Iain G Mitchell QC to speak at Conference on Internet, Economics & Society

Venue

Mackenzie Building, Old Assembly Close, 172 High Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1QX

Date

13 Jun 2011

Time

1:30 pm to 6:00 pm

Iain G Mitchell QC to speak at Conference on Internet, Economics and Society

Murray Stable member, Iain G. Mitchell QC FRSA, is to speak at a prestigious conference on the Internet, Economics and Society organised by the Royal Society of Arts Fellows’ Media, Creative Industries, Culture & Heritage Network in conjunction with the Scottish Society for Computers & Law and the Scottish Economic Society, to be held in the MacKenzie Building of the Faculty of Advocates on Monday 13th June, 2011.

The conference, to be chaired by RSA Chief Executive Matthew Taylor, will look at the complex ways in which society is being shaped and changed by the Internet.

Commenting on the issues which he hopes to cover, Mr. Mitchell said:

"Information wants to be free because it has become so cheap to distribute, copy, and recombine and yet it wants to be expensive because it can be immeasurably valuable to its owner. That tension has been there throughout history, but has become even more pronounced with the increased connectivity which comes with the Internet.

"I intend to look at the ways in which this information tension has shaped and is continuing to shape our society, and how seemingly abstract concerns over concepts such as Intellectual Property and privacy rights have profound things to say about the changing nature of business models, the digital economy, the rule of law and society itself. In doing this, I hope to draw on the work which I did in helping draft the Report "The Internet - in whose image?" which was approved last month by the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland."

Further details of the conference and registration forms are available by emailing apmcich@btinternet.com