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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
File sharing and IP enforcement talk at Southampton featuring Professors Gerrit Betlem and Lilian Edwards and billed as a joint event with the European Law Forum and ILAWS. They suggest reviewing:
Materials: the ECJ’s judgment in Case C-275/06 of 29 January 2008 and the Opinion of A-G Kokott of 18 July 2007.
Staff Common Room of the […]
An evening conference on the impact of the Microsoft case, from 4pm to 6:30 at the University of Birmingham’s Institute of European Law. This will give those that missed the Edinburgh event the chance to see Ian Forrester speak. Conference excerpt:
As the newly opened investigations show, Microsoft is a landmark case for both its findings […]
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 […]
Prof. Jonathan Zittrain of the Oxford Internet Institute and Harvard’s Berkman Center will be giving a talk on Tuesday 12 February at 4.30pm at the University of Oxford Computing Laboratories in Lecture Theatre A. The abstract proves, as usual, very interesting:
Web 2.0 doesn’t just mean user generated content. It also entails a rapid shift to […]
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