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John Palfrey

John Palfrey


Berkman Center for Internet & Society Harvard Law School 23 Everett Street Cambridge MA 2138 United States

About

Areas of Expertise

* Internet Law * Intellectual Property * Technology

Professional Experience

* Professor of Law, Harvard Law School (Present) * Vice Dean for Library and Information Services, Harvard College (Present) * Venture Executive, Highland Capital Partners (Present) * Visiting Professor, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland (2007-2008) * Attorney, Ropes & Gray (Past) * Special Assistant, The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Past)

Education

* Harvard Law School * The University of Cambridge * Harvard College

Bar Admissions

* Massachusetts State Bar * New York State Bar

Recent Articles

Weblogs@Harvard after Eight Years

John Palfrey
May 06, 2011 13:50

More often that you might think, we get asked about how the Weblogs@Harvard project (the server on which this blog appears) got started and why we at the Berkman Center maintain it.  I got several questions about it in the context of an event this week, in fact, eight years or so into the project. ...

Digital Public Library of America, Session IV

John Palfrey
March 01, 2011 20:59

These are my live-blog notes for the fourth and final full session at the DPLA content and scope working session: 1) The messy issue of rights and permissions for in-copyright works is the biggest issue that the DPLA will face.  (We have a workstream set up for legal issues on the wiki.)  A variant...

Digital Public Library of America, Session III

John Palfrey
March 01, 2011 19:39

Here are some quick notes on three take-aways from Session III at the Content and Scope planning meeting of the Digital Public Library of America. 1) Materials that are in copyright will have to be thought about by the DPLA differently (the red zone) from those in the public domain (green) or...

Digital Public Library of America, Session II

John Palfrey
March 01, 2011 16:37

My three take-away points/topics from the second session, focusing on characteristics of public domain collections and open business models: 1) We have done a lot of work toward collection-building in a DPLA.  We need to learn from the experience of our own projects in the United States and those...

Digital Public Library of America, Session 1 Notes

John Palfrey
March 01, 2011 15:49

Here’s my rough live-blog (while moderating; please excuse briefness) of the key points and problems from session 1 of the Digital Public Library of America working meeting on “Scope and Content” of a possible DPLA, today at the Harvard Faculty Club in Cambridge, MA: 1) We began with a voice from...