In today’s ever-changing world, open access
to knowledge is increasingly important. The Open Access to Knowledge
(OAK) Law Project hosted at QUT and funded by the Department of
Education, Employment and Workplace Relations aims to ensure that every
day citizens through to top-end researchers can legally and efficiently
share knowledge across domains and across the world.
The OAK Law Project has developed a web-enabled database containing
information about publishing agreements and publishers’ open access
policies and practices and publishing agreements - The OAK List. This
database is accessible to everyone, including publishers, authors,
copyright administrators and repository managers, both in Australia and
overseas. The OAK List has been developed to be interoperable with the
RoMEO/SHERPA database.
Establishing an effective open access environment is critical to
promoting the impact and quality of research in a networked world. The
OAK List will assist academic and scholarly authors to make informed
choices about publishing in Australian and overseas journals.
Where: Owen J Wordsworth (OJW) Room, S Block, QUT Gardens Point, Brisbane, Australia
When: Wednesday 13 February, 12:30 - 2pm
Where: Gibson Room (Room 1064), Z Block, Gardens Point Campus.
Juan Carlos De Martin, Associate Professor at the Information
Engineering School of the Politecnico di. Previously, prof. De Martin
spent -besides several years with the National Research Council of
Italy- two years as Visiting Scholar at the University of California,
and two years in Dallas as Texas Instruments member of technical staff
and as adjunct professor at the University of Texas. His research
activities are focused on multimedia processing and transmission. He is
also actively involved in investigating the effects of digital
technologies and Internet on society. In that direction, he has been
following the Creative Commons Italy project since 2003, he brought to
Italy and co-organized the Harvard Law School Internet Law Program, and
founded in November 2006 the NEXA Center for Internet and Society of
the Politecnico di Torino (http://nexa.polito.it). Since 1 September
2007, Dr De Martin is the Coordinator of COMMUNIA, the European
Thematic Network on the digital public domain
(http://communia-project.eu). De Martin is a member of IEEE and the
author or co-author of over seventy international scientific
publications.
The COMMUNIA Thematic Network aims at becoming a European point of
reference for theoretical analysis and strategic policy discussion of
existing and emerging issues concerning the public domain in the
digital environment - as well as related topics. Funded by the European
Commission within the eContentplus framework, the 3-year long project
expects to provide policy guidelines that will help each stakeholder
involved - public and private, from the local to the European and
global level. COMMUNIA also plans to build strategic relationships with
other non-European countries (starting with the United States and
Brazil, where two COMMUNIA members are located) in which similar policy
discussions are currently underway.
RSVP to e.bledsoe@creativecommons.org.au
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Computer Games, Law Regulation and Policy
When: 14 - 15 February
Where: QUT Creative Industries Precinct, Brisbane
There are many uncertainties involved in the regulation of online
games, including jurisdictional issues, the legitimacy of secondary
markets, rights and responsibilities of modders and machinima creators,
struggles over the use and reuse of IP, the legitimacy or legality of
certain terms in EULAs and TOS, the status of ephemeral and
user-created content with classification boards and internet
regulators, governance in-game and exclusion policies, privacy and data
mining and more.
This symposium will offer a chance to discuss the issues of game
governance, from code through to government policy, and to move towards
finding an integrated set of solutions to the current problems.
Bringing together people from creative industries, media studies, law,
business and IT faculties, industry, government and player groups, the
emphasis will be on exploring and suggesting alternatives to current
practices.
Keynote speakers include:
Fred von Lohmann, senior staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier
Foundation, specializing in intellectual property matters. In that
role, he has represented programmers, technology innovators, and
individuals in a variety of copyright and trademark litigation,
including MGM v. Grokster, decided by the Supreme Court in 2005. He is
also involved in EFF’s efforts to educate policy-makers regarding the
proper balance between intellectual property protection and the public
interest in fair use, free expression, and innovation. Before joining
EFF, Fred was a visiting researcher with the Berkeley Center for Law
and Technology and an associate with the international law firm of
Morrison & Foerster LLP. He has appeared on CNN, CNBC, ABC’s Good
Morning America, and Fox News O’Reilly Factor and has been widely
quoted in a variety of national publications. Fred has an A.B. from
Stanford University and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.
Please email Sal Humphreys at s.humphreys@qut.edu.au to register for the event.
