Copyfight: The politics of IP

About this site

Here we'll explore the nexus of legal rulings, Capitol Hill policy-making, technical standards development and technological innovation that create--and will recreate--the networked world as we know it. Translating legalese and technical language into plain English, we'll keep you updated on battles and decisions likely to impact the technology industry, talking to key players to help us understand not only the underlying forces shaping these decisions but also what they actually mean. Among the topics we'll touch on: intellectual property conflicts, technical architecture and innovation, the evolution of copyright, private vs. public interests in Net policy-making, lobbying and the law, and more.

About this editor

Donna Wentworth has been at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center [ http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ ], where she's author and editor of The Filter [ http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/filter ], since its founding in 1997. She's become increasingly interested in the impact of technology on social and cultural life, and recently began writing a book on the subject. Previously she worked for Harvard's Office for Information Technology and was a Scholarly Books representative at the Dartmouth Bookstore. Donna graduated from Colby College and later completed additional coursework in English Literature and Critical Theory at Georgetown University.

Please send any comments, suggestions or reactions to Donna [ donna@cyber.law.harvard.edu ].