I haven’t blogged as much this week — I’ve been hard at work on several projects and simply haven’t had much time. The report on The Impact of Free Trade Agreements on IT-based business has been humming along. It should be released, together with the research appendix, very soon. I have a whole host of posts waiting in the wings whenever my calendar clears a bit.

I’ll be speaking at BILETA 2007 next week. My talk is Of Otaku and Fansubs: A critical look at anime online in light of current issues in copyright law, and it looks like I will be speaking in the 10:30 to 11:30 stream ‘Horizon Scanning’ on Tuesday the 17th with:

• J Fitchen, University of Aberystwyth speaking on Grand designs, new Vistas and diplomacy by other means; and
• A Kuehnel, University of Aberystwyth How open is open? Microsoft’s Shared Source Initiative as an Alternative to Open Source Software.

I think that my paper is an odd fit between these two analysis pieces of competition law and Vista and Microsoft’s Shared Source initiative, but I’m sure that some common threads will develop. In particular, I discuss open source production models in my paper, and certainly some parallels can be drawn between Microsoft’s relationship with open source and the licensed anime industry’s relationship with fansubbers.

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