Keynote Presenter: Brian Fritzgerald <bfitzger@scu.edu.au>
Keynote Title: Law and the World Wide Web
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A mosiac of laws regulating activities facilitated by the Web have emerged in recent years in the wake of E Commerce. With each new day we are askedto consider more and more legal issues relating to areas such as privacy, intellectual property, jurisdiction to litigate, security of transactions, defamation, and objectionable content. As citizens, business managers, students, consumers, recreationalists and others we are led to ask such things as: Can I copy material from the Web? What can I display on the Web? Can I register any domain name? When and where can I sue someone who I do business with on the Web? What business models does the law permit? And more deeply and fundamentally what is the role and destination of law in the digital environment of the Web?
This keynote paper will engage with these questions looking at specific examples across a broad range of issues.
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Presenters Bio: Brian Fitzgerald is Associate Professor and Head of the School of Law and Justice at Southern Cross University. He graduated in law from QUT and holds postgraduate qualifications in law from both Harvard University and Oxford University. His teaching and research interests are in the areas of law and the internet (cyberlaw), constitutional law, international law and restitution. In 1997, he was a Visiting Professor at Marquette Law School in Wisconsin (USA) where he taught Cyberlaw. In October 1997 he delivered a keynote address to the Australasian Law Teachers Assocation Conference in Sydney titled: "Navigating Cyberspace: Frontier Land or Legal Minefield" forthcoming (1999) 3 Southern Cross University Law Review. During 1998-9 he has been heavily involved in developing systems for the on line delivery of legal education at Southern Cross University Law School. In October 1999 he delivered the Seventh Annual Tenzer Lecture titled "Software as Discourse: The Power of Intellectual Property in Digital Architecture" at Cardozo Law School, Yeshiva University New York. He was centrally involved in devising and presenting the Going Digital seminar series in Brisbane, Melbourne and Hobart in 1997 and 1998 and is a co-editor of and contributor to the cyberlaw book titled of Going Digital 2000: Legal Issues for E Commerce, Software and the Internet published by Prospect Media in February 2000.
A Fitzgerald, B Fitzgerald, C Cifuentes, P Cook Going Digital 2000: Legal Issues for E Commerce Software and the Internet (2000, Prospect Publishing, Sydney) - www.propsectmedia.com.au
For more information on this book see:
http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/lawj/cyberlaw
http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/lawj/digital/
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