Marking the public domain: relinquishment & certification” – this is the title of the 3rd COMMUNIA Workshop to be held in Amsterdam on 20-21 October 2008. The workshop will address the legal, economical and technical issues related to certifying public domain works and relinquishing intellectual property rights in Europe. The Read more
One of my favourite times of the year has arrived… It’s Gikii time! If you cannot be here the papers are being uploaded as they are presented to this page.
The Editorial Board of SCRIPTed – A Journal of Law, Technology & Society is pleased to present its 18th issue, which addresses issues ranging from challenges in medical research governance in Korea, to pharmaceutical litigation (an assessment of the Novartis case in India), to data-protection of administrative records, to privacy Read more
Governance of New Technologies: The Transformation of Medicine, Information Technology and Intellectual Property An International Interdisciplinary Conference hosted by SCRIPTedMarch 29-31, 2009University of Edinburgh The conference will focus on evolving and emerging technologies and new-technology-driven practices and their impact on the overlapping fields of (1) healthcare, (2) information technology and Read more
VPN Virtual Policy ’08: A conference on innovation and governance in virtual worlds. 22- 23 July: BERR, 1 Victoria Street, London, UK Virtual Policy 08 is set to be a land mark event focusing on global virtual worlds sited in a European legal and regulatory context. The key policy themes Read more
The always excellent Pangloss has pointed out that we have been nominated for a blogging award! Computer Weekly has short-listed ten UK IT-related blawgs in the category IT Law and Governance, so here is my bid to fame and Web 2.0 fortune: inLaw Blogs The nominees are: The Orange Rag: Read more
SCRIPT – a law and technology research centre at the University of Edinburgh, School of Law – is seeking to recruit a suitably-qualified candidate to undertake a fully-funded PhD studentship. This is a full-time, full maintenance, three-year position sponsored by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, which also supports the Read more
The month of May has been rather crazy time here at TechnoLlama. With knit-gate and the killer totems of Stormwind, readership figures have risen like the beacons of Minas Morgul. Technorati now has me at 72 incoming links, which means that I have finally broken into the top 100,000 blogs Read more
GIKIIIOxford Internet InstituteSeptember 24-25, 2008 We are glad to announce the third edition of GikII (appropriately renamed GikIII), which will take place 24-25 September 2008 at the Oxford Internet Institute in, errr… Oxford! GikII is so cutting edge that it is the nano-blade of workshops, so expect all sorts of Read more
The April 2008 issue of SCRIPTed is now live. This issue is filled with excellent material. There are some very relevant and timely articles on the P2P debate, and also on the German Constitutional Court decision with regards to Trojans. Another very intriguing article about trade marks and the No Read more