Illuminating the impact of intellectual property law on innovation
Christina’s terrific piece on Copyright and Glee looks at IP law’s impact on cultural participation. But what about the impact of IP on access to new technologies?
I’d like to take that up as the topic of my post, through a look at the little-known legal life of the light bulb.
More than a century after its [...]
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?”
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Safe Harbors and Online Creativity
It’s great to be part of the worldwide exchange of ideas that the Information Society Project makes possible. For instance, I am just now sitting at the front of an auditorium at Tsinghua University School of Law in Beijing, China, having finished my presentation on the centrality of safe harbors (for online service providers) to [...]
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 [...]
Fair Use, the DMCA, and YouTube
The ISP is co-sponsoring a talk tomorrow (October 14) by Michael Fricklas, the General Counsel and Executive Vice President of Viacom. The talk–entitled “Copyrights, Markets, and Free Speech: Should We Be Free Not to Be Free?”–will take place during Elizabeth Stark’s course on law and technology, and will deal with Viacom’s arguments in its $1 [...]
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 [...]
Jimmy Wales talk: this Wednesday at 6pm
Jimmy Wales, the co-founder and de facto leader of Wikipedia, is coming to speak at Yale on October 7 at 6pm. The talk will take place at SSS 114, which is at the corner of Grove and Prospect St in New Haven. The ISP is pleased to sponsor this talk with the Yale Students for [...]
Podcast on sharing scientific data
ISP Fellow Victoria Stodden was interviewed on September 30 by Jon Udell in his Interviews with Innovators Series on ITConversations about Reproducibility in Computational Science. Listen to the podcast here.
Harvard-MIT-Yale Cyberscholar Working Group October 7 at MIT
Two ISP Fellows will be presenting at the Harvard-MIT-Yale Cyberscholars Working Group scheduled for Wednesday, October 7 from 6:00-8:30 p.m. in the Roth Room in the 2nd Floor of the MIT Media Lab, 20 Ames Street, 02139, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Directions. Please RSVP at labrune@media.mit.edu. Light snacks provided. Bring the discussion!
Frank Pasquale, Yale ISP fellow, [...]
Optimal Information Disclosure Levels: Data.gov and “Taleb’s Criticism”
I was listening to the audio recording of last Friday’s “Scientific Data for Evidence Based Policy and Decision Making” symposium at the National Academies, and was struck by the earnest effort on the part of members of the Whitehouse to release governmental data to the public. Beth Noveck, Obama’s Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Open [...]
Tech Policy Reading Group
Week 3 / Sept 29: Wireless & Spectrum Readings:
FCC Notice of Inquiry, Fostering Innovation and Investment in the Wireless Communications Market: http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-09-66A1.pdf (pages 1-10, 16-23, 28-30)
Victor Pickard & Sascha D. Meinrath, Revitalizing the Public Airwaves: http://www.newamerica.net/files/Pickard_Meinrath_WorkingPaper24_RevitalizingPublicAirwaves.pdf (addressing various models of spectrum reform) (pages 7-11)
Philadelphia Story: http://www.newamerica.net/files/NAF_PhilWireless_report.pdf
Larry Page & former FCC Chairman Kevin Martin on white [...]
The Markey Net Neutrality Bill: Least Restrictive Network Management?
It’s an exciting time in the net neutrality debate. FCC Chairman Jules Genachowski’s speech on Monday promised a new FCC proceeding that will aim to create a formal rule to replace the Commission’s existing policy statement.
Meanwhile, net neutrality advocates in Congress are pondering new legislation for two reasons: First, there is a debate about whether [...]
ISP reading group: Technology Policy in the Obama Administration
Each semester, the ISP organizes a student-led reading group for law students with an interest in technology, copyright, patents, innovation, access to knowledge, and other related fields. This fall, Anjali Dalal, a 3L student fellow, and Nicholas Bramble, a Kauffman fellow, have put together a set of readings relating to technology policy in the Obama [...]
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