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News and Events Update January 2009 |
Law Lecturer hits top 25
Senior Lecturer in Law and CIPPM member, Angel Adrian has continued to explore the impact of virtual worlds. Her recent article No one knows you are a dog: Identity and reputation in virtual worlds Computer Law & Security Report, Volume 24, Issue 4, January 2008, Pages 366-374 has been listed in the top 25 articles provided by a journal in ScienceDirect (you may require an Athens login or other subscription to view this article in full).
On the same topic, read more about Avatars, identity and walkies in Angel's article for the International Journal of Intellectual Property Management.
Beijing Update from Lingling Wei
Continuing her research into the Legal Regulation of Ambush Marketing, Postgraduate Research Fellow Lingling Wei returned to Beijing to collect additional data. Lingling recounts in two articles how her recent trip led to meetings with officials from the Beijing Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and examining Chinese strategies devised for their recent Games and how they may or may not have an impact on the London 2012 Games.
My Beijing Trip I: Olympic Impressions (PDF - 20kb)
My Beijing Trip II: IP and Roast Duck (PDF - 20kb)
Ruth Towse on Recent Trends in the Economics of Copyright
Professor Ruth Towse provides insight into her latest publication.
"The book is part of an Elgar Publishing series, Recent Trends, and I was commissioned to edit this one on the Economics of Copyright. At the time, I was about to spend time in New Zealand with my friend and colleague from SERCI (Society of Economic Research in Copyright Issues) Richard Watt at the University of Canterbury and it seemed a good opportunity to collaborate, especially as he had recently been involved in a conference on the economics of software, a topic about which I am dreadfully ignorant."
"It was a happy collaboration and we decided from the outset to keep the volume to a manageable size, hoping that that would increase its accessibility in terms not only of price (always a problem) but also so that it did not look too daunting. Two items of interest in respect of that: one, it is very difficult to include law contributions in such a book, worthy though they are of inclusion, simply because they are always so incredibly long! Most economics journals limit articles to 6,000 or at most 8,000 words but I dont think I have ever seen a law journal article that is so short! The second point is perhaps more interesting; these reproduction volumes are, according to the publishers, intended as limited editions for libraries and that is the basis on which publishers license to each other. That restricts the publisher from pricing or advertising the volume for individual sale, though they may be purchased by individuals. No doubt this explains why most of these Recent Trends volumes and their like come out in 2, 3 or 4 volumes because the editor does not gain financially (they work on a flat fee) and does not have to make awkward decisions that could offend colleagues if their work is omitted, libraries will probably buy them anyway (at least those in Asia which are the target buyers) and the publisher increases revenues. Economics does explain quite a bit, I think you will agree!"
"The volume has 5 sections: economic aspects of the copyright term; economics of copying and copyright infringement; issues in copyright administration; copyright and incentives to artists; and copyright and open source. Each section has a brief introduction by the editors with additional reading mentioned and there is an index."
Further information on this book can be found on the Edward Edgar Publishing website.
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