04 November 2008

BILETA 2009 - Winchester

The BILETA 2009 annual conference website has just gone live at Winchester University and contains all the details you need for submitting an abstract, booking, etc.

Tuesday 21 - Thursday 23 April 2009 
Hosted by the University of Winchester Law School

"To Infinity and Beyond: Law and Technology in Harmony?"

Two keynote speakers have already been confirmed as Jeremy Phillips, who is an Intellectual Property Consultant with Olswang, Solicitors and the Research Director of the Intellectual Property Institute; and Richard Clayton of the Cambridge Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

As usual, the conference will consider abstracts on the wider topics of law, education and technology; but will welcome in particular those relating to:

  • Intellectual property - including copyright, open source etc
  • E-learning
  • E-commerce
  • Virtual worlds / SNS
  • Intermediaries - IP providers
  • Infrastructure - including regulation and computer misuse
  • Privacy and data-protection
  • Cybercrime - including criminological aspects
  • Legal theory and critical perspectives
  • New technologies
4 Nov 2008 10:04:42 | BILETA, Conferences

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