VI Computer Law World Conference

Programme

Programme

The conference will take place on 4-8 September 2006 at the University of Edinburgh. The conference will consist of two main events: a workshop on Monday 4 and Tuesday 5 September 2006, while the main conference will take place on 6-8 September 2006. Please note that there is a separate registration procedure for both events. If you want to see the GikII programme, click here.

Download the Abstracts.

The papers and presentations can be found in the Papers section.

Wednesday September 6th

Main Conference

Venue: Macdonald Holyrood Hotel

9.00 - 9.30 - Registration

9.30 - 11.30 - Plenary Session (Chair: Andrés Guadamuz)

9.30 - 9.45 - Welcome message and acknowledgments: Andrés Guadamuz, University of Edinburgh and Erick Iriarte Ahón, Alfa Redi.
9.45 - 10.45 - Keynote Presentation: Ray Plzak & Steve Ryan, American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN). Legal and Policy Aspects of Internet Number Resources.
10.45 - 11.45 - Keynote Presentation: Dr Patricia Akester, University of Cambridge. The Draft WIPO Broadcasting Treaty and its Impact on Freedom of Expression.

11.45 - 12.00 - Coffee Break

12.00 - 13.00 - Policy (Chair: Erick Iriarte)

  • Lipskier, Natalia; Olivera, Noemí and Proto, Araceli (Argentina). Legal Policies for ICT in Latin America.
  • Barrio, Fernando (UK). The persisting cross-Atlantic divide on regulatory approaches to consumer protection.

13.00 - 14.00 - Lunch

14.00 - 15.30 - Cybercrime (Chair: Burkhard Schäfer)

  • Chik, Warren (Singapore). Computer Crime, Cyber Crime and Challenges to Law Making: A Critical Comparative Study of the Adequacies of Computer Crime and Cyber Crime Legislation in the United States, the United Kingdom and Singapore.
  • Jones, Martin (UK). Amending The Computer Misuse Act 1990 – An Adequate Response to the Global Denial of Service Threat?
  • Valeri, Mauro (Italy). Europe's first “On line Police station”.

15.30 - 15.45 - Coffee Break

15.45 - 17.45 - Governance (Chair: Fernando Barrio)

  • Kuchta, Kelly (USA). How the Technical Evolution of Electronic Discovery Will Impact Litigation in the Future.
  • Plaza, Juan Carlos (Spain). The new IPV6 as a source of legal risks and opportunities.
  • Nicholas Gervassis (Greece). Game Over!: An Example of Equivocal State Legislation.
  • Erick Iriarte Ahón (Peru). Information Society Policies in Latin America .

15.45 - 17.45 - Sesión de Misceláneos (parallel session in Spanish)

Venue: Macdonald Holyrood Hotel
Chair: Diego Sánchez

  • García-Noguera, Isabel (Spain). La STJCE de 13 de septiembre de 2005 ¿una puerta abierta para la competencia penal de las Comunidades Europeas? Posibles repercusiones para el tratamiento de la delincuencia relacionada con las tecnologías de la comunicación y la información.
  • Rodríguez Cerón, Tatiana (Ecuador). El Desarrollo de la Banca Electrónica en América Latina.
  • Canut, Pedro (Spain). Coloriuris.

19.00 - Midnight - Conference Dinner and Traditional Ceilidh

Venue: South Hall, Pollock Halls.
18 Holyrood Park Road Edinburgh EH16 5AY
Map of the venue.

Thursday September 7th

Main Conference

Venue: Macdonald Holyrood Hotel

9.00 - 9.45 - Registration and post-conference coffee

9.45 - 11.45 - Plenary Session (Chair: Professor Hector MacQueen)

9.30 - 10.30 - Keynote Presentation: Professor Lilian Edwards, University of Southampton. How To Kill Zombies: Law and Computer Insecurity. 
10.30 -11.30 - Keynote Presentation: Mia Garlick, Creative Commons. Creative Commons: Five Years On.

11.45 - 12.00 - Coffee Break

12.00 - 13.00 - Electronic Commerce (Chair: Leopoldo Brandt)

  • Peguera, Miquel (Spain). Liability of online intermediaries in Europe: The implementation of the E-Commerce Directive exemption rules.
  • Rico Carrillo, Mariliana (Venezuela). Privacy and Data Protection in Payment Systems.

13.00 - 14.00 - Lunch

14.00 - 15.30 - Intellectual Property (Chair: David Vaile)

  • Vásquez, Víctor (WIPO). Recent developments on the proposed WIPO Treaty on the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations.
  • Al Ramahi, Mohammad (UK). The Ownership of Internet Domain Names.
  • Guadamuz, Andrés (Costa Rica). Scale Free Law: The Shaping of Networks.

15.30 - 15.45 - Coffee Break

15.45 - 17.15 - Privacy and content (Chair: Andrew Adams)

  • De Rooy, Julie (Australia). Workplace Privacy in a Technological Environment.
  • Hoffman, Sharona and Podgurski, Andy (USA). Privacy Rights and the Electronic Storage of Personal Health Information.
  • Moustakas, Evangelos (UK). Legislative Approaches to Tackle Unsolicited Commercial Email (Spam): A Cross-Country Comparative Analysis.

Free night

Friday September 8th

Main Conference

Venue: Macdonald Holyrood Hotel

9.30 - 12.00 - Plenary Session (Chair: Andrés Guadamuz)

9.30 - 10.45 - Keynote Presentation: Professor Michael Geist, University of Ottawa. All Rights Reserved?: Cultural Monopoly, the Internet and the Trouble with Copyright.
10.45 - 12.00 - Keynote Presentation: Nic Garnett (WIPO). Automated Rights Management Systems and Copyright Limitations and Exceptions.

12.00 - 12.15 - Coffee Break

12.15 - 13.15 - Intellectual Property (Chair: Abbe Brown)

  • Haigh, Maria (USA). Downloading Communism: File-sharing as Samizdat in Ukraine.
  • Jondet, Nicolas (France). La France v. Apple: who’s the dadvsi?

13.15 - 14.15 - Lunch

14.15 - 15.45 - Intellectual Property (Chair: Víctor Vásquez)

  • Mags McGinley (UK), A Lawyer's View of the UK's Digital Curation Centre.
  • Vaile, David (Australia). Unlocking IP.
  • Fotinopoulos, Konstantinos (Greece). The ICT European industry and software patents.

15.45 - 16.00 - Coffee Break

16.00 - 17.30 - Intellectual Property / Privacy (Chair: Andres Guadamuz)

  • Granados, Palmira (Canada). Genetic Patents and Indigenous Peoples in the Third World.
  • Wang, Yueyue (China). Will Fair Use Survive? - Regulating File-Sharing in Research and Education.
  • Ferrer Serrano, Roberto and Oliver-Lalana, Daniel (Spain). Privacy and Identity Management in Communication Processes within Organizations: Insights from the Le-Sig Project.

14.15 - 15.30 Sesión de Derecho y Privacidad (parallel session in Spanish)

Venue: Macdonald Holyrood Hotel
Chair: Mariliana Rico Carrillo

  • Sánchez, Diego (Ecuador). Informe del Monitor de Acceso a la Información Pública y Privacidad de la Comunidad Alfa-Redi.
  • Vilasau Solana, Mónica (Spain). Datos Accesibles al Público y la Protección de Datos en España.

17.30 onwards - Drinks Reception

 

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