Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society

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. 

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

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."

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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