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Upcoming Event: Intellectual Property and the Politics of Knowledge
Kent Law School, with the support of the Information Law and Policy Centre (IALS, University of London) Date: Friday, 20 May 2016, from 10:15 to 16:30 Location: Institute for Advanced Legal Studies (IALS), University of London More information available at this link...
Needles on top of haystacks and reporting the courts in a digital age
An update on developments in digital court reporting by the Information Law and Policy Centre's Judith Townend How should courts be reported in the digital age? It’s a question that’s been preoccupying me for a number of years. My understanding of the technology, law...
Upcoming event, 21st April 2016: ‘Judgecraft and Emotions’
The focus of the Information Law and Policy Centre's work at the IALS is law and regulation relating to the control and flow of data and media, but we are also concerned with the way in which law is accessed and the study of law as a humanity discipline, and have been...
Upcoming event: Workshop on a Draft Convention on Electronic Evidence – 20 May 2016
The Information Law and Policy Centre is pleased to be supporting this upcoming event at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies on a 'Draft Convention on Electronic Evidence', due to take place during the afternoon of 20 May 2016. Stephen Mason, an expert in this...
Cultural cold wars: The risk of anti-‘extremism’ policy for academic freedom of expression
Universities risk ignoring laws about protecting freedom of speech in their attempt to protect students against being radicalised, argue Professor Alison Scott-Baumann and Hugh Tomlinson QC. This post first appeared on Research Professional. Universities are under...
New Edition: Concise European Copyright Law
A second edition of the Concise European Copyright Law has been released. The book, edited by Prof. Thomas Dreier and Prof. Bernt Hugenholtz and published by Kluwer Law International in January 2016, provides a compact commentary on the modern EU-level copyright...
New report: The impact of charity and tax law/regulation on not-for-profit news organizations
A new report on the impact of charity and and tax law/regulation on not-for-profit news organisations has been published by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford, and the Information Society Project at Yale University. It...
Upcoming Conference: Copyright, Related Rights and the News in the EU – Assessing Potential New Laws
CIPIL University of Cambridge, hosted at IViR, University of Amsterdam Date: Saturday, 23 April 2016, from 10:00 t0 17:30 (CET) Location: University of Amsterdam, Agnietenkapel , Oudezijds Voorburgwal 229 – 231, 1012 EZ Amsterdam, the Netherlands Registration at this...
Update on Information Law and Policy Centre’s contribution to Investigatory Powers debate
As previously reported on this blog, our Information Law and Policy Centre (ILPC) at IALS has facilitated an ad hoc research group of academics and practitioners to contribute to the ongoing policy debate on surveillance following publication of the government’s Draft...
MTE v Hungary: New ECtHR Judgment on Intermediary Liability and Freedom of Expression
Christina Angelopoulos is a post-doc researcher at the Information Law and Policy Centre of the University of London. She wrote her PhD on intermediary liability in copyright at the Institute for Information Law (IViR) of the University of Amsterdam. In the following...