MediaBerkman

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.

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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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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.

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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.

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We’ll be back in two weeks with episode #5. In the meantime, stayed tuned at citmedialaw.org.

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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.

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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.

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Music used in this podcast was sampled and remixed from a track titled “Jazz House” by the Wicked Allstars, available on Magnatune.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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”.

Traci Fenton of WorldBlu speaks on organizational democracy and the future of work. WorldBlu writes

“Organizational democracy is freedom within a business framework. It is both an organizational strategy for companies and a leadership style. It is achieved when a company uses the principles of democracy to design the way it operates daily, cultivating a company that enhances employee potential, thereby achieving its business goals and positively impacting the community.”

To take a closer look at these and other issues, we’ll hear from Traci Fenton speaking at Berkman Luncheon on June 13, 2006.

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Produced by Colin Rhinesmith.

Attribution: Music used in this edition of AudioBerkman was sampled and remixed from a track by Gurdonark titled “One Endless Unity”.

Jack Goldsmith, Professor of Law at Harvard, talks about “Who Controls The Internet: Illusions of a Borderless World?”.

A new book co-written with Columbia Law School Professor, Tim Wu. The book asks the following questions, “Is the Internet erasing national borders? Will the future of the Net be set by Internet engineers, rogue programmers, the United Nations, or powerful countries? Who’s really in control of what’s happening on the Net?”

On this edition of AudioBerkman, we’ll hear from Jack Goldsmith speaking at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School.

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Produced by Colin Rhinesmith.

Attribution: Music for this edition for AudioBerkman was sampled and remixed from a track by mystro titled Mystro Soul Instrumental.