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By Mathias Klang, February 18, 2011 5:01 pm

GikII VI, FREEDOM, OPENNESS & PIRACY?
26-28 June 2011
IT University
Göteborg, Sweden

Call for papers
Is GikII a discussion of popular culture through the lens of law – or is it about technology law, spiced with popular culture? For five years and counting, GikII has been a vessel for the leading edge of debate about law, technology and culture, charting a course through the murky waters of our societal uses and abuses of technology.

For 2011, this ship full of seriously playful lawyers will enter for the first time the cold waters of the north (well, further north than Scotland) and enter that land of paradoxes: Sweden. Seen by outsiders as well-organised suicidal Bergman-watching conformists, but also the country that brought you Freedom of Information, ABBA, the Swedish chef, The Pirate Bay and (sort of…) Julian Assange. We offer fine weather, the summer solstice and a fair reception at the friendly harbour of Göteborg.

So come one, come all… Clean your screens, look into the harder discs of your virtual and real lives, and present your peers with your ideas on the meaning of our augmented lives. Confuse us with questions, dazzle us with legal arguments, and impress us with your GikIIness. If you have a paper on (for example) regulation of Technology & Futurama, soft law in World of Warcraft, censoring social media & Confucius, the creative role of piracy on latter day punk or plagiarism among the ancient Egyptians – We are the audience for you (for a taste of past presentations see http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/ahrc/gikii/).

Application process

Please send an abstract not exceeding 500 words to Professor Lilian Edwards (Lilian.Edwards@strath.ac.uk) or Dr Mathias Klang (klang@ituniv.se). The deadline for submissions is 15 April 2011. We will try to have them approved and confirmed as soon as possible so that you can organise the necessary travel and accommodation.

Registration

As with previous years, GikII is free of charge, and therefore there are limited spaces available, so please make sure you submit your paper early. Priority is always given to speakers, but there are some limited spaces available for students and non-speakers. Registration will be open shortly at http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/ahrc/gikii/

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By Mathias Klang, November 23, 2010 1:26 pm

Goda nyheter!! Jag har fått mer att göra

Nästa år kommer konferensen GikII 2011 hållas här i Göteborg mellan 26 – 28 juni. GikII beskriver sig själv

The first GikII event in September 2006 established itself as the first workshop in the world where the worlds of law, technology and popular culture came together. We want to discuss whether geek law exists; by the end of the workshop we had created it. Topics covered at the first workshop included surveillance strategies in the novels of Harry Potter;  how to avoid building open source killer robots; whether we need a new legal regime for the regulation of virtual property; copyright law, anime, fansubs ; comparative pornography law, TRIPS and Japanese manga; virtual world governance; the law of entropy and old computers; technophobia and technophilia; and much much more.

Hur kan man inte älska en konferens där artiklar som dessa presenteras:

• Judith Rauhofer, “The Rainbow Connection – of geeks, trolls and muppets“.
• Simon Bradshaw and Hugh Hancock, “Machinima: Game-Based Animation and the Law”.
• Steven Hetcher, “Conceptual Art, Found Art, Ephemeral Art, and Non-Art: Challenges to Copyright’s Relevance”.
• Andres Guadamuz Luddism 2.0, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Web
• Lillian Edwards Death 2.0
• Melissa de Zwart ‘Angel(us) is my avatar!’
• Andrew Adams Seeing The Future: Free Will, Predetermination and Human Rights in the Risk Society
• Daithi Mac Sithigh I’m in ur tube blocking ur internets: The Politics, Perception and Parody of Network Neutrality Legislation
• Jordan Hatcher Drawing in Permanent Ink: A Look at Copyright Law and Tattoos
• Simon Deane-Johns We, the Lunatics, Control the Asylum

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By Mathias Klang, August 31, 2009 1:24 pm

Här är programmet för Gikii 4. Ser fram emot att vara där!

17 September

09:15-09:30 Opening

09:30-10:45 First morning session (3): Doomsday

• Christopher Lever, Fortun@e 500: A Consideration of the Contract Law Consequences of Cache Poisoning
• Clive Feather, Resilience of the PGP “web of trust” and the disruption of criminal networks (no abstract)
• Mathias Klang, Strangelove and Salami: An illustration of the unintended consequences of technical solutions

10:45-11:15 Coffee Break

11:15-12:30 Second Morning session (3): Digital Identities and Legal Life After Death

• Burkhard Schafer, ZombAIs and family law: technology beyond the grave
• Lillian Edwards, Death 2.0
• Wiebke Abel, Shawn H.E. Harmon, Future Tech: Governance & Ethics In The Age Of Artificially Enhanced Man (Or ‘Beware The Zombais At The Gate’)

12:30-13:30 Lunch (on location)

13:30-15:15 First Afternoon session (4): Robots and Interfaces with Humans

• F.E. Guerra-Pujol, Blade Runner, Time Scarcity and the Optimal Lifespan of Robots and Clones’
• Miranda Mowbray and Burkhard Schafer, EAT ME
• Dr Richard Jones, ‘CyberTags: The third generation of electronic offender-monitoring systems’

15:15-15:45 Coffee Break

15:45-17:30 Second Afternoon session (4): Copyright: Take A Bite!

• Bernt Hugenholz, ‘A Future of Levies: The Taxification of Copyright’
• Ot van Daalen & Iris Kieft, Towards new methods for resolving the conflict between copyright and the free flow of information
• Nicolas Jondet, France: the land of the Linux? The case of DRM interoperability and reverse-engineering

19:30 Sponsored conference diner.

18 September

09:15 Opening

09:15-10:30 First morning session (3): New Media Harms

• Andrea Matwyshyn, Intended Data Beneficiaries
• Arno R. Lodder, Is it possible to control personal information that was uploaded by others without the intention to harm or infringe?
• Caroline Wilson, Twit or Tweet? Legal Issues Associated with Twitter and other Micro-Blogging Sites”

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-12:30 Second Morning session (4): Making and Sharing

• Maarten Brinkerink, Inge van Beekum, Incentives and Constraints for Dutch Public Broadcasters to Adopt Creative Commons Licensing
• Melanie Dulong de Rosnay, Creative Commons licenses incompatibilities : when sharing needs to be rationalized
• Steven Hetcher, Location, Location Still Matters: Pop Stars, User-Generated Popular Culture & The Dislocation Of Non-Location
• Ray Corrigan, Protecting the public domain: a five point plan’

12:30-13:30 Lunch (on location)

13:30-15:15 First Afternoon session (4): The World Explained

• Andrés Guadamuz, Luddism 2.0, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Web
• Peter K. Yu, The Crossover Point
• Chris Marsden, Net Neutrality as a Debate About More Than Economics

15:15-15:45 Coffee Break

15:45-17:30 Second Afternoon session (4): Fundamental rights

• Joris van Hoboken, Search Engine Censorship: New Metaphors for the Suppression of Findability
• Judith Rauhofer, “Get out of my head, bloodsucker!” Notions of surveillance in the vampire mind
• Martin Jones, Sousveillance: The Emergent Digital Eye Witness
• TJ McIntyre, Won’t somebody please think of the children!?