Call for Papers and Contributions
Call for Papers (pdf) for download
Deadlines
- Submission of extended abstracts or full papers:
31 January 2010,
extended to 28 February 2010 - Deadline for practitioner's papers: April 8, 2010
- Notification of acceptance:
20 March 2010, 12 April 2010 - Final paper:
31 March 201031 May 2010
Major Conference Topics
Don't feel restricted if your innovative topic fits the general purpose of the conference but none of the special items on the list.
Intellectual Property
- IP and competition law
- IP and development agenda (WIPO Development Agenda etc.)
- Software patents
- Re-use right
- Enforcement of IPRs
- Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive (IPRED)
- Access to private and public data for enforcement purposes
- User blocking as sanction for IP violations
- Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)
- Enforcement of IP with penal law
- Public support for enforcement of IPRs
- Administrative sanctions instead of penal sanctions?
- Digital Rights Management
- Collecting societies
- Just and fair share of authors
- Pirate Bay debacle
- IP and innovation
- IP and public policy considerations
- Google books & authors rights
Creative Commons and open source
- Open source
- Open content
- Creative Commons
- Copy-left
- Preserving the public domain
- Just and fair share of authors
- Pirate Bay debacle
- Google books & authors rights
Personality rights vs. freedom of information
- Public debate and data protection
- Public access to tax files
- Public access to criminal records
- Deletion of criminal records in publicly accessible databases on the basis of the personality right
Digitalisation of books & authors rights and royalties
- A new distribution channel of books?
- More money for authors via electronic distribution with a search engine?
- Access to knowledge?
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
Data protection & Lex Personalitatis in Cyberspace
- Personality rights vs. freedom of information
- Do we need a new model of data protection?
- More control on published private data?
- Data retention and data reuse
- RFIDs - Pervasive computing
- Automatic “forgetting” of database
- Privacy and electronic identities
- Use of electronic footprints for proof
- Electronic identities
- Electronic life
- Personality rights and copyright issues surrounding Google Street View
Network Security
- Computer crime
- Technological proposals and implementations
- Embedding regulation into hard- and software
- Protection against public and private investigation
Other related topics
- Digital libraries
- Preservation of the digital heritage
- e-commerce
- e-government
- e-justice
- Electronic civil society
- Free speech and homeland security
