[BILETA 2007 Accepted Papers] Wow. This year’s BILETA is shaping up to be really interesting. Below are some of the presentations that I have already staked out in my schedule: Joel D’Silva – Nanotechnology: Development, Risk and Regulation (besides an interest in emerging tech and the law, I’ve had a number of engineering friends in [...]

The AHRC Research Centre (aka my employer) are hosting an Open Forum entitled Gowers Review of Intellectual Property: Challenges for Scotland, discussing, funnily enough, The Gowers Review of Intellectual Property. The event goes from 6-8pm on Wednesday 7th February in Lecture Theatre 175 in Old College. Gowers, in the report, asks for (possibly) statutory damages: [...]

I am pleased to announce that the Personality Rights Database, in new and improved Wiki format, is now live and ready for editing! The new wiki, which I set up, is a portal of the great work done on the original database. The entire project is part of the AHRC Research Centre for Studies in [...]

Two new wikis based on areas of law came across my attention today: ukpatents and eppatents These two site, both hosted on wikispaces, look like they concentrate on collecting the statutes themselves, rather than being a place for discussion and articles on the law of patents in the UK and EPC. Though useful, and certainly [...]

Via the House of Commons, Ars Technica has this post, ‘2007: The year of the “expert” wiki?’, which discusses a new crop of wikis that use some sort of quality control mechanism via expert editors. Though the Personality Rights Database (password to be removed soon) won’t be using the sorts of controls dicussed in the [...]