BILETA 2009 - The 24th Annual Conference                   

Tuesday 21 - Thursday 23 April 2009 
Hosted by the Department of Law at the University of Winchester   

"To Infinity and Beyond: Law and Technology in Harmony?"

Technology impacts increasingly on all areas of our lives, from e-commerce to e-learning. This year's annual conference focusses on the ways in which law and technology can move forward operating in harmony across the spectrum. Papers will fall into a wide range of categories including:

• Intellectual property - including copyright, open source etc
• E-learning
• E-commerce
• Virtual worlds / SNS
• Intermediaries - IP providers
• Infrastructure - including regulation and computer misuse
• Privacy and data-protection
• Cybercrime - including criminological aspects
• Legal theory and critical perspectives
• New technologies

Should you have any queries about this conference please contact helen.james@winchester.ac.uk. Queries relating to bookings should be directed to h.surti@warwick.ac.uk  

Keynote Speakers:

We are delighted to announce that the keynote speakers at the 2009 conference will be:

Jeremy Phillips, Intellectual Property Consultant with Olswang, Solicitors and Research Director of the Intellectual Property Institute.  "Apples, Oranges and Blackberries get their just desserts" http://www.jeremyphillips.eu/

and

Dr Richard Clayton of the Cambridge Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge 'It’s time to repeal Internet Legislation' 
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rnc1/