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CALL FOR PAPERS

 

KnowRight 2008

 

18-19 September 2008, Kraków, Poland

Jagiellonian University; Institute of Intellectual Property Law

knowright08.ocg.at

 

Conference on the Interaction of Information Related Rights, Information Technology and Knowledge Management

DEADLINES

Submission of extended abstracts or full papers     15 May 2008

Notification of acceptance:                                         15 June 2008

Camera ready submission:                                          15 July 2008 (some extensions may be negotiated)

 

Each paper will be evaluated by members of the International Program Committee. Proceedings will be published by OCG.

 

CONFERENCE OUTLINE

KnowRight conferences have been held since 1995. Traditionally they have been focusing on the interaction between Intellectual Property Rights, Information Rights, ethical issues, civil society and information technology. The 2008 edition of KnowRight will go beyond this traditional reach. It will be organized by the Austrian Computer Society OCG, supported by the German Computing Society GI and the German Society for Law and Informatics DGRI and take place in Krakow / Poland in cooperation with the Institute of Intellectual Property Law at the Jagiellonian University.

Academics, practitioners and researchers from throughout Europe and the United States will meet to discuss a broad range of issues arising in the context of the Information Society and a progressively electronic environment. Participation of a wide spectrum of vested interests will ensure a lively debate on issues such as access to information, computer crime, copy-left, data retention, digital libraries, e-commerce, e-government, e-justice, electronic civil society, free speech and homeland security, ICT and standardisation, IP and competition law, IP and development agenda, IP and innovation, IP and public policy considerations, new challenges for the enforcement of IPRs, open source, open content, preserving the public domain and rule of law in cyberspace.

MAJOR CONFERENCE TOPICS

Intellectual Property

·         IP and competition law

·         IP and development agenda

·         IP and innovation

·         IP and public policy considerations

·         New challenges for the enforcement of IPRs

·         Digital Rights Management (DRM)

·         Open source

·         Open content

·         Copy-left

·         Preserving the public domain

Access to and Reuse of Public Sector and Private Information

·         Freedom of information and data protection

·         Access to public documents

·         Legal framework of public sector information reuse

·         Socioeconomic conditions of PSI reuse

·         Extent of and limitations on database protection in Europe

·         Long term archiving of public and private information

Network Security

·         Computer crime

·         Technological proposals and implementations

·         Embedding regulation into hard- and software

Data protection

·         Data retention

·         RFIDs - Pervasive computing

·         Automatic “forgetting” of database

·         Privacy and identification - electronic identities

Other related topics 

·         Digital libraries

·         e-commerce

·         e-government

·         e-justice

·         Electronic civil society

·         Free speech and homeland security

·         IP and mobile communication

Don't feel restricted if your innovative topic fits the general purpose of the conference but none of the special items on the list.

ORGANISATION

Austrian Computer Society OCG

Jointly with
Jagiellonian University Kraków; Institute of Intellectual Property Law

GI Gesellschaft für Informatik

DGRI Deutsche Gesellschaft für Recht und Informatik

PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRPERSONS

Co-Chairs:

Jens Gaster, European Commission, EU (co-ordination)

e-mail: Jens.Gaster AT ec.europa.eu

Peter Paul Sint, OCG, A
e-mail: ppsli AT inode.at

Erich Schweighofer, Vienna University and WZRI, A

e-mail: Erich.Schweighofer AT univie.ac.at

Andreas Wiebe, Vienna University of Business Administration, A
e-mail: awiebe AT wu-wien.ac.at

Local chair:

Michal du Vall, Institute of Intellectual Property Law, Jagiellonian University, PL
e-mail: duvall AT miw.miks.uj.edu.pl

 

AUTHORS

Papers should be of high quality, original, unpublished, and not submitted elsewhere. Prospective authors are invited to submit their draft paper or extended abstract(up to 10 pages) via uploading (website knowright08.ocg.at, point: SUBMISSION OF CONTRIBUTIONS). The guidelines for the final version are available at http://www.ocg.at/publikationen/books/paper.html.