ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation (CCi) and the Queensland University of Technology Faculty of Law invite you to Government 2.0 -Theory and Practice.

The 2007 World Intellectual Property Organization Development Agenda instituted an evaluation process at the UN agency, and now WIPO is seeking best practices for evaluating the impact of intellectual property rights on development. The WIPO Evaluation Section has issued a call for papers for a seminar to be held in October.

I attended yesterday a conference that was held in Bather’s Pavilion, Balmoral Sydney on future directions in copyright law.

The team at ccAustralia and the Editorial Board and team at PLATFORM: Journal of Media and Communication are very pleased to announce the publication of the “Yes, we are open!” special edition issue.

As some try to release Lebanon’s government from the clutches of political paralysis so it can start tackling economic policy, a small but mighty group of advocates say the solution to many of the country’s economic and social woes lies in free technologies.

Peter Lang has published a book entitled Nexus: New Intersections in Internet Research. The book is a collection of research papers written by attendees of the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) Summer Doctoral Program 2009 that was held in Brisbane, Australia.

CCI and the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law, Munich are holding a workshop on 13-14 December in Sydney, Australia on IP law in Southeast Asia.

Zone Books has published a new book on A2K and intellectual property. This is the first comprehensive book I have seen on A2K with many well- known international contributors.

I attended for three days in Melbourne the CCI Symposium. CCI is a leading forum on Creativity and Innovation in Australia. In 2010, the Australian Research Council has approved funding for their second stage of research. I gave a presentation with research colleagues about the role of copyright in enhancing creativity in the Arab world.

The Saudi Cabinet approved on March 2007 a regulation for compacting information system crimes. The law is made of 16 articles and is the first that deals with cyber crimes.…