OMLN's Spring Conference: Journalism's Digital Transition [1]

[2] We're pleased to announce that, on Friday April 9, 2010, the Citizen Media Law Project [3] and Berkman's [4] Cyberlaw Clinic [5] are hosting a conference at Harvard Law School to celebrate the launch of the Online Media Legal Network (OMLN) [2].  OMLN supports promising ventures and innovative thinkers in online and digital media by providing access to legal help that would otherwise be unavailable.

Entitled “Journalism’s Digital Transition: Unique Legal Challenges and Opportunities [6],” the program will bring together panels of academics, legal practitioners, and journalists. Topics will include:

• Saving Journalism from Itself? Hot News, Copyright Fair Use and News Aggregation
• Building and Managing Online Communities -- Anonymity, Defamation and Privacy, Oh My!
• The Future of Journalism: Law and Ethics in a Changing Media Ecosystem

Please visit the OMLN website for more information on the conference agenda [7], registration [8], and logistics and lodging [9].

We hope that you will join us in Cambridge for an opportunity to meet members of OMLN and to learn more about the legal issues faced by journalists working online. A limited number of free and reduced-fee registrations that will be made available to academics, students, and public interest attorneys.  Please contact us [10] to see about a fee waiver.

If you or your organization is interested in becoming a sponsor of the conference, please contact OMLN staff attorney Kimberley Isbell [11] for details. Sponsors will receive a limited number of free registrations, tickets to a dinner with Harvard Law School Professor and Berkman Center Faculty Co-Director Jonathan Zittrain as the Keynote Speaker, as well as prominent acknowledgement on the OMLN website and at the conference.