Announcing: "Journalism’s Digital Transition: Unique Legal Challenges and Opportunities" @ Harvard Law School April 9, 2010

Announcing a one-day symposium and CLE program on Friday April 9, 2010 hosted by the Citizen Media Law Project and Cyberlaw Clinic at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center to celebrate the launch of the Online Media Legal Network (OMLN). The Network 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,” the program will bring together panels of academics, legal practitioners, and journalists. Topics will include:

• Saving Journalim 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

For more information, please see the conference website.