Berkman Center for Internet & Society

United States v. Microsoft: 10 Years Later

one week away!

There is one week left to register for the "United States v. Microsoft: 10 Years Later" conference at Harvard Law School, hosted by the Berkman Center, taking place next Friday and Saturday, September 12-13. Registration is very limited, so reserve your spot now if you haven't already.

Cultivating FreeRice

The World Food Programme announced Saturday that Berkman Award Winner John Breen has expanded FreeRice to include more games; and he will be collaborating with the Berkman Center on further developing and supporting FreeRice...

Berkman Buzz: Week of August 25, 2008

"Born Digital," citizen journalists and the Georgian war, the Democratic National Convention, and more...in this week's BUZZ!

New opportunities with Berkman Center friends

The UC Berkeley School of Law is seeking a clinical professor to serve as the director of the Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic. And Stanford Law School has announced the Center for Internet and Society and Stanford Constitutional Law Center Joint Fellowship...

Digital Natives: a digital community of learners

This week, with new book Born Digital landing on bookshelves, the Digital Natives Reporters in the Field series continues its look at collaborative studying in a "web 2.0" world...

Born Digital: How To Deal With Online Agression?

From Faculty Fellow Urs Gasser's blog...Almost synchronously with the release of Born Digital in the U.S., the Swiss conservative party CVP has made headlines with a position paper that outlines actions to proactively deal with the problems associated with online aggression in Switzerland.

California Court Warns Copyright Bullies Not to Ignore Fair Use

From the Citizen Media Law Project blog... A federal district court in California held on Wednesday that copyright owners must consider fair use before sending DMCA takedown notices to avoid liability for abuse of the law's procedures.

Born Digital arrives on bookshelves

The Berkman Center is pleased to announce that Faculty Co-Director John Palfrey and Faculty Fellow Urs Gasser's "Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives" (Basic Books) is now available...

Trolling for Trouble

Daniel LaMagna, an intern with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, offers his take on Internet trolls over on the Digital Natives blog.

Berkman Buzz: Week of August 18, 2008

Internet filtering at the Olympic Games, competitive science, a call to free the white spaces, and more...in this week's BUZZ!"