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Ownership structures for creative works – such as Copyright, Creative Commons, Fair Use, Public Domain – abound. This week, Kenneth Crews, the director of the Copyright Office at Columbia University, speaks with us about some of the distinctions, and the ways to make sure your work is protected as much or as little as possible.

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Lee Dirks, Director of Education & Scholarly Communications in Microsoft’s External Research division proposes a vision for the future of research and the need for semantic-oriented computing by exploring eResearch projects that have successfully applied relevant technologies. He suggests that a software + service model with scientific services delivered from the cloud will become an increasingly accepted model for research.

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This event was co-sponsored by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, the Harvard Business School Knowledge and Library Services, Harvard Law School Library, and the Office for Scholarly Communication.

Calestous Juma, Professor of the Practice of International Development and Director of the Science, Technology, and Globalization Project at Harvard’s Kennedy School, explores the implications of high speed internet for Africa’s capacity to expand the global market for access devices, creation of content, and development of markets.

Click here for notes on the event from Ethan Zuckerman.

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Steve Schultze is a busy fellow. He is a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. He recently joined the Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy as Associate Director. He also is one of the developers behind RECAP – an ambitious and provocative project that seeks to bring publicly available digital court records out from behind a costly paywall.

What is RECAP? Find out on this week’s episode!

And why are there fees for court records? Steve also just dropped a great working paper that goes into more detail on the topic.

If you’re in Washington, DC next week catch Steve’s talk on RECAP at the O’Reilly Gov 2.0 conference on Tuesday, September 8.

Naturally we think Steve will make a terrific addition to the Princeton team — congrats, Steve! — and, while we’re sad to lose him, we’re looking forward to stronger ties to CITP and opportunities to collaborate and partner in the future.

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Reference Section:
Find out about PACER and the RECAP project
Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy
Steve’s blog

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General Fuzz – Acclimate

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The hype shows no signs of abating. Now that people have moved from just talking-about-Twitter, to the more meta talking-about-talking-about-Twitter, we here at Radio Berkman decided to take on the topic from our own perspective and see if there is possibly anything new left to be said about the popular microblogging service.

Turns out there is.

On today’s episode:

• An interview with @birdchick about Twitter’s corollaries in the natural world;

• An interview with @zephoria about ReTweeting, and stepping outside of the conversation on Twitter;

• A much anticipated debate on Twitter’s “revolutionariness” between the Berkman Center’s amazing summer interns. (To hear the full debate, click here.)

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Morgantj: Café Connection
Neurowaxx: “Pop Circus”
Podington Bear: “The Squeaky Song”
RAC Remix: Zero (orig. Yeah Yeah Yeahs)

The Reference Section:
Twitter Grew Up in July
Bird Chick
Connect to danah boyd’s research and blog
Our debaters: Rebekah, Sawyer, Catherine, and Chris. Andrew Moshirnia has not yet joined Twitter publicly.

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The Berkman Center for Internet Society was blessed with the presence of dozens of interns this summer – some of the best, the brightest, and most energetic folks in the field of cyber study. Four of them came together earlier this summer for a semi-Oxford style debate on a topic of importance. The question: Is Twitter a Revolutionary Force for Social Communication?

We excerpted from this debate for this week’s Radio Berkman (listen here), but the full debate is chock full of some great perspectives on whether Twitter is a force for good, evil, or just not such a big deal. Give it a listen!

Berkterns debating a topic of importance.

Above from left to right: Chris Peterson, Andrew Moshirnia, Rebekah Heacock, Sawyer Jacobs, and Catherine White.

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Larry Lessig, Professor of Law and founder of the Stanford Center for Internet and Society speaks at the Berkman Center workshop “Alternative Approaches to Open Digital Libraries in the Shadow of the Google Book Search Settlement” held July 31, 2009.

Sponsored by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, the Harvard Law School Library, and Professors Charles Nesson, John Palfrey and Phil Malone.

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Is the idea of a mainstream video culture dead? TV news anchors, sitcom stars, and A-list actors are losing ground to the groundswell of citizen journalists, independent web series creators, and the occasional cats falling off of pianos on YouTube. If everyone is a producer, what role will video play in our lives in the future?

This was one line of questioning taking place at the first ever Open Video Conference in New York City this past June. In addition to the producer question were questions about the sharing of creative works, and questions about how we can make it technologically cheaper and easier to share, collaborate on, and deliver video in the future.

Today’s Radio Berkman is a report back from OVC, with Amar Ashar, Chris Peterson, and Catherine White of the Berkman Center.

Special thanks today to Catherine White who gathered audio from the OVC!

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The proposed Google Book Search settlement creates the opportunity for unprecedented access by the public, scholars, libraries and others to a digital library containing millions of books assembled by major research libraries. But the settlement is controversial, in large part because this access is limited in major ways: instead of being truly open, this new digital library will be controlled by a single company, Google, and a newly created Book Rights Registry consisting of representatives of authors and publishers; it will include millions of so-called “orphan works” that cannot legally be included in any competing digitization and access effort, and it will be available to readers only in the United States.

Alexander Macgillivray, Deputy General Counsel for Products and Intellectual Property at Google (and soon to be General Counsel of Twitter) chats about the Google Book Search Settlement, its intricacies, pros, and cons, and responds to provocative questions and comments.

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You don’t need to be a crowned Ranger class master hacker to sneak into someone’s email or facebook account these days. Which means that you’re not simply being a nervous nellie if you’re worried about security.

In fact, users of public WiFi should be worried. If you use WiFi to access some of the most popular email and social networking services, like, gmail, yahoo mail, hotmail, and facebook, your account information floats around in the air, often completely unsecured.

You want some more fear with your coffee? Chris Soghoian, a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, took a look into WiFi and account security to find out just how scary the situation is.

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The Reference Section:
See Chris’ Open Letter to Google
How to protect your gmail
Secure all your google utilities in Firefox
Chris is soon to be a free agent but his research is needed! Hire him!

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General Fuzz – Cream
Arslkhan – Love Odyssey

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