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Primal Solutions: Harvard University Berkman Center Digital Media Project Reports
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 18:05:17 -0500
------ Forwarded Message From: Mark Goldstein <markg () researchedge com> Organization: International Research Center Reply-To: <markg () researchedge com> Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 14:19:46 -0700 To: <markg () researchedge com> Subject: Primal Solutions: Harvard University Berkman Center Digital Media Project Reports Info on three new publications from Harvard University Berkman Center's Digital Media Project FYI. You can subscribe to The Filter newsletter yourself at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/filter/subscribe if you like. The Berkman Center's Digital Media Project released three new papers this month. "Content & Control: Assessing the Impact of Policy Choices on Potential Online Business Models in the Music and Film Industries" examines emerging business models for digital media distribution -- from projects like Shawn Fanning's SNOCAP and Apple's iTunes to more experimental projects -- and the policy questions they raise. Content and Control: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/media/content_and_control (PDF at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/media/files/content_control.pdf) Researchers also released the white paper, "Copyright and Digital Media in a Post-Napster World: 2005 Update," which builds on our 2003 research on the state of digital media to reflect major legal, political, and technological changes in the past year. Digital Media Project researchers, led by Berkman Fellow Urs Gasser, also released the International Supplement to this White Paper. This Supplement broadens the white paper's perspective to examine how regulatory and legal frameworks around the world are influencing the use and distribution of new media. Copyright and Digital Media in a Post-Napster World: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/media/wp2005 (PDF at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/media/files/wp2005.pdf) International Supplement: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/media/wpsupplement2005 (PDF at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/media/files/wpsupplement2005.pdf) Best Regards, Mark Goldstein International Research Center Voice & Fax: 602-470-0389 IRC: http://www.researchedge.com/ Harnessing Global Information Resources for Informed Decision Making -----Original Message----- From: Filter Editor [mailto:filter-editor () cyber law harvard edu] Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 1:24 PM To: markg () researchedge com Subject: The Filter, No. 7.2 No. 7.02 <--The Filter--> 02.08.05 Your regular dose of public-interest Internet news and commentary from the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at H a r v a r d L a w S c h o o l CONTENTS: [1] In the News [2] Berkman News [3] Conference Watch [4] Bookmarks [5] Quotables [6] Filter Facts [1] IN THE NEWS ================ * Blogs in China, Politics in South Korea: Reports on Filtering More news on the great "Firewall of China" emerged this month regarding censorship of blogs. The OpenNet Initiative -- a research partnership of the Citizen Lab, the Berkman Center, and the Advanced Network Research Group -- published a report analyzing patterns of blog-filtering by Chinese blog-providers at the behest of the Chinese government. The report explains that blogs are censored based on keywords, including the names of political leaders, references to Tiananmen Square, and terms related to the Falun Gong movement. While the filtering systems are "relatively coarse," the study documents blocking of entire blog posts and the substitution of banned words with characters like "*." Chinese officials also made another wave of arrests in the state's crackdown on online gambling. ChinaTechNews reports that the three-month campaign has resulted in 58 arrests. OpenNet Initiative Report: <http://www.opennetinitiative.net/bulletins/008/> Gambling Crackdown: <http://www.chinatechnews.com/index.php?action=show&type=news&id=2302> Also, the OpenNet Initiative has just released a report on South Korea's blocking of North Korea-related sites and the inadvertent blocking of a much larger number of unrelated sites. This collateral blocking, done by ISPs at the government's direction, prevents South Koreans from accessing sites on the same servers as the political sites, but with no pro-North Korea content. The Complete Report: <http://www.opennetinitiative.net/bulletins/009/> * Blogs and Journalism This month, the Berkman Center co-hosted the conference "Blogging, Journalism & Credibility: Battleground and Common Ground" with the American Library Association and Harvard's Shorenstein Center to bring attendees, representing both bloggers and classical journalism together to discuss how blogs are affecting the media -- and vice versa. The conference generated a storm of speculation, criticism, commmentary, and discussion, both online and off. During the course of the conference, most people agreed that pitting bloggers and journalists as adversaries misses a broader point. The shared challenge, several participants argued, is improving ways of communicating information. And participants often differed sharply on the best mechanisms -- either diffuse and grassroots, or top-down and directed -- for accomplishing this goal. Conference Website: <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/webcred/> Collected Reactions from Participants: <http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2005/01/26/brkm_own.ht ml> Aggregated Feeds of Attendees: <http://cred.conventionbloggers.com/> * Skewed Spam Stats Conflicting reports this month have given a murky picture of trends in spam. While several online "tsunami scams" received considerable attention, experts disagree about the larger picture of fraudulent and unsolicited commercial email. The Director of AOL's "Antispam Operations" said that spam had declined sharply from a peak of 2.4 billion per day to 1.3 billion spam messages, according to the Washington Post. Other experts have argued, by contrast, that the CAN-SPAM Act has been completely ineffective at reducing spam. A report from MX Logic argued that the volume of spam increased in 2004 and that 77% of email traffic is spam. AOL's Spam Decline: <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30433-2004Dec27.html> MX Logic on Spam Increase: <http://www.mxlogic.com/news_events/01_03_05.html> [2] BERKMAN NEWS ================= * Three New Publications for the Digital Media Project The Berkman Center's Digital Media Project released three new papers this month. "Content & Control: Assessing the Impact of Policy Choices on Potential Online Business Models in the Music and Film Industries" examines emerging business models for digital media distribution -- from projects like Shawn Fanning's SNOCAP and Apple's iTunes to more experimental projects -- and the policy questions they raise. Researchers also released the white paper, "Copyright and Digital Media in a Post-Napster World: 2005 Update," which builds on our 2003 research on the state of digital media to reflect major legal, political, and technological changes in the past year. Digital Media Project researchers, led by Berkman Fellow Urs Gasser, also released the International Supplement to this White Paper. This Supplement broadens the white paper's perspective to examine how regulatory and legal frameworks around the world are influencing the use and distribution of new media. Content and Control: <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/media/content_and_control> Copyright and Digital Media in a Post-Napster World: <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/media/wp2005> International Supplement: <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/media/wpsupplement2005> * Welcome Zephyr Teachout and Henrik Schneider The Berkman Center welcomes two new Fellows this month: Henrik Schneider and Zephyr Teachout. Schneider hails from Budapest, Hungary. He has previously been involved in both non-profit (NGO/University) and profit oriented work (at Accenture), and at Bekrman will study the role of policies in handling the social effects of constant changes of Information Technology environments at workplace. More information on Henrik Schneider will soon be available on the Berkman Center website. A graduate of Duke Law School, Teachout co-founded the Fair Trial Initiative to support attorneys working on death penalty cases, and more recently worked as director of online organizing (in charge of R & D) for the Howard Dean campaign. Teachout plans to study new, internet driven, continuous offline communities -- a version of what is called "voluntary assocations" in political science. <http://zonkette.blogspot.com/> * Coming Months Bring Two Internet Law Programs Two Internet Law Program sessions will take place in mid-2005. ILaw, a three-day residential program with an online compononent, addresses the most controversial cyberlaw issues being debated by lawmakers in the U.S. and internationally. Join the top experts in the field in Turin, Italy, May 25-27, or in Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 22-24. <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ilaw> [3] CONFERENCE WATCH ===================== February: * February 8-10, 2005, San Francisco, CA - Emerging Technology, Business and Policy for Senior Executives <http://www.mediacenter.org/content/5098.cfm> * February 14-20, 2005, Vancouver, BC - Music Library Association 74th Annual Conference <http://www.musiclibraryassoc.org/2005_conference/> * February 21-25, 2005, Mumbai, India - International Conference on Information Management in a Knowledge Society <http://www.icim2005.org/> * February 23-25, 2005, Algarve, Portugal - IADIS International Conference: Web Based Communities 2005 <http://www.iadis.org/wbc2005/> March: * March 3-5, 2005, Cambridge, MA - Morph05 @ Harvard: Whose News - Media, Technology and the Common Good <http://www.mediacenter.org/content/5100.cfm> * March 4-5, 2005, Ottawa, Ontario - The Concealed: Anonymity, Identity and the Prospect of Privacy <http://www.anonequity.org/concealedi> * March 9-11, 2005, Washington, D.C. - IAPP National Summit 2005 <http://privacyassociation.org/html/conferences.html> * March 29-April 1, 2005, Shanghai, China - The Seventh Asia Pacific Web Conference <http://apweb05.csm.vu.edu.au/> * March 29-April 1, 2005, Hong Kong - IEEE International Conference on e-Technology, e-Commerce and e-Service <http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/~eee05/> April: * April 2-7, 2005, Portland, Oregon - CHI 2005: Technology, Safety, Community: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems <http://www.chi2005.org/> * April 12-15, 2005, Seattle, WA - PANOPTICON: 15th Annual Conference on Computers, Freedom & Privacy <http://cfp2005.org/> * April 13-16, 2005, Vancouver, British Columbia - Museums and the Web 2005: The International Conference for Culture and Heritage On-line <http://www.archimuse.com/mw2005/index.html> * April 21-22, 2005, San Antonio, Texas - Conference on Business and the Internet <http://www.triof.org/cbi/> * April 27-28, 2005, Cambridge, UK - International Forum on "Less is More - Simple Computing in an Age of Complexity" <http://research.microsoft.com/ero/scat/cfpapers.aspx> [4] BOOKMARKS ============== * Software Freedom Law Center <http://www.softwarefreedom.org/> * Eyes on the Screen <http://downhillbattle.org/eyes/> * Roundup: MSN Search <http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/004246.html> [5] QUOTABLES ============== *Special theme: On Blogging, Journalism, and the Conference* We hear there is a conference at Harvard this weekend on blogging and ethics.... So glad Harvard is looking into this because we're not sure anyone could figure out whether or not to trust blogs unless Harvard tells them what the deal is. We look forward to future chin scratching to come on even weightier topics: Crossing the Street: Should You Look?; Mixed Nuts: Why Does the Brazilian Nut Always Wind Up on Top? - Wonkette on "Blogging, Journalism, and Credibility" <http://www.wonkette.com/politics/about/blogging-deep-thoughts-029987.php> With the exception of the "metro" section reporter covering a 12-car pile-up on the freeway, I think most practicing journalists today are as Webby as any blogger you care to name.... The premature triumphalism of some bloggers indicates that they haven't paid attention to how Webified journalists have become. - Slate Columnist Jack Shafer reacts to "Blogging, Journalism, and Credibility" <http://slate.msn.com/id/2112621/> If you don't know what blogging is by now and you're reading this in a newspaper please fold it up and boot up your computer. You're missing a revolution. - Frank Bajak, AP Technology Editor, on "Blogging, Journalism, and Credibility" <http://www.telegram.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050124/APF/501241119> We started this event -- and an associated little firestorm -- by broaching the topic of credibility on the web.... Over the past two days, we made some progress in that direction. But not frankly all that much progress. We're certainly a long way from a shared set of principles, or a code of ethics, or even an understanding of how they could come about. - John Palfrey, Berkman Center Executive Director, on "Blogging, Journalism, and Credibility" [6] FILTER FACTS ================== * Talk Back Tell us what you think -- send feedback and news announcements to filter-editor () cyber law harvard edu. * Subscription Info Subscribe or Unsubscribe: <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/filter/subscribe> * About Us Filter is a publication of the Berkman Center at Harvard Law School. Editor: Wendy Koslow Contributors: Mary Bridges, Erica George *Not a Copyright This work is hereby released into the public domain. Please share it. 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