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Jack Balkin: What is Access to Knowledge?

Posted by Michael Zimmeron April 21, 2006in Events, Information Ethics, Information Law & Policy, Internet

Jack Balkin has posted his opening remarks at the Access to Knowledge conference at Yale Law School. In them, he makes three points about the theory of access to knowledge: First, Access to Knowledge is a demand of justice. Second,…

Access to Knowledge

Posted by Michael Zimmeron April 18, 2006in Events, Information Ethics, Information Law & Policy, Internet

This weekend I will be attending an international conference on Access to Knowledge hosted by the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. From their site: In the digital era, most multinational corporations and policymakers are of the view that…

What if Google Enabled FOIA Requests?

Posted by Michael Zimmeron December 3, 2005in Events, Information Ethics, Information Law & Policy, Search Engines

I'm attending the "Regulating Search?" symposium hosted by the Yale Information Society Project today. The first panel was on "The Search Space," and Robin Sloan, co-producer of the (in)famous "EPIC 2014" movie on "the future history of media," posed an…

Symposium on “Regulating Search?”

Posted by Michael Zimmeron November 1, 2005in Events, Information Law & Policy, Search Engines

The Yale Information Society Project is hosting a symposium on "Regulating Search: A Symposium on Search Engines, Law, and Public Policy": Search is big business, and search functionality increasingly shapes the information society. Yet how the law treats search is…