John Palfrey
This blawg covers the activities of Harvard University Law School's Berkman Center for Internet & Society as well as legal technology and current events related to Internet law, trademark and copyright law and media and communications law.
Author: John Palfrey is a clinical professor of law at Harvard Law School and executive director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society.
Blawg Related Categories: Intellectual Property Law • Copyright Law • Trademark Law • Internet Law • Media & Communications Law • Legal Technology • Harvard University • Law Professor
Recent Posts from John Palfrey
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The Future of the Legal Course Book
Seattle University School of Law is hosting a workshop on the “Future of the Legal Course Book.” It’s a very nicely organized, timely session, brought together by Prof. David Skover, Ron Collins, and deans Ed Rubin of…
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A Review-in-the-Making of Born Digital
Andy Oram, editor at O’Reilly, has posted something quite extraordinary on the wiki for our book and associated research project. It appears that he has read Born Digital and then posted his review on the wiki for…
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Digital Media, Youth, and Credibility
The final book in the MIT Press/MacArthur series on Digital Media and Learning (well, final only in terms of my getting around to writing up a review of it on this blog!) is “Digital Media,…
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First Few Reactions to Born Digital
After about four years of planning, research, and writing, Born Digital officially came out this week. Urs Gasser and I have so many people to thank; we have been blessed with such great teammates and…
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Navigate 2008 Day Two Tidbits
Day 2 tidbits from Navigate ‘08 by the IAPP and team: JZ told us that Mrs. Beasley, his fabulous and famous dog, has two tracking devices: a RFID chip and a GPS device. Why? They…
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Tidbits from Navigate 2008 Day One
It’s Day One at Navigate 2008. Trevor Hughes and his crack team at the IAPP have established a space for thinking not about what’s urgeny, but about what’s important when it comes to privacy. The…
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Navigating Privacy
Jonathan Zittrain and I are headed up to seacoast New Hampshire to be the “curators” of the IAPP’s new executive forum, Navigate, for the first few days of the week. It’s a beautifully organized program…
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Digital Dossiers
Kanu Tewari, a Berkman Center intern with us from Egypt for the summer, has produced a fabulous video on the topic of one the chapters — Dossiers — in our forthcoming book, Born Digital. Kanu’s…
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Prof. Obama’s Con Law Exams
The most promising lawyer in my law school section, Jodi Kantor, dropped out after a semester to join Slate as a reporter. She’s since become a big-shot at the NYT, now covering national politics. She’s…
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Two Videos: The Ballad of Zack McCune and Learning to Type with Diana Kimball
The Digital Natives project intern crew is astonishingly good this summer. They’re showing off their creative skills by making videos about issues related to young people living with technology in wired societies. The first is…