Found Item: Gikii 4, Amsterdam

There never seems to be enough talk, or theres always too much talk, (hard to say) about Law and technology, probably because everyones so busy practicing it, or thinking about it, and unfortunately, rarely the twain shall meet. Along the lines of trying to meet up more, but only found in retrospect, seems an interesting Law and Tech conference wrapped up this last weekend: Gikii 4, Amsterdam [Full Programme, &tc.].

Especially pertinent in the face of either such outrageous claims of intelligent security camera AI technology if false, or such outrageous implications of the actual technology if true, (can one sue a security camera for libel or false accusation?), Law seems like one of those areas that is simultaneously both populist, and completely non-populist.

Gikii is:

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. [gikii homepage]

The gikii Law and Technology conference is sponsored by a group of law/tech institutes: Baker Cyberlaw Centre, Oxford Internet Institute, SCRIPTed, IViR,AHRC, and the Edinburgh School of Law, seems to have interesting titles for the sessions. Would be interesting to know how the practicing law and the academic law jibe.

Regard some selections from their programme:

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

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’)

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’

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

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”

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

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

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!?