacKinnon and Ethan Zuckerman hosted "Expression Under Repression," a workshop at the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis (for more on that, please check out…

Nov 16, 2005

Open Net Initiative reports on filtering in Tunisia

The Open Net Initiative (ONI) has released its report on filtering by the Tunisian government. The report finds that the Tunisian government uses American software to filter…

Nov 15, 2005

News from WSIS: Web Censorship in Tunisia

Berkman Center representatives at the World Summit on the Information Society are seeing a common thread- censorship by a government that claims to protect freedom of thought and…

Nov 10, 2005

Tonight: "Revenge of the Female Nerds"

We found out about Annalee Newitz's upcoming talk (tonight, 8pm, Pound 100), "Revenge of the Female Nerds -- Busting Media and Industry Myths About Why Women Can't Be Technical,"…

Nov 9, 2005

Engemann Luncheon Series: Future Demands of German Citizenry

We learned from yesterday's luncheon series guest, Christoph Engemann, that as Germany moves its social services functions online (for example, unemployment benefits) the…

Nov 8, 2005

Today's Luncheon Series: Christoph Engemann

Today's luncheon series guest is Christoph Engemann.  Engemann will describe how Germany's transition to offering welfare services online has created new responsibilities for…

Nov 8, 2005

By Kenneth Cukier: Another look at patents and technology

Yesterday Kenneth Cukier, technology correspondent for the Economist, visited us at the Berkman Center to discuss his "Market of Ideas," a piece in which he argues that patents…

Nov 7, 2005

MacKinnon on Chinese Blogger Conference

We posted last week about the upcoming and first-ever Chinese bloggers conference that took place this past weekend.

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