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News and Events
2010
- LawTechTalk: 'How law represents the Japanese sense of information privacy,' Professor Andrew Adams, Professor of Information Ethics, Graduate School, Meiji University, Tokyo. UNSW Law Room 101 - 15 September 2010
- Research Report: Vaile, D. 'Shifting Sands? The moderate impact of Australia’s 2006 copyright exceptions,' A2K for Consumers: Reports of Campaigns and Reports 2008-2010, Consumers International, Kuala Lumpur, arising from the Unlocking IP project - September 2010 [PDF]
- Research project: Orphan Works, for Copyright Agency Ltd.
- Research project: Cybersecurity education international review, with Galexia and ACMA - June-July 2010
- Research project: Young people and online content regulation, ARC Linkage application, centre investigators Maurushat and Bennet-Moses with JMRC's Prof Lumby, 8 partner organisations and others - May 12 2010
- Panel discussion: Internet filtering, Sydney University Faculty of Engineering & Information Technologies - 28 April
- Presentation: Copyright Changes in 2006 and Consumer Attitudes, Consumers International Access to Knowledge conference, Kuala Lumpur - 22 April 2010
- Symposium: International perspectives
on privacy regulation: Privacy Principles in Asia Pacific economies compared, UNSW Law moot court, March 3-4 2010.
- CLE seminar: Privacy in the Asia-Pacific: 2010 Update: A comprehensive survey of privacy and data protection in the region, Grace Hotel Sydney, 2 March 2010 – brochure here
2009
- Presentation: 'Prohibited packets and the Great Firewall of Canberra,' Internet Filtering and Regulation in Australia and the Asia Pacific conference, University of Wollongong - 1 Dec 2009
- Research Project:Changes to the Copyright Act in 2006 and implications for consumer behaviour, for Consumers International and CHOICE.
- Work in progress: Data breach notification table, Alana Maurushat - 20 October
- Presentation: Kate Bond, "Challenges from Web 2.0 for copyright, challenges from copyright for Web," Copyright - digital futures, Copyright Society, Sydney CBD - 16 October
- Committee submission: Alana Maurushat before the Cth Cybercrime and Consumers Inquiry, NSW Parliament House - 8 October 2009
- Presentation: 'Challenges to Personal Information Security and Net Neutrality from ‘e-Security on Steroid,' David Vaile at the e-Security for Government conference, Melbourne - 23 September 2009
- Forum: Music downloading law and ethics, St James Ethics Centre, D. Vaile participant - 16 September
- Presentation: 'Keeping data safe and dealing with a failure', David Vaile at Online Fraud & E-Crime Forum Radisson Plaza , Sydney - 25 June
- Forum: SoGikII bringing together advanced cyberlaw researchers from UK, US and Australia; first of the GikII series in Australia, Coogee - June 2009
- Conference: Unlocking
IP 2009: National and Global Dimensions of the Public
Domain, UNSW, 16-17 April 2009. See story in Technology and Business, and launches of:
- Research project: Internet filtering and the interests of young people - Reference list. UNSW Workshop 2, 4 Mar 09: Prof Bambauer, OpenNet
Initiative, K. Graham, Inspire
Foundation, K. Bermeister, co-founder Kazaa, & ors. Also UNSW Forum 1, Nov 08. [See also Background
Briefing ABC RN, Q&A ABC TV, Insight SBS TV - March 2009]
- LawTechTalk: 'Viral advertising', Facebook groups and regulation of social advertising in electronic media, visitor Dr Jan Trzaskowski, Law Department of Copenhagen Business School, conducting research
on 'Neuroeconomics and Advertising Law: Viral Advertising' at UNSW Law Faculty - Thurs 30 April 2009
- Keynote: Cyberstalking, and what you can do about it, Stalking conference for Central West Women's Health Centre in Bathurst, 6 March 2009
- Publications: submissions to the Australian
Government, Waters, N. Reform
of Credit Reporting Privacy Law - Response to ALRC Privacy Report 108 Pt G, Waters, N. Health
and Research Privacy - ALRC Report 108 Pt H, Waters,
N. and Greenleaf, G., ALRC Report 108, Parts A-C, F & I-K, February
2009
- Conference: First AsianLII
Conference 2009, 'Building capacity for free access to
law in Asia', hosted by AustLII at UNSW, 23-25 February
2009
2008
- Conference: 'The
Commons Crossroads', 2009 Creative Commons Asia Pacific
Conference, Manila - 5-6 February 2009
- Publication: Centre researchers Waters, N.
and Greenleaf, G. submission to the Australian Government, Best
practice privacy principles: suggested improvements to
the ALRC's model unified privacy principles (UPPs),
December 2008
- Michael Kirby J (HCA) launches two new services from
our colleagues at AustLII: Free
access to English Reports 1220-1873, and the
new AustLII LawCite tool, a free
access international citator and field-level case search
tool: www.austlii.edu.au/lawcite/ - 1 December 2008
- LawTechTalk: "Intellectual
Property Transplants in the Digital Age", Prof.
Peter Yu, director of the IP Law Center at Drake University
Law School, UNSW - 28 November 2008
- Forum: ISP
filtering proposals, discussion on technical,
legal, censorship and child protection issues, now with
extended bibliography and legal/policy links, UNSW - 27
November 2008
- Publication: Centre researchers Waters, N.
Johnston, A. and Greenleaf, G. submission
to the New South Wales Law Reform Commission in response
to the Commission's June 2008 Consultation Paper (CP3) - November 2008
- Conference paper: Waters, N. 'Who
am I? Dispelling the annoyingly persistent myth of a single
answer', paper for [Id]entity 08 conference, Office of Victorian Privacy
Commissioner, Melbourne - 12 November 2008
- Symposium: Meeting
privacy challenges: ALRC and NSWLRC Privacy Reviews.
Links to
materials; see also Publications for our 6
ALRC submissions. UNSW - 2 October 2008
- Publication: Research associate C. Connolly,
'Asia-Pacific
region at the Privacy Crossroads' - August 2008
- Radio: Prof. Greenleaf a guest commentator
on ABC Radio National's 'Australia
Talks' on Privacy Laws. MP3 or stream - 19 August 2008
- Publication: G. Greenleaf, "Hong Kong's 'smart'
ID card: Desiged to be out of control", in C. J. Bennett
& D. Lyon (eds) Playing
the Identity Card: Surveillance, Security and Identification
in Global Perspective (2008)
- Conference: 3rd
Workshop on Social Implications of National Security 2008
- Evidence Based Policy in Public Administration',
centre personnel presenting, Canberra - 24 July
- Seminar: "You
are where you’ve been: Technological threats to
your location privacy"': legal, policy, technology
and social issues, School of Surveying and Spatial Information
Systems co-hosted by Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre. Materials, Brochure - 23 July 2008
- Conference: 'LawTech
2008', D. Vaile keynote on 'The
Digital Document That Will Not Die', suppression and persistence of online documents; AustLII's Greenleaf and Chung on
'Building Subject-specific Libraries on Free-access Services',
hosted by AIJA with AustLII and UNSW support, Sydney CBD
- 26, 27 June
- Seminar: 'Law
and Regulation of Virtual Worlds' research colleagues
Melissa deZwart and David Lindsay from Monash U - 25 June
2008
- Conference: 'Creating
Value: Between Commerce and Commons', ARC Centre of
Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation, Brisbane
- 25-27 June 2008
- Conference: Prof Greenleaf presents at 'Building
an Australasian Commons', Creative Commons Australia,
Brisbane - 24 June 2008
- Forum: David Vaile presents
at AIMIA forum on 'Legal
Aspects of Social Media' hosted by TressCox, Sydney
- 27 May 2008
- Alana Maurushat presents at AusCERT IT
security conference, Gold Coast - 20 May
- LawTechTalk: 'Sharing
info on the 'Semantic Web' or 'Giant Global Graph': unresolved
legal issues', Pierre-Paul Lemyre
from Canada's LexUM,
UNSW - 14 May 2008
- LawTechTalk: 'The
Winny case: Cybercrime and copyright law in Japan',
Prof. Makoto Ibusuki, UNSW Law - 19 March 2008
- Seminar: Prof Jane Winn, US
online
contracts and consumer regulation expert, Consumer
Protection in the 'Information Economy' lecture co-hosted
with CHOICE, and a workshop,
intro by Chris Connolly, on proposed Consumer
Digital Rights Charter, UNSW Law Theatre G23 - 7 March 2008
- Research Associate Nigel Waters participates
in APEC privacy meeting in Peru for NGOs. See his report
and notes
- Feb 2008
- Centre hosts visit from Singaporean delegation
on regulation of online content; contributions from Irene
Nemes and John Corker - Feb 2008
- Directors present to Japanese delegation
on regulation of online privacy in e-commerce - Feb 2008
- LawTechTalk: 'Aspects
of eGovernment in Germany, Hong Kong and Australia: Domain
names, privacy and more', PG researchers Wong and
Backes, UNSW G23 - 6 February 2008. See CIO
article on domain names and e-government.
2007
- Symposium
on proposed OO XML ISO standard, technical
and legal issues, with docs, background paper, photos.
UNSW - 14 December 2007
- Summer course: 'Law
in the Information Age' summer course GENL0230 - 10-20
December 2007
- LawTechTalk: ' WIPO's
Internet domain name arbitration process: Can it meet
the challenges of the trademark and the cybersquatter?',
Erik Wilbers, WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center Geneva,
UNSW - 5 December 2007
- Open
Source Industry Australia, industry partner in Unlocking
IP project, released analysis
of party policies towards Open Source software: OSIA
Survey of Parties Federal Election 2007, reported
as 'Parties
back OS software' - 20 November
- Conference: NSW ADT conference
chaired by K O'Connor J; D Vaile presents 'Transparency,
suppression and anonymisation in reasons for decisions',
CBD - 2 November 2007
- 'Increasing
Consumers Voice in Intellectual Property Policy',
side event at Consumers
International World Congress 2007. North Sydney -
29 Oct0ber 2007
- 2007 Australian
Website Awards for lawyer's websites, hosted by FindLaw;
judges include D Vaile - 25 October
- Prof Graham Greenleaf wins Dieter
Meurer Prize for excellence in juridical
research from German
Association for Computing in the Judiciary congress,
Saarland University,
Saarbruecken - 21 September
- Prof Graham Greenleaf submission to
Dept. Human Services: 'Function Creep – Defined and Still Dangerous: Submission
on the Revised ID Card Bill' for
National ID card research project - 27 August 2007
- Book
launch: Digital Copyright & the Consumer Revolution:
Hands off my iPod, Matthew
Rimmer, Senior Lecturer at ACIPA, ANU. National Library,
Canberra - 21 September 2007
- LawTechTalk: 'The
Democratic Deficit in Copyright Law: A Legislative Proposal',
Maureen
O'Sullivan, Lecturer, University of Ireland, Galway.
UNSW Law Faculty - 1-2pm 25 July
- E-Commerce Law masters course LAWS3044
to be taught by Adrian Lawrence, editor of eCommerce looseleaf
service - July
- G Greenleaf's presentation to the ‘Access
Card’ Seminar,
The Naked Exposure Draft: ‘Is that an ID card
you have in your pocket’? , Canberra ,
now online at our ID card
page - 21 June
- Symposium:
'Enforcing Information Privacy Laws', , 2007, 1.30–4.30pm,
Level 8, 133 Castlereagh Street, Sydney.
Details here - 3 July
- NSW Young Lawyers hold BBQ for our research
collaborator AustLII, CBD - 19 June
- LawTechTalk:
'Can the US Meet
International Privacy Standards in an Era of Personal
Health Records, Consumer Scores, and Watch Lists?'
Robert Gellman,
US privacy and information policy consultant from Washington
DC. UNSW Law Faculty - 1–2 pm 7 June
- 'Commons
in IP', two-day intensive LLM (LAWS5239) and CLE course
under Prof Greenleaf investigating the public domain and
public rights in copyright law, UNSW Law Faculty. Click
here for CLE Registration
form and details. - Fri 11–Sat 12 May
- Information
Management and E-Discovery Summit, David Vaile on
'Corporate Responsibility And The New Document Destruction
Legislation' panel, Sydney CBD - 5–6 June 2007
- Centre for Independent Studies Roundtable
on the Access Card, research associate Dr Roger Clarke
presents , Sydney CBD - 4 April 2007
- Special
IP issue of University
of Edinburgh's online open access law and technology
journal, SCRIPT-ed
features articles from our 2006 Unlocking
IP "Creating Commons" conference - 2 April
- 'Free/Libre and
Open Source Software (FLOSS) as a Democratic Principle'
and 'Digital Copyright in a User Generated World'
conferences, U of Western Ontario, Canada. Speakers include
Unlocking IP investigator Professor Brian Fitzgerald (QUT)
and Richard Stallman (FSF). Details and registration here
- 9-10 April 2007
- Main
and Supplementary
submissions by Prof Greenleaf to Senate C'tee on Access
Card Bill, plus article 'Access
All Areas': Function Creep Guaranteed in Australia's ID
Card Bill (No. 1). Also at ID
card page, links to other submissions and transcripts
- March
- Bridge
Point Network and Security Forum, keynote presentation
by David Vaile, Byron Bay- 15 March
- 'Digital
Copyright Update' CLE seminar: Cooper link authorisation
case; Copyright Act amendments; temporary copy
issues; and implications for ISPs, online content providers
and users. Sydney CBD - 13 March 2007
- Updated materials on Access
Card, including paper 'Still
quacking like a duck' and links to Bill,
submissions, and various participants. 3 March
2007.
- 'Law in the Information Age' intensive
course for two weeks - February
- AGD/IP Australia's Trading
Ideas Symposium, David Vaile chairs 'IP Information
as a Business Tool in the Asia Pacific Region' panel,
Sydney - 30 Jan
- APEC
eCommerce Steering Group invites Prof Graham Greenleaf
as Australian NGO representative in discussions on APEC
Privacy Framework, Canberra - 22-26 January
- Research associate position filled
for the ‘One Day We’ll
All Invest This Way: Regulating Online Investing’
ARC research project under Prof Dimity Kingsford Smith
- 15 January 2007
2006
2005
- Free forum at ANU, Google: Infinite Library, Copyright Pirate, or Monopolist? (Matthew Rimmer, Roger Clarke and National Institute of Social Science and Law) 12–2pm - Friday 9 Dec
- LawTechTalk, '"Making a Big Brother? eGovernment in Hong Kong" (Joeson Wong) UNSW 1-2pm - 6 Dec
- ARC Discovery grant awarded to Centre associates for a three year Interpreting privacy principles legal research project.
- 12th Biennial Copyright Symposium, 'Copyleft in practice: issues and perspectives' panel (Ian Oi, Rusty Russell and David Vaile) Sydney CBD - 17–18 Nov
- 'Law via the Internet' conference, hosted by PacLII and AustLII's Greenleaf and Chung, Vanuatu - 17–18 Nov
- Digital Rights Management: Technology, Issues, Challenges and Systems panel North Sydney (David Vaile) - 1 Nov
- Australasian Residential Tenancies Conference, Sydney (David Vaile) presentation - 20–21 Oct
- V World Congress of Computer Law, Dominican Republic (David Vaile) - 3–7 Oct
- Canada-Australia Comparative IP and Cyberlaw Conference, Ottowa (Caroline Penfold and David Vaile) - 30 Sep-1 Oct
- Electronic Digital Theses Symposium, UNSW (Philip Chung) - 28-30 Sept
- Launch of CommonLII for 50 Commonwealth and common law countries, London (Graham Greenleaf and Philip Chung) - 18 Sept
- LawTechTalk: 'Reform of Internet governance: Guardian or threat to online freedoms?' (Jeremy Malcolm), UNSW. - 31 Aug
- British Council/Baycorp seminar for Baroness Prof Greenfield and J Bamford, Asst. UK Info. Commr (David Vaile) - 24 Aug
- RFID and standards conference panel, Sydney (David Vaile) - 18 Aug
- Welcome interns Simmy Lai and Ivan Yu, and the new Cyberlaw class. - 3 Aug
- Law TechTalk: P2P Technology and Its Legal and Policy Implications, with references (Visiting Prof Roger Clarke) - 27 July
- Australian Research Council approves Linkage research project "Unlocking IP –Expanding public rights and the public domain in Australian copyright" with funding to 2008 - 21 June
- Open Source Forum Anti-circumvention and software development materials available. - 2 June 2005
- 'Software development and liability - legal and ethical issues', guest lecture, UNSW. - 31 May
- 'Rebuilding the Commons: New approaches to copyright and licensing for education', Greenleaf, Vaile and Ian Oi, UNSW Library Online Services Department. - 20 May
- LawTechTalk/ faculty seminar, Prof. Dimity Kingsford-Smith: 'Online Investment and Free Speech: Should Internet Financial Advice be Regulated?', UNSW. - 10 May
- Copyright Research Network workshop hosted by Dr Kathy Bowrey: Developments in Rights Neighbouring on Copyright (privacy, moral rights, resale rights, broadcasting and performer’s rights). UNSW - 30 March
- IDG CIO seminars on 'Balancing the Art and Science of Security' include David Vaile on digital documents and governance. Sydney, Melbourne - 15, 19 March
- Privacy Law Refresher and Advanced CLE classes, and practical workshop for privacy officers and advisers, with former deputy privacy commissioners Waters and Johnston. Sydney. - 9, 10 March
- Law Tech Talk: Geo-identification –a ‘threat to the net’? Dr Dan Svantesson, Bond University. UNSW - 9 March
- 'Creative commons and knowledge management', NSW Knowledge Management Forum, Sydney. - 3 March
- Open Source Forum: Linux on the Desktop. UTS - 3 Marc
2004
- APEC Privacy Framework –see APPCC. Senate privacy inquiry. - Dec 2004
- FTA and IP materials update: Copyright Leg. Amdt. Act, FTA Implementation Act. - Dec 2004
- A-US FTA and IP materials: Copyright
Legislation Amdt. Act 9 Dec, Implementation
Act 13 Aug, Senate report,
Parl. Lib. Digest, JSCT report
(proposes 'Fair Use'), Phillipa Dee report, bills pass
HoR. - December 9
- Digital Document White
Paper launch - 23 November
- 'Unlocking
IP' Conference materials now available
on speaker pages. 'Open Content', free and open source
software, copyright, licensing, educational collaboration.
- 18- 19 November
- Legal Regulation
and the Global Digital Divide seminar by UK's Prof.
Abdul Paliwala. - UNSW, 16 November
- Open Source Forum on
Patents and software, co-hosted by Linux Australia
and OSIA. - CBD, 3 November
- LawTechTalk:
Richard Stallman on The
Danger of Software Patents. Pioneer of GNU/Linux, GPL 'CopyLeft'
licence, with UNSW CompSoc; includes audio. - UNSW, 14
October
- LawTechTalk: 'Encryption
and the law: The need for a regulatory framework for
PKI', Yen Fen Lim, Macquarie U. -10 August
- Welcome interns Stuart Loh and Ada Ko, and Cyberspace
Law class. - 28 July
- APPCC Submission on
versions 9 and 10 of
draft APEC Privacy Principles. - 31 May
- LawTechTalk: Free
Radicals in Cyberspace, Meiring de Villiers. -
UNSW, 8 June
- LawTechTalk: When
Registries Run Wild: VeriSign's Site Finder Service,
John Selby, Macquarie U. - UNSW, 27 May
- 'Spam and workplace email surveillance', presentation
at AusCERT Qld. PPT -
26 May
- Creative
Licensing to Expand Australia’s Public Domain, launch AESN Free
for Education 'open content' licence, Creative
Commons Australian version. - 11 May
- A-US FTA and Intellectual Property symposium,
with references. - 28 April
- Privacy Commissioner finds TICA tenant database breaches
Privacy Act in complaint by Tenants Unions Qld
and NSW, assisted by research associates. - 19 April
- LawTechTalk: Online
flowcharts for teaching taxation law, Ian Iredale,
UWS. - UNSW, 23 March.
- Two commentaries on draft APEC Privacy
Principles from Prof. Greenleaf, "The
APEC privacy initiative: 'OECD Lite' for the Asia-Pacific?",
and "Criticisms
of the APEC Privacy Principles, Version 9".
- Cyberlaw 2031 course material
updated. - March 2004
- Launch of Law of eCommerce looseleaf service
by research associate Adrian
Lawrence. - 27 January 2004.
- Postgraduate Research Associate Marie-Ange
Peslages wins UNSW's 2004 "NewSouth Global Scholar" postgraduate
research scholarship. - Jan 2004
2003
- Updated Spam
Act page links include the Bills, Senate Commitee
report and submissions, recent international spam
law developments and news reports. -
15 December
- CLE
conferences on e-Contracts, Spam, Digital
Intellectual Property and Privacy.
An accredited postgrad
course also
covered these topics. - 4 and 5 December
- New
articles: Graham Greenleaf and Nigel Waters, "NSW
to scrap Privacy Commissioner, reduce privacy protection";
and Graham Greenleaf, "APEC
privacy principles: More Lite with every version". -
11 November
- Postgraduate Research Associate Marie-Ange
Peslages wins the 2004 "NewSouth Global
Scholar" UNSW postgraduate research scholarship. -
29 Oct 2003
- LawTechTalk
on Patenting
human gene sequence information, 29 October, UNSW.
- Updated
events: new LawTechTalk, four e-Business, IP
and privacy CLE conferences, and a related postgrad
course. -
24 September
- Asia-Pacific
Privacy Charter Council met at UNSW to work on
draft Charter; members attended APEC discussions.-
12 & 13 September
- Selected papers for
our "Terrorists
and Watchdogs: Surveillance and Privacy 2003" Conference
available. -
8 & 9 September.
- With
co-hosts the Office of the Federal Privacy Commissioner,
a joint Privacy
Film evening held at Valhalla Cinema. -
7 September
- Digital
Agenda Revisited, a joint symposium with Phillips
Fox to review digital copyright law. See recent issues
papers. - 21 August
- LawTechTalk:
challenging arguments for role
for public domain in copyright, Prof Hugh Hansen,
Fordham U, UNSW. - 20 August.
- LawTechTalk: "Access
regimes for software development - Copyright and
Open Source from a customer's perspective", slides Brendan
Scott. - 6 August.
- Media
release for "Legal
Challenges of Cyber-medicine" conference,
Sydney. - 31 July 2003
- LawTechTalk: "FreeNet,
the 'savage PET': Anonymous, uncensorable publication
and the limits of legality" Russell Allen. -
May 7 2003
- Slides, report of
LawTechTalk: Identification
Schemes as a Response to the "Terrorist" Threat, Prof
Andrew Clement. - April 2003
- Senator
Alston announces
NOIE final
Spam report and IIA announces spam
initiative. See also our spam
project. - April 2003
- Joint
NSW Society for Computers
and Law presentation
by Jason Catlett,
'How
laws against unwanted direct marketing work and don't
work', . - 9 April 2003.
-
Presentation
LawTechTalk: 'Consumer
rights and wrongs in electronic payments' Alan Tyree.
- 9 April 2003
- Essay
topics available for Cyberlaw 2031. -
April 2003
- Course
notes for Cyberspace Law GENL2031
are online. - March 2003
- Research
associate Roger
Clarke appointed as Visiting Professor at UNSW Law.
- Feb 2003
2002
2001
2000
- CyberLPC office opened in Room 1215,
Mathews Building, UNSW (14 August 2000)
- Nick
Ellsmore appointed Centre co-ordinator for session 2,
2000. (31 July 2000)
- Cyberspace
Law and Policy Centre established by UNSW Academic Board
(July 2000)
- IPR
Systems Pty Ltd provides $5,000 seed funding to CyberLPC [at] UNSW
(July 2000)
- Cyberspace
Law and Policy Centre proposal approved by UNSW
Faculty of Law (March 2000)
- Visit
by researchers from the Norwegian Research Center for
Computers & Law (NRCCL) (February 2000)
- Proposal
to establish Cyberspace Law & Policy Centre put forward
by Graham Greenleaf for consideration by UNSW Faculty
of Law (January 2000)
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