Call for Papers -- KnowRight2008, 18-19 September 2008, Krakow, Poland

["Jack Boeve" <JBoeve@xxxxxxxx>]

On behalf of Erich Schweighofer, Univ. Vienna

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CALL FOR PAPERS

KnowRight 2008

18-19 September 2008
Krakow, Poland
Jagiellonian University; Institute of Intellectual Property Law
knowright08.ocg.at

Conference on the Interaction of Information Related Rights, Information
Technology and Knowledge Management

DEADLINES
--Submission of extended abstracts or full papers: 15 May 2008

--Notification of acceptance: 15 June 2008

--Camera ready submission: 15 July 2008 (some extensions may be negotiated)

Each paper will be evaluated by members of the International Program
Committee. Proceedings will be published by OCG.

CONFERENCE OUTLINE
KnowRight conferences have been held since 1995. Traditionally they have been
focusing on the interaction between Intellectual Property Rights, Information
Rights, ethical issues, civil society and information technology. The 2008
edition of KnowRight will go beyond this traditional reach. It will be
organized by the Austrian Computer Society OCG, supported by the German
Computing Society GI and the German Society for Law and Informatics DGRI and
take place in Krakow / Poland in cooperation with the Institute of
Intellectual Property Law at the Jagiellonian University.

Academics, practitioners and researchers from throughout Europe and the United
States will meet to discuss a broad range of issues arising in the context of
the Information Society and a progressively electronic environment.
Participation of a wide spectrum of vested interests will ensure a lively
debate on issues such as access to information, computer crime, copy-left,
data retention, digital libraries, e-commerce, e-government, e-justice,
electronic civil society, free speech and homeland security, ICT and
standardisation, IP and competition law, IP and development agenda, IP and
innovation, IP and public policy considerations, new challenges for the
enforcement of IPRs, open source, open content, preserving the public domain
and rule of law in cyberspace.

MAJOR CONFERENCE TOPICS
Intellectual Property:
--IP and competition law;
--IP and development agenda;
--IP and innovation;
--IP and public policy considerations;
--New challenges for the enforcement of IPRs;
--Digital Rights Management (DRM);
--Open source;
--Open content;
--Copy-left;
--Preserving the public domain.

Access to and Reuse of Public Sector and Private Information:
--Freedom of information and data protection;
--Access to public documents;
--Legal framework of public sector information reuse;
--Socioeconomic conditions of PSI reuse;
--Extent of and limitations on database protection in Europe;
--Long term archiving of public and private information.

Network Security:
--Computer crime;
--Technological proposals and implementations;
--Embedding regulation into hard- and software.

Data protection:
--Data retention;
--RFIDs - Pervasive computing;
--Automatic "forgetting" of database;
--Privacy and identification - electronic identities.

Other related topics:
--Digital libraries;
--e-commerce;
--e-government;
--e-justice;
--Electronic civil society;
--Free speech and homeland security;
--IP and mobile communication.

Don't feel restricted if your innovative topic fits the general purpose of the
conference but none of the special items on the list.

ORGANISATION
Austrian Computer Society OCG

Jointly with
Jagiellonian University Kraksw
Institute of Intellectual Property Law
GI Gesellschaft fur Informatik
DGRI Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Recht und Informatik

PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRPERSONS
Co-Chairs:

Jens Gaster, European Commission, EU (co-ordination)
e-mail: Jens.Gaster@xxxxxxxxxxxx

Peter Paul Sint, OCG, A
e-mail: ppsli@xxxxxxxx

Erich Schweighofer, Vienna University and WZRI, A
e-mail: Erich.Schweighofer@xxxxxxxxxxxx

Andreas Wiebe, Vienna University of Business Administration, A
e-mail: awiebe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Local chair:

Michal du Vall, Institute of Intellectual Property Law, Jagiellonian
University, PL
e-mail: duvall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

AUTHORS
Papers should be of high quality, original, unpublished, and not submitted
elsewhere. Prospective authors are invited to submit their draft paper or
extended abstract(up to 10 pages) via uploading (website knowright08.ocg.at,
point: SUBMISSION OF CONTRIBUTIONS). The guidelines for the final version are
available at http://www.ocg.at/publikationen/books/paper.html.