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In these various capacities, the fellow will cultivate and support relationships among Harvard faculty and experts in related fields, and engage with a range of stakeholders in broader research and policy circles plan, communicate, and execute internal and external meetings and events produce internal updates and reports conduct research and contribute to program publications coordinate public-facing communications in conjunction with the Berkman Klein Center’s communications manager provide additional support to project and Center activities as needed and potentially supervise research assistants and summer interns involved in the program. As a member of this community, the fellow will be able to participate in workshops and events at the Center and across the university, and have frequent opportunities to expand their knowledge of technology, law, and policy. The Berkman Klein Center fellowship program aims to encourage and support fellows in an inviting and rigorous intellectual environment, with community activities designed to foster inquiry and collaboration. The fellow will be part of the intellectual community at the Berkman Klein Center, which includes a wide range of people working on issues related to the Internet and society, including scholars, practitioners, innovators, and others committed to understanding and advancing the public interest. The fellowship position is an excellent opportunity for individuals who wish to expand their knowledge and capacity in the fields of copyright, online content regulation, international online intermediary liability, the “right to be forgotten”, other related topics, and is well suited for candidates who wish to pursue their own scholarship in this area while also contributing to the work of the Berkman Klein Center. The fellow will have an opportunity to write, speak, and engage with the media on topics relevant to Lumen’s work.
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Additionally, the fellow will work where appropriate with external researchers working with Lumen data join the project team as a thought partner regarding Lumen’s efforts to work with data providers, help develop researcher tools, manage data in the database and contribute to the organization and hosting of a planned series of multi-stakeholder convenings (most saliently regarding best practices for online takedown transparency).
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The fellow’s primary responsibility will be to incubate and support the program’s internal research efforts by conducting scholarly or policy-oriented research relying on the information in Lumen’s database. The fellow will be a core member of the Lumen team along with Lumen’s Project Manager and Principal Investigator, and a member of the broader Berkman Klein academic community. Our goals are to encourage and facilitate research and transparency about the different kinds of complaints and requests for removal-both legitimate and questionable-that are being sent to Internet publishers and service providers, and to provide as much information as possible about such notices - of which Lumen’s database contains over twelve million, referencing the removal of approximately 4.5 billion URLs - in terms of who is sending them and why, and to what effect. Lumen is a research project collecting and studying requests and demands of all kinds to remove concerning content found online, including copyright takedown notices, government requests and court orders. The fellowship provides the opportunity to develop substantive and scholarly work on the global takedown and intermediary liability landscape. The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University seeks an extraordinary full-time, salaried employee fellow to join the Center’s Lumen project.