Dennis Jlussi–Jan 25, 2010
On March 17-18, 2010, an international conference with the title Commons, Users, Service Providers - Internet (Self-) Regulation and Copyright will take place in Hannover. The conference is hosted by Prof Dr Axel Metzger (Leibniz Universität Hannover, Institute for Legal Informatics) together with Prof Dr Thomas Dreier (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) and Prof Dr Gerald Spindler (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen). An excerpt from the conference website:
"Self-regulation of the internet has been controversial from the very beginning. Liberal voices have emphasized the positive effects of a truly global medium of unrestricted
communication where new ways of collaboration amongst creators, users and providers may be implemented. For conservatives, the internet provides a biotope for all types of illegal activity
including copyright ‘piracy’. However,state-driven regulation is hardly ever effective due to the decentralized architecture of the internet andthe territorially restricted
sovereignty of states.
The conference highlights three different models of regulation for copyright issues; the self-regulation of free software and content communities, the de-regulation of ISP‘s liability and the strict
regulation of personal and other privileged use by copyright limitations and exceptions."
Those three models will be discussed in three conference sessions, each with very well renommed speakers, including, for example, Prof Eben Moglen (Columbia University, New York City), who played a vital role in the process of drafting the General Public Licence (GPL) version 3.
More information is available at the conference website.
