Berkman Center Webcast live oggi ore 18.00 - Fair Use for Education: Taking Best Practices to the Next Level
Fair Use for Education: Taking Best Practices to the Next Level http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2012/10/elkin-koren *Niva Elkin-Koren, University of Haifa* Today, 6.00 pm Webcast live: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/webcast http://nexa.polito.it/berkman-webcast-live Over the past two decades copyright law has become a major impediment to learning and teaching processes. The use of copyrighted materials for educational purposes is, indeed, at the core of fair use. Yet, the high level of uncertainty regarding the particular scope of permissible uses prevents universities and colleges from exercising fair use on behalf of their students. Codes of Best Practices aim at reducing this chilling effect by offering some guidance on the implementation of fair use in particular contexts. The challenge in drafting such guidelines is to provide a safe harbor for educational use, and at the same time make sure that minimal standards of fair use do not become a ceiling. Drafting a code of best practices is a type of social activism which could inform users of their rights, facilitate communities of users and reshape copyright discourse. The legal status of such codes, however, is less clear: What are the legal consequences of complying with such guidelines? Should courts defer to such norms in its fair use analysis? And if so, under what circumstances? These questions have become especially important, in the legal aftermath of the recent GSU fair use decision on e-reserves (Cambridge University Press v. Becker (N.D. Ga. 2012), May 2012 <http://www.nacua.org/documents/CambridgeUPress_v_Becker_051112.pdf>; August 2012 <http://blogs.library.duke.edu/scholcomm/files/2012/08/Order-for-relief-GSU.p...>) and the ruling of the Canadian Supreme Court on fair dealing for educational purposes. <http://scc.lexum.org/en/2012/2012scc37/2012scc37.html> In this talk I'll share some insights based on the building of a coalition of higher education institutions in Israel and drafting a code of fair use best practices. Brainstorming on the legal status of such codes may help us take fair use best practices to the next level. Links For some background on the process of drafting the fair use code of best practices for Israeli Universities see: Amira Dotan, Niva Elkin-Koren, Orit Fischman-Afori & Ronit Haramati-Alpern, Fair Use Best Practices for Higher Education Institutions: The Israeli Experience, 57 J. COPYRIGHT SOC'Y U.S.A. 447 (2010). <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1648408> Here is a link to the English version of the Fair Use Code of Best Practices for Universities <http://weblaw.haifa.ac.il/en/AcademyInCommunity/ClinicList/tech/Pages/opened...> at the Haifa Clinic of Law and Technology. About Niva Elkin-Koren Niva Elkin-Koren is the former dean of the University of Haifa Faculty of Law <http://weblaw.haifa.ac.il/en/pages/home.aspx> and the founding director of the Haifa Center for Law & Technology <http://weblaw.haifa.ac.il/en/Research/ResearchCenters/techlaw/Pages/aboutUs....> (HCLT). Her research focuses on the legal institutions that facilitate private and public control over the production and dissemination of information. She has written and spoken extensively about the privatization of information policy, private ordering, copyright law and democratic theory, the effects of cyberspace on the economic analysis of law, information intermediaries and legal strategies for enhancing the public domain. She is the co-founder of the Alliance of Israeli Institutions of Higher Education for Promoting Access to Scientific Materials. http://weblaw.haifa.ac.il/en/Faculty/ElkinKoren/Pages/default.aspx
Collaborative! Open! Reusable! Executable! ...Science! http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2012/10/pepe *Alberto Pepe, Berkman Center Fellow* Tomorrow, 6.30 pm Webcast live: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/webcast http://nexa.polito.it/berkman-webcast-live Most tools that scientists use for the preparation of scholarly manuscripts, such as Microsoft Word and LaTeX, function offline and do not account for the born-digital nature of research objects. Moreover, most authoring tools in use today are not designed for collaboration, and, as scientific collaborations grow in size, research transparency and the attribution of scholarly credit are at stake. In this roundtable discussion, I will argue that the tools that scientists use to write scholarly papers constitute a first major barrier to Open Science, as they lock content, figures, data, tables in a "coffin", preventing reuse and sharing. At the end of the presentation, I will introduce and demo Authorea, an authoring platform for research papers which adopts the web as its canvas. Authorea manuscripts are living, modular, collaborative web documents with a robust source and versioning control backend. Authorea is a spin-off initiative of Harvard University and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. About Alberto Pepe Alberto Pepe is a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard University and co-founder of Authorea, a science startup. At Harvard, he is the in-house information scientist at the Center for Astrophysics, a fellow of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and an affiliate of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science. Pepe is interested in the study of socio--technical systems: networks of people, artifacts, data and ideas. He recently obtained a Ph.D. in Information Science from the University of California, Los Angeles with a dissertation on scientific collaboration networks. Prior to starting his Ph.D., Pepe worked in the Information Technology Department of CERN, in Geneva, Switzerland and in the Scientific Visualization Department of CINECA, the Italian Scientific Consortium, based at the University of Bologna. Pepe holds a M.Sc. in Computer Science and a B.Sc. in Astrophysics, both from University College London, U.K. He was born and raised in the wine-making town of Manduria, in Puglia, Southern Italy. Links * Alberto Pepe <http://albertopepe.com/> * Authorea <http://launch.authorea.com/>
From Goods to a Good Life: Intellectual Property and Global Justice http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2012/09/sunder *Madhavi Sunder, UC Davis School of Law* Today, 6.30 pm Webcast live: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/webcast http://nexa.polito.it/berkman-webcast-live Most scholarship on intellectual property considers this law from the standpoint of law and economics. Under this conventional wisdom, intellectual property is simply a tool for promoting innovative products, from iPods to R2D2. In this highly original book <http://www.amazon.com/From-Goods-Good-Life-Intellectual/dp/030014671X>, Madhavi Sunder calls for a richer understanding of intellectual property law's effects on social and cultural life. Intellectual property does more than incentivize the production of more goods. This law fundamentally affects the ability of citizens to live a good life. Intellectual property law governs the abilities of human beings to make and share culture, and to profit from this enterprise in a global Knowledge economy. This book turns to social and cultural theory to more fully explore the deep connections between cultural production and human freedom. About Madhavi Madhavi Sunder is a Professor of Law at UC Davis School of Law, and is a leading scholar of law and culture. She has been a Visiting Professor of Law at the Yale Law School, the University of Chicago Law School, and Cornell Law School. She was named a Carnegie Scholar in 2006. Her work traverses numerous legal fields, from intellectual property to human rights law and the First Amendment. She has published articles in the Yale Law Journal, the Stanford Law Review, the California Law Review, and Law and Contemporary Problems, among others. Her new book, From Goods to a Good Life: Intellectual Property and Global Justice, was published by Yale University Press in June 2012.
How to Make Your Research Open Access (Whether You're at Harvard or Not) http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2012/10/OAweek *Celebrating Open Access Week* Today, 6.30 pm Webcast live: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/webcast http://nexa.polito.it/berkman-webcast-live How do you make your own work open access (OA)? The question comes up from researchers at schools with good OA policies (like Harvard and MIT) and at schools with no OA policies at all. We invite you to join Peter Suber and Stuart Shieber of the Harvard Open Access Project, the Berkman Center community, and Office for Scholarly Communication in an open forum on the Harvard OA policies, concrete steps for making your work OA, and questions on any aspect of OA, especially from the perspective of publishing researchers. About Peter Suber Peter Suber's work consists of research, writing, organizing, advocacy, and pro bono consulting for open access to research. He is the Director of the Harvard Open Access Project, Special Advisor to the Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication, Faculty Fellow at the Berkman Center, Senior Researcher at SPARC, Research Professor of Philosophy at Earlham College, Open Access Project Director at Public Knowledge, and author of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter. He blogs at Google Plus. His latest book is Open Access. About Stuart Shieber Stuart Shieber is James O. Welch, Jr. and Virginia B. Welch Professor of Computer Science in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. His primary research field is computational linguistics, the study of human languages from the perspective of computer science. His research contributions have extended beyond that field as well, to theoretical linguistics, natural-language processing, computer-human interaction, automated graphic design, the philosophy of artificial intelligence, computer privacy and security, and computational biology. He is the founding director of the Center for Research on Computation and Society and a director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Links * Open Access Week <http://www.openaccessweek.org/> * Open Access Week Activities at Harvard <http://osc.hul.harvard.edu/oaweek2012> * Open Access to Health Research: Future Directions for the NIH Public Access Policy <http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/petrie-flom/events/index.html>
This is Improbable http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2012/11/improbable * Featuring Marc Abrahams and other special guests* Today, 6.30 pm Webcast live: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/webcast http://nexa.polito.it/berkman-webcast-live Marc Abrahams -- editor of the Annals of Improbable Research <http://www.improbable.com/>, host of the annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony <http://www.improbable.com/ig/>, and author of several books (including his latest, /This is Improbable: Cheese String Theory, Magnetic Chickens and Other WTF Research/ -- listen to Marc's NPR interview <http://www.npr.org/2012/09/07/160752631/the-importance-of-strange-science>) -- will be joining us for a lively exploration of weird science, off-beat research, and things that go bump in the lab. Members of the Berkman Center community will join with a group of special guests to perform dramatic readings from bizarre studies discussed in Marc's new book, and answer questions about what they have read based on no special knowledge whatsoever. Does it sound odd? Yes. Does it actually work? Surprisingly well.
Scientifically Verifiable Broadband Policy http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2012/11/mlab *Meredith Whittaker, Google Research Thomas Gideon, Open Technology Institute* Today, 6.30 pm Webcast live: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/webcast http://nexa.polito.it/berkman-webcast-live Measurement Lab (M-Lab) is a collaborative effort founded by Vint Cerf and a large body of network researchers, dedicated to creating an Internet-scale ecosystem for truly open network measurement. In the policy space, this means the facts can speak for themselves, and the rhetoric can adapt. To make this happen, Measurement Lab allows researchers the ability to run open source broadband measurement tools on well-managed, near global infrastructure. All data collected by these tools is made publicly available. This public repository of M-Lab data comprises by far the biggest such resource on the planet (and other planets, I assume), with over 600 terabytes of raw, real-world, globally comparable network measurement data (!!). This data is being used by researchers as the basis for peer-reviewed papers furthering network science. It's also being used by governments and national regulators. Canada recently joined Greece, the US, and the European Union in choosing M-Lab and M-Lab's open data as the backbone of their upcoming broadband study. M-Lab's creates a model in which scientists, policy-makers, and consumers have access to good information drawn from the same pool of open, scientifically-sound broadband performance data. This means that conclusions made based on these data are verifiable, and that debate can focus on data, not hearsay. Very cool, right? So come learn about M-Lab's tools, M-Lab's data, how M-Lab is creating a paradigm for collaborative science as the foundation for good, data-based policy. About Meredith Meredith Whittaker is a Program Manager for Google Research. She leads initiatives related to Internet measurement, including managing Google's involvement in the M-Lab project, measurementlab.net. In this capacity she has worked closely with the academic community, policy-makers, consumer advocates, and national regulators across the globe to advise on scientifically verifiable broadband measurement and policy. She is also a frequent conference speaker, covering the intersection of Internet science and policy. Meredith has a background in literature and psychoanalytic theory. She joined Google in 2006 after completing her degree at UC Berkeley. About Thomas Thomas Gideon is the technical director for the Open Technology Institute at New America Foundation. As technical director, he is responsible for managing and supporting technological and data driven policy interventions, including the Commotion mesh wireless networking project, which focuses on connecting communities that are under served and at risk, and Measurement Lab, a network measurement research platform that has produced the largest cache of open broadband performance data on the planet. He also provides technical expertise to collaborate on issues around privacy, security, copyright, digital media and DRM. Links * MLab Website <http://measurementlab.net/> * MLab Video <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnIVMfBP4So&feature=youtu.be>
Trees and Physical-Virtual Borderlands: metaLAB and the Arnold Arboretum http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2012/11/parry *Kyle Parry, Researcher at metaLAB and PhD student in Film and Visual Studies and Critical Media Practice at Harvard * Today, 6.30 pm Webcast live: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/webcast http://nexa.polito.it/berkman-webcast-live Say the idea is to re-awaken our feelings for plants even at our hyper-networked speed---do we want digital tools to do the re-wiring or are we convinced their auto-brightness and push notifications divert us from the living, breathing nonhuman sensorium? Maybe we have to begin to think more dynamically about cycles of mediation and flows, even floods, of informational-environmental perception. We know Boston's maples can get deeper access to us when the Web shows us what science has to say about them; what would it mean to experiment in crafting avenues for trees to traffic and transform our physical-virtual borderlands? Kyle Parry will initiate a conversation along these lines by way of a discussion of Digital Ecologies, metaLAB's work-in-progress collaboration with Harvard's Arnold Arboretum. About Kyle Kyle Parry is a Researcher at metaLAB and a PhD student in Film and Visual Studies and Critical Media Practice at Harvard. His research works to bridge science studies, visual and communication theory, and conceptual history. His metaLAB work centers on the Digital Archive of Japan's 2011 Disasters and Digital Ecologies at the Arnold Arboretum.
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