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.
The Captain of the US v. Microsoft
Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ’64 is a blunt, plain-speaking, and physically imposing man who knows how to run a tight ship. From the moment he drew judging duties for United States v. Microsoft, Jackson was determined to keep one of the 20th century’s largest antitrust cases running swiftly and on course.
Building in Cyberspace
The intrepid crew of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society.