Jonathan Zittrain

Jonathan Zittrain

Co-Founder and Director, Berkman Center for Internet & Society

Jonathan Zittrain is a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Vice Dean for Library and Information Resources for the Harvard Law School Library, and Co-Founder of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. Previously, he was the Chair in Internet Governance and Regulation at Oxford University and a principal of the Oxford Internet Institute.  He was also a visiting professor at the New York University School of Law and Stanford Law School.

Zittrain’s research interests include battles for control of digital property and content, cryptography, electronic privacy, the roles of intermediaries within Internet architecture, and the useful and unobtrusive deployment of technology in education.

He is also the author of The Future of the Internet and How to Stop Itas well as co-editor of the books, Access Denied (MIT Press, 2008), Access Controlled (MIT Press, 2010), and Access Contested (MIT Press, 2011).

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So far, Google’s been a friend to free culture, says Jonathan Zittrain.
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The problem with newspapers, Zittrain says, is Craigslist.
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What is free culture? What should we protect with copyright laws, and do they need to change?
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Harvard Law Professor Jonathan Zittrain pulls back the digital curtain.
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The top level security issue is how to function in an open and chaotic environment, Zittrain says.