Remember to load images if you have trouble seeing parts of this email. Or click here to view the web version of this newsletter. Below you will find upcoming Berkman Center events, interesting digital media we have produced, and other events of note.
berkman luncheon seriesTuesday, October 2, 12:00pm ET, Harvard Law School. **Please note earlier than usual start time**. This event will be 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; August 2012) and the ruling of the Canadian Supreme Court on fair dealing for educational purposes. 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. Niva Elkin-Koren is the former dean of the University of Haifa Faculty of Law and the founding director of the Haifa Center for Law & Technology (HCLT). RSVP Required. more information on our website>
berkman luncheon seriesTuesday, October 9, 12:30pm ET, Harvard Law School.This event will be 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. Alberto Pepe is a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard University and co-founder of Authorea, a science startup. RSVP Required. more information on our website>
special eventTuesday, October 9 , 10am-12pm ET, Harvard Law School. This event will be webcast live.
via the FCC: By this Public Notice, the Federal Communications Commission (?Commission?) announces the date, time, and agenda of the next meeting of the Open Internet Advisory Committee (?Committee?). The next meeting of the Committee will take place on October 9, 2012, from 10:00 A.M. to 12:00 P.M. in Milstein West A at the Wasserstein Hall/Caspersen Student Center, Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138. At its October 9, 2012 meeting, the Committee will consider issues relating to the subject areas of its four working groups?Mobile Broadband, Economic Impacts of Open Internet Frameworks, Specialized Services, and Transparency?as well as other open Internet related issues. A limited amount of time will be available on the agenda for comments from the public. Alternatively, members of the public may send written comments to Daniel Kirschner, Designated Federal Officer of the Committee, or Deborah Broderson, Deputy Designated Federal Officer, at the addresses provided below. more information on our website>
special eventOctober 11-12 , Chicago Public Library, Chicago, IL.
DPLA Midwest?taking place on October 11-12, 2012 in Chicago?is the third major public event bringing together librarians, technologists, creators, students, government leaders, and others interested in building a Digital Public Library of America. Convened by the DPLA Secretariat at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and co-hosted by the Chicago Public Library, the event will assemble a wide range of stakeholders in a broad, open forum to facilitate innovation, collaboration, and connections across the DPLA effort. Registration Required. more information on our website>
video/audio
The internet lets us share perfect copies of our work with a worldwide audience at virtually no cost. We take advantage of this revolutionary opportunity when we make our work ?open access?: digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. In this talk, Peter Suber ? Director of the Harvard Open Access Project ? shares insights from his new concise introduction to open access ? what open access is and isn?t, how it benefits authors and readers of research, how we pay for it, how it avoids copyright problems, how it has moved from the periphery to the mainstream, and what its future may hold. This event includes questions and responses from Stuart Shieber (School of Engineering and Applied Sciences), Robert Darnton (Harvard University Library), June Casey (Harvard Law School Library), David Weinberger (Berkman Center / Harvard Library Innovation Lab) and more. video/audio on our website>
Source: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/7980
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