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Yale Law School Professor Yochai Benkler, a renowned expert on cyberspace law and policy, has accepted a tenured offer to join the Harvard Law School faculty, according to a press release from HLS. He will also serve as a faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, a subdivision of Harvard Law focusing on cyberspace research...
...Benkler is celebrated for his work in the fields of information law and policy, communications law and intellectual property. He also specializes in the field of biopharmaceutical policy and the effect of the patent system on pharmaceutical drugs in developing companies...
...Benkler has written two books and has published over two dozen academic articles in prominent journals such as Science, the Yale Law Journal and the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology. His 2006 release "The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom" and his 2002 essay "Coase's Penguin, or Linux and the Nature of the Firm" are two of the most important works in the field of cyber law and have changed how researchers perceive economic motivators, Palfrey said...
...other fields, it's not so clear. In a critique of Benkler's work last summer, business writer Nicholas Carr speculated that Web 2.0 media sites like Digg, Flickr and YouTube are able to rely on volunteer contributions simply because a market has yet to emerge to price this "new kind of labor." He and Benkler then entered into what has come to be widely known in Web circles as the "Carr-Benkler wager": a bet on whether, by 2011, such sites will be driven primarily by volunteers or by professionals...
...tempting for any professional journalist to root for Carr. I certainly don't want to be replaced by volunteers. But then, this magazine couldn't be produced without the volunteers, such as Yochai Benkler, who allow us journalists to interview them. Cable TV news channels are pageants of volunteerism, with much airtime filled by unpaid guests. The majority of these people aren't motivated by Kropotkin's spirit of mutual aid--they seek fame, an audience for their ideas, higher fees on the speaking circuit. But for those minutes on air, they are working for free...