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This week, Colin Rhinesmith speaks with Sam Bayard about copyright and fair use issues involved in a recent lawsuit against the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
Download the MP3 (time: 9:40)
Music used in this podcast was sampled and remixed from a track titled “Jazz House” by the Wicked Allstars, available on Magnatune.
This is our last podcast for 2007. We’ll be back in January with episode #7. In the meantime, stay tuned on our blog at citmedialaw.org. To subscribe to the Citizen Media Law Podcast, visit our Subscriptions page or go directly to the podcast feed.
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December 14th, 2007
This week, David Ardia talks about a recent lawsuit against iBrattleboro.com and Colin Rhinesmith speaks with Sam Bayard about an important decision on anonymity.
Download the MP3 (time: 8:20)
Music used in this podcast was sampled and remixed from a track titled “Jazz House” by the Wicked Allstars, available on Magnatune.
To subscribe to the Citizen Media Law Podcast, visit our Subscriptions page or go directly to the podcast feed. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
November 30th, 2007
This week, David Ardia talks about the lawsuit against AutoAdmit and Colin Rhinesmith speaks with Sam Bayard about a recent decision involving the celebrity blogger Perez Hilton.
Download the MP3 (time: 6:20)
We’ll be back in two weeks with episode #5. In the meantime, stayed tuned at citmedialaw.org.
Music used in this podcast was sampled and remixed from a track titled “Jazz House” by the Wicked Allstars, available on Magnatune.
To subscribe to the Citizen Media Law Podcast, visit our Subscriptions page or go directly to the podcast feed. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
November 16th, 2007
QuickTime Video
Gary Kebbel, journalism program officer at the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, was the guest speaker this week at the Berkman Center’s Luncheon Series.
Kebbel’s presentation, entitled “The Knight News Challenge and Digital Innovation: Challenges Posed by Intellectual Property, International Giving, and Grant Administration” discussed the foundation’s grant program. Just ending its third year, the Knight News Challenge is a $25 million contest to find digital news innovations that are used to create community in a given geographic area. At Knight Foundation, Kebbel also helped create the Knight Citizen News Network and the Knight Digital Media Center.
The contest was recently revised to meet new and evolving goals, such as making grants to individuals in foreign countries or focusing the wisdom of the crowd on weak applications so that they could be strengthened and resubmitted. Additionally, $500,000 was set aside for the ideas of people 25-years-old and younger. These changes create new problems of grant administration, intellectual property and having a minor win a monetary award.
Runtime: 59:36, size: 320×240, 166MB, .MOV, H.264 codec
November 14th, 2007
Gary Kebbel, journalism program officer at the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, was the guest speaker this week at the Berkman Center’s Luncheon Series.
Download the MP3 (time: 59:36)
Kebbel’s presentation, entitled “The Knight News Challenge and Digital Innovation: Challenges Posed by Intellectual Property, International Giving, and Grant Administration” discussed the foundation’s grant program. Just ending its third year, the Knight News Challenge is a $25 million contest to find digital news innovations that are used to create community in a given geographic area. At Knight Foundation, Kebbel also helped create the Knight Citizen News Network and the Knight Digital Media Center.
The contest was recently revised to meet new and evolving goals, such as making grants to individuals in foreign countries or focusing the wisdom of the crowd on weak applications so that they could be strengthened and resubmitted. Additionally, $500,000 was set aside for the ideas of people 25-years-old and younger. These changes create new problems of grant administration, intellectual property and having a minor win a monetary award.
November 13th, 2007
This week, David Ardia talks about threats to the Internet in Pakistan and Colin Rhinesmith speaks with Sam Bayard about a recent entry in our new legal threats database.
Download the MP3 (time: 7:30)
Music used in this podcast was sampled and remixed from a track titled “Jazz House” by the Wicked Allstars, available on Magnatune.
To subscribe to the Citizen Media Law Podcast, visit our Subscriptions page or go directly to the podcast feed.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
November 9th, 2007
This week, David Ardia previews our legal threats database, Colin Rhinesmith talks about a recent decision on First Amendment protections for anonymous bloggers, and Sam Bayard spotlights a defamation suit involving an Iranian blogger in Canada.
Download the MP3 (time: 9:30)
Music used in this podcast was sampled and remixed from a track titled “Jazz House” by the Wicked Allstars, available on Magnatune.
To subscribe to the Citizen Media Law Podcast, visit our Subscriptions page or go directly to the podcast feed.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
November 2nd, 2007
Welcome to the first episode of the Citizen Media Law Podcast, providing practical knowledge and tools for citizen journalists. This week, David Ardia responds to the federal shield bill passed in the U.S. House of Representatives, Colin Rhinesmith talks about legal threats to co-bloggers, and Sam Bayard reflects on the Phoenix New Times arrests.
Download the MP3 (time: 7:00)
Music used in this podcast was sampled and remixed from a track titled “Jazz House” by the Wicked Allstars, available on Magnatune.
To subscribe to the Citizen Media Law Podcast, visit our Subscriptions page or go directly to the podcast feed.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
October 26th, 2007
QuickTime Video
Aaron Swartz, co-founder of Reddit.com and Tech Lead for the Open Library project, spoke at this week’s installment of the Berkman Center’s Luncheon Series.
Aaron spoke about how, thanks to new technology, the grand vision of a library containing every book in the world is now within our grasp. He discussed how the Open Library Project, a loose collection of technologists, publishers, librarians, and book-lovers, has taken up this challenge by trying to create a website collecting everything we know about books — including library records, publishers’ blurbs, full-text and scans, reviews, and more.
Aaron was previously a co-founder of Reddit.com, which was purchased by Condé Nast in late 2006. He was worked on Internet specifications for RSS and RDF and was one of the early team members of the Creative Commons project. He is the author of a number of free software packages and a co-founder of Jottit.com.
+ Open Library demo
+ Open Library vision
+ Aaron Swartz’s website
Berkman Fellow David Weinberger live-blogged the lunch, and you can check out his comments and summary here.
Runtime: 1:03:52, size: 320×240, 178MB, .MOV, H.264 codec
October 25th, 2007
Aaron Swartz, co-founder of Reddit.com and Tech Lead for the Open Library project, spoke at this week’s installment of the Berkman Center’s Luncheon Series.
Download the MP3 (time: 1:03:39)
Aaron spoke about how, thanks to new technology, the grand vision of a library containing every book in the world is now within our grasp. He discussed how the Open Library Project, a loose collection of technologists, publishers, librarians, and book-lovers, has taken up this challenge by trying to create a website collecting everything we know about books — including library records, publishers’ blurbs, full-text and scans, reviews, and more.
Aaron was previously a co-founder of Reddit.com, which was purchased by Condé Nast in late 2006. He was worked on Internet specifications for RSS and RDF and was one of the early team members of the Creative Commons project. He is the author of a number of free software packages and a co-founder of Jottit.com.
+ Open Library demo
+ Open Library vision
+ Aaron Swartz’s website
Berkman Fellow David Weinberger live-blogged the lunch, and you can check out his comments and summary here.
October 23rd, 2007
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