Google Blog Finding

Emily Brill:

Professors at Harvard Law School’s influential Berkman Center
for Internet & Society consistently take positions on hotly
debated business issues in support of companies like Google, which
favor a free-wheeling Internet culture and less control over
intellectual property, and against companies like Apple and AT&T,
which — at least when it comes to hardware like the iPhone —
favor closed digital systems and stricter intellectual property
rights. […]

What most readers don’t know is that the Berkman Center and many
of its leading professors have financial and personal ties to
Google and other tech companies — ties that are not disclosed when
these academics speak or publish, and that I discovered after
auditing a class with Zittrain.