Timeline

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1995

January

• Project Nesson The Bridge Project created http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/bridge/index.htm

1996

January

• Harvard Law becomes fully wired

February

• 8-Feb Sem. Int. Barlow John Perry Barlow pens "A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace" http://homes.eff.org/~barlow/Declaration-Final.html

March

• 11-Mar HLS Harvard Law School launches its first website

July

• 22-Jul Gov Zittrain Jonathan Zittrain testifies before the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight regarding ICANN

December

• Book Berkman The Harvard Conference on the Internet and Society http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0674459318/harvardcyberconf

1997

January

• Berkman Center on Law and Technology is officialy renamed the Berkman Center for Internet & Society http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/berkman_family_gift

• Berkman Zittrain The Internet & Society course is offered at Harvard Law School by Lecturer Jonathan Zittrain '95

• Sem. Int. Weblogs introduced to the Internet

June

• Paper Isenberg The Rise of the Stupid Network http://www.hyperorg.com/misc/stupidnet.html

July

• Paper Zittrain The Rise and Fall of Sysopdom http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/1997-01

August

• Book Nesson Borders in Cyberspace: Information Policy and the Global Information Infrastructure http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0262611260/harvardcyberconf

December

• Faculty Fisher William Fisher teaches Intellectual Property in Cyberspace, one of the Berkman Center's first online courses

1998

January

• Conference Harvard holds the Second Conference on Internet & Society, asking "Will the Net Inevitably Drive a Deeper Wedge Between Rich and Poor?" http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/cybercon98/asp/splash.asp

March

• 3-Mar Berkman Miller Professor Arthur Miller '58 creates Berkman's first interactive lecture and discussion series, free and open to the public: "Privacy in Cyberspace" http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/privacy99/

• 5-Mar Conference Nesson Digital China/Harvard Conference http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ChinaDragon/index.html

• 19-Mar Conference Lessig, Zittrain, Shapiro Berkman holds its Technorealism conference, asking "How Should We Think About Technology?" http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/technorealism/tr_overview.html

April

• Article Miller Drudge Match: Cyberspace doesn't render libel law obsolete

May

• 15-May Berkman Nesson Professor Nesson emails Bill Gates, suggesting Microsoft end its "Darth Vader problem" through buying Apple and giving it to a non-profit corporation.

• Paper Lessig What Things Regulate Speech: CDA 2.0 v. Filtering http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/1998-01

July

• 30-Jul Berkman Berkman releases the first issue of the Filter http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/filter?wid=379&func=viewSubmission&sid=492

September

• Sem. Int. Google Inc. launched

October

• 28-Oct Sem. Int. Digital Millenium Copyright Act signed into law by President Bill Clinton

November

• 14-Nov Zittrain Berkman Center facilitates and moderates ICANN public meeting http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/open_governance/icann

December

• 6-Dec Conference Groups of students from MIT and Harvard Law School collaborate on new frameworks to address policy challenges from a combined legal/technical perspective. http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/6095/admin/admin-1998/conference.html

• Faculty Lessig Lawrence Lessig named first Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies

• Faculty Zittrain Jonathan Zittrain named first Executive Director of the Berkman Center

• Staff Wilbanks John Wilbanks becomes the Berkman Center's first Assistant Director

• Faculty Nesson Jamaica Project launched http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/jamaica/

• Project Cabell Recording Artists Project (RAP) at Harvard Law School begins http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rap/home

1999

January

• 23-Jan Berkman Seltzer The Berkman Center holds the Workshop on Membership Issues for ICANN, part of the Representation in Cyberspace Study http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rcs/meeting.html

• 30-Jan Conference Nesson Professor Charles Nesson leads The Lessons from Woburn Conference http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/acivilaction/Conference.htm#bottom

March

• Paper Lessig The Censorships of Television http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/1999-01

April

• Paper Bollier The Power of Openness - Why Citizens, Education, Government and Business Should Care About the Coming Revolution in Open Source Code Software http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/1999-02

May

• 20-May Conference Lessig Harvard holds the Open Code/Open Content/Open Law conference, dedicated to building a digital commons http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/opencode/

• Paper Goolsbee & Zittrain Evaluating the Costs and Benefits of Taxing Internet Commerce http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/1999-03

August

• Paper Zittrain The Un-Microsoft Un-Remedy: Law Can Prevent the Problem That It Can’t Patch Later http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/1999-04

October

• Book Hyde Trickster Makes the World: Mischief, Myth and Art http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0865475369/harvardcyberconf

December

• December Sem. Int. Recording Industry Association of America files lawsuit against Napster

• Conference Nesson, Ogletree Berkman holds Cyber Jam '99, a conference held with the Jamaican government to develop a nonprofit open code e-commerce platform http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/cyberjam/cyberjam/

• JOLT The Harvard Journal of Law & Technology goes online http://jolt.law.harvard.edu/

• Project McLaughlin, Fishkin Internet Deliberative Polling http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rcs/fish.html

• Project Nesson Judicial Gatekeeping Project http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/daubert/

• Paper Lessig The Law of the Horse: What Cyberlaw Might Teach http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/1999-05

• Paper Lessig & Resnick Zoning Speech on the Internet: A Legal and Technical Model http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/1999-06

2000

February

• 25-Feb Conference Barlow Berkman holds the Signal or Noise conference, discussing the future of music on the Net http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/netmusic.html

• Paper Zittrain What the Publisher Can Teach the Patient: Intellectual Property and Privacy in an Era of Trusted Privication, http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/2000-01

April

• 21-Apr Berkman Cabell Berkman offers "Using ICANN's UDRP," its first course certified for continuing legal education (CLE) credit http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/udrp/index.html

May

• 1-May Berkman MacKinnon Berkman hosts "Arguing the Violence Against Women Act: Two Views" http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/vaw/

• 30-May Amicus Nesson Openlaw Project, Universal et al. v. Corley and 2600 Enterprises http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/openlaw/DVD/amicus.html

June

• Conference Zittrain Harvard holds its (now impressively named) Third Biennial International Conference on Internet & Society http://www.hno.harvard.edu/gazette/2000/05.25/ryan.html

October

• 10-Oct Conference Nesson Berkman and Fred Friendly hold a judicial conference, organized with the Practicing Law Institute http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/digitaldiscovery/framework.asp

November

• 15-Nov Berkman Zittrain Berkman holds "The Day the Music Died?", debating Harvard's policy on Napster and its siblings http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/daymusic.html

December

• Book Lessig Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0465039138/harvardcyberconf

• Paper Fisher Digital Music: Problems and Possibilities http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/tfisher/Music.html

2001

January

• Faculty Zittrain Jonathan Zittrain named Berkman Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies

April

• 23-Apr Conference Zittrain Harvard hosts the nation's attorneys general for the 2001 National Association of Attorneys General Internet Law Institute

August

• Book Lessig The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0375726446/harvardcyberconf

• Book Searls, Weinberger The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0738204315/harvardcyberconf

• Book Clippinger The Biology of Business: Decoding the Natural Laws of Enterprise http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/078794324X/harvardcyberconf

December

• December Berkman Koslow The Berkman Center Weekly Luncheon Series officially begins http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/fellows_luncheon_series

• Sem. Int. Wikipedia launches the first public, collaborative encyclopedia

• Sem. Int. Lessig Creative Commons founded http://wiki.creativecommons.org/History

2002

January

• Book Kirkman, Maclay, Best The Global Information Technology Report, 2001-2002 http://www.cid.harvard.edu/cr/gitrr_030202.html

March

• March Fellow Moore Ghana Project begins http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ghana2002/index.html

May

• 30-May Conference Nesson Berkman hosts "Cybertree 2002," focusing on globalization, rehabilitation, and reparation http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/cybertree/

• Paper Kariyawasam Readiness for the Networked World: Jamaica Assessment http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/2002-01

July

• 1-Jul Conference The first iLaw Program at Harvard Law School is held http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ilaw/participants

August

Paper Tor & Oliar Incentives to Create Under a "Lifetime-Plus-Years" Copyright Duration: Lessons from a Behavioral Economic Analysis for Eldred v. Ashcroft http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/2002-02

October

• 9-Oct Berkman Lessig U.S. Supreme Court hears oral argument in Eldred v. Ashcroft. Professor Lessig argues for Eric Eldred and petitioners. http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/openlaw/

November

15-Nov Conference Berkman hosts the Internet & Society 2002 conference, dubbed "A Community Experiment" http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/I&S2002/index_xflash.html

December

• Faculty Palfrey John Plafrey named Berkman Center Executive Director

• Faculty Fisher William Fisher named Faculty Director of the Berkman Center

• Faculty Zittrain Jonathan Zittrain appointed to the Oxford University Chair of Internet Governance and Regulation

• Staff Maclay Information Technologies Group founded http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/itg/about/about.html

2003

January

• January Fellow Zuckerman Ethan Zuckerman named Berkman Fellow

• January Project Student Think Tank created http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/thinktank/projects.html

March

24-Mar Conference iLaw Program for 2003 held in Brazil http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ilaw/brazil03/participants

Paper Zittrain Internet Points of Control http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/2003-01

April

• Project Winer The Berkman Center unveils its Weblogs at Harvard Law School initiative http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/

• Paper Zittrain & Edelman Internet Filtering in China http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/2003-02

May

• 28-May Conference Harvard hosts the Third Open Source Content Management Conference (OSCOM 3) http://www.oscom.org/events/oscom-3/

• Paper Zittrain Be Careful What You Ask For: Reconciling a Global Internet and Local Law, http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/2003-03

• Paper Song Technology, Terrorism, and the Fishbowl Effect: An Economic Analysis of Surveillance and Searches http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/2003-04

June

30-Jun Conference The 2003 iLaw Program is held at Stanford http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ilaw/stanford03/participants

August

• Paper Gartner Copyright and Digital Media in a Post-Napster World http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/2003-05

• Paper Zuckerman Global Attention Profiles - A working paper: First steps towards a quantitative approach to the study of media attention, http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/2003-06

October

• 5-Oct Conference Winer Distinguished blogger and Berkman fellow Dave Winer hosts BloggerCon I http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BloggerCon

• Article Zittrain The Copyright Cuffs

• Book Weinberger Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory of the Web http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0738208507/harvardcyberconf

• Book Gasser Information Quality Regulation: Foundations Perspectives, and Applications http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/3832907459/harvardcyberconf

November

• Paper Fisher & Palfrey Five Scenarios for Digital Media in a Post-Napster World, http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/2003-07

• Paper Gasser Information Quality and the Law, or, How to Catch a Difficult Horse, http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/2003-08

December

• Berkman Winer RSS 2.0 Specification is gifted to the Berkman Center from UserLand Software http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/about.html

• Winer Dave Winer named Berkman Fellow (Berkman Weblogs)

• Project Shapiro PRX: Public Radio Exchange launched http://www.prx.org/

• Project Berkman Radio Project (BRP) begins http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/worldwide/about.html

• Paper McLaughlin Analysis and Critique of Mongolia’s Draft Law on Information Technology http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/2003-09

2004

January

• Project Rundle Net Dialogue Project launched http://www.netdialogue.org/

• Paper Palfrey The End of the Experiment: How ICANN’s Foray Into Global Internet Democracy Failed, http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/2004-02

• Paper Larson CommuniCast: Developing a Community-Programmed Webcasting Service http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/2004-01

February

• 5-Feb Berkman Glasser John Palfrey speaks at the first meeting of the Harvard-Yale Cyberscholar Working Group http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/cyberscholar_working_group

• Paper Gordon Illegal Internet Networks in the Developing World http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/2004-03

March

• 30-Mar Paper Fisher et al. iTunes: How Copyright, Contract, and Technology Shape the Business of Digital Media – A Case Study http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/media/uploads/53/GreenPaperiTunes03.04.pdf

April

• 17-Apr Conference Winer Dave Winer and the Berkman Center host BloggerCon II

• Paper Chang Computer Hacking: Making the Case for a National Reporting Requirement, http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/2004-06

• Paper Druey Information Cannot Be Owned http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/2004-05

• Paper Johnson, Crawford, Palfrey The Accountable Net: Peer Production of Internet Governance http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/2004-04

May

• 13-May Conference The 2004 iLaw Program is held at Harvard Law School http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ilaw/harvard_2004

• 24-May Amicus Fisher, Cabell, Nesson, Zittrain, Palfrey Capitol Records v. Alaujan, United States District Court of Massachusetts http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/uploads/352/amicusbrief.pdf

June

• Paper Gasser iTunes: How Copyright, Contract, and Technology Shape the Business of Digital Media -- A Case Study, http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/2004-08

November

• 2-Nov Amicus Malone, Keller, Cunard Bosley Medical Institute v. Kremer, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/clinical/bosley.pdf

• 24-Nov Amicus Malone, Keller, Cunard Lamparello v. Falwell, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/clinical/lamparellobrief.pdf

• Paper Gasser & Girsberger Transposing the Copyright Directive: Legal Protection of Technological Measures in EU-Member States, http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/2004-10

• Paper Petrick Why DRM Should Be Cause for Concern: An Economic and Legal Analysis of the Effect of Digital Technology on the Music Industry http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/2004-09

December

• 9-Dec Conference Berkman hosts the Internet & Society 2004 (IS2k4) Conference, studying the impact of the Internet on elections http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/is2k4/home

• 13-Dec Conference The 2004 iLaw Program is held in Eurasia http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ilaw/eurasia_2004

• Project Zuckerman, MacKinnon Berkman Fellows Ethan Zuckerman and Rebecca MacKinnon launch international news-blog aggregator Global Voices Online

• Book Keller, Cunard Copyright Law: A Practitioner's Guide http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1402400500/harvardcyberconf

• Book Zittrain The Torts Game: Defending Mean Joe Green http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/073554509X/harvardcyberconf

• Book Fisher Promises to Keep: Technology, Law, and the Future of Entertainment http://www.tfisher.org/PTK.htm

2005

January

• Staff Maclay Berkman Fellow Colin Maclay named Berkman Center Managing Director

• Project Gillmor Berkman Fellow Dan Gillmor founds the Center for Citizen Media http://citmedia.org/

• Paper Gasser, Slater, Palfrey, McGuire, et al. Copyright and Digital Media in a Post-Napster World: 2005 Update, http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/media/wp2005

• Paper Slater, Smith, Gasser, Bambauer, et al. Content and Control: Assessing Impact of Policy Choices in Potential Online Business Models in Music & Film Industries http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/media/content_and_control

• Paper Maclay & Kirkman Global Networked Readiness for Education http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/2005-05

February

• Feb Berkman Kaplan The Berkman Center joins with IBM and Oracle in forming the Open ePolicy Group http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/epolicy/people

• Paper Rundle NetDialogue: A Mechanism to Promote Transparency and Public Dialogue in International Net Governance http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/2005-09

March

• 1-Mar Amicus Fisher, Palfrey, Zittrain MGM Studios, Inc. v. Grokster Ltd., Supreme Court of the United States http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/briefs/groksteramicus.pdf

• 18-Mar Conference MacKinnon Berkman hosts a conference on "Blogging, Journalism, and Credibility" http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/webcred/

• Paper Seltzer The Broadcast Flag: It's not just TV, http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/2005-06

April

• 8-Apr Conference Berkman repeats its earlier success with Signal/Noise II http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/sn/

May

• Paper Weinberger Tagging and Why It Matters http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/2005-07

June

• 22-Jun Conference The 2005 iLaw Program is held at Harvard Law School http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ilaw/harvard_2005

July

• Paper Palfrey, Johnson, Crawford Trusting the Net: Peer Production of Internet Governance http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/wsis/home

September

• 9-Sep Berkman Kaplan Berkman Center releases The Roadmap for Open Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Ecosystems http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/epolicy/roadmap.pdf

• Paper Rundle & Laurie Identity Management as a Cybersecurity Case Study http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/2006-01

October

• Paper Palfrey & Gasser Catch-As-Catch-Can: A Case Note On Grokster, http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/media/wp2005

• Paper Hyde How America's Revolutionaries Imagined Intellectual Property: Frames from the Framers, http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/2005-08

• Paper Best & Wade The Internet and Democracy: Global Catalyst or Democratic Dud? http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/2005-12

• Paper Bambauer, Palfrey, Abrams Stemming the International Tide of Spam: A Draft Model Law, http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/2005-15

November

• Chapter Lessig, Palfrey, Rundle "Net Dialogue Perspectives on International Net Governance," http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/uploads/577/Net_Dialogue_WSIS_Digital_Reach_book__Lessig_Palfrey_Rundle.pdf

December

• Sem. Int. Internet pioneers Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn receive the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/11/20051103-5.html

• 13-Dec Report Slater Consumer Taste Sharing Is Driving the Online Music Business and Democratizing Culture http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/uploads/511/11-ConsumerTasteSharing.pdf

• Paper Slater & McGuire Consumer Taste Sharing Is Driving the Online Music Business and Democratizing Culture, http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/2005-11

• Paper Rundle Beyond Internet Governance: The Emerging International Framework for Governing the Networked World, http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/2005-16

• Paper Schneider Rapid ICT Change and Workplace Knowledge Obsolescence http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/2005-04

• Book Lessig Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity http://free-culture.cc/freecontent/

• Book Zittrain Internet Law Series: Jurisdiction http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1587789795/harvardcyberconf

• Book Zittrain Internet Law Series: Technological Complements to Copyright http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1587789841/harvardcyberconf

• Chapter Palfrey "Holding Out for an Interoperable DRM Standard,"

• Paper Rundle The Role of All Actors in Internet Governance http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/2005-14

Paper MacKinnon Blogging, Journalism, and Credibility http://cyber.law.harvard.edu:8080/webcred/wp-content/webcredfinalpdf_01.pdf

2006

January

• 30-Jan Speech Fisher In Rome, Terry Fisher delivers his speech, "The Future Digital Economy: Digital Content - Creation, Distribution, and Access"

• January Project Zittrain, Palfrey With support from Google, Lenovo, and Sun, the Berkman Center launches StopBadware.org http://stopbadware.org/

February

• 15-Feb Gov Palfrey John Palfrey testifies before the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Africa, Global Human Rights and International Operations regarding Chinese Internet filtering

• Paper Zittrain "A History of Online Gatekeeping," http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=905862

March

• 16-Mar Conference The 2006 iLaw Program is held in Mexico http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2006/03/17/creative-commons-mexico/

• 27-Mar Conference Another 2006 iLaw Program is held in Peru http://www.cpsr-peru.org/eventos/ilaw

• Chapter Palfrey "Global Innovation and Licensing Opportunities on the Internet," http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0471740675.html

• Article Gasser "Regulating Search Engines: Taking Stock and Looking Ahead," http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=908996

April

28-Apr Conference Berkman hosts a conference on "Bloggership," asking how blogs are transforming legal scholarship http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/bloggership

May

• 25-May Conference The 2006 iLaw Program is held in Torino http://ilaw.ieiit.cnr.it/index.html

• Paper Gasser & Ernst From Shakespeare to DJ Danger Mouse: A Quick Look at Copyright and User Creativity in the Digital Age http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=909223

• Paper Zittrain The Generative Internet http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=847124

June

• 23-Jun Conference Berkman Center hosts a Second Life Avatar Marketing Panel http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/secondlife_avatarmarketingdiscussion

• 14-Jun Paper Palfrey & Rogoyski The Move to the Middle: The Enduring Threat of “Harmful” Speech to Network Neutrality," http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=915399

• Paper Gasser "Legal Frameworks and Technological Protection of Digital Content: Moving Forward Toward a Best Practice Model," http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=908998

August

• 4-Aug Conference Wikipedia enthusiasts descend on Cambridge for the Berkman-hosted Wikimania 2006 http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

• Paper Fisher & McGeveran The Digital Learning Challenge: Obstacles to Educational Uses of Copyrighted Material in the Digital Age," http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/2006-09

September

• 12-Sep Berkman Nesson Harvard Law School offers "CyberOne: Law in the Court of Public Opinion," the first Harvard University course available in Second Life

• 26-Sep Gov Fisher William Fisher testifies before the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness regarding online file sharing by students

October

• Paper Priest "The Future of Music and Film Piracy in China," http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=827825

• Paper Armstrong "Digital Rights Management and the Process of Fair Use," http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=885371

November

• 20-Nov Project Palfrey, Gasser Digital Natives Project launched http://www.digitalnative.org/Main_Page

December

• Faculty Zittrain Jonathan Zittrain named Berkman Visiting Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies

• Paper Gasser Best Practice Guide: Implementing the EU Copyright Directive in the Digital Age http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/uploads/1112/EUCD_Best_Practice_Guide_December_2006.pdf

• Book Lessig Code: Version 2.0 http://codev2.cc/download+remix/

• Book Benkler The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom http://www.benkler.org/wealth_of_networks/index.php?title=Download_PDFs_of_the_book

• Book Fisher The Canon of American Legal Thought http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0691120005/harvardcyberconf

• Book Gillmor We the Media: Grassroots Journalism By the People, For the People http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0596102275/harvardcyberconf

• Book Goldsmith Who Controls the Internet?: Illusions of a Borderless World http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0195152662/harvardcyberconf

• Book Lakhani Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11216&mode=toc

• Paper Gasser From Shakespeare to DJ Danger Mouse: A Quick Look at Copyright and User Creativity in the Digital Age http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=909223

• Paper Rundle "International Personal Data Protection and Digital Identity Management Tools," http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/2006-06

• Chapter Palfrey & Balkin Local Nets: Filtering and the Internet Governance Problem http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/2005-13

2007

January

• Paper Zittrain Spam Works: Evidence from Stock Touts and Corresponding Market Activity http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=920553

February

• Paper Rundle Interoperability In the New Digital Identity Infrastructure http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=962701

March

• 5-Mar Project Isenberg F2C: Freedom to Connect http://freedom-to-connect.net/#bigidea

• 14-Mar Paper Frieder "Spam Works: Evidence from Stock Touts and Corresponding Market Activity," http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=920553

• Paper Gasser E-Compliance: Towards a Roadmap for Effective Risk Management http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=971848

• Paper Rundle, Conley Ethical Implications of Emerging Technologies: A Survey http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0014/001499/149992E.pdf

• Paper Palfrey Reluctant Gatekeepers: Corporate Ethics on a Filtered Internet http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=978507

• Paper Koo New Skills, New Learning: Legal Education and the Promise of Technology http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=976646

April

• 19-Apr Book Clippinger A Crowd of One: The Future of Individual Identity http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1586483676/harvardcyberconf

May

• 1-May Book Weinberger Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0805080430/harvardcyberconf

• 18-May Conference Palfrey, Zittrain OpenNet Initiative hosts its first public conference at Oxford to discuss the results of its research and map the ONI's future

• 26-May Conference Berkman hosts the OpenNet Initiative Conference 2007, discussing the future of free expression on the Internet http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mediaberkman/category/projects/opennet-initiative/

• 31-May Conference Berkman hosts the 6th Havard Conference on Internet & Soicety (IS2k7), discussing the new role of the university http://www.is2k7.org/

June

• 27-Jun Conference Berkman hosts the first StopBadware Anti-Spyware Coalition Conference http://blogs.stopbadware.org/articles/2007/06/27/anti_spyware_coalition_steve_gibson

• Faculty Benkler Yochai Benkler becomes HLS Professor of Law and Berkman Faculty Co-Director http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/home?wid=10&func=viewSubmission&sid=2754

• Article Zittrain Saving the Internet [Harvard Business Review, June 2007] http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/hbsp/hbr/articles/article.jsp?ml_subscriber=true&ml_action=get-article&ml_issueid=BR0706&articleID=R0706B&pageNumber=1

• Article Weinberger If You Love Your Information, Set It Free [Harvard Business Review, June 2007] http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b02/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=F0706A&referral=2342

November

• Book Palfrey, Zittrain Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0262541963/harvardcyberconf