Conference and Publishing Opportunity for Bloggers
Boston University's Journal of Science and Technology Law has issued a CALL FOR PAPERS for "Personal Presses – The Legal Realities Behind the Blogging Revolution, A Colloquium on Blogging" to be held February 11, 2006, "to consider the legal complexities facing the growing blogging community." Their 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. [They] therefore welcome submissions from a broad and diverse range of voices and research areas: practitioners, judges, activists, and academics."
From the CFP:
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 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@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.