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Radio Berkman Stories From The Deep Internet Radio Berkman is the intersection of web, society, technology, and the law.

You'll hear short edited interviews, conversations, and stories from the areas where human beings and the web meet. Our podcast is hosted by Daniel Dennis Jones and produced at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.

Jon Penney explains how surveillance changes our behavior online."With each new regulation, with each new law, you have ...
05/19/2016

Jon Penney explains how surveillance changes our behavior online.

"With each new regulation, with each new law, you have the subtle conforming effects...so you're less willing to access controversial or sensitive content."

The effects of surveillance on human behavior have long been discussed and documented in the real world. And it turns out it even happens online.

Use the ̶F̶o̶r̶c̶e̶, ̶L̶u̶k̶e̶. copyright, George.
05/12/2016

Use the ̶F̶o̶r̶c̶e̶, ̶L̶u̶k̶e̶. copyright, George.

"What funds that remarkable company is their ways of using copyright," says Peter S. Menell, devoted science fiction fan and a professor at the UC Berkeley.

You'll never guess what really happened to pizza. 🍕In the new episode we talk to New Republic writer Elspeth Reeve about...
03/10/2016

You'll never guess what really happened to pizza. 🍕

In the new episode we talk to New Republic writer Elspeth Reeve about "The Secret Lives of Tumblr Teens."

In her article "The Secret Lives of Tumblr Teens," Elspeth Reeve tells the stories of some of Tumblr's most popular bloggers -kids who started their blogs in high school, made a ton of money and then disappeared.

What we're reading for : "Although fair use is meant to be a sturdy and powerful carve out to exclusive rights, both le...
02/26/2016

What we're reading for :

"Although fair use is meant to be a sturdy and powerful carve out to exclusive rights, both legal and nonlegal systems don’t always treat it as such," writes Emily Hong. "Particularly with remixed work, content is often presumed guilty until proven innocent, a bias that can result in self-censorship or repeat takedowns and suppression of legal content."

(via Future Tense from Slate.com, New America and Arizona State University)

I made a discovery just before the holidays. If you start Beyoncé’s “Grown Woman” at 0:23 seconds in and simultaneously press play on the music video f ...

If our 6-minute podcast wasn't enough, check out this interview from WFMU's Radio Free Culture with MIT Libraries' Ell...
02/26/2016

If our 6-minute podcast wasn't enough, check out this interview from WFMU's Radio Free Culture with MIT Libraries' Ellen Duranceau. She even has acronym!

[Cheyenne talks to Ellen Duranceau, MIT Librarian, about the gray area of what is and isn't fair use under the US Copyright statute.] http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/59541

You spend all this time putting together the perfect 140 character tweet, and then someone else makes it their own.
02/26/2016

You spend all this time putting together the perfect 140 character tweet, and then someone else makes it their own.

With 316 million users posting 500 million tweets a day, someone is bound to write an unoriginal tweet now and then. But there are some Twitter users whose entire existence relies completely on plagi

Really though- what would we do without "Spaceballs" and Comic-con?!
02/26/2016

Really though- what would we do without "Spaceballs" and Comic-con?!

Most people don’t realize copyright law impacts what we do every day, including how we watch and listen to entertainment. The principle of “fair use” is part of our nation’s copyright law that allo...

To celebrate , we try to explain fair use and copyright in 6 minutes or less. Bonus: We do it all with music from Roy O...
02/25/2016

To celebrate , we try to explain fair use and copyright in 6 minutes or less.

Bonus: We do it all with music from Roy Orbison and 2 Live Crew.

An artist, musician, or writer can’t just take another person's creation and claim it as their own. Federal law outlines how creators can and can’t borrow from each other. These rules are collectively

How can we keep mountains of our personal data out of the wrong hands without compromising all the great benefits we get...
06/08/2015

How can we keep mountains of our personal data out of the wrong hands without compromising all the great benefits we get everyday?

If you were spooked by any of the big data breaches of the last few years, you’ll want to listen to this week's podcast with Bruce Schneier and Josephine Wolff.

A lot of personal information about you is completely invisible, intangible, and racing around cyberspace on a mission to pay your bills and geolocate your Facebook status. And, of course, this is use

If a video game can eliminate harassment and hate speech, maybe there's hope for the rest of the web.This week on the po...
06/01/2015

If a video game can eliminate harassment and hate speech, maybe there's hope for the rest of the web.

This week on the podcast we talk to Jeffrey "Lyte" Lin who is engineering the hate out of League of Legends.

Few sectors of the networked environment get a worse reputation for hate speech than online gaming. Competitive games with chat functions have always involved some level of trash talking. Slurs, shami

New episode!! In Radio Berkman 216 we tackle the web as we know it in 2014-2015. Hate speech online, freedom of speech o...
03/25/2015

New episode!! In Radio Berkman 216 we tackle the web as we know it in 2014-2015. Hate speech online, freedom of speech online, censorship and surveillance online, and, of course, whether our smart machines are out to destroy us.

In Radio Berkman 216 we tackle the web as we know it in 2014-2015. Hate speech online, freedom of speech online, censorship and surveillance online, and, of course, whether our smart machines are out

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