Digital Pathways to Asia
Can law keep up with technology? Some Harvard lawyers are finding out.
Book Smart
HLS professor seeks to make copyrighted works accessible to students with disabilities.
In Tune With the Law
HLS Recording Artists Project focuses on the legal side of the music industry.
A Hot Property
With conferences, research and ideas, HLS faculty and students keep pace with the ever-changing world of intellectual property issues.
Up on Downloading
HLS professors propose different ways to address the proliferation of music downloading.
When Sharing Is a Crime
Imagine a world without copyrights on songs or movies. Instead, government tax revenue would compensate entertainers in proportion to how much consumers listened to or watched their products.
Grasping Cyber-reach
Depending on your perspective, Kourosh Kenneth Hamidi may be either a crank or a prophet. But William McSwain ’00 wants to keep the Internet free for both.
Through a Filter, Darkly
Last year the Berkman Center for Internet & Society launched a project to determine the level and quality of Web filtering in nations around the globe-starting with Saudi Arabia and China, believed to be among the most restrictive blocking regimes in the world.
The Year of the Copyright
In October, the Supreme Court heard a challenge to the constitutionality of a law extending copyright by 20 years. But the question posed by the case, says Assistant Professor Jonathan Zittrain ’95, is whether copyright can last forever.
Weather Report
When the World Wide Web first reached buzzword status in the mid-1990s, corporate presence on the Internet was comparatively small.