First International Mobile IPR Workshop

Rights Management of Information Products on the Mobile Internet


Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT

August Wednesday 27 - Thursday 28, 2003

Helsinki, Finland

http://www.hiit.fi/de/mobileipr/workshop/



MobileIPR Workshop welcomes papers on all aspects of rights management

related to information products such as music, electronic books, videos,

multimedia, games, or software distributed on the Mobile Internet

commercially or otherwise.The relevant topics include, but are not limited to:



· Digital rights management (DRM) and technical tools to protect and

manage rights, e.g. cryptographic systems, watermarking, rights

expression languages, and rights management databases.



· Intellectual property rights (IPR) copyright, database right, patent,

and trademark.



· Privacy in relation to rights management, including protection of

confidential information.



· Contracts, especially open source licensing models in software and

content production.



· Societal and policy issues, including the effect of non-governmental

organizations and citizens activism.



· Control of information products - economic and ethical rationales to.



· Business models related to rights management.



· User-contributed content and rights management.



· Rights management in peer-to-peer, superdistribution, and other new

distribution models.



· Related enabling technologies and their impact on digital rights

management.



We welcome both full and short (experience) papers as well as extended

abstracts that address different aspects of rights management.

Submission guidelines will be found in

http://www.hiit.fi/de/mobileipr/workshop/submissio n.html



WORKSHOP

The workshop will be organized on August 27-28 in Helsinki, Finland.



Professor Hal Varian (the School of Information Management & Systems,

SIMS, University of California, Berkeley) has kindly promised to give a

keynote speech.



We are also expecting a number of other excellent presentations.

The evening program on August 27 will provide the participants with the

networking and socializing possibilities.



IMPORTANT DATES

Submission date: April 25, 2003

Author notification: June 9, 2003

Final version due: June 28, 2003



ABOUT HELSINKI INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY HIIT

Helsinki Institute for Information Technology (HIIT), founded in 1999,

is a joint research institute of the University of Helsinki and the

Helsinki University of Technology.

HIIT conducts internationally high-level strategic research in

information technology. It works in close co-operation with universities

and industry, aiming to improve the contents, visibility, and impact of

ICT research to benefit the ICT industry and the development of the

information society.



CONTACT INFORMATION

E-mail: mobileipr-workshop@hiit.fi

Address : MobileIPR, HIIT, P.O.Box 9800, 0215 HUT, Finland

www-pages: http://www.hiit.fi/de/mobileipr/workshop/