{"id":23,"date":"2013-09-17T23:37:28","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T23:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filos-europe.com\/CIPPM\/?p=23"},"modified":"2025-01-02T16:30:58","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T16:30:58","slug":"cippmbu-law-hosts-8th-gikii-conference-and-receives-a-write-up-about-it-in-the-new-scientist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/2013\/09\/17\/cippmbu-law-hosts-8th-gikii-conference-and-receives-a-write-up-about-it-in-the-new-scientist\/","title":{"rendered":"CIPPM\/BU Law hosts 8th GikII Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/\">Centre for Intellectual Property Policy and Management (CIPPM)<\/a>\u00a0together with the Law Department was delighted to host the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gikii.org\/previous-events\/2013-bournemouth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">8th GikII Conference<\/a> which was held on 16-17 September 2013. The conference was chaired by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/staffprofiles.bournemouth.ac.uk\/display\/dmendis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr. Dinusha Mendis, Co-Director CIPPM<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.strath.ac.uk\/humanities\/courses\/law\/staff\/edwardslilianprof\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Professor Lilian Edwards, Deputy Director CREATe<\/a>, University of Glasgow and Professor of Internet Law at University of Strathclyde.<\/p>\n<p>The conference has previously been hosted at the Universities of Edinburgh, Oxford, Amsterdam, London, G\u00f6thenborg and East Anglia. This year&#8217;s conference dubbed the &#8216;beach edition&#8217; did not fail to live up to its name &#8211; GikII. Invited speakers presented papers focusing on present and future issues in the field of law and technology. The papers included a consideration of the legal issues surrounding rights of robots, cyber security, 3D printing, privacy, genetic testing, autonomous cars, algorithms, fan fiction and a lot more. Full details of the programme can be found\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/business.bournemouth.ac.uk\/downloads\/gikii-seaside-programme.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A write-up about the conference was published in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg21929340.900-future-law-can-you-be-slandered-by-a-robot.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New Scientist<\/a>\u00a0on 16 September 2013 which further raised the profile of this hugely popular event in the field of law and technology. The article authored by Richard Fisher of the New Scientist and titled\u00a0<em>&#8216;Future Law: Can you be slandered by a robot?&#8217;<\/em>opened up with the statement that &#8220;in a world awash with robots, teleports and self-driving cars, you are going to need a good lawyer&#8221;!<\/p>\n<p>A glimpse into the discussion which took place over the two days was captured on twitter and published on Storify.\u00a0 The discussion which took place on Day 1 can be found\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/storify.com\/cippm\/gikii-2013-16-september-2013-day-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>\u00a0and the discussion on Day 2 can be accessed\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/storify.com\/cippm\/gikii-2013-17-september-2013-day-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A short video about the conference as explained by the Co- organisers Dr. Dinusha Mendis and Professor Lilian Edwards can be accessed\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BuEmMa9Y0DE&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Centre for Intellectual Property Policy and Management (CIPPM)\u00a0together with the Law Department was delighted to host the\u00a08th GikII Conference which was held on 16-17 September 2013. The conference was chaired by\u00a0Dr. Dinusha Mendis, Co-Director CIPPM\u00a0and\u00a0Professor Lilian Edwards, Deputy Director CREATe, University of Glasgow and Professor of Internet Law at University of Strathclyde. The conference has&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/2013\/09\/17\/cippmbu-law-hosts-8th-gikii-conference-and-receives-a-write-up-about-it-in-the-new-scientist\/\">Read more &raquo;<span class=\"sr-only\"> about CIPPM\/BU Law hosts 8th GikII Conference<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":187,"featured_media":1337,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[17,22],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-emergent-technologies","category-uncategorized","tag-events","tag-past"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/187"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7976,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/7976"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}