IPITevents

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 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 [...]

Inspiration, Innovation, or Infringement: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Piracy and Copyright – Emmanuel College
This is a conference with what looks like some workshops led by Professor Lionel Bently (Cambridge), Dr Jennifer Davis (Cambridge) and Professor Jane Ginsburg (Columbia Law School).
From the site (emphasis mine):
An interdisciplinary conference for invited scholars from a variety of disciplines to consider [...]

This is a lecture on copyright from the AHRC Research Centre for Studies in IP and Technology Law at the University of Edinburgh by Dr Lior Zemer, Lecturer in Law, Radzyner School of Law, Interdisciplinary Centre, Herzliya, and Visiting Associate Professor, Boston University School of Law.
13.00 to 14.00, Lecture Theatre 270, Old College, South Bridge.
For [...]

A very timely conversation on music copyright upcoming in March.
Is home downloading killing music? Should Internet Service Providers monitor customers to try and spot copyright infringement, and disconnect downloaders? Do musicians need new laws to benefit from the opportunities of the Internet?
Join us to debate these questions and more with leading copyright thinkers from the [...]

This conference is the launch event for the research produced by the AHRC Primary Sources on Copyright History Project. This project collects key historic resources from the time of the invention of the printing press (1450 or so) to the Berne Convention (1886). Ronan Deazley is the national editor for the UK portion of [...]