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My name is Jonathan Zittrain

Jonathan Zittrain is a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. 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 It and the book Access Denied which he co-edited.

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Is Google a threat to free culture?
Free Culture and Copyright Law on the Internet

Free Culture and Copyright Law on the Internet

What is free culture? What should we protect with copyright laws, and do they need to change?

Re: How should corporations think about Web security?

Re: How should corporations think about Web security?

The top level security issue is how to function in an open and chaotic environment, Zittrain says.

Re: Do businesses gain an advantage by adopting open standards?
A New Manhattan Project for Network Computing

A New Manhattan Project for Network Computing

Zittrain on what he calls a collective effort, an effort with some urgency, and a sense of sacrifice, of actually being willing to take some time apart from our day to day to make a better system for everybody.

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