“If You Build It, They Won’t Come: Placing User-Generated Content in Context of Commercial Copyright Policy” in Mashing-up Culture: The Rise of User-Generated Content, Hemmungs Wirtén E and Ryman M (eds), Uppsala: Uppsala Universitet ABM (2009) pp.97-122.
“The license/contract dichotomy in open licenses: a comparative analysis” 30:2 University of La Verne Law Review 101 (2009) .
“Scale-Free Law: Network Science and Copyright” 70 Albany Law Review 1297 (2008).
“Patented Past, Genetically Modified Future? Biotechnology and Developing Countries” [2007] 4 Web Journal of Current Legal Issues.
“Legal Challenges to Open Source Licences”, in A. V. Narsimha Rao (ed) Software Patents: Legal Perspectives, Hyderabad, India: ICFAI University Press (2007) pp.146-155.
“The Copyright Web: Networks, Law and the Internet”, in New Directions in Copyright Law Volume 4, Fiona Macmillan (ed), London: Edward Elgar, (2007).
“GNU General Public License v3: A Legal Analysis”, (2006) 3:2 SCRIPTed 130.
“Open Science: Open Source Licences for Scientific Research”, 7(2) North Carolina Journal of Law and Technology 321-366 (2006).
“The Software Patent Debate” 1(3) Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice 196-206 (2006).
With John Usher, “Electronic Money: the European regulatory approach”, in Edwards, L. (ed), The New Legal Framework for E-Commerce in Europe, Oxford: Hart Publishing (2005), pp.173-201.
“The drugs don’t work: Access to medicines in the developing world”, Alfa Redi: Revista de Derecho Informático, No.88, Noviembre 2005.
“Legal Challenges to Open Source Licences”, (2005) 2:2 SCRIPTed 301-308.
“The Digital Divide: It’s the Content, Stupid”, 2005(3-4) Computer and Telecommunications Law Review, pp.73-77, 113-118.
“Attack of the Killer Acronyms: The Future of IT Law”, 18(3) International Review of Law Computers & Technology 411-424 (2004).
“Viral contracts or unenforceable documents? Contractual validity of copyleft licenses”, 26(8) European
Intellectual Property Review 331-339 (2004).
“PayPal: the legal status of C2C payment systems” 20(4) Computer Law & Security Report 294-300 (2004).
eBay Law: The legal implications of the C2C electronic commerce model” 19(6) Computer Law & Security Report 468-473 (2003).
“Eldred v. Ashcroft: Analysis of the case”, E-L@w Review 2003 (10) 4-6.
“Electronic Money: A viable payment system?” Techno-Legal Aspects of Information Society and New Economy: an Overview, Guerrero Bote, V. and Zapico Alonso, A. (eds), Badajoz: Formatex, 2003.
“Trouble with Prime Numbers: DeCSS, DVD and the Protection of Proprietary Encryption Tools”, The
Journal of Information, Law and Technology 2002 (3).
“Copyright in Cyberspace: Building fences on the Internet” Alfa Redi, Revista Electrónica de Derecho Informático, No. 109, Octubre 2002.
“The ‘New Sharing Ethic’ in Cyberspace”, 5(1) Journal of World Intellectual Property 129-139 (2002).
“The Impact of Globalisation on Competition Law”, Democracia Digital 1(11) 2002, @:
“Habeas Data vs. the European Data Protection Directive”, The Journal of Information, Law and Technology 2001 (3).
“Habeas Data: an update on the Latin America data protection constitutional right – Parts 1-2″, World Data, Protection Report 1(4-5) 2001.
“The future of technology transfer in the global village”, 3(4) Journal of World Intellectual Property 589-602 (2000).
“Habeas Data: The Latin American response to data protection”, Journal of Information, Law & Technology 2000 (2).
“Review of Governance of Digital Game Environments and Cultural Diversity: Transdisciplinary Enquiries”, (2010) 9:1 Journal of Media Law 294.
“Review of Open Content Licensing: Cultivating the Creative Commons, Brian Fitzgerald, Jessica Coates and Suzanne Lewis”, (2008) 13:3 Media & Arts Law Review.
“Computer Law still delivers”, (2008) 3:4 Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice 269-270.
“Death of a Gold Spammer”, in Settlers of the New Virtual Worlds, Erik Bethke and Erin Hoffman (eds), BookSurge Publishing: Charleston NC(2008), pp.59-61.
“Review of Open Content Licensing: Cultivating the Creative Commons, Brian Fitzgerald, Jessica Coates and Suzanne Lewis”, (2008) 13:3 Media & Arts Law Review.
“An impressive line-up of law and economics experts” (2007) 2:9 Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice 359.
“Review of Unravelling the Myth around Open Source Licences, by Lucie Guibault and Ot van Daalen”, (2007) SCRIPTed 490.
“Back to the Future: Regulation of Virtual Worlds”, (2007) 4:3 SCRIPTed 242.
“Review of Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software, by Joseph Feller et al (eds)”, (2006) 3:4 SCRIPTed 485.
Review of Protecting the Virtual Commons: Self-organising Open Source and Free Software Communities and Innovative Intellectual Property Regimes, Ruben van Wendel de Joode et al. (2006) 14:2 International Journal of Law and Information Technology 250.
“Mobile payment systems – A research project” (2004) 1:1 SCRIPTed.
Review of Information Feudalism: Who owns the Knowledge Economy? P.Drahos and
J.Braithwaite, International Journal of Law and Information Technology, Vol.12, No.2, 2004, pp.238-240
“Openness and Innovation” (September 2010), Open Science and Regulatory Mechanisms for the Advancement of Stem Cell Technologies, University of Edinburgh.
“Avatar Rights Re-visited: Real ID and Augmented Reality” (August 2010), Digital Interactive Symposium 2010, University of Edinburgh.
“We Can Tag It for You Wholesale: Augmented Reality and the User-Generated World” (June 2010), GikII V, University of Edinburgh.
“Patentability of Computer Software and Business Methods: Policy, Legal and Technical Issues” (June 2010), Intellectual Property, Software and E-Health: Trends, Issues, Prospects, Kigali, Rwanda.
“La identificación y el acceso al patrimonio cultural en el entorno digital” (April 2010), Reunión Regional de Directores de Oficinas de Propiedad Industrial y de Derecho de Autor, Santiago, Chile.
“El derecho de autor: un aliado en la industria del software” (April 2010), El Derecho De Autor Como Generador De Empresa, Medellín, Colombia.
“Long Tail or Tall Tale? Complexity in the Content Industries” (April 2010), BILETA 2010, Vienna, Austria.
“Open Science Business Models” (November 2009). Intellectual Assets Centre Supplier Worpkshop, Edinburgh.
“Luddism 2.0, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Web” (September 2009) Gikii 4, Institute for Information Law, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
“If You Build It, They Won’t Come: Placing User-Generated Content in Context of Commercial Copyright Policy” (May 2009) Mashing-up Culture, Uppsala University, Sweden.
“Cybercrime, Cyber-Warfare, Networks and Resilience” (April 2009) Governance of New Technologies: The Transformation of Medicine, Information Technology and Intellectual Property, Edinburgh.
“Virtual Law” (October 2008), Nothing But The Net Annual Conference, Glasgow.
“Digital Strategies” (October 2008), Software Cultures Hardware Laws, Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute, London.
“Partners in Copyright Crime: Fan Art Licences” (September 2008), GikIII, Oxford Internet Institute.
“La coexistencia de los modelos de código abierto y los propietarios en materia de software”; and “La patentabilidad de los programas informáticos y los métodos de negocios” (August 2008), Seminario Regional de la OMPI sobre propiedad intelectual y la informática en el siglo XXI en América Latina, San José, Costa Rica.
“An Introduction to Open Science” (June 2008), Open Science Business Models Workshop, University of Edinburgh.
“Software Protection: Copyright and Patents” (May 2008), International Seminar on the Promotion of Innovation and IP in Information and Communication Technologies, Curitiba, Brazil.
“From Zero to Hero: Regulation of Virtual Economies” (May 2008), Regulatory Norms and Business Practices in Virtual Worlds, University of Exeter, 2008.
“Development and Licensing of Open Source Software” (April 2008), WIPO Sub-Regional Roundtable on Emerging Issues of Copyright in the Software Industry, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
“From Zero to Hero: Building a New Virtual Economy” (September 2007), GikII 2, UCL, London.
“Software and Business Method Patents”; and “Scenarios for coexistence between Open Source Software and Proprietary models” (May 2007), WIPO Asia Pacific Regional Seminar on Intellectual Property and Software in the 21st Century: Trends, Issues, Prospects, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
“New Licensing Paradigms” (May 2007), 8th European Intellectual Property International Network (EIPIN) Congress 2006-2007, Universidad de Alicante, Spain.
“Response from a Creative Commons perspective” (March 2007), Copyright and Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Playfair Library, Edinburgh University.
“Problems with international implementation of anti-circumvention provisions” (November 2006), The 1996 WIPO Copyright Treaties: 10 Years Later, Case School of Law, Cleveland.
“Scale Free Law: Network Science and Copyright” (October 2006), Impact of Technological Change on the Creation, Dissemination and Protection of Intellectual Property, Albany Law School, New York.
“Scale Free Law: The Shaping of Networks” (September 2006), VI Computer Law World Conference, University of Edinburgh.
“Killer Robots, Evil Scientists and Other Tales of Woe: How Technophobia in Culture Affects the Law” (September 2006), GikII Workshop, School of Law, University of Edinburgh, 2006.
“Free Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) and new licensing models; Copyright liability for intermediaries”; and “Copyright issues in Cyberspace”(July 2006), WIPO Seminar on Copyright in the Digital Environment, Islamabad, Pakistan, 2006.
“International currents: A report from the iCommons Summit”; and “The UK public sector and the commons” (July 2006), Unlocking IP Conference, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
“Creative Commons and the Common Information Environment” (June 2006), iCommons Summit, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
“GPL v3: A legal Analysis” (June 2006), Second International Conference on Open Source Systems 2006, Grand Hotel, Como, Italy.
“Scale-Free Law: The Shaping of Networks” (March 2006), SLSA Annual Conference 2006, Stirling University.
“Software Patents in the UK, the EU and the USA” (March 2006), 8th Annual Information Technology Update, London.
“The Software Story: Sharing and Open Source” (February 2006), 7th 8th European Intellectual Property International Network (EIPIN) Congress 2005-2006, Cumberland Lodge, Windsor.
“Copyleft Licences” (October 2005), V World Congress of Computer Law, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
“El Ataque de las Siglas Asesinas: El futuro del Derecho Informático” (October 2004), IV World Congress of Computer Law, Cusco, Peru.
“Technological Determinism in ‘Code’” (July 2004), Lessig’s Code: Lessons for Legal Education from the Frontiers of IT Law, Queen’s University Belfast.
“Open Source: An Alternative Model to IP?” (May 2004), Intellectual Property in the Digital Millennium Conference, organised by the Scottish Society of Computers and Law, Edinburgh.
“Share and Protect: Copyleft Licences and Global Technology Transfer” (April 2004), SLSA Annual Conference, Glasgow.
“Attack of the killer acronyms: The End of IT Law?” (March 2004), BILETA Annual Conference, Durham.
“Viral contracts or unenforceable documents? Contractual validity of copyleft licenses” (August 2003), Mobile IPR, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT.
“PayPal and eBay- The legal implications of the C2C electronic commerce model” (April 2003), BILETA 2003, Queen Mary, University of London.
“The new sharing ethic in Cyberspace” (June 2001), ETHICOMP 2001, Gdansk, Poland.
“Habeas Data: an update on the Latin America data protection constitutional right” (April 2001), BILETA 2001 University of Edinburgh.
Acceso Abierto y Crreative Commons (July 2009). Presentation organised by the Vicerrectoría de Investigación, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica.
Software Libre: Implicaciones Legales (July 2009). Presentation at the Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología, San José, Costa Rica.
Introduction to Creative Commons (April 2009). Learning at Work Week, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh.
Rapporteur for the Session “Infrastructural Commons” (January 2008). 1st COMMUNIA International Workshop, Technology and the Public Domain, Turin, Italy.
Build your own world: User Generated Content, Second Life and Creative Commons (November 2007). Urban Learning Spaces seminar series, The Lighthouse, Glasgow.
Software Patents (November 2006). Presentation to staff at law firm Shepherd & Wedderburn for internal training purposes.
Illicit file sharing, digital downloading of music and hacking (November 2006). Seminar for Criminology Msc, King’s College, London.
Science Commons (November 2006). Part of the Open Science forum at the Digital Curation Conference, Glasgow.
Propiedad Intelectual y Nuevas Tecnologías (April 2006). Video-conference presentation to celebrate World Intellectual Property Day. Universidad Estatal a Distancia (UNED), San José, Costa Rica. Also connected to Mexico, Switzerland, Ecuador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama.
Speech as a common space (March 2006). Talk to a workshop part of the AHRC project “Exploring the Digital City: space culture politics”, University of Dundee.
Software Patents (October 2005). Presentation to the Computing and AI Society, Edinburgh University.
IPR in eLearning (September 2005). Presentation for Principal’s eLearning fund awardees, Edinburgh.
Introduction to Creative Commons (September 2005). MusicWorks 2005, Glasgow.
Creative Commons (June 2005). Presentation for a series of stakeholder workshops with representatives from the Common Information Environment, Edinburgh and London.
Cyberlaw – who controls access to ideas on the net? (March 2005). Event in Edinburgh’s Science Festival with Lawrence Lessig and Bill Thompson.
Electronic Commerce and the WTO (March 2005). Lecture presented to the delegates of the World Model United Nations (WorldMUN) 2005, University of Edinburgh.
Open Source Biotech? (February 2005). Briefing paper to the AHRC Patenting Lives project, Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute, London.
Technology and the Law (January 2005). Presentation to staff and students of the London School of Economics, Cumberland Lodge, Windsor.
Validity of Open Access Licences (October 2004). Presentation to the Scottish Society of Computers and Law (SSCL), Edinburgh.
Open Source Licences (May 2004). Seminar to the Master in Intellectual Property and the Information Society Law, Universidad de Alicante, Spain.
Copyleft, Hacking, Music and the Law (May 12 2004). Staff Seminar at Glasgow University School of Law.
Music Downloads, the Technology (April 2004). Part of the “A Gig with a Difference: Music and the Internet” public lecture featuring Alex Kapranos, singer of Franz Ferdinand, Playfair Library.
Transfer of technology and software copyright (April 2004). Seminar to the LLM students at Brunel University, London.
A New Sharing Ethic: Hacking and Music Downloads (February 10 2004). Criminology Department, University of Leicester.
SCO v IBM: The death of Linux? (January 23 2004). Staff seminar at the School of Law.
Introduction to Copyright and the Internet (November 12 2003). Presentation to members of administrative staff at the University.
Background to Privacy and Electronic Communications (November 7 2003). Presented at the emergency briefing seminar on the new Marketing Regulations. Standard Life, Edinburgh.
Access to medicines in the developing world: introduction to the legal issues (November 1st 2003). Debate on access to medicines with industry and NGO representatives, organised by MedSin Edinburgh.
Introduction to Data Protection (March 2003). Presented to legal practitioners, Glasgow University, Glasgow.
TechnoLlama covers several Cyberlaw topics, with emphasis on open licensing, digital rights, software protection, virtual worlds, and llamas. While the blog tackles these issues in a light-hearted and nonchalant manner, some serious points filter through from time to time.
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