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Subject: [legalxml-econtracts] FYI: Virtual Goods Conference
Dear Fellow eCommerce Enthusiasts: I encourage members of this list to consider submitting a paper for presentation at the International Workshop for Technology, Economy, Social and Legal Aspects of Virtual Goods, to be held May 22 - 24 2003 in Ilmenau, Germany. The web site for this conference is available at: http://virtualgoods.tu-ilmenau.de/2003/ As a member of the Program Committee, I'd really like to see some of the perspectives voiced in this group represented at the conference. Please pass forward the call for papers (text below "signature" line). Thank you, - Daniel Greenwood ============================================== | Daniel J. Greenwood, Esq. | Director, E-Commerce Architecture Program | MIT School of Architecture and Planning | 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Room 7-231 | Cambridge, MA 02139 | http://ecitizen.mit.edu | or http://www.civics.com | dang@mit.edu ============================================== Call for Papers International Workshop for Technology, Economy, Social and Legal Aspects of Virtual Goods, May 22 - 24 2003 in Ilmenau, Germany. http://VirtualGoods.tu-ilmenau.de Sponsorship by the GI Working Group ECOM Sponsorship by IFIP Working Group 6.11 Communication Systems in Electronic Commerce What it is about: The protection of intellectual property rights (IPR) in the Internet is difficult, because it is simple and cheap to copy, transfer and consume digital content, e.g., MP3 music, Flash films, or electronic articles. Napster (meanwhile out of market after domination by BMG with no success), Gnutella and Freenet demonstrate how easy the Internet can be used to circumvent the authorized content providers. There are even future scenarios where no high-level music products will exist any more. Exisiting approaches to solve the problem are proprietary and mutual incompatible, they establish small closed user groups. Moreover, they haven´t overcome a fundamental conflict between content providers and consumers. Content providers try to restrict the usage of their products by their customers in order to prevent unlicensed distribution. On the other hand, customers ignore these restrictions and share files for free. Content providers and customers treat one another as enemies with conflicting interests. Current technology does not give satsifactory answers. We are convinced that any business model of virtual goods must include not only the virtual objects, but also the human actors and their personal and economic interest. The goal of this conference is to bring together experts from scientific and practical fields, researchers from different disciplines, developers, and users all interested in electronic commerce of virtual goods and to assess current methodologies and to bring forward new research directions. We expressly welcome research contributions from different fields, including computer sciences, economics, business, law, human sciences and other relevant disciplines. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to, the following aspects: Digital rights management Peer-to-Peer systems Payment for virtual goods New business models for virtual goods Solution architectures Legal aspects Inter-cultural aspects Security and privacy Content protection Watermarking Cryptographic mechanisms Virtual phenomena, e.g., presence, id, storage... Semantic content, e.g. recognition, plagiarism, identification ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Paper Submission Guidelines Papers should be in Portable Document Format (.pdf). Papers should be written in English and typed in at least 1-1/2 line spacing in a font no smaller than 11-point. All material on each page must be printable within a rectangle of 18 x 23.5 cm (7" x 9.25") in a single column format. The total number of pages should not exceed 12 pages. The cover page or first page of each paper should include: title link to http://VirtualGoods.tu-ilmenau.de/2003/name_of_paper.pdf author name(s) affiliation(s) and e-mail address(es) abstract Personal vitae of the author(s) can be attached at the end of the paper as an option. All paper submissions need to be sent to juergen.nuetzel@tu-ilmenau.de. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Publishing in the Web Accepted papers will published exclusively in Web. The papers will be found under the following address http://VirtualGoods.tu-ilmenau.de/2003/name_of_paper.pdf. The cover page or first page of each paper should include this link. The copyright remains with the authors without restriction. However, for any other publication a reference (link) to Virtual Goods Workshop is required. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Technical Commitee General chair: Rüdiger Grimm Multimedia Applications Technical University Ilmenau ruediger.grimm@tu-ilmenau.de Program chair: Jürgen Nützel Computer Architectures Technical University Ilmenau juergen.nuetzel@tu-ilmenau.de Local chair: Thomas Böhme Institute of Mathematics Technical University Ilmenau thomas.boehme@mathematik.tu-ilmenau.de ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Program Committee Juergen Nuetzel, Technical University Ilmenau, DE (chair) Nathaniel Borenstein, IBM Lotus Division, Ann Arbor MI, USA Borka J. Blazic, University and Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, SLO Karlheinz Brandenburg, Technical University Ilmenau, DE David W Chadwick, University of Salford, Manchester, UK Ee-Chien Chang, National University of Singapore, SG Jana Dittmann, Uni Magdeburg, DE Sandro Etalle, University of Twente, NL Ed Gerck, Safevote Inc., San Rafael, CA, USA Daniel J. Greenwood, MIT, Boston MA, USA Paul Judge, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Peter Kropf, Université de Montréal, CAN Dirk Kuhlmann, Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK Deepa Kundur, University of Toronto, CAN Ulrike Lechner, Uni Bremen, DE Paolo Nesi, University of Florence, IT Günther Pernul, Uni Regensburg, DE Ted Selker, MIT, Boston, MA, USA Einar Stefferud, Internet Visionary, Huntington Beach, CA, USA Frank Stoll, UBS, Zürich, CH Volker Tschammer, Fraunhofer Fokus and Chairman of IFIP WG 6.11, Berlin, DE Herwig Unger, Uni Rostock, DE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Important Dates March 1, 2003 Full papers submitted April 5, 2003 Notification of acceptance April 20, 2003 Deadline for registration May 1, 2003 Web-ready papers due May 1, 2003 Deadline for payment May 22 - 24, 2003 Workshop in Ilmenau
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