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The Digital Learning Challenge

Recently the Berkman Center released “The Digital Learning Challenge: Obstacles to Educational Uses of Copyrighted Material in the Digital Age,” a year-long study on the relationship between copyright law and education. Overseen by Prof. William Fisher and conducted by Berkman fellow William McGeveran, the paper studies whether innovative uses of digital technology were hampered by copyright restrictions.

In this MediaBerkman special, Colin Rhinesmith and Amanda Michel looked closely into the paper’s case studies by interviewing Prof. William Fisher, Berkman fellow Bill McGeveran, Berkman student fellow Jackie Harlow, Washington College of Law Professor Peter Jaszi, WGBH Deputy General Counsel Jay Fialkov, New World Records Vice President and Trustee Lisa Kahlden, and George Mason Professor/Associate Director or the Center for History and New Media Mills Kelly.

Download the MP3 (time: 45:12).

Produced by Amanda Michel and Colin Rhinesmith.

Attribution: Music used in this AudioBerkman podcast includes several tracks sampled off the album “Love and you and I” from Lizzi, available at Magnatune. Track samples include: “Me”, “You belong”, “Remedy”, “Lay down”, “Only you”, and “Gone”.

2 comments October 17th, 2006

The Digital Learning Challenge: Interview with Bill McGeveran

Bill McGeveran, former Berkman Center Fellow and researcher with the Digital Media Project talks about the release of a new white paper, titled “The Digital Learning Challenge: Obstacles to Educational Uses of Content in a Digital Age.”

This foundational white paper reports on a year-long study by The Berkman Center for Internet & Society and funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The paper explores the relationship between copyright law and education. In particular, whether innovative uses of digital technology were hampered by the restrictions of copyright.

To learn more, we’ll hear Amanda Michel of the Berkman Center interview Bill McGeveran.

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Attribution: Music used in this edition of AudioBerkman was sampled from a track titled “You Belong” by Lizzi on the album “Love and you and I“, available at Magnatune.

1 comment August 10th, 2006

Susie Lindsay on Television in Transition

Susie Lindsay discusses “Television in Transition”, public interest values in a shifting media landscape.

Susie Lindsay is a research fellow at the Berkman Center, working on the Digital Media Project. Her research interests include communications law, mass media law, and the impact of the transition from analog to digital media on artists, consumers, and the media industries.

She writes:

“In the shifting media landscape – as broadcast and the internet merge – what are the public interest values and how do we achieve them?”

We’ll hear Susie speaking at a Berkman Tuesday Luncheon, July 11, 2006.

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Produced by Colin Rhinesmith on July 12, 2006.

Download Susie Lindsay’s PowerPoint presentation.

Attribution: Music from this episode of AudioBerkman was sampled and remixed using a track from Antony Raijekov titled Be Brave (Dub-TripHop RMX).

1 comment July 12th, 2006

Asia at the Cutting Edge?

Eric Priest leads a discussion about Asia’s entertainment industry business models.

Eric writes, “People often say Asia is at the cutting edge of the digital music revolution. Driven by sales of music for mobile phones, Japan is the second largest digital music market in world, and South Korea, China, and India’s digital music markets appear set to boom. But these markets still have problems and their sustainability is far from assured.

Technology adoption in Asia is high, to be sure, but technology adoption alone does not necessarily a business model make. What can Asia teach the world about the next-generation music business model? Much of the noteworthy innovation in Asia is actually happening in China, where music companies and artists are flexible and effective at adapting to piracy and changing market conditions, and where the line between creator and consumer seems to be disappearing faster than just about anywhere else in the world.”

Eric Priest is a research fellow in the Berkman Centers project on Internet Filtering, and a cofounder of Berkmans Digital Media in Asia Project. He is also a visiting researcher at Harvard Law School, and an adjunct professor of law at Chicago-Kent College of Law.

Learn more about the Digital Media in Asia Project.

Download the MP3 (time: 1:08:34)

Download the Powerpoint.

May 30th, 2006