On April 9 2013 the Berkman Center hosted Derek Khanna talking about Disruptive Innovation in Washington, DC. Khanna gained notoriety late in 2012 after his paper ‘Three Myths about Copyright Reform and How to Fix it.‘ for the Republican Study Committee was later repudiated. This year he notably pushed the successful White House petition against cell phone unlocking prohibition, and spoke at Freedom-to-Connect. In this talk Khanna presents a strategy to address real and systemic problems related to technology and antiquated legislation, by re-framing the policy questions, winning small battles, and developing a working coalition to achieve positive technology policy reforms in an otherwise complacent Congress.
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Tonight: Free Culture & OpenITP Tech Activism 3rd Monday joint event #ta3m #freeculture
Tonight, Monday February 18 2013, the Free Culture Alliance NYC will meet at the monthly OpenITP Techno-Activism Third Monday. As well as the usual food and drink the featured presented will be Jeff Hermes, Director, Digital Media Law Project, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, who will provide activists with advice and tools that will help them minimize their risks and protect themselves and understand their online rights.
What: February Techno-Activism 3rd Monday
When: Monday, February 18, 2012 at 6:00 PM (EST)
Where: New America Foundation, 199 Lafayette Street, Suite 3b. NYC
Register: http://hactivism.eventbrite.com/
Webcast: Will be recorded.
Twitter: #TA3M : @OpenITP
Contact: Sandra @ [email protected]
VIDEO: Susan Crawford “Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age” #CaptiveAudience #telecomreform
Ever since, in Feb 2011 at NYU, Susan Crawford presented a preview – The Big Squeeze: The Looming Cable Monopoly – of her upcoming book, publication of same has been eagerly awaited. It would, one hoped and expected, be an eyeopener, shaking the complacency of the underserved and gouged United States public, serving as the catalyst, the herald, of a popular movement to demand telecom reform and fairer, faster, broader High Speed Internet options for all.
Now, at last, retitled “Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age” the book is in our hands. Let the fireworks begin!
Video: John Palfrey on Network Neutrality at Open World Forum 2011 #netneutrality #owf11
John Palfrey (Harvard Law School) discusses Net Neutrality with Jérémie Zimmermann (La Quadrature du Net) at Open World Forum 2011 :
@BerkmanCenter and @StanfordLaw call for ‘Ideas for a Better Internet’ – deadline 4/15 @Ideas4BetterNet
The Berkman Center at Harvard University and Stanford Law School are
pleased to announce a new initiative in which we invite the world to
submit their ‘Ideas for a Better Internet.’ We are seeking out brief
proposals from anyone with ideas as to how to improve the Internet.
Students at Harvard and Stanford will work through early next year to
implement the ideas selected. Interested parties should submit their
ideas at http://bit.ly/i4bicfp by Friday, April 15. Please spread the
word far and wide, and follow us on Twitter at
http://twitter.com/Ideas4BetterNet.
Audio: Digital Media and Popular Uprising @berkmancenter
Audio recording of a panel discussion on Digital Media and Popular Uprisings featuring Ethan Zuckerman of Global Voices and the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Jillian York of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, and Suren Moodliar of Massachusetts Global Action and the Majority Agenda Project on March 31, 2011 at the University Hall Amphitheater at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA, USA. The event was sponsored by Open Media Boston and Lesley University. 40 people were in attendance.
[Feb. 25] Wireside Chat with Lawrence Lessig: Fair Use, Politics, and Online Video | Berkman Center
Thursday, February 25, 6:00-7:30 pm Harvard Law School
On February 25, 2010, Lawrence Lessig will deliver a talk on fair use and politics in online video from Harvard Law School in Cambridge, MA. Come in person, or tune in to a live webcast at http://openvideoalliance.org/lessig.
In conjunction with the Cambridge event, OVA is hosting screenings in cities around the world. Many of these screenings will be followed by special presentations. In New York, check out a curation by the ReMixed Media Festival. In Los Angeles, take part in a Critical Commons workshop. If you’re in the San Francisco Bay Area, check out a live audiovisual demonstration by Eclectic Method at Stanford Law School. For more details, or to host your own event, visit http://openvideoalliance.org/lessig.
Lessig’s talk will explore copyright in a digital age, and the importance of a doctrine like fair use for free expression on the Internet. Fair use allows limited use of copyrighted material without requiring permission from the rights holders, and is essential for commentary, criticism, news reporting, remix, research, teaching and scholarship with video. As a medium, online video will be most powerful when it is fluid, like a conversation. Like the rest of the internet, online video must be designed to encourage participation, not just passive consumption.
- NYC Screening @ The Open Planning Project 148 Lafayette: RSVP | Facebook
- Open Video Alliance
- Open Video Alliance Event / Webcast Page
- Twitter tag: #wireside
Configuring the Networked Self – Julie Cohen : webcast 1/26 12.30pm
Configuring the Networked Self – Julie Cohen
Tuesday, January 26, 12:30 pm
Berkman Faculty Fellow and HLS Visiting Professor Julie Cohen will discuss a chapter from her forthcoming book, which explores the effects of expanding copyright, pervasive surveillance, and the increasingly opaque design of network architectures in the emerging networked information society. The chapter argues that “access to knowledge” is a necessary but insufficient condition for human flourishing, and adds two additional conditions.
FCC Deployment Workshop Webinar Thursday 12/10 1pm
As part of the FCC’s development of the National Broadband Plan, the Commission requested two independent studies, one from Harvard’s Berkman Center on the existing studies about broadband deployment throughout the world, and the other from CITI on projected deployment of new and upgraded broadband networks. The CITI report, “Broadband in America: Where It Is and Where It is Going,” is authored by Bob Atkinson, Director of Policy Research, and Ivy Schultz, Manager of Research.
On December 10, the FCC will hold a workshop in the Commission Meeting Room where the authors of the two studies will provide an overview of their findings. The review of the Berkman report will start at 1:00pm, and CITI’s report start at about 1:45pm.
More information and registration details can be found here.
The Berkman Report
Download here
The CITI report
Download: report | appendices
Access Denied: The Policy of Global Internet Filtering
Rob Faris, the OpenNet Initiative’s Research Director and John Palfrey, one of the project’s Principal Investigators, lead a discussion of Internet filtering and provided a glimpse of the results of ONI’s first global survey of Internet censorship.
In the last year ONI has studied forty countries and found a substantial increase in Internet censorship, colored by complex and dynamic political, legal and social processes. The research will be documented in the forthcoming MIT Press book: Access Denied: the Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering.
The OpenNet Initiative is a partnership between the Citizen Lab at the Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto, the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, the Advanced Network Research Group at the Cambridge Security Programme at Cambridge University, and the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford.