Google's liability in Italy
Google has just been held criminally liable in Italian court for video content it hosted.
This is a horrific outcome. Here’s why, against a backdrop of US law:
Newspapers in the US may be liable for libel in what they publish (under a strong pro-free-press standard, of course, established in NYTimes v. Sullivan). This makes sense: if [...]
ISP Fellows featured in “Why Open Video?”
On the same weekend as the ISP’s conference, A2K4: Access to Knowledge and Human Rights, the Free Culture X conference was taking place in Washington DC. As part of that event, they released Tim Kothran’s great ten-minute educational movie entitled “Why Open Video?”
Download link: [OGG] [MP4]
Christina Mulligan on “Principles for Radical Copyright Reform”
You are cordially invited to a special Information Society Project lunch speaker series featuring Christina Mulligan discussing “Principles for Radical Copyright Reform” on Friday, March 26 (rescheduled from a snowy February 26) at noon in Room 128 of Yale Law School.
Principles for Radical Copyright Reform
What’s wrong with copyright law? Currently, it is illegal to watch [...]
Wireside Chat with Lawrence Lessig
Yale Students for Free Culture and the Yale Information Society Project are hosting a live screening of a global webcast of a talk by Lawrence Lessig convened by the Open Video Alliance and Harvard’s Berkman Center. The talk is being broadcast Thursday, February 25th from 6:00 to 7:30 EST, live from Cambridge, MA.
The 45 minute [...]
Arianna Huffington in First Amendment Online Colloquium February 22
The Yale ISP is pleased to announce that Arianna Huffington will be speaking on February 22 at 4:00 p.m. in the Liberty Tree First Amendment Online Colloquium at Yale Law School. Because of the high demand for this event, it will be open to the Yale University community and will be held in the Yale [...]
Gaining Access to ICE's Varick Detention Center
Just wanted to flag a MFIA victory – journalist Jacqueline Stevens, who writes for the Nation, will be given a tour of the Varick Detention Center in NYC next week (ICE had denied her previous requests for access). Approval came a day after the ACLU and the New York Civil Liberties Union sent a letter to [...]
Access to Knowledge and Human Rights Conference
February 11-13, 2010 at Yale Law School
This conference seeks to lay the groundwork – conceptual and strategic – to build bridges between the A2K and human rights communities pursuing common goals of promoting greater access to knowledge, culture, technology and tools for innovation worldwide.
Screening & Discussion: “In the Family”
Thursday, Feb. 11 @ 6:30 p.m. — Room 129 at Yale Law School
Sponsored by the American Civil Liberties Union Women’s Rights Project, the American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut, the Information Society Project at Yale Law School, and the YLS Law and Health Initiative.
A2K4: Welcome and Opening Remarks
Yale Law School’s fourth major conference on access to knowledge, A2K4: Access to Knowledge and Human Rights, was kicked off by professor Jack Balkin, founder of the Yale Information Society Project.
Blogging, video, and discussion of the conference may be followed at http://yaleisp.org. The best link for accessing these materials is: http://yaleisp.org/2010/02/a2k4main.
A2K4 Panel I: Perspectives on Access to Knowledge and Human Rights
To date, the intersection between intellectual property and human rights has been analyzed from several perspectives. Some claim that intellectual property is a human right; others object that IP protection conflicts with efforts to realize the rights to health, food, education, or free expression. A consensus perspective on how to view the intersection [...]
A2K4 Panel II: Technologies of Dissent: Information and Expression in a Digital World
This panel explores A2K issues relevant to classic civil and political rights, particularly freedom of expression.
Political expression and dissent are increasingly exercised online, through technologies ranging from social networking tools, blogs, email, and cell phones to more concealed and complex technical approaches such as the use of distributed denial of service attacks to disrupt [...]
A2K4 Panel III. The Right to Health: Promoting Innovation and Equity
International human rights treaties, as well as domestic constitutions in many countries, recognize a universal right to the highest attainable standard of health, which includes a claim to effective and equitable access to health care. Realization of this right guarantee, however, has been complicated by the high costs of health care, in the context of [...]
A2K4 Panel IV: Right to Education: Realizing the Potential Digital Tools
International human rights instruments recognize a right to education. Within this concept, primary education should be “universal, free and compulsory.” Opportunities for secondary and higher education, however, are recognized to be contingent upon the resources available to states. This panel explores how the power of digital technologies, social networking and peer production may be leveraged [...]
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