Reminder about Gikii 2.0

From the site:

The first GikII workshop in September 2006 established itself as the first workshop in the world where the worlds of law, technology and popular culture came together. We want to discuss whether geek law exists; by the end of the workshop we had created it. Topics covered at the first workshop included surveillance strategies in the novels of Harry Potter; how to avoid building open source killer robots; whether we need a new legal regime for the regulation of virtual property; copyright law, anime, fansubs ; comparative pornography law, TRIPS and Japanese manga; virtual world governance; the law of entropy and old computers; technophobia and technophilia; and much much more. Powerpoints of last year’s papers can be viewed here <http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/ahrc/complaw/gikii.asp> , and both a Geek law book and a GikII Wiki are in the works.

If you have a paper burning for the oxygen of publicity on any aspect of law AND technology, science, geek culture, blogs, popular culture, wikis, science fiction or fantasy, computer games, digital culture, gender on-line, MMORPGS, virtual property or online human personae, then come to GikII 2: All Your Bases Still Belong To Us!

The call for papers

If you would like to participate, email your abstract of no more than 500 words. This should be sent to either l.edwards@soton.ac.uk or a.guadamuz@ed.ac.uk by July 15 2007. We will confirm acceptances by August 1. Abstracts may be accepted after this date depending on whether the workshop is full.

Gikii homepage.

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