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...they did, the Berkman Center would be getting exactly what it was looking for. The center’s interest in intellectual property and Internet copyright law would meet with its interest in the community aspect of the Internet in an interesting marriage...
...used across the country, had already been revealed on several other bloggers’ sites. Slater copied some of these memos onto his site, now titled “A Copyfighter’s Musings,” making him one of the bloggers Diebold complained had violated U.S. copyright...
That made Harvard among the dozens of hosts Diebold asked to pull the e-mails, citing the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act as grounds for its decision. Harvard, like most of the other servers, complied, forcing Slater to take the information off his site. But even though Slater complied, the Berkman Center supported his position that Diebold’s action was unfounded...
...Slater backed down, retreating to the pages of “A Copyfighter’s Musings,” some other bloggers took Diebold to court, charging the company was wrong to force servers to take down the information when the company knew it was not actually a copyright infringement. Their win last October has been hailed as a landmark case in digital free speech by organizations that include the Berkman Center, which still lists a blog item about the case on its main site...
...this manner, Gil has heralded efforts to enhance public access to culture by supporting nonprofits such as Stanford professor Lawrence Lessig’s Creative Commons. In November of 2004, with the intent of challenging conventional copyright laws, Gil participated in a compilation CD for Wired magazine with artists such as the Beastie Boys and David Byrne, entitled “The Wired CD: Rip. Sample. Mash. Share...