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    Berkman Center launches new website to help fight viruses, spyware

    March 18, 2009

    StopBadware.org, a project sponsored by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, and Consumer Reports WebWatch announced today the full launch of BadwareBusters.org, a new online community for people looking for help preventing and countering viruses, spyware, and other “badware” on their computers and web sites.

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    Berkman Center launches new website on media trends

    March 13, 2009

    The Berkman Center for Internet & Society launched a new Web site called ‘Media Cloud’ in conjunction with Thomson Reuters in July. The goal of Media Cloud is to provide a new search tool that illustrates the nature of news and how information flows between blogs and more traditional news outlets like newspapers.

  • Berkman Center launches crowd-sourcing tool for mapping global site inaccessibility

    March 3, 2009

    The Berkman Center for Internet & Society has launched Herdict Web, which allows users to report site inaccessibility around the world. The website aggregates reports in real time, so that users can see whether inaccessibility is a shared problem. Trends can be viewed over time, by site and by country.

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    Harvard Law School’s First Cyberlaw Clinic Fellowship Established by Cooley

    February 18, 2009

    Cooley Godward Kronish has established the first fellowship at Harvard Law School’s Cyberlaw Clinic at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. The first Cooley Fellow will be announced this spring.

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    Urs Gasser joins Berkman Center as new executive director

    February 4, 2009

    Urs Gasser LL.M. ’03, an associate professor of law at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland, has been named executive director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. 

  • Rescuing the Internet for Digital Natives and the Rest of Us

    September 9, 2008

    In a wide-ranging interview, John Palfrey and Jonathan Zittrain survey the future of the Internet.

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    Berkman Center makes national headlines for its impact on public policy

    June 17, 2008

    The Berkman Center for Internet & Society received some major media recognition this week with the publication of a June 10 article in USA Today headlined "Berkman pioneers steer the course of cyberspace."

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    Berkman Center celebrates 10th anniversary with conference exploring the future of the Internet

    May 16, 2008

    The Berkman Center for Internet and Society is celebrating its 10th anniversary this week at its Berkman at 10 Conference entitled "The Future of the Internet." The two-day event features discussions celebrating the work the Berkman Center has done over the past decade, as well as looking ahead to what it hopes to accomplish in the future.

  • Malone and Jacobs appointed clinical professors of law

    May 13, 2008

    Phil Malone and Wendy Jacobs ’81 have been appointed clinical professors of law, Dean Elena Kagan ’86 announced today.

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    Digital Pathways to Asia

    July 23, 2006

    Can law keep up with technology? Some Harvard lawyers are finding out.

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    Book Smart

    July 1, 2004

    HLS professor seeks to make copyrighted works accessible to students with disabilities.

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    In Tune With the Law

    July 1, 2004

    HLS Recording Artists Project focuses on the legal side of the music industry.

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    A Hot Property

    July 1, 2004

    With conferences, research and ideas, HLS faculty and students keep pace with the ever-changing world of intellectual property issues.

  • Up on Downloading

    July 1, 2004

    HLS professors propose different ways to address the proliferation of music downloading.

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    When Sharing Is a Crime

    April 1, 2004

    Imagine a world without copyrights on songs or movies. Instead, government tax revenue would compensate entertainers in proportion to how much consumers listened to or watched their products.

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    Grasping Cyber-reach

    April 1, 2004

    Depending on your perspective, Kourosh Kenneth Hamidi may be either a crank or a prophet. But William McSwain '00 wants to keep the Internet free for both.

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    Through a Filter, Darkly

    July 1, 2003

    Last year the Berkman Center for Internet & Society launched a project to determine the level and quality of Web filtering in nations around the globe-starting with Saudi Arabia and China, believed to be among the most restrictive blocking regimes in the world.

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    The Year of the Copyright

    April 24, 2003

    In October, the Supreme Court heard a challenge to the constitutionality of a law extending copyright by 20 years. But the question posed by the case, says Assistant Professor Jonathan Zittrain '95, is whether copyright can last forever.

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    Weather Report

    September 24, 2002

    When the World Wide Web first reached buzzword status in the mid-1990s, corporate presence on the Internet was comparatively small.

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    Building in Cyberspace

    June 24, 1999

    The intrepid crew of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society.