
13 August 2007, 1:50pm
5th International Workshop for Technical, Economic and Legal Aspects of Business Models for Virtual Goods
11-13 October 2007
Koblenz, Germany
http://www.VirtualGoods.org
Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to, the following aspects:
- Digital rights management
- Technical solutions, user acceptance, copyright restrictions for DRM
- ODRL Rights Expression Language
- Fraud management
- New business models and solution architectures
- Peer-to-Peer systems
- Virtual goods services such as payment and delivery
- The economic role and perspective of the actors
- The economic/cultural/legal impact on the society
- Security and privacy
- Content protection (watermarking, encryption, signatures)
For the program, please visit: http://virtualgoods.tu-ilmenau.de/2007/program.html
News item alert provided by Kate Lance, GSDI Association Legal & Economic Working Group
Source: GSDI-legal-econ List or SDI-Europe List
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