MFIA Wins Appeal Seeking Access to Sealed Records
Yale Law School’s Media Freedom and Information Access (MFIA) Practicum scored another victory when a New York state appellate court ruled unanimously that documents in a civil lawsuit alleging corporate corruption were improperly sealed, and clarified the scope of the constitutional access right in the New York courts. Congratulations to Patrick Kabat and the MFIA [...]
bringing fair use back into the copyright circus
Just as a quick follow-up to Christina’s excellent (and now widely linked!) post examining how the characters of Glee might fare in the real world of copyright law, I wanted to stake out another set of reasons as to why one might find the situation she describes so troubling. It has to do with the [...]
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 [...]
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: [...]
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, [...]
Liberty Tree First Amendment Online Colloquium at Yale Law School
The Yale ISP is pleased to announce the Liberty Tree First Amendment Online Colloquium at Yale Law School. This colloquium, sponsored by the Liberty Tree Initiative, McCormick Foundation and the First Amendment Center, will feature the following speakers: Frank Pasquale on Search Engine Law and the First Amendment February 5 at noon; Arianna Huffington [...]
Sampling of Net Neutrality Comments Submitted to FCC
Because it’s rather difficult to search the FCC site for comments on its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking “In the Matter of Preserving the Open Internet / Broadband Internet Practices” (hint: try searching for proceeding # 09-191 and excluding brief comments), I’ve decided to provide a highly unscientific sampling of 25 or so of the more [...]
Register now for A2K4: Access to Knowledge and Human Rights Conference
The right to take part in cultural life, to share in scientific progress, the rights to education, health care, and food: all are impacted by and impact upon policies and movements around intellectual property and Internet freedom.
This two-day conference seeks to lay the groundwork – conceptual and strategic – to build bridges between the A2K [...]
ISP Fellow Presents at ScienceOnline2010
ISP Fellow Victoria Stodden presents today at the structured unconference ScienceOnline2010, on Intellectual Property issues faced by scientists who make use of web-based tools, such as database sharing, collaboration, blogging, and other work sharing platforms. Her talk is available here. This is the 4th year for ScienceOnline2010, bringing together scientists, science writers, and other interested [...]
The Edge Annual Question 2010: How is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?
At the end of every year editors at the science and technology website The Edge ask a number of intellectuals to answer a thought-provoking question. This year it was “How is the internet changing the way you think?” Yale ISP fellow Victoria Stodden’s answer is posted here:
http://www.edge.org/q2010/q10_15.html#stodden
ISP Fellow Comments on the OSTP’s Public Access Policies for Science and Technology Funding Agencies – Post 3
The following comments were posted by ISP Fellow Victoria Stodden in response to the OSTP’s call, as announced here: http://www.ostp.gov/galleries/default-file/RFI%20Final%20for%20FR.pdf. The first wave, comments posted here, asked for feedback on implementation issues. The second wave requested input on Features and Technology (our post is here). For the third and final wave on Management, Chris Wiggins, [...]
Great summary of Journalism & New Media Ecology conference
Happy 2010 from the ISP. We’ve got a lot planned for the coming year—including, of course, the access to knowledge & human rights conference in February.
But in the meantime, check out this great summary and analysis of our November conference, “Journalism & The New Media Ecology: Who will pay the messengers?”
Three undergraduates in ISP fellow [...]
