Julie Cohen Lecture January 29
You are cordially invited to the first Information Society Project speaker series event of the new semester, scheduled for Friday, January 29 at noon in the Sterling Memorial Library Lecture Hall (location to be confirmed the week of the lecture). This event is co-sponsored by the Yale University Library and is part of the library’s [...]
Thomas Goetz, Executive Editor of Wired, Discusses “Does Privacy Matter?”
Please join us on Tuesday, December 15 for the weekly ISP speaker series, featuring Wired Executive Editor Thomas Goetz discussing “Does Privacy Matter? Medical Information in a Time of Collective Wisdom.” The event will take place at 4:10 p.m. in Room 121 of Yale Law School. Refreshments will be provided. The event is sponsored by [...]
Copyright Registries: Rising into the Public Domain
The next copyright lecture series event, entitled “Copyright Registries: Rising into the Public Domain,” will take place on December 9 from 2:00-3:30 p.m. in the Sterling Library Lecture Hall across Wall Street from Yale Law School. This event is part of the Yale University Library sponsored “Copyright Lecture Series.”
Mimi Calter (Stanford University Libraries) and Anne [...]
Harvard-MIT-Yale Cyberscholar Working Group December 2
Please join us for the Harvard-MIT-Yale Cyberscholar Working Group scheduled for December 2, 2009 from 6:00-8:30 pm at Harvard. The event will take place in Conference Room 202 of the Berkman Center at 23 Everett Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Please RSVP to Herkko Hietanen at herkko.hietanen@hiit.fi if you plan to attend. Refreshments provided. The following [...]
December 1 Lecture on Gene Patents by ACLU Attorney Chris Hansen
The December 1 Yale ISP Speaker Series, co-sponsored with the Yale Law School Chapter of the American Constitution Society, will feature ACLU lawyer Chris Hansen discussing “Gene Patents: Patently Unconstitutional?” Chris Hansen is the lead attorney in Association for Molecular Pathology v. United States Patent and Trademark Office. The case addresses the patenting of the [...]
Talk by EFF’s Fred Von Lohmann November 17
The November 17 ISP Speaker Series will feature Fred Von Lohmann, the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s senior staff attorney specializing in intellectual property matters. The name of his talk is “Owners of Copies v. Copyright Owners: Understanding Copyright’s Exhaustion Doctrine.”
The Ninth Circuit is poised to rule on three appeals that bring up the same issue: can [...]
Technologies of Dissent Talk at 4S
Yale ISP Executive Director Laura DeNardis and ISP fellows Victoria Stodden and Ben Peters are all presenting papers this week in DC at the annual meeting of the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S). 4S is the primary intellectual community for scholars in the field of Science, Technology, and Society (STS) and [...]
Media Revolution & Citizen Journalism
Gigi Sohn Talk on October 27
The October 27 ISP Speaker Series will feature Gigi Sohn discussing “Content and its Discontents: What Net Neutrality Does and Doesn’t Mean for Copyright.” The event will take place at 4:10 p.m. in Room 121 of Yale Law School. Refreshments will be provided.
Gigi Sohn is an internationally known communications attorney and the founder of Public [...]
Harvard-MIT-Yale Cyberscholar Event
Please join us on November 3, 2009 from 6:00-8:30 p.m. for a special session of the Harvard-MIT-Yale Cyberscholar Working Group. The event will be held in Room B48 of the Hall of Graduate Studies, immediately across York Street from Yale Law School.
This event will feature a “Digital Democracy Debate” with Matthew Hindman, author of The [...]
Yale ISP at Digital Labor Conference
The Yale ISP will participate in the upcoming conference “The Internet as Playground and Factory: a Conference on Digital Labor” scheduled for November 12-14 at Eugene Lang College, the New School in New York City. The Information Society Project is one of the co-presenters of the conference and eight ISP fellows will [...]
Mark Pittman to Speak about Freedom of Information
You are cordially invited to join us Tuesday, October 13, to hear Mark Pittman of Bloomberg News speaking about “Busting the American Casino: How Freedom of Information Can Tame the Federal Reserve.” The event will take place in Room 121 of Yale Law School at 4:10 p.m. Refreshments will be served. Pittman will speak [...]
Yale ISP at Internet:Critical Event
Today marks the first day of Internet Research 10.0 – Internet: Critical, the 10th annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), an international association for scholars in any discipline in the field of Internet studies. Today’s keynote address features Siva Vaidhyanathan discussing The Googlization of Everything and the Theology of Google.
This year’s [...]









