I attended a workshop on Friday in Turin, where I was attending the COMMUNIA workshop entitled Technology and the Public Domain. COMMUNIA is a European thematic network funded under the Econtentplus framework, which “aims at becoming a European point of reference for theoretical analysis and strategic policy discussion of existing Read more…
Last week I was rather quiet for several reasons. On Wednesday I presented a paper entitled “Build Your Own World” at the beautiful Glasgow venue called The Lighthouse (available from the awesome Slideshare website). I was very impressed with the knowledgeable and diverse audience, but I am now a complete Read more…
More self-promotion of speaking arrangements. Well, if I cannot have self-promotion in my own blog, then where can I have it? Anyway, here is the information: Build your own worldAndres Guadamuz, AHRC21 November 2007 10am – 12.30pm The Lighthouse, Glasgow Free Andres Guadamuz is an academic interested in the ownership Read more…
Bloodspell: The rise of machinimaViewing and panel 22 November 20075.15 – 8.30pmLondon Metropolitan University Graduate Centre 166-220 Holloway RoadLondon, N7 8DB Bloodspell is the world’s first feature-length machinima, and it is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. Bloodspell “is a story of a world where men and women Read more…
I attended the launch for ILAWS, a new IT centre at the University of Southampton led by our very own PanGloss. The introductory lecture was given by Professor Chris Reed, who talked about making business online, where he concentrated on legal issues ranging from some of the traditional IT subjects Read more…
(The cast of GikII visit Jeremy Bentham on their way to the obligatory pub visit) As I mentioned earlier, last week we held the second edition of GikII in London. PDF versions of the presentations can be downloaded from the site so that you can wonder at the geek’s superior Read more…
I’ve just returned from conferencing. First there was a very interesting seminar at WIPO on the subject of Rights Management Information (interesting for those who find metadata interesting of course). I believe that there is a growing push towards metadata standards and identification data to be included into works as Read more…
I have received this press release where yours truly will be speaking. WIPO Seminar to Address Digital Rights Management Technologies Geneva, August 27, 2007MA/2007/30 The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is hosting a Seminar on Rights Management Information at its Geneva headquarters on September 17, 2007. Rights management information (RMI) Read more…
On Day 3 I attended the Identity workshop organised by James Grimmelmann from New York Law School and Caitlin Hall from Yale Information Society. This was a surprisingly good and fruitful session, not surprising because of the organisers, but because workshop format can be quite uneven. The small number of Read more…
Last night we were treated to a sumptuous and delicious dinner at Singapore Zoo, and then taken on a night safari. Tigers, lions, hippos, giraffes… but no gnus. Oh yes, there were no velociraptors sighted on the tour. As a Costa Rican, I’m always conscious about the inherent dangers built Read more…