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...North Yard office, Nesson too is fighting the good fight. He and a handful of Law School professors are hatching a plot to take down the maze of laws protecting the entertainment establishment. In October, Nesson and Berkman Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies Jonathan L. Zittrain traveled to Washington, D.C., to defend their cause before the Supreme Court. And today, the professors say they’ve just begun the immense project of erasing the laws that killed Napster. Their goal: to rewrite copyright law, transforming it into a form compatible with both artistic compensation and the free flow...
Across the hall from Nesson, in the computer-crowded office of Zittrain, a former student of Nesson’s, sits a blue hard-bound cover with an imposing title: Internet Law. Zittrain’s name is below the title, as are Nesson’s and a handful of other legal scholars’—but that’s all they have. The pages between the covers are blank...
This fall, he co-authored a report on Google’s censorship in France and Germany with Assistant Professor of Law Jonathan Zittrain, whom he met at the Berkman Center...
...recent Harvard Law School report by Berkman Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies Jonathan L. Zittrain has found that the French and German versions of Google, the Internet’s most popular search engine, have been filtering more than 100 controversial websites from their searches. Without being warned of it, many Google users have been blocked from various far right-wing and anti-semitic pages—some of which the two governments have deemed illegal under various post-World War II censorship laws...
...Internet can empower millions through knowledge, but one only needs to look at China to see the potential for a governmnent to abuse the web’s power. We applaud the efforts of academics like Zittrain to search out these infringements and fight for the freedom of speech...