Berkman Fellow Chris Soghoian writes on Surveillance State, his CNET blog: "A team from Harvard's Berkman Center...has requested an exemption [to the DMCA] that, in the event that a central-server based DRM scheme fails in the future, would permit consumers to circumvent and evade the DRM protecting the music, movies, software and games that they have previously purchased..."
Next week: Copyright for Librarians at the Luncheon Series. Plus! Creative Commons panel with Lawrence Lessig, Jonathan Zittrain, Joi Ito, Molly Van Houweling, and Jamie Boyle.
Yesterday, the New America Foundation and many others issued "A National Broadband Strategy Call to Action," which asks President-elect Obama and the next congress to make the development of a national broadband strategy a priority...
This talk with Harvard's Timothy E Wirth professor of Learning Technologies, Chris Dede, illustrates research on learning and assessment in immersive interfaces in order to foster a discussion of the policy and legal issues around this mode of education.
Global Voices Online brings us special coverage from Thailand and Mumbai...
For the Thanksgiving holiday in the US this week, many of us are traveling to visit friends and family or are preparing to receive guests. The Digital Natives blog, too, hosted some friends this week -- from Seattle and Paris: Tyler Goulet asks "Can the Internet Save the World?" and Gaby David bases an analysis of the US presidential election on camphone-video broadcasts...
In 2007, Australian journalist, author and blogger Antony Loewenstein traveled to Egypt, Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Cuba and China to investigate how the net was challenging authoritarian regimes, the role of Western multinationals such as Google in the assistance of web filtering and how misinformed we are in the West towards states considered "enemies" or "allies."
Irving Wladawsky-Berger is a Visiting Professor of Engineering Systems at MIT, where he is involved in multi-disciplinary research and teaching activities focused on how information technologies are helping transform business organizations and the institutions of society.
Our friends over at Public Radio Exchange launched PRX 3.0--a fancy new version of their website--over the weekend...
Digital Youth, Hossein Derakshan, the ISTTF, and more...in this week's BUZZ!
Before you join your family around the turkey next Thursday, join the Berkman family for two great events next Monday and Tuesday.
StopBadware.org has teamed up with the good people of Consumer Reports WebWatch to create BadwareBusters.org, a new online community for people looking for help removing viruses, spyware, and other bad and malicious software from their computers...
This week, over on the newly started "An Eye on Surveillance" blog, the first in a series of posts about egregious privacy intrusions -- "Snooping Browsing History through HTML"...
Now that the Berkman Center is University-wide, we are seeking a new unified visual identity...
Berkman Center founder Charles Nesson and his CyberOne class are moving forward with their case against the RIAA...
Michael Heller presents at the Tuesday Luncheon Series...
