Last week I attended an interesting event called Software Cultures Hardware Law organised by Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute. I flew in from the frozen wastelands the same day of the event, so I missed a panel called “Meet the Jurists” chaired by Prof. Johanna Gibson and with the Read more
The third instalment of Gikii (aptly named GikIII) is now over. As with previous years, one is left feeling intellectually stimulated and a bit daunted by the level of smartness emanating from the room. First’s year’s iconic figure was the killer robot, last year’s was the Lolcat, this year it 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.
You know you’ve been to too many conferences… …when your office wall looks like this.
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
I’ve just attended Virtual Policy ’08 in London, organised by BERR and the Virtual Policy Network. This has been a different event because it has brought together regulators, industry, educators, developers, economists, and academics to explore current and future policy issues involving virtual worlds. The wide number of sectors represented 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
You know that you have been to a boring conference when….. … the programme looks like this at the end.
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
On Friday 25 January I attended an expert meeting discussing the European Union Public Licence (EUPL). This is the latest member of the growing open source licence ecology, and if I must say so, it is quite a nicely drafted document (biased opinion warning, as I helped in checking the Read more