UPCOMING EVENTS
2010 CONFERENCE
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
To download a registration form click here.
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).
To print a copy of the Call for Papers click here .
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NEW BOOK PUBLICATION
COPYRIGHT AND CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS: GUIDELINES FOR DIGITIZATION FOR U.S. LIBRARIES, ARCHIVES, AND MUSEUMS
Peter B. Hirtle, Emily Hudson, and Andrew T. Kenyon
Ithaca , NY : Cornell University Library Press, 2009
Digital communications technologies have led to fundamental changes in the ways that cultural institutions fulfil their public missions of access, preservation, research, and education. Institutions are developing publicly-accessible websites in which users can visit online exhibitions, search collection databases, access images of collection items, and in some cases create their own digital content. Digitization, however, also raises the possibility of copyright infringement. “Copyright and Digitization” aims to assist understanding and compliance with copyright law across libraries, archives, and museums. It discusses the exclusive rights of the copyright owner, the major exemptions used by cultural heritage institutions, and stresses the importance of risk assessment when conducting any digitization project. It also includes two cases studies, examining digitizing oral histories and student work.
Available for free download at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1495365
Or purchase for US$39.95 at https://www.createspace.com/3405063
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NEW ONLINE JOURNAL
The Fortnightly Review of IP and Media Law
The Fortnightly Review is a fortnightly online journal hosted by IPRIA and the CMCL at the University of Melbourne . Our mission is to provide a forum for independent and critical and cross-disciplinary analysis of issues and ideas to do with IP & Media Law, drawing on the talents of an eclectic group of (mostly academic) writers from Australia and elsewhere.
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