Andres Guadamuz is a Lecturer in E-Commerce Law at the University of Edinburgh, where he is also a co-Director of the SCRIPT Law and Technology Centre. Andres has Bachelor, Practitioner and Notary Public degrees from the University of Costa Rica. He's been in the UK since 1998 and obtained an LL.M. in International Business Law at the University of Hull and an M.Phil from Queen’s University Belfast. His main areas of research are open source software and licensing, in which he has published extensively, acting as a consultant for the World Intellectual Property Organization. Other research interests are: payment systems, technology transfer, the interaction between technology and the law, and the role of intellectual property in developing countries.
'A comparative study of the exceptions to an infringement of copyright between Thailand and the two countries: the United States and the United Kingdom'
Selected Publications
Journal Articles
Andres Guadamuz 'Google and Book Publishers Settle: Legal and Technical Implications' (2009) WIPO Magazine Issue 4
Andres Guadamuz 'The license/contract dichotomy in open licenses: a comparative analysis' (2009) University of La Verne Law Review 30:2, pp.101-116
Andres Guadamuz 'Software Patentability: Emerging Legal Issues' (2008) WIPO Magazine Number 6, pp.15-17
Andres Guadamuz 'Scale-Free Law: Network Science and Copyright' (2008) Albany Law Review Vol. 70, p.1297
Andres Guadamuz 'Patented Past, Genetically Modified Future? Biotechnology and Developing Countries' (2007) Web Journal of Current Legal Issues Vol 4
Andres Guadamuz 'GNU General Public License v3: A Legal Analysis' (2006) SCRIPT-ed Vol 3 Issue 2, pp.130-139
Andres Guadamuz 'Viral contracts or unenforceable documents? Contractual validity of copyleft licenses' (2004) European Intellectual Property Review Vol. 26(8) pp.331-339
Andres Guadamuz 'PayPal: the legal status of C2C payment systems' (2004) Computer Law & Security Report 20(4) pp.294-300
Andres Guadamuz 'eBay Law: The legal implications of the C2C electronic commerce model' (2003) Computer Law & Security Report 19(6), pp. 468-473
Andres Guadamuz 'Death of a Gold Spammer' in Erik Bethke, Erin Hoffman (eds) Settlers of the New Virtual Worlds (BookSurge Publishing, 2008) pp.59-61
Andres Guadamuz 'Legal Challenges to Open Source Licences' in A. V. Narsimha Rao (eds) Software Patents: Legal Perspectives (ICFAI University Press, 2007) 146-155
Andres Guadamuz 'The Copyright Web: Networks, Law and the Internet' in Fiona Macmillan (eds) New Directions in Copyright Law, Volume 4 (Edward Elgar, 2007) pp.144-170
Andres Guadamuz 'Electronic Money: A viable payment system?' in A. Gonzalez Vilas (eds) Techno-Legal Aspects of Information Society and New Economy: an Overview (Formatex, 2003) pp.5-116
Notes and Reviews
Andres Guadamuz 'Review of 'Open Content Licensing: Cultivating the Creative Commons', Brian Fitzgerald, Jessica Coates and Suzanne Lewis' (2008) Media & Arts Law Review 13:3
Andres Guadamuz 'Review of Unravelling the Myth around Open Source Licences, by Lucie Guibault and Ot van Daalen' (2007) SCRIPT-ed 4:4, 490-492
Andres Guadamuz 'Back to the Future: Regulation of Virtual Worlds' (2007) SCRIPT-ed 4:3 pp.242-245
Andres Guadamuz 'Review of Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software, by Joseph Feller et al (eds)' (2006) SCRIPT-ed 3:4, pp. 485-486
Andres Guadamuz 'Review of Protecting the Virtual Commons: Self-organising Open Source and Free Software Communities and Innovative Intellectual Property Regimes, Ruben van Wendel de Joode et al.' (2006) International Journal of Law and Information Technology 14(2) pp.250-252
Earlier version at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=984864
Abbe Brown, Andres Guadamuz 'Jordan Hatcher, Chloe Bermudez 'Free Trade Agreements and IT based business Research Appendix' (2007)
Papers and Presentations
Andres Guadamuz 'If You Build It, They Won’t Come: Placing User-Generated Content in Context of Commercial Copyright Policy' presented at Mashing-up Culture, Uppsala University, Sweden, 2009
Andres Guadamuz 'Luddism 2.0, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Web' presented at Gikii 4, Institute for Information Law, Amsterdam, 2009
Andres Guadamuz 'Cybercrime, Cyber-Warfare, Networks and Resilience' presented at SCRIPT-ed "Governance of New Technologies: The Transformation of Medicine, Information Technology and Intellectual Property", Edinburgh, 2009
Andres Guadamuz 'Identifying and accessing cultural heritage in the digital environment: the public domain, orphan works and the role of registries' presented at International Conference On Intellectual Property And Cultural Heritage In The Digital World, Madrid, 2009
Andres Guadamuz 'Open Science Business Models' presented at Intellectual Assets Centre Supplier Worpkshop, Edinburgh, 2009
Andres Guadamuz 'Partners in Copyright Crime: Fan Art Licences' presented at GikIII, Oxford, 2008
Andres Guadamuz 'Rapporteur in the Infrastructural Commons' presented at 1st COMMUNIA International Workshop - Technology and the Public Domain, Turin, Italy., 2008
Andres Guadamuz 'Development and Licensing of Open Source Software' presented at WIPO Sub-Regional Roundtable on Emerging Issues of Copyright in the Software Industry, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2008
Andres Guadamuz 'From Zero to Hero: Regulation of Virtual Economies' presented at Regulatory Norms and Business Practices in Virtual Worlds, University of Exeter, 2008
Andres Guadamuz 'Software Protection: Copyright and Patents' presented at International Seminar on the Promotion of Innovation and IP in Information and Communication Technologies, Curitiba, Brazil, 2008
Andres Guadamuz 'La patentabilidad de los programas informáticos y los métodos de negocios' presented at Seminario Regional de la OMPI sobre propiedad intelectual y la informática en el siglo XXI en América Latina, San José, Costa Rica, 2008
Andres Guadamuz 'La coexistencia de los modelos de código abierto y los propietarios en materia de software' presented at Seminario Regional de la OMPI sobre propiedad intelectual y la informática en el siglo XXI en América Latina, San José, Costa Rica, 2008
Andres Guadamuz 'Licensing User-Generated Content in Virtual Worlds' presented at Virtual Policy '08, BERR, London, 2008
Andres Guadamuz 'Virtual Law' presented at Nothing But The Net, Glasgow, 2008
Andres Guadamuz 'From Zero to Hero: Building a New Virtual Economy' presented at GikII, London, 2007
Andres Guadamuz 'New Licensing Paradigm' presented at 8th European Intellectual Property International Network Conference, OHIM, Alicante, Spain, 2007
Andres Guadamuz 'Software and Business Method Patents' presented at WIPO Asia Pacific Regional Seminar on Intellectual Property and Software in the 21st Century: Trends, Issues, Prospects, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2007
Andres Guadamuz 'Enforcement of Creative Commons Licences' presented at iCommons Summit '07, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 2007
Andres Guadamuz 'Build Your Own World: User-Generated Content, Second Life and Creative Commons' presented at Urban Learning Spaces seminar series, Glasgow, 2007
Andres Guadamuz 'Rights Management Information: Current Issues in the Legal Framework' presented at WIPO Information Seminar on Rights Management Information: Accessing Creativity in a Network Environment, World Intellectual Property Organization, Geneva, Switzelrand, 2007
Andres Guadamuz 'Free Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) and new licensing models' presented at WIPO Seminar on Copyright in the Digital Environment, Islamabad, Pakistan, 2006
Andres Guadamuz 'Scale Free Law: The Shaping of Networks' presented at VI Computer Law World Conference, University of Edinburgh, 2006
Andres Guadamuz 'Killer Robots, Evil Scientists and Other Tales of Woe: How Technophobia in Culture Affects the Law' presented at GikII Workshop, Edinburgh, 2006
Andres Guadamuz 'GPL v3: A Legal Analysis' presented at Second International Conference on Open Source Systems, Como, Italy, 2006
Andres Guadamuz 'Creative Commons and the Common Information Environment' presented at iCommons Summit, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2006
Andres Guadamuz 'The Software Story: Sharing and Open Source' presented at 7th EIPIN Congress, Cumberland Lodge, Windsor, 2006
Andres Guadamuz 'Software Patents in the UK, the EU and the USA' presented at 8th Annual Information Technology Update, London, 2006
Andres Guadamuz 'Scale-Free Law: The Shaping of Networks' presented at SLSA Annual Conference, Stirling University, 2006
Andres Guadamuz 'The UK public sector and the commons' presented at Unlocking IP, UNSW, Sydney, Australia, 2006
Andres Guadamuz 'Scale Free Law: Network Science and Copyright' presented at Impact of Technological Change on the Creation, Dissemination and Protection of Intellectual Property, Albany Law School, NY, 2006
Andres Guadamuz 'Problems with international implementation of anti-circumvention provisions' presented at The 1996 WIPO Copyright Treaties: 10 Years Later, Case School of Law, Cleveland, Ohio, 2006
Andres Guadamuz 'Open Science- Open Source Licences in Scientific Research' presented at BILETA Annual Conference, 2005
Andres Guadamuz 'Ten Years of Copyright and the Internet: What's Next?' presented at Annual Conference on New Directions in Copyright, Bikbeck College, London, 2005
Andres Guadamuz 'Open Science: Open Source in Scientific Research?' presented at ICABR, Ravello, Italy, 2005
Andres Guadamuz 'The calm before the storm - Legal challenges to open source licences' presented at OSS, Genoa, Italy, 2005
Andres Guadamuz 'Introduction to Creative Commons' presented at Electric Connections, Perth, 2005
Andres Guadamuz 'Patently Obvious: The Software Patent Debate' presented at SLS Annual Conference, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, 2005
Andres Guadamuz 'Copyleft Licences' presented at V World Computer Law Conference, Sando Domingo, Dominican Republic, 2005
Andres Guadamuz 'Attack of the killer acronyms - The End of IT Law' presented at BILETA Annual Conference, Durham, 2004
Andres Guadamuz 'Share and Protect- Copyleft Licences and Global Technology Transfer' presented at SLSA Annual Conference, Glasgow, 2004
Andres Guadamuz 'Open Source - The Alternative Model for IP' presented at Intellectual Property in the Digital Millennium, 2004
Andres Guadamuz 'Technological Determinism in Code' presented at Lefis Workshop, Queen's University Belfast, 2004
Andres Guadamuz 'El ataque de las siglas asesinas' presented at IV World Computer Law Conference, Cuzco, Peru, 2004
Andres Guadamuz 'Viral contracts or unenforceable documents - Contractual validity of copyleft licenses' presented at Mobile IPR, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, 2003
Andres Guadamuz 'PayPal and eBay- The legal implications of the C2C electronic commerce model' presented at BILETA Annual Conference, 2003
Andres Guadamuz 'The new sharing ethic in Cyberspace' presented at ETHICOMP, Gdansk, Poland, 2001
Andres Guadamuz 'Habeas Data- an update on the Latin America data protection constitutional right' presented at BILETA, Edinburgh, 2001
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