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Subject: The Filter, No. 6.13
No. 6.13 <--The Filter--> 11.23.04
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
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* Election Afterthoughts
Record numbers of voters turned out, "red states" carried the day, and
wrangles over e-voting machines continue. Now, in the post-election
lull, campaigners, journalists, scholars and bloggers are beginning to
ask, "Did the Internet make any difference at all?" Dan Carol,
creator of the Senate's first website in 1994, isn't bullish: "I
don't mean to be a curmudgeon but there was not that much new
really." Meanwhile, a new study by the Pew Internet & American Life
Project indicates that 40% of internet users find political
information on the web -- more people than ever before. How do these
trends reconcile? Next month, the Berkman Center is hosting a
conference on this question and more. Join us at Votes, Bits & Bytes
from December 9-11, 2004 to discuss the effect of the internet on
politics. (Spaces are filling quickly, so register soon.)
E-voting aftermath: <http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-5438198.html>
Experts weigh in: <http://www.personaldemocracy.com/node/120>
Pew Study: <http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/141/report_display.asp>
Votes, Bits & Bytes: <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/is2k4/home>
* The Saudi-Wide Web
A report released today from the OpenNet Initiative sheds light on the
what the Internet looks like from inside Saudi Arabia. ONI tested
sites blocked by the government's internet filtering system and found
the highest percentage of blocked sites in the categories of
pornography, drugs, and gambling. The study found less evidence of
blocking related to the state of Israel (2% of sites tested), the
Jewish religion (0%), and alcohol (5%). The study also revealed that
blocking has changed since 2000. The Israeli Defense Forces website,
for example, was blocked in 2002 and 2003 but not in 2004. The
results of the ONI study offer a window into the country's evolving
efforts to manage the type of information available to its citizens.
The OpenNet Initiative is a partnership of the Citizen Lab at the Munk
Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto, the Berkman
Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, and the Advanced
Network Research Group at the Centre for Security in International
Society (Cambridge Security Programme), University of Cambridge.
Read the full bulletin:
<http://www.opennetinitiative.net/studies/saudi/>
Information on the OpenNet Initiative:
<http://www.opennetinitiative.net/>
* Film Studios Join Lawsuit Bandwagon
Specific details on the lawsuits remain unclear, but the Motion
Picture Association of America (MPAA) has announced a news campaign to
sue users accused of illegally sharing copyrighted films. Following
in the footsteps of the RIAA, the film studios are trying to squelch
what MPAA President Dan Glickman calls "the greatest threat to the
economic basis of movie-making in its 110-year history" -- illegal
trading of films over the internet. News of this crackdown came one
week after a new report by CacheLogic indicated that BitTorrent, a
popular file-sharing program, accounts for more than a third of the
internet's total bandwidth. MPAA Lawsuits -- coming soon to a
courtroom near you.
MPAA Release:
<http://mpaa.org/CurrentReleases/2004_11_04_PressRelease.pdf>
Primary Documents on the case:
<http://msl1.mit.edu/furdlog/index.php?m=20041105#post-2767>
BitTorrent Bandwidth: <http://www.cachelogic.com/research/slide1.php>
More on the State of Digital Media:
<http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/media>
* Pornography Site Sues Google for IP Claims
Perfect 10, a California-based publisher of "adult content," claims
that Google has benefited from "stolen content" sites and filed suit
against Google for 12 counts of intellectual property violations.
According to the LA Times, the company claims it sent 27 requests to
Google asking it to remove links to websites that illegally
distributed Perfect 10's content. Perfect 10 said that Google's
response has been unsatisfactory and that Google provides links to
800,000 unauthorized versions of Perfect 10's photos. Google has
declined to comment on the case, which involves allegations of unfair
competition as well as copyright, trademark, and right of publicity
infringements. The suit is the first of its kind for the search
engine behemoth and could raise questions about DMCA safe-harbor
provisions as well as Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.
Perfect 10's Complaint (redacted for graphic content):
<http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/blogs/gems/palfrey/Perfect10ComplaintPDFCroppe
d.pdf>
News Coverage:
<http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-porn20nov20,1,6907711.story>
Legal Commentary: <http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/palfrey/2004/11/20>
[2] BERKMAN NEWS
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* Fellows Inform and Influence Blogosphere
Berkman Center Fellows Rebecca MacKinnon and Ethan Zuckerman continue
to buck the trappings of traditional media. Both are mentioned in
Foreign Policy Magazine in the article "Web of Influence," which
highlights activists who are bringing attention to overlooked stories.
In addition, the two have organized a series of discussions entitled
"Global Voices Online: Blogging for Independent Journalists, Concerned
Citizens and Activists," to take place at the conference, Internet &
Society 2004: Votes, Bits & Bytes.
Foreign Policy:
<http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/files/story2707.php>
Global Voices: <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu:8080/globalvoices/>
Votes, Bits & Bytes: <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/is2k4/home>
* Clinical Program Files Amici Brief In "Gripe Site" Case
The Berkman Center's Clinical Program in Cyberlaw filed an amici
curiae brief in Bosley Medical Institute v. Kremer this month, on
behalf of 15 intellectual property law faculty. The case involves a
non-commercial "gripe site," created by a disgruntled customer, that
used the company's mark in its domain name. The Berkman brief urges
the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to hold that, consistent with First
Amendment values, a mark must be used in a commercial context before
it can violate the trademark laws and that Kremer's site was
non-commercial. The brief was drafted by Clinical Program students
Agnes Li, Eric Priest, Parishi Sanjanwala, and Thiru Vignarajah, the
Clinical Program co-directors, and Professor Rebecca Tushnet of
Georgetown and NYU.
The Brief: <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/clinical/bosley.pdf>
Berkman's Clinical Program:
<http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/clinical/>
[3] CONFERENCE WATCH
=====================
November:
* November 25-28, 2004, Baku, Azerbaijan - Digital Divide and
Knowledge Economy: Problems and Solutions
<http://www.global-ict.mincom.gov.az/about.php>
December:
* December 1-5, 2004, Cape Town, South Africa - ICANN Meeting
<http://www.icanncapetown.co.za/>
* December 9-11, 2004, Cambridge, Massachusetts - Internet & Society
2004: Votes, Bits and Bytes
<http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/is2k4/index.html>
* December 13-17, 2004, Tallinn, Estonia - iLaw Eurasia
<http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ilaw/eurasia_2004>
January:
* January 3-6, 2004, Big Island, Hawaii - The Semantic Web: The Goal
of Web Intelligence <http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu>
* January 18-19, 2004, Brisbane, Australia - Open Content Licensing
(OCL): Cultivating the Creative Commons
<http://www.law.qut.edu.au/about/news.jsp#ocl>
* January 31 - February 4, 2004, Trento, Italy - 2005 International
Symposium on Applications and the Internet
<http://www.saint2005.org/>
March:
* March 4-5, 2004, Ottawa, Ontario - The Concealed: Anonymity,
Identity and the Prospect of Privacy
<http://www.anonequity.org/concealedi>
[4] BOOKMARKS
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* Science Commons
<http://creativecommons.org/projects/science/proposal>
* The Free Culture Movement <http://savetheipod.com/index1.php>
* Google Scholar <http://scholar.google.com/>
[5] QUOTABLES
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"We haven't made records for years."
-Bono, on the out-dated-ness of the "recording industry" and his
enthusiasm about a special-edition iPod
<http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,65472,00.html?tw=newsletter_topst
ories_html>
After the debate that evening, Lessig and I strolled beneath the
sycamore trees on the USC campus. We talked of his dream for Creative
Commons and how artists and fans would benefit... if we all could
enjoy more walks in the commons. Our debate on the second night would
not have much disagreeable fervor.
-Hilary Rosen, former CEO of the RIAA, on coming to love Creative
Commons <http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.11/larry.html>
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