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Recently the Berkman Center released “The Digital Learning Challenge: Obstacles to Educational Uses of Copyrighted Material in the Digital Age,” a year-long study on the relationship between copyright law and education. Overseen by Prof. William Fisher and conducted by Berkman fellow William McGeveran, the paper studies whether innovative uses of digital technology were hampered by copyright restrictions.

In this MediaBerkman special, Colin Rhinesmith and Amanda Michel looked closely into the paper’s case studies by interviewing Prof. William Fisher, Berkman fellow Bill McGeveran, Berkman student fellow Jackie Harlow, Washington College of Law Professor Peter Jaszi, WGBH Deputy General Counsel Jay Fialkov, New World Records Vice President and Trustee Lisa Kahlden, and George Mason Professor/Associate Director or the Center for History and New Media Mills Kelly.

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Produced by Amanda Michel and Colin Rhinesmith.

Attribution: Music used in this AudioBerkman podcast includes several tracks sampled off the album “Love and you and I” from Lizzi, available at Magnatune. Track samples include: “Me”, “You belong”, “Remedy”, “Lay down”, “Only you”, and “Gone”.

Bill McGeveran, former Berkman Center Fellow and researcher with the Digital Media Project talks about the release of a new white paper, titled “The Digital Learning Challenge: Obstacles to Educational Uses of Content in a Digital Age.”

This foundational white paper reports on a year-long study by The Berkman Center for Internet & Society and funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The paper explores the relationship between copyright law and education. In particular, whether innovative uses of digital technology were hampered by the restrictions of copyright.

To learn more, we’ll hear Amanda Michel of the Berkman Center interview Bill McGeveran.

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Attribution: Music used in this edition of AudioBerkman was sampled from a track titled “You Belong” by Lizzi on the album “Love and you and I“, available at Magnatune.

Beyond Broadcast co-host, The Berkman Center for Internet & Society conducted a number of interviews with BB participants over the two day conference. Daniel Krawczyk of Digital Bicycle/POSM and Amanda Michel of the Berkman Center conducted the interviews and AudioBerkman’s Colin Rhinesmith produced the following podcasts:

• Zephyr Teachout answers the question, “Do you think that the Internet will realize its potential when today’s kids grow up?”

• Nolan Bowie, Berkman and Kennedy School fellow, talks about the limitations of public media in a world where more people are illiterate than online.

• John Lester from Second Life describes what role he thinks virtual worlds can play in the future of public media.

• John Barth, PRX Station Collaboration Manager, talks about recent PRX changes and what a difference content acquisition makes.

• Jamie Biggar of WGBH reflects on the challenges facing public media in a participatory culture and documentary filmmaker Martin Lucas speaks about what he saw as major conference themes.

• Jay Dedman, of Momentshowing.net and CCTV’s Jason Crow discuss the role of public access TV in communities across the country and the challenges and opportunities facing community media beyond traditional broadcasting in a participatory culture.

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Amanda Michel speaks with Jamie Biggar from WGBH on Day 2 of Beyond Broadcast. Amanda asked Jamie where he thinks public media is going, whether innovation is happening on the edges or in the core, and how these changes have affected his daily life.

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This interview was recorded by Amanda Michel from the Berkman Center.

Amanda Michel speaks with John Barth, PRX Station Collaboration Manager about recent changes at PRX, including their focus on content acquisition and support for youth-focused content. Listen in and you’ll find out what John likes to listen to and where PRX is going.

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This interview was recorded by Amanda Michel from the Berkman Center at Day 2 of the Beyond Broadcast conference, May 13, 2006 at Harvard Law School.

Amanda Michel speaks with John Lester of Linden Lab and Second Life. A theme emerging from the conference is the significance of the digital divide and whether public media has the responsibility to do something about it. They quickly talked about what conference attendees are doing in Second Life, what impact Lester believes Second Life can have on public media, and the significance of the digital divide.

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This interview was recorded by Amanda Michel from the Berkman Center at Day 2 of the Beyond Broadcast conference, May 13, 2006 at Harvard Law School.

Attribution: Music from this episode of AudioBerkman was sampled from a track by cdk titled Travel (taking the high rhodes mix).

Amanda Michel speaks with Zephyr Teachout, who previously worked as Howard Dean’s Director of Online Organizing and is now teaching Internet & Politics courses in Vermont, whether she thinks the answers lie in the next generation. Conference panelists told the audience that today’s young children will show us how to use the Internet in ways we could never imagine. Listen to this clip and hear what she has to say about that.

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This interview was recorded by Amanda Michel from the Berkman Center at Day 2 of the Beyond Broadcast conference, May 13, 2006 at Harvard Law School.

Attribution: Music from this episode of AudioBerkman was sampled from a track by cdk titled Travel (taking the high rhodes mix).

Nolan Bowie Berkman Center and Kennedy School fellow and adjunct lecturer, reminded the first panel that there are more illiterate people in the world than there are people who use the Internet. He asked them how public media can be truly public if it is only online. Berkman Center’s Amanda Michel asked him whether today’s public media truly is ‘public,’ and, if it were, what it would look like.

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This interview was recorded at the Beyond Broadcast conference on May 12, 2006 at the Harvard Law School.

Attribution: Music from this episode of AudioBerkman was sampled from a track by cdk titled Travel (taking the high rhodes mix).