J.R.McHale

Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society has set up a Cybersecurity Wiki intended to be a curated, comprehensive and evolving collection of resources for those interested in cybersecurity issues. In the words of Harvard Law School professor Jack Goldsmith: “the general aim of the wiki is to collect in one place, and organize intelligently, every important document [currently about 100 documents] related to cybersecurity.”

A report by Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society in partnership with the Center for Democracy and Technology. Authors: Erica Newland, Caroline Nolan, Cynthia Wong and Jillian York.

The Citizen Media Law Project at Harvard’s Berkman Center has a new section in its legal guide on Low-Profit Limited Liability Companies (L3C), a novel hybrid business form combining a social mission with a for-profit entity. The business form is now covered in the CMLP legal guide, including an explanation of its tiered capital structure, state by state sections on how to form an L3C, and an overview of its advantages and disadvantages.

The Citizen Media Law Project (hosted by Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society) analyzes the question of whether photographing a public artwork can be fair use. The topic has come to the fore in photography circles as the result of a relatively recent lawsuit regarding a photograph taken of a woman standing near a sculpture in Seattle.

After weighing in that there appears to be a decent fair use argument in the Seattle case, the CMLP author recommends that: “Cities … should reconsider how they commission public artwork. Cities could demand that artists surrender their copyright interests in order to receive public funding … The most reasonable solution is to keep public artwork completely open to the public. Until cities do this, however, commercial photographers may want to think twice about incorporating public artwork into their photographs.”

The team blog for the Internet & Democracy Project, a research initiative at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.