Gikii is tons of fun — I’ve presented at the first one (on Japanese anime and copyright) and at the second (on copyright and tattoos). This year’s will be on September 24-25, 2008 and will take place in Oxford, UK. The chair of the event is Ian Brown, Research Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, [...]

is out! Link.

Via jobs.ac.uk The holder of this tenure track position is expected to focus on trans-border protection of intellectual property rights and to co-operate with the other disciplines represented in the Cluster as well as with the junior research group on normative conditions of development aid policy. Applicants should have a strong record in international economic [...]

Quick announcement to say that yesterday(28th February 2008) The AHRC Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law at the University of Edinburgh will be now known as SCRIPT. SCRIPT incidentally was the original name of the centre. Following the fine tradition of acronyms everywhere, SCRIPT used to stand for something but now [...]

Thanks to SCRIPTed and some behind the scenes work by myself, BILETA 2008 will have a panel on open access to the law. Read more about it on the BILETA site.

I just got done listening to the JISC podcast “The Google Generation: Myth or Reality?“, and it seems like the key thing discussed in it (I haven’t had time to read the report) crosses over with some of what Andrew Keen discusses in The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet is Killing Our Culture: [...]

The Eduserv Foundation, who kindly funded me for a study on open content licences and the UK cultural heritage sector, has a new call for funding for some really interesting areas: Online identity – a persona that people establish in online communities. The open social graph — a machine-readable description of the online identities in [...]