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 [...]
Save the Date: February 12-13, 2010
A2K4: Access to Knowledge and Human Rights Conference
Please save the date for the Fourth Access to Knowledge Conference (A2K4) scheduled to take place at Yale Law School on February 12-13, 2010.
Access to knowledge (A2K) is about designing intellectual property laws, telecommunication policies, and technical architectures that encourage broader participation in cultural, civic, and educational affairs; [...]
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 [...]
ISP Fellow Victoria Stodden speaking at Science 2.0 in Toronto
On July 26, new ISP fellow Victoria Stodden spoke at the conference “Science 2.0: What Every Scientist Needs to Know About How the Web is Changing the Way They Work”. The conference was a capstone to a two week tutorial for computational researchers on tools they can use to improve their research. The abstract for [...]
Open Video: The Rough Cut
Professionally produced video of all the speeches from the Open Video conference will go live at http://openvideoconference.org within a few days. In the meantime, amateur footage is already floating around the internet.
Yochai Benkler: Friday Keynote Address
Highlights from the Open Video Conference
Congratulations to Open Video Conference organizers Elizabeth Stark, Leah Belsky, and Shay David for producing an extraordinary gathering this weekend in New York to explore the future of online video and new media.
This conference explored business models, legal systems, and technical architectures for open Internet video that promotes democratic freedoms, free culture, open innovation, and [...]
Lea Shaver: Open Video and Human Rights
ISP Resident Fellow Lea Shaver spoke at the Open Video Conference today on a panel addressing “Human Rights and Indigenous Media: Dilemmas, Challenges and Opportunities.”
In her presentation, Shaver suggested that open video promotes human rights in two ways, strengthening freedom of expression and cultural participation.
Using examples from the recent mass demonstrations in Iran, Shaver highlighted [...]
Open Video Conference coming June 19-20
The future of online video will be explored at a two-day event taking place June 19-20 at the NYU School of Law in Manhattan.
The “Open Video Conference” is sponsored by Yale Law School’s Information Society Project (ISP), the Participatory Culture Foundation, and Kaltura, in partnership with Mozilla, Creative Commons, and the Berkman Center for Internet [...]
Health Impact Fund Panel
A presentation on the proposed Health Impact Fund (HIF), a pay-for-performance mechanism designed to reduce the cost of advanced medicines without stifling innovation, will be held at Yale Law School Thursday, April 9, at 4 p.m. in Room 127. The event is sponsored by Yale’s MacMillan Center and the Information Society Project at Yale Law [...]
Announcing the Open Video Conference
Open Video Conference June 19-20 in New York City
The future of online video will be explored at a two-day event taking place June 19-20 at the NYU School of Law in Manhattan. The “Open Video Conference” is sponsored by Yale Law School’s Information Society Project (ISP), the Participatory Culture Foundation, and Kaltura, in partnership with [...]
Panel 4: Digitizing Collections
The Digitizing Collections panel, moderated by Associate Yale University Librarian for Collections and International Programs Ann Okerson, is the final panel of the Library 2.0 conference. Panelists include:
Jeff Cunard, Partner, Debovoise & Plimpton
Guy Pessach, Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Frank Pasquale, Visiting Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Brewster Kahle, Digital librarian and [...]
Panel 3: The Challenge of Copyright
Back from lunch, Lea Shaver introduced the third panel, which included Laura Gasaway, Jonathan Band, Denise Troll Covey and Kenneth Crews. The topic: copyright challenges in the era of the Library 2.0…
Lea Shaver
This panel is entitled “The Challenge of Copyright,” but as the five of us put heads together, we realized that this title was all [...]
