MediaBerkman

We’ll be back soon with more full episodes of Radio Berkman. In the meantime, we’d like to share a clip from a short interview we did not long ago with Lawrence Liang of the Alternative Law Forum on piracy, media, and culture.

Excerpt:

“When culture reaches the point of ephemerality which allows it to flow in the way it does now, the only way to enforce (current intellectual property rules) is an army. Hopefully we are not there yet.”
- Lawrence Liang

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Joe Karaganis discusses findings from a forthcoming six-country study of media piracy, including work on Russia, India, Brazil, Mexico, and South Africa. The study provides a rare empirical look at the organization of piracy and enforcement in developing countries, and explores the transformation of both as the optical disk economy give way to digital distribution.

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Joe Karaganis discusses findings from a forthcoming six-country study of media piracy, including work on Russia, India, Brazil, Mexico, and South Africa. The study provides a rare empirical look at the organization of piracy and enforcement in developing countries, and explores the transformation of both as the optical disk economy give way to digital distribution.

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How could the transparency of personal information available online erode the rule of law? And what should government be doing about it – if anything? Joel R. Reidenberg – Professor of Law and the Founding Academic Director of the Center on Law and Information Policy at Fordham Law School – explores the erosion of the boundary between public and private information on the Internet.

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How could the transparency of personal information available online erode the rule of law? And what should government be doing about it – if anything? Joel R. Reidenberg – Professor of Law and the Founding Academic Director of the Center on Law and Information Policy at Fordham Law School – explores the erosion of the boundary between public and private information on the Internet.

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Berkman Faculty Fellow and HLS Visiting Professor Julie Cohen explores the effects of expanding copyright, pervasive surveillance, and the increasingly opaque design of network architectures in the emerging networked information society. Based on a chapter from her forthcoming book, Cohen argues that “access to knowledge” is a necessary but insufficient condition for human flourishing, and adds two additional conditions.

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Berkman Faculty Fellow and HLS Visiting Professor Julie Cohen explores the effects of expanding copyright, pervasive surveillance, and the increasingly opaque design of network architectures in the emerging networked information society. Based on a chapter from her forthcoming book, Cohen argues that “access to knowledge” is a necessary but insufficient condition for human flourishing, and adds two additional conditions.

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Unlike telephone conversations and videoconferences, avatars – representations of people in virtual environments – have the ability to control their physical appearance and behavioral actions in the eyes of their conversational partners, strategically enhancing or hiding features and nonverbal signals in real-time. Jeremy Bailenson – founding director of Stanford University’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab – explores the manners in which avatars change the nature of remote communication, and how these transformations can impact the ability to influence others in social and professional contexts.

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Unlike telephone conversations and videoconferences, avatars – representations of people in virtual environments – have the ability to control their physical appearance and behavioral actions in the eyes of their conversational partners, strategically enhancing or hiding features and nonverbal signals in real-time. Jeremy Bailenson – founding director of Stanford University’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab – explores the manners in which avatars change the nature of remote communication, and how these transformations can impact the ability to influence others in social and professional contexts.

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Though online media platforms such as YouTube and Facebook often make the promise to openly and impartially host all content, they actively make decisions about where the edges of these platforms should be: what should and should not appear, how content should be organized, what should be featured or squirreled away, and how it should be patrolled.

Tarleton Gillespie – assistant professor in the Department of Communication at Cornell University, a fellow at the Center for Internet and Society, Stanford Law School, and author of Wired Shut: Copyright and the Shape of Digital Culture – sees this array of interventions together as structuring contemporary public discourse, and situates them in the history of commercial obligations around free speech.

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