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Gikii is tons of fun — I’ve presented at the first one (on Japanese anime and copyright) and at the second (on copyright and tattoos). This year’s will be on September 24-25, 2008 and will take place in Oxford, UK and hosted by the Oxford Internet Institute.
As per usual, the co-chairs are Lilian Edwards, [...]
The Royal Society of Chemistry is having an event on Chinese IP law. The focus seems to be primarily on patent law and (naturally) chemistry with likely some trade mark prosecution and enforcement as well. From the event description, speakers include IP expert and frequent speaker Sir Hugh Laddie:
The keynote speakers will be Sir Hugh [...]
NODUS, the organisation for IP & IT legal professionals in the East Midlands, is having a meeting in Nottingham featuring:
Jeremy Reed (Hogarth Chambers) - speaking on “Software Patents and the Recent Developments in the Law”
A patent examiner from the UK-IPO - speaking on “The Role of the Patent Examiner”
Full details up on the IMPACT [...]
Larry Lessig will discuss his new research track on corruption and why technology is the answer at this Society for Computers and the Law sponsored lecture:
Technology policy has never been more critical. Privacy, security and the appropriate balance for copyright are now central policy making challenges, if the economic and social potential of the Internet [...]
The Society for Computers in the Law is having a conference on Information Governance :
Information governance has rapidly become an integral part of organisational strategy in both the public and private sector. Organisations of all types and size are generating ever greater volumes of sensitive data and that data must be handled lawfully to [...]
The COMMUNIA project has a conference on 30 June to 1 July 2008. Conference link — material below under CC-BY-SA:
The First COMMUNIA Conference 2008 is scheduled for Monday 30 June and Tuesday 1st July 2008 in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium (30 km south of Brussels). It is co-organized by the Communia Thematic Network and the GICSI-EU initiative.
The [...]
March 10 is the registration deadline for this conference on politics web 2.0. For those of you that have been attending “law 2.0″ events, this looks like a particularly good complement showing some other emerging issues.
Has there been a shift in political use of the internet and digital new media - a new web [...]
This is the second of two lectures from Prof. Jonathan Zittrain at LSE:
The Internet’s current trajectory is one of lost opportunity. Its salvation lies in the hands of its millions of users. Drawing on generative technologies like Wikipedia that have so far survived their own successes, this book shows how to develop new technologies and [...]
This is one of two internet law lectures Prof. Zittrain is giving at LSE on the first week of March.
The Internet is primed for a meltdown–and the most obvious cures are
just as bad.
The engine that has catapulted the Internet from backwater to ubiquity is sputtering precisely because of its runaway success. With the unwitting help [...]
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