Last night Larry Lessig and Jonathan Zittrain presented what I’m sure will become a legendary session on the future of content and the future of the Commons. Jonathan Zittrain gave a thoroughly enjoyable presentation related to his work on the Web’s famous network vulnerability, and what it means for the Read more…
We’ve had some excellent discussion on the first day of the conference, which has been an unofficial start before the summit fully begins tomorrow (in other words, licence geeks get together and throw around ideas). The first session was an extremely useful description from Lucie Gibault and Paul Keller of Read more…
And the summit begins with the legal day, there will be plenty of discussion on all licensing legal topics, so today is lawyer’s day. The great thing about annual conferences is that you get to see again your friends from last year, and in the words of one of the Read more…
I’ll be attending a symposium next Friday at Case Western Reserve Law School in Cleveland entitled “The 1996 WIPO Copyright Treaties: 10 Years Later“. There will be a webcast of the event for those interested.
Free Public Workshop – 13 November 2006 The first in a series of free public workshops is to be held Monday, 13 November 2006, 6pm (followed by drinks). Criminal Enforcement Directive and Patent LawLet the Punishment Fit the Crime? The workshop will be held in the seminar room of the Read more…
I believe that in the future, when I look back on this week, the first image that will spring is one of bone-crunching tiredness. Of course, this is mostly self-inflicted, but I digress. I had been warned by people more experienced than me that this was to be expected. So, Read more…
This has been an awesome start to the VI Computer Law conference, although I don’t know if I’m allowed to say this as one of the organisers, so take my praise with a pinch of salt. The first Geek Law workshop had a bit of everything geek: killer robots, SETI, Read more…
This is the last week of registration for the VI Computer Law World Conference. If you’re anywhere near Edinburgh, be sure to drop by and join us in this event.
The place and dates for the 2007 edition of the iCommons summit has been announced. This edition of the summit will take place in Dubrovnik, Croatia, between 15-17 June 2007.
We have published the draft programme for the VI Computer Law World Conference, which will take place from Wednesday 6th – Friday 8th September 2006. The programme is looking extremely good (if I may say so myself), so get going and register as soon as you can! (llamas not included). Read more…