The Cyberlaw Clinic is excited to be a part of an innovative collaboration launched this week by Fordham Law School’s Center on Law and Information Policy (“CLIP”). CLIP has developed and […]
Cyberlaw Clinic Supports Challenge to Podcasting Patent
The Cyberlaw Clinic is pleased to have assisted the Electronic Frontier Foundation and other attorneys working pro bono in filing a formal challenge to the so-called “podcasting patent.” Personal Audio […]
Sixth Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Claims Against TripAdvisor
The Sixth Circuit issued an important decision today in Seaton v. TripAdvisor, LLC, a case concerning Tennessee defamation law and the scope of liability for online intermediaries that aggregate user-submitted […]
Welcome to the New Cyberlaw Clinic Website!
Following last week’s news about changes at the Cyberlaw Clinic, we wanted to formally announce the launch of the Clinic’s new website: cyberlawclinic.berkman.harvard.edu. The site describes the Clinic’s practice; collects some of the amicus briefs, […]
EFF and the Cyberlaw Clinic Take on Overbroad Mesh Networking Patents
The Electronic Frontier Foundation reported on Friday about the latest developments in the Cyberlaw Clinic’s ongoing collaboration with EFF, which addresses overbroad patent applications in key technology areas. As previously mentioned, […]
CCTV Posts Video from its May “Filling the News Gap” Event
Cambridge Community Television has posted video from its terrific May 4th event, “Filling the News Gap in Cambridge and Beyond.” The event included a panel entitled “Newsgathering and the Law: […]
Massachusetts SJC Holds Warrant Required for Prolonged Government Location Tracking
The Cyberlaw Clinic is pleased to report that the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court issued its decision this week in Commonwealth v. Rousseau, a case about whether an individual may challenge […]
Join Zeega for an Experiment — Zeegas to be Exhibited at SFMOMA!
Our friends at Zeega are involved in an exciting project called “The Making Of…,” a collaboration among award-winning NPR producers the Kitchen Sisters, KQED, AIR’s Localore, and the Zeega community. The […]
Newsgathering Guide in the News
Eric Johnson over at the Blog Law Blog has some nice things to say about the “Newsgathering in Massachusetts” legal guide that the Cyberlaw Clinic and Digital Media Law Project […]
Excitement About 3D Printing and Patents
Our project with the Electronic Frontier Foundation to make use of the preissuance submission process to limit the issuance of bad patents has met with widespread support from the 3D printing community […]
Filling the News Gap in Cambridge and Beyond
Cambridge Community Television will present a half-day forum entitled “Filling the News Gap in Cambridge and Beyond: Citizen Journalism and Grassroots Media” at the Cambridge Public Library on May 4th. […]
HLS Students: Clinical Registration April 3rd – April 5th
Clinical enrollment for the Fall 2013 and Winter and Spring 2014 terms opens Wednesday, April 3, 2013 at 9:00 am and closes Friday, April 5, 2013 at 12:00 pm. More […]
Patent Litigation: Teaching Technology to Judges and Juries
The Cyberlaw Clinic, along with the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology and Cooley LLP, will present a talk by Cooley partner Heidi Keefe on Tuesday April 2, 2013, from 12:00pm – 1:00 […]
Fee Award in ACLU v. Alvarez
Ars Technica and The Chicago Sun Times report on developments in ACLU v. Alvarez, a case out of the Northern District of Illinois that concerns applicability of the Illinois Eavesdropping Act to audio […]
The DMLP Asks the Sixth Circuit to Safeguard Crowdsourced Research and Data-based Journalism
The Digital Media Law Project (formerly the Citizen Media Law Project), assisted by Harvard Law School’s Cyberlaw Clinic, has asked the Sixth Circuit to make clear that website operators that […]
Crowdsourcing Prior Art for 3D Printing
On Wednesday, January 23, 2013, the Cyberlaw Clinic at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society hand-delivered its first series of Third-Party Preissuance Submissions related to 3D printing technology with […]
Cyberlaw Clinic Files Brief Defending Location Privacy
Today, the Cyberlaw Clinic filed a brief on behalf of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, defending the location privacy of the people of Massachusetts in the case of Commonwealth v. Rousseau. The Supreme Judicial […]
Call for 3D Printing Prior Art
Thanks to our students’ hard work this semester and the advice we received from the 3D printing community, we have identified several patent applications whose broad claims threaten to stifle […]
Net Neutrality Brief Filed
Yesterday, a group of former telecommunications officials filed a brief in the case of Verizon v. FCC, currently on appeal in the District of Columbia federal appeals court. The Cyberlaw […]
EFF and the Cyberlaw Clinic Team Up to Protect Open 3D Printing
We at the Cyberlaw Clinic are very excited to be partnering with EFF once again to take on overbroad patents. This time, we’re going after 3D printing patents, hoping to […]