Timeline

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1993

Wired 1.01 Mar/April 1993

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/1.01/

1994

The Economy of Ideas, by John Perry Barlow, Wired 2.03

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.03/economy.ideas_pr.html

This article sparked Nesson and Miller's collaboration and first forays (with colleague Terry Fisher) into Cyber-law.

1995

January

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

February

First Internet and Society Seminar offered at Harvard Law School. Taught by Professors Charles Nesson and Arthur Miller, and led by Teaching Assistants David Marglin '96 and Tom Smuts '96, this class saw John Perry Barlow, the Microsoft anti-trust dispute, the Lotus-Borland copyright dispute, government speakers, CEOs, and a host of Harvard professors engage in debate abpout the Internet and its impact on law, politics, finance, business, society, etc. From these seminars grew the first Harvard Conference on the Internet & Society in 1996, and, of course, the Berkman Center itself.

1996

January

• Harvard Law becomes fully wired

February

• 8-Feb Sem. Int. Barlow John Perry Barlow pens "A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace," declaring to the governments of the world that cyberspace is exempt from their rule. (the utopian view of the untouchability of cyberspace. this framework inspires a generation of internet pioneers.) http://homes.eff.org/~barlow/Declaration-Final.html

Second HLS Seminar on the Internet & Society, again taught by Profs. Miller and Nesson, (Teaching Assistant David Marglin '96).

March

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

May

May 29th

First Harvard-wide Conference on the Internet & Society opens (chaired by H.T. Kung). Opening remarks by Harvard President Neal Rudenstine. Keynote speakers include Bill Gates, Scott McNealy, et al.

http://www.amazon.com/Internet-Society-OReilly-Associates/dp/0674459326

December

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

1997

January

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

• Sem. Int. Weblogs introduced to the Internet

February

Center for Internet and Society at HLS founded. It would be re-named Berkman Center in 1998!

[Myles and Lillian Berkman agree to formation of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at HLS based on funding by Jack Berkman. Also, endowed Berkman Professor for Entrepreneurial Studies (sic) position created.; this would be formally announced March of 1998] http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/berkman_family_gift

March

• Berkman //Announced by press release, the generous gift from the Berkman family transforms The Center on Law and Technology into The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/berkman_family_gift

[THIS IS FEBRUARY 1998!!: however, it was agreed to before; see date of announcement...]

June

• Paper Isenberg The Rise of the Stupid Network, a foundational text for the rise of the net neutrality movement. 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 (EDITOR) Borders in Cyberspace: Information Policy and the Global Information Infrastructure http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0262611260/harvardcyberconf

September

Events -- Lessig -- Visiting professor Larry Lessig offers "The Law of Cyberspace" at Harvard Law School.

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

[This is May, 1998!]

February

• Project Nesson Chalk.edu Project aims to give new teachers a better understanding of the Net http://web.archive.org/web/19990423221739/cyber.law.harvard.edu/9-10mtg/pedagogy.html#chalk

March

OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT OF BERKMAN CENTER!

March Fourth:

• Berkman //Announced by press release, the generous gift from the Berkman family transforms The Center on Law and Technology into The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/berkman_family_gift

Harvard Founders include, Terry Fisher, Larry Lessig, Arthur Miller, Charles Nesson, Jonathan Zittrain, David Marglin

• 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

• Project Slaughter Government Networks Project begins http://web.archive.org/web/19990220175605/cyber.law.harvard.edu/9-10mtg/gnp.html

May

May 26th-29th[?]

2nd Harvard Conference on the Internet & Society Chaired By Charles Nesson (co-Chair Charles Ogletree); first MAJOR Berkman Center Event.

Keynote Speakers:

     Steve Ballmer, Executive Vice President, Microsoft Corporation

     Stephen M. Case, Chairman and CEO, America Online

     Esther Dyson, Chairman, EDventure Holdings

     Lawrence J. Ellison, Chairman and CEO, Oracle Corporation

     Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., Chairman and CEO, IBM

     Ira C. Magaziner, Senior Advisor to the President for Policy Development

     Scott G. McNealy, Chairman, CEO, and President, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

     Kim Polese, President and CEO, Marimba, Inc. 

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/cybercon98/tour/index.html

• 13-May Conference Privacy in Cyber/Spaces: Government Databanks and Identification http://web.archive.org/web/20000304120233/cyber.law.harvard.edu/spaces.html

• 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

June

• Project Internet Public Media Project launched http://web.archive.org/web/19990221055427/cyber.law.harvard.edu/9-10mtg/picd.html#ipmp

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

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

• Project Zittrain National and Corporate Security Project begins http://web.archive.org/web/19990220233326/http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/9-10mtg/ncs.html

December

• 6-Dec Conference At 'Legal/Technical Architectures of Cyberspace,' 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

[This was announced in March, 1998; see Berkman press release]

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

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

1999

• Project Seltzer Openlaw. Openlaw starts an experiment in crafting legal argument in an open forum by collecting examples of public domain use and copyright misuse for the case of Eldred v. Reno (later Eldred v. Ashcroft). http://openlaw.org/

• Project Copyright's Commons gathers supporters of the public domain.

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

• Project Cyberstate Awareness Project begins http://web.archive.org/web/20000815205624/cyber.law.harvard.edu/nids.html

• 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. This later becomes the basis for Lessig's transformative book, Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace. 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

June

Harvard Law Bulletin features the Intrepid Crew of the Berkman Center Building in CyberSpace http://www.law.harvard.edu/alumni/bulletin/backissues/summer99/index.html http://www.law.harvard.edu/alumni/bulletin/backissues/summer99/article1.html

July

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

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

July

• 7-July Annotation Engine Project begins http://web.archive.org/web/20000815062503/cyber.law.harvard.edu/projects/annotate.html
• JZ named Assistant Professor of Law

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

July

• 21-July Project Moore James Moore launches the Open Economies Project http://web.archive.org/web/20011017195852/cyber.law.harvard.edu/openeconomy/

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

• 2-Jan Berkman The Winter 2002 iLaw Program is held in Singapore http://web.archive.org/web/20011216231205/cyber.law.harvard.edu/ilaw/

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

February

• Project Seltzer Chilling Effects Clearinghouse launches online database of annotated cease-and-desist notices and information for online speakers. http://www.chillingeffects.org/
• Project Cabell Recording Artists Project (RAP) at Harvard Law School begins http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rap/home

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

• Book Hyde The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau http://www.amazon.com/Essays-Henry-D-Thoreau/dp/0865476462/ref=sr_1_1/105-8182910-5917267?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1187307831&sr=1-1

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

Food for Thought Dinners initiated at this event

December

• Faculty Palfrey John Palfrey named Berkman Center Executive Director

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

• 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

• 4-5-Oct Conference Winer Distinguished blogger and Berkman fellow Dave Winer hosts BloggerCon I . It popularizes the 'unconference' model for event structure, in which the participants shape and drive conference meetings and discussions. 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 Honorable Nancy Gertner, presiding.

June

District Court issues order in Alaujan case: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/clinical/capitol/6-02-04order.pdf

• 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

• 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, Nesson, Palfrey 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, Nesson, Palfrey Berkman Center releases The Roadmap for Open Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Ecosystems http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/epolicy/roadmap.pdf

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

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

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

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

• 27-Apr Free Culture Harvard College Free Culture opens Sharing is Daring, an art show featuring alternatively-licensed works.
• 28-Apr Conference Berkman hosts a conference on "Bloggership," asking how blogs are transforming legal scholarship http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/bloggership

May

• 12-May Conference Beyond Broadcast

• 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

• 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

• 19-Jun Conference Identity Mash-Up http://www.identitymash-up.org/

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

• 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

• 7-Aug Conference Berkman fellow Dan Gillmor hosts a Citizen Media unconference http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Citizen_Journalism

• 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

• 24-Feb Conference Beyond Broadcast 2007

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's StopBadware.org project hosts the annual Anti-Spyware Coalition Conference http://blogs.stopbadware.org/articles/2007/06/27/anti_spyware_coalition_steve_gibson

• Faculty Benkler Yochai Benkler becomes the Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal

Studies at Harvard Law School 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

Pointers - need dates, more flesh

From SJ: Global Voices Manifesto, put on wiki and translated to 20 (?) different languages within short period of time. http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/wiki/article/Global_Voices_Manifesto_0.2

From SJ: Cyberlaw Class - 1st to have classmembers work off of a wiki/in a wiki?