LAW ON DISPLAY: The Digital Transformation of Legal Persuasion and Judgment
The Yale Information Society Project is pleased to announce a book talk with Neal Feigenson and Christina Spiesel on April 13 at 4:00 p.m. The event will take place at the Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale located at 80 Wall Street. The event is being sponsored by Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish [...]
Nicholas Bramble on “Should the FCC Let AT&T Be? Standing on the Shoulders of Weary Giants of Flesh and Steel”
You are cordially invited to a special Information Society Project lunch speaker series featuring Nicholas Bramble discussing “Should the FCC Let AT&T Be? Standing on the Shoulders of Weary Giants of Flesh and Steel” on Friday, April 2 at noon in Room 128 of Yale Law School.
Should the FCC Let AT&T Be? Standing on [...]
National Broadband Plan: Access, Education, & Copyright (Part II)
This is the second of a series of posts on the FCC’s National Broadband Plan. (An earlier post focused on the FCC’s recommendations for promoting innovation and competition in the provision of broadband services.)
I. Why It Makes Sense to Discuss Education in a Broadband Plan
Back in December, when the [...]
National Broadband Plan: Overview (Part I)
The FCC’s National Broadband Plan, released on Tuesday of last week, does a number of interesting things in its 376 pages. This post gives a very brief overview of the plan’s framework for promoting fast, competitive, and nation-wide broadband access. In a [...]
Can Your Facebook Friend List Out You?
A new study suggests a computer program can predict your sexual orientation based on that of your friends. Does this mean we should be concerned about what inferences can be drawn about the information put online, in addition to the information we put online itself?
http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/2009/09/21/program-predicts-your-sexuality-based-on-your-facebook-friends/
MFIA Amicus in Illinois First Amendment case- with EFF
The Media Freedom and Information Practicum is proud to announce that, along with EFF, it has filed a friend-of-the-court brief urging the Illinois Court of Appeals to block the unmasking of an anonymous online critic of a local political candidate in the comments section of a local newspaper’s website.
Battle Over Message Board Flame War Must [...]
In honor of sunshine week
Yesterday marked the end of Sunshine Week, which hoped to, well, shine some light on efforts around the country to encourage open access to government records. I wanted to flag a unique, if bland, interview of Miriam Nisbet, who directs the Office of Government Information Services, a body that helps deal with Freedom of Information [...]
Harvard-MIT-Yale Cyberscholar Working Group March 23
The next Harvard-MIT-Yale Cyberscholars Working Group will take place on Tuesday, March 23 at 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm in Room B48 of the Hall of Graduate Studies, located just across York Street from Yale Law School in New Haven, CT. The session theme is “Infrastructures, ICTs, Imagination.” RSVP to Ben Peters at bjp2108@columbia.edu.
Alien Infrastructures: [...]
New 10th Circuit Amici Brief on Access and FOIA
As you know, the Media Freedom and Information Access Practicum is all about access. So perhaps you won’t be surprised to learn that we had a hand in a big-name amici brief to the 10th Circuit in support of Prison Legal News’ effort to obtain the release of audio and video documents showing the behavior of two convicted [...]
March 5 James Grimmelmann on Google Books Settlement
You are cordially invited to a special Information Society Project lunch speaker series featuring James Grimmelmann discussing the Google Books settlement on Friday, March 5 at noon in Room 128 of Yale Law School. James, an Associate Professor of Law at New York Law School and an ISP Affiliated Fellow, will be discussing “The Google [...]
Open Access to Law: from http://public.resource.org/law.gov to http://law.gov?
I’ve been involved with a few initiatives seeking to promote wide access to scholarly articles, but have not spent as much time thinking about what open access means when applied to the raw materials of law: judicial briefs, caselaw, statutes, Congressional reports and hearings, executive regulations, grants, audits, and so on. This all changed on Wednesday, [...]
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