IPITevents

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 [...]

Designs at QMIPRI, and apparently free food too. The event will “examine emerging European jurisprudence in designs” and includes Richard Wilding (Procter & Gamble), Martin Howe QC (8 New Square), and John Noble (British Brands Group).
The seminar is held at QMIPRI, 67-69 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London (map), at 6pm for 6.30pm start, followed by [...]

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 [...]

Christopher Stothers of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP and author of Parallel Trade in Europe will be discussing the intersection between IP, competition and parallel imports at an AHRC Research Centre for Studies in IP and Technology Law lecture in Edinburgh.
13.00 to 14.00, Lecture Theatre 270, Old College, South Bridge.
Email: john.anzani@ed.ac.uk or see the AHRC [...]

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 [...]

The British Female Inventors and Innovators Network is having an awards event in Cardiff. This looks like a good networking opportunity type of event for those interested in IP and business opportunities (as opposed to conferences about the law itself.
From the site:
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This ambitiously titled conference from CIPIL will look at trade mark dilution, and features Lord Justice Jacob, Professor Graeme Dinwoodie (Chicago-Kent/QMUL), Professor Martin Senftleben (Free University of Amsterdam), Richard Arnold QC , Dev Gangee (London School of Economics), Emmanuel Baud (Latham & Watkins), David Llewelyn (White and Case), Professor Ansgar Ohly (University of [...]

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 [...]

The 23rd annual installment of the British and Irish Law, Education, and Technology Association (BILETA) conference will take place at Glasgow Caledonian University with the theme “Law Shaping Technology; Technology Shaping the Law”. The conference has an extended call for pape — due by 15 February(PDF). Keynotes are Prof David Wall (Leeds) and David Flint [...]