Information Society Project

The Information Society Project at Yale Law School is an intellectual center addressing the implications of the Internet and new information technologies for law and society, guided by the values of democracy, human development, and social justice.

Harvard-MIT-Yale Cyberscholar Working Group March 23
The next Harvard-MIT-Yale Cyberscholars Working Group will take place on Tuesday, March 23 at 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm in Room B48 of the Hall of Graduate Studies, located just across York Street from Yale Law School in New Haven, CT. The session theme is “Infrastructures, ICTs, Imagination.” RSVP to Ben Peters at bjp2108@columbia.edu. Alien Infrastructures: [...]

March 5 James Grimmelmann on Google Books Settlement
You are cordially invited to a special Information Society Project lunch speaker series featuring James Grimmelmann discussing the Google Books settlement on Friday, March 5 at noon in Room 128 of Yale Law School. James, an Associate Professor of Law at New York Law School and an ISP Affiliated Fellow, will be discussing “The Google [...]

Open Access to Law: from http://public.resource.org/law.gov to http://law.gov?
I’ve been involved with a few initiatives seeking to promote wide access to scholarly articles, but have not spent as much time thinking about what open access means when applied to the raw materials of law: judicial briefs, caselaw, statutes, Congressional reports and hearings, executive regulations, grants, audits, and so on. This all changed on Wednesday, [...]

ISP Fellows featured in “Why Open Video?”
On the same weekend as the ISP’s conference, A2K4: Access to Knowledge and Human Rights, the Free Culture X conference was taking place in Washington DC. As part of that event, they released Tim Kothran’s great ten-minute educational movie entitled “Why Open Video?” Download link: [OGG] [MP4] The work combines footage from interviews with a number of [...]

Christina Mulligan on “Principles for Radical Copyright Reform”
You are cordially invited to a special Information Society Project lunch speaker series featuring Christina Mulligan discussing “Principles for Radical Copyright Reform” on Friday, February 26 at noon in Room 128 of Yale Law School. Principles for Radical Copyright Reform What’s wrong with copyright law? Currently, it is illegal to watch most DVDs on a linux operating [...]

Wireside Chat with Lawrence Lessig
Yale Students for Free Culture and the Yale Information Society Project are hosting a live screening of a global webcast of a talk by Lawrence Lessig convened by the Open Video Alliance and Harvard’s Berkman Center. The talk is being broadcast Thursday, February 25th from 6:00 to 7:30 EST, live from Cambridge, MA. The 45 minute [...]

Arianna Huffington in First Amendment Online Colloquium February 22
The Yale ISP is pleased to announce that Arianna Huffington will be speaking on February 22 at 4:00 p.m. in the Liberty Tree First Amendment Online Colloquium at Yale Law School. Because of the high demand for this event, it will be open to the Yale University community and will be held in the Yale [...]