[Air-l] Fwd: CFP - Blogging colloquium

[Dan L Burk]

Of possible interest.  DLB


> Boston University
> Journal of Science and Technology Law
> 
> CALL FOR PAPERS
> 
> Personal Presses? The Legal Realities Behind the Blogging Revolution
> 
> A Colloquium on Blogging
> 
> February 11, 2006
> 
> "Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of
> the press..."
> 
> Boston University Journal of Science and Technology Law announces a
> Colloquium, to be held February 11, 2006, to consider the legal
> complexities facing the growing blogging community.  Our goal is to
> collect a body of scholarship on the legal issues bloggers face in order
> to provide courts with some guidance as cases are litigated in these
> areas. We therefore welcome submissions from a broad and diverse range
> of voices and research areas: practitioners, judges, activists, and
> academics.
> 
> Some questions to consider:
> ? Are bloggers journalists? If so, what liabilities and privileges do
> they have?
> ? How do intellectual property laws affect what bloggers can or cannot=20
> post?
> ? What are the ethical issues bloggers need to consider?
> ? Can bloggers be fired for blogging?
> ? How does the First Amendment apply to blogging?
> ? How do jurisdictional boundaries, international and domestic, affect
> the legal issues potentially raised by blogging?
> ? How do any of these issues change with the introduction of
> syndication, inline advertisements or tip jars, podcasting, or multiple
> authors on a single blog?
> 
> Paper proposals should include an abstract of no more than 1200 words,
> as well as the author's curriculum vitae. Please send proposals via
> e-mail in Word document format to jstl at bu.edu by September 10, 2005.
> Your subject line should read: Colloquium Paper Proposal: [Title]. The
> Journal will announce its decisions by October 1, 2005. Papers from the
> Colloquium will be published in Volume 12 of the Boston University
> Journal of Science and Technology Law.
> 
> 
> 
> 
Dan L. Burk
Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly Professor
University of Minnesota Law School
229 19th Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA
***************************************
Voice: 612-626-8726
Fax: 612-625-2011