We’ve received this from Juan Carlos De Martin: The NEXA Center for Internet & Society (http://nexa.polito.it) at the Politecnico di Torino and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu) at Harvard University are proud to announce that registration for the international conference “University and Cyberspace: Reshaping Knowledge Institutions for Read more…
The latest issue of SCRIPTed, a journal of law, technology and society, is now live. In this issue: Editorial Health Legislation: Devolution, Reservation and Derogation, Murray Earle, pp.1-4 Reviewed Articles The Intellectual Property Implications of Low-Cost 3D Printing, Simon Bradshaw, Adrian Bowyer and Patrick Haufe, pp.5-31 Knowledge Management and the Read more…
GikII V, Edinburgh 2009 http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/ahrc/gikii/2010.asp GikII V, The Voyage Home 28-29 June 2010 John McIntyre Conference Centre Edinburgh Call for Papers GikII returns to its place of birth for its Fifth Edition. GikII is a workshop concerned with exploring the legal interaction between popular culture, speculative fiction, and new technologies. Read more…
The COMMUNIA project has published The Public Domain Manifesto. I reproduce the preamble: “Le livre, comme livre, appartient à l’auteur, mais comme pensée, il appartient—le mot n’est pas trop vaste—au genre humain. Toutes les intelligences y ont droit. Si l’un des deux droits, le droit de l’écrivain et le droit Read more…
Quick reminder that the Open Rights Group is holding a meeting in Edinburgh this Sunday: How to talk to your MP and get them to change the Digital Economy Bill (Edinburgh) Sunday, January 24, 2010 from 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM (GMT) Gain the confidence to talk and write to Read more…
The December issue of SCRIPTed is now online. In this issue: Editorial Mandy and Me: Some Thoughts on the Digital Economy Bill Lilian Edwards , pp.534-537 Reviewed Articles DNA Patents and the Invisible Citizen: The Role of the General Public in Life Science Governance Morten Andreasen and Klaus Hoeyer, pp.538-557 Read more…
My colleague Abbe Brown is in Egypt attending the Internet Governance Forum (not jealous, honest). She has sent this announcement, which I reproduce: On 18 November I am running a workshop at the Internet Governance Forum in Egypt at 8am – 9am (2 hours ahead of the UK) “Towards Access: Read more…
Downloading Music: Differing Perspectives Friday 6 November 2009 Jamie King (Film Director (STEAL THIS FILM 1,2 and 2.5 and founder of the VODO project (www.vodo.net)) and Shira Perlmutter (IFPI). Lecture Theatre 175, Old College 13:00 to 14:30 All Welcome!
Registration is now closed, but here is the programme for this year’s Gikii. I’m really looking forward to it: 17 September 09:15-09:30 Opening 09:30-10:45 First morning session (3): Doomsday Christopher Lever, Fortun@e 500: A Consideration of the Contract Law Consequences of Cache Poisoning Clive Feather, Resilience of the PGP “web Read more…
Creative Commons is currenlty running an online questionnaire about Noncommercial use. The blog post explaining the survey can be found here, and the actual survey can be found here. This is an important survey for many reasons. Noncommercial clauses allow users to use, reproduce and modify works as long as Read more…