The Virtual Policy Network's 2010 Digital Interactive Symposium Edinburgh, focusing on the intersection of law, computer games & traditional media, is taking place on August 27th at Edinburgh University.

Through the kind support of the University of Edinburgh School of Law’s SCRIPT technology and law research center, tickets for this year’s symposia are free. Places can be booked at http://www.virtualpolicy.net/dise10.

The Virtual Policy Network’s bring together academics, industry and policy makers to explore public policy and convergent media: computer games, virtual worlds, social networking, location based services and augmented reality. As with previous years, DIS:E is back-to-back with Edinburgh Interactive to make it easy for industry delegates to attend both events.

Now in its third year, the 2010 DIS:E will focus on the intersection of law, computer games and traditional media.

Themes of the 2010 Digital Interactive Symposium: Edinburgh will include:

• Consumer protection and the rise of Virtual Property
• In game advertising and UK Advertising Standards
• Gamers and “Real Identity”
• Network Neutrality and on-line games

DIS:E 10 boasts and impressive collection of international legal experts including:

• Professor Peter Yu (Kern Family Chair in Intellectual Property Law, Director, Intellectual Property Law Center, Drake University Law School)
• Assistant Professor Melissa de Zwart (University of South Australia)
• Dr Nic Suzor (Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia and visiting researcher at Georgetown University Law Centre)
• Additionally, from the University of Edinburgh: Dr Abbe Brown and Andrés Guadamuz (Co-Director: SCRIPT Law and Technology Centre).

Notes for Editors

About DIS:E-

Digital Interactive Symposium: Edinburgh (DIS:E) is co-produced by the Virtual Policy Network (www.virtualpolicy.net) and the University of Edinburgh.

Previous symposia included speakers from Ofcom, IBM, Field Fisher Waterhouse and he Universities of Edinburgh, Abertay, Newport, Manchester and Teeside and attendees from Nintendo UK, Linden Lab and a number of academic institutions.

About the Virtual Policy Network-

the Virtual Policy Network (tVPN: www.virtualpolicy.net) is a think tank dedicated to exploring the public policy implications of virtual worlds. The purpose of the think tank is to generate an informed public policy debate about virtual worlds by bringing together policy makers, academics and the virtual world industry.

About SCRIPT-

SCRIPT (the Shepherd and Wedderburn Centre for Research in Intellectual Property and Technology) was established at the University of Edinburgh in 1998 as a centre of excellence in the disciplines of intellectual property law (IP) and information technology law (IT). SCRIPT is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and published n online journal SCRIPT-ed, further details can be found at http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/ahrc/index.aspx