Archive for April, 2007
mediaberkman - April 26, 2007 @ 7:14 am
· Berkman Luncheon Series, Berkman Center, Human Rights, Regulation, John Palfrey, Robert Faris, audio, Security, OpenNet Initiative, Education, Politics, Internet Filtering, Privacy, Software, Internet, Governance
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.
Download the audio podcast (time: 1:08:57).
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.
mediaberkman - April 25, 2007 @ 5:51 pm
· audio, Colin Rhinesmith, IS2K7, Michael Hemment, Social Tagging, Berkman Center, Open Access, Education, Law, Internet, Software, Intellectual Property
Michael Hemment is Research Librarian and Head of Scholarly Research Initiatives at Widener Library, here at Harvard University. Recently, MediaBerkman producer Colin Rhinesmith sat down with Michael to discuss a number of pressing issues in the research field.
Download the audio podcast (time: 22:55).
In this Internet & Society 2007 podcast, Michael discusses the available means of research at the University and how the sharing of information will change greatly from the way we understand it today. Some of the specific topics include copyright, fair use, tagging, digital imaging, open source materials, and more. All of these are central to the question of the role of University in Cyberspace - the theme of this year’s Internet & Society Conference, Knowledge Beyond Authority.
There are many ways to be involved in this discussion. You can listen to the interview, visit the conference website to add a question for the June 1st conference, register to attend, and help us answer: How should universities relate to intellectual property? With respect to university knowledge creation how interconnected with the public realm should our “library of information” be?
Attribution: Music used in this AudioBerkman podcast was sampled from a track by “pilot” titled “multireplicalproliferation” available under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license.
mediaberkman - April 19, 2007 @ 6:18 pm
· Berkman Luncheon Series, Regulation, audio, Wendy Seltzer, Fair Use, Citizen Media, Law, Internet, Software, Berkman Center, Intellectual Property
When Berkman Fellow and Chilling Effects founder Wendy Seltzer posted a Super Bowl clip to YouTube, she thought she’d get to teach a bit about copyright — the clip was the NFL’s warning that “Any other use of this telecast or of any pictures, descriptions, or accounts of the game without the NFL’s consent, is prohibited.” In series of DMCA notices, copyright takedowns, counter-notifications, and put-backs, Seltzer has found the process more convoluted than even she anticipated. Join the discussion at the Berkman Center about the free expression stakes in Viacom v. YouTube: copyright, safe-harbors, and Chilling Effects.
Download the audio podcast (time: 1:10:31).
Brooklyn Law School, where she teaches Internet Law and Privacy. She was previously a staff attorney with Electronic Frontier Foundation, focused on intellectual property and free speech issues. She is a 1999 graduate of Harvard Law School and a 1996 graduate of Harvard College.
mediaberkman - April 19, 2007 @ 6:14 pm
· Regulation, Digital Divide, Ethan Zuckerman, Eric Osiakwan, Berkman Luncheon Series, Developing Countries, Internet, Africa, video, Berkman Center, Governance
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Eric Osiakwan and Ethan Zuckerman join Berkman Center visitors and participants to discuss current developments in Africa’s Internet and communications infrastructure, as a follow-up to their Luncheon Series talk last September.
In this lively conversation with a great deal of questions and answers, we hear about exciting possibilities and innovations, as well as challenges, in connecting African communities to each other and to the global web.
Eric is the Executive Secretary both of the African Internet Service Providers Association (AfrISPA) and the Ghana Internet Service Providers Association (GISPA). And Ethan is a Berkman Center fellow, focusing on the impact of technology on the developing world. Ethan is also a co-founder of the Berkman-sponsored popular international citizen journalism project Global Voices.
Runtime: 49:56, size: 320×240, 135mb, QuickTime .MOV, H.264 codec
mediaberkman - April 19, 2007 @ 6:10 pm
· Regulation, Digital Divide, Ethan Zuckerman, Eric Osiakwan, Berkman Luncheon Series, Berkman Center, Education, Internet, Africa, video, Governance
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Eric Osiakwan and Ethan Zuckerman join Berkman Center visitors and participants to discuss current developments in Africa’s Internet and communications infrastructure, as a follow-up to their Luncheon Series talk last September.
In this lively conversation with a great deal of questions and answers, we hear about exciting possibilities and innovations, as well as challenges, in connecting African communities to each other and to the global web.
Eric is the Executive Secretary both of the African Internet Service Providers Association (AfrISPA) and the Ghana Internet Service Providers Association (GISPA). And Ethan is a Berkman Center fellow, focusing on the impact of technology on the developing world. Ethan is also a co-founder of the Berkman-sponsored popular international citizen journalism project Global Voices.
Runtime: 45:42, size: 320×240, 130mb, QuickTime .MOV, H.264 codec
mediaberkman - April 12, 2007 @ 3:08 pm
· Regulation, Ethan Zuckerman, audio, Eric Osiakwan, Berkman Luncheon Series, Developing Countries, Internet, Africa, Berkman Center, Governance
Eric Osiakwan and Ethan Zuckerman join Berkman Center visitors and participants to discuss current developments in Africa’s Internet and communications infrastructure, as a follow-up to their Luncheon Series talk last September.
Download the audio podcast (time: 1:35:38).
In this lively conversation with a great deal of questions and answers, we hear about exciting possibilities and innovations, as well as challenges, in connecting African communities to each other and to the global web.
Eric is the Executive Secretary both of the African Internet Service Providers Association (AfrISPA) and the Ghana Internet Service Providers Association (GISPA). And Ethan is a Berkman Center fellow, focusing on the impact of technology on the developing world. Ethan is also a co-founder of the Berkman-sponsored popular international citizen journalism project Global Voices.
mediaberkman - April 4, 2007 @ 11:10 am
· Berkman Luncheon Series, Berkman Center, Second Life, Regulation, Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger, Virtual Worlds, video, Education, Politics, Law, Internet, Software, Governance
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Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger discusses “Napster’s Second Life? Regulatory Dynamics of Virtual Worlds”.
Five million registered users and counting - Second Life is the current darling of the media. With its decision to let users build their virtual world and retain intellectual property rights in their creations they broke new ground, then they opens-sourced their client software. Soon we may see multiple Second Life-like virtual worlds competing against each other - on what? Should lawmakers care? Should we care?
Runtime: 1:15:10, size: 320×240, 175mb, QuickTime .MOV, H.264 codec
mediaberkman - April 3, 2007 @ 4:45 pm
· Second Life, Berkman Luncheon Series, Regulation, audio, Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger, Berkman Center, Virtual Worlds, Education, Politics, Law, Internet, Software, Governance
Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger discusses “Napster’s Second Life? Regulatory Dynamics of Virtual Worlds”.
Download the audio podcast (time: 1:15:10).
Five million registered users and counting - Second Life is the current darling of the media. With its decision to let users build their virtual world and retain intellectual property rights in their creations they broke new ground, then they opens-sourced their client software. Soon we may see multiple Second Life-like virtual worlds competing against each other - on what? Should lawmakers care? Should we care?
