Dear Mr. Watts, Mr. Greenberg and Senator Tillis,
My name is Adam Holland, and I am a Project Manager at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, where I oversee the day-to-day operations of the Lumen database project [1]. I write to you today in my individual capacity to answer some of the questions you have posed to stakeholders regarding your DMCA Reform Bill, and to suggest a few additional changes.
Lumen is an independent research project that studies, and facilitates the study of the landscape for online content. This includes requests — based on legal or extra-legal…
In response to the far-reaching effects of the COVID-19 virus and related societal shutdown, the Internet Archive (IA) has built what it calls a “National Emergency Library” (NEL). In a nutshell, the IA has taken its existing “Open Library” project and made it far more expansive. For the duration of the national emergency, there will be no limitations on the number of copies of a given electronic book that can be checked out from the Library at one time. The NEL announcement was understandably met with a wide range of reactions, both positive and negative.
Lumen is an academic research project, based at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, that collects and studies requests to remove online content and links thereto. Lumen’s primary goals are to educate the public about and to facilitate research on such requests.
Over the last year, the Lumen team has been working with Professor Eugene Volokh, of UCLA School of law and the eponymous blogger of the Volokh Conspiracy. …
Adam Holland
Berkman Klein Center Project Manager; lawyer; coach, sport psychologist; rowing Olympian, jiu jitsu player, SF/fantasy/comics reader. Skill gatherer.
