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Media, Communications and Public Speech
2010 Conference of the CMCL–Centre for Media and Communications Law
University of Melbourne Law School
25-26 November 2010

Conference Announcement and Call for Papers
Abstracts due 1 August 2010

Plenary Speakers include

Professor Eva Hemmungs Wirtén , Professor in Library and Information Science, Uppsala University, Sweden. Recent publications include Terms of Use: Negotiating the Jungle of the Intellectual Commons ( 2008 ) and the co-edited  Mashing-up Culture: the Rise of Usergenerated Content (2009) .

Professor Peter K Yu , Kern Family Chair in Intellectual Property Law, Drake University Law School, US, whose work includes the edited Handbook on Intellectual Property and Global Development (2010) and the articles ' The Political Economy of Data Protection' and ' Intellectual Property and the Information Ecosystem'.

Associate Professor Lisa M Austin, University of Toronto Faculty of Law , Canada . Publications include the co-edited Technology, Privacy and Justice (2007), the article ‘Information Sharing and the “Reasonable” Ambiguities of s 8 of the Charter' (2007) and the co-written report Model Policy for Access to Court Records in Canada (2005, in collaboration with Judges Technology Advisory Committee for the Canadian Judicial Council).

Papers are now invited from researchers in law, media studies and related fields for this international conference. Work is particularly welcome that focuses on interactions of public speech and media and communications law and policy.  Such research might engage with:

Content creation, use and re-use
Copyright law, technology and control
Defamation and public debate  
Digital worlds and publics
Futures of television
Journalism and popular media
Media access
Media representations of law
Networks and networking
Privacy and publicity
Public knowledge
Public media
Reporting courts
Trademarks and speech
User-generated content

Please submit an abstract of up to 300 words including keywords and a biography of 100 words to

law-cmcl@unimelb.edu.au .

Selected papers will be considered for publication in the Media & Arts Law Review , after separate refereeing. Please indicate if you would like your paper considered for publication.

Call for Papers closes on 1 August 2010.

To print a copy of the Call for Papers click here.

 

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