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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 […]
Code of the West at IFF Boston — Thursday, April 26, 2012
The phenonemal new documentary, Code of the West, has its Boston-area premiere on Thursday April 26, 2012 at the Somerville Theater as part of the 10th Annual Independent Film Festival Boston. Details […]
Mass SJC Rules in Barnes and Diorio, Rejecting Prior Restraints on Speech and Supporting Right to Stream and Archive Court Proceedings Online
In an important victory for freedom of speech, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court issued a decision today in two related cases, Commonwealth v. Barnes andCommonwealth v. Diorio. The cases concerned WBUR‘s OpenCourt project, and the Court’s decision follows a […]
Rethink Music
Last month, Berklee College of Music and MIDEM — in association with the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and Harvard Business School — put on a conference called Rethink Music. The conference addressed issues relating to “Creativity, Commerce, […]
The Cablevision Case — 2 Years Later
The Cyberlaw Clinic and Harvard Law School‘s Journal of Law and Technology hosted a fantastic talk earlier this month by David Hosp of Boston law firm Goodwin Procter LLP and Ed Weiss, formerly of Time Warner, Inc. and currently General Counsel […]
CMLP and Cyberlaw Clinic Advocate First Amendment Scrutiny in Hot News Cases
The Citizen Media Law Project (CMLP), with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), and Public Citizen, submitted an amicus curiae brief to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, urging […]
CDA 230 and “Traditional Editorial Functions”
One of our spring term Cyberlaw Clinic students contributed to a great post over at the Citizen Media Law Project’s blog last week. The post relates to the scope of Section 230 […]
This American Life iPhone App
Our friends at Public Radio Exchange have teamed up with public broadcasting institution This American Life to launch the brand new This American Life iPhone App! Streaming audio, behind-the-scenes video — check out all […]