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["Andres Guadamuz" <a.guadamuz AT ed.ac.uk>]

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Registration is now open for the VI Computer Law World Conference, which will take place in Edinburgh 6-8 September 2006. The 2006 Conference will be hosted by the AHRC Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law, located in the School of Law at the University of Edinburgh. The conference brings together legal academics and practitioners from around the world to consider and debate all aspects of information technology law. Previous years’ conferences have fostered links between educational institutions and legal practices across the globe, reaching out to a wider international audience each year.

 

Keynote presenters include:

- Professor Michael Geist (University of Ottawa) "All Rights Reserved?: Cultural Monopoly, the Internet and the Trouble with Copyright"

- Mia Garlick (Creative Commons) "Creative Commons: Five Years On"

- Dr Patricia Akester (University of Cambridge) "The Draft WIPO Broadcasting Treaty and its Impact on Freedom of _expression_"

- Professor Lilian Edwards (University of Southampton) "How To Kill Zombies: Law and Computer Insecurity"

- Nic Garnett (WIPO) "Automated Rights Management Systems and Copyright Limitations and Exceptions"

- Ray Plzak & Steve Ryan (American Registry for Internet Numbers ARIN) "The International Domain Name System"

Home page:

http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/ahrb/complaw/index.asp

 

Registration:

http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/ahrb/complaw/reg.asp 

 

Programme:

http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/ahrb/complaw/prog.asp 

 

Best Regards,

 

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Andres Guadamuz
AHRC Research Centre for Studies in IP and IT Law
Old College, South Bridge
Edinburgh EH8 9YL

Tel: 44 (0)131 6509699
Fax: 44 (0)131 6506317
a.guadamuz AT ed.ac.uk

IP/IT/Medical Law LLM by Distance Learning
http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/distancelearning/