MIT: Independent Activities Period: IAP

IAP 2014 Activities by Sponsor - Katherine Irene Maynard Darling



Coders, Know Your Rights: A Practical Introduction to Technology and the Law

Andy Sellars, Kate Darling, Kit Walsh, J. Nathan Matias

Jan/22 Wed 02:00PM-05:00PM Media Lab, E14-525

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/19
Limited to 40 participants
Prereq: None

Whether you're a hacktivist, a startup person, a data security researcher, or just trying to make something cool online, legal questions and concerns can often scare away coders from new and exciting projects. Knowledge is power when it comes to online legal issues, and to help empower coders we've gathered a group of technology and legal fellows from the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard to help you issue-spot your own projects and help you lower your legal risk (while still being awesome).

 

Topics will include:

- Hacking, scraping, crawling, and the law

- The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act - the federal law that regulates computer hacking

- Data privacy law (and its relationship to university IRBs)

- Copyright, trademark, defamation, and other content liability issues

- Hosting user content online - best practices, safe harbors, and other issues

- Best practices tips from experts who have bumped into these issues before

Contact: Kate Darling, E15-350, KDARLING@MIT.EDU