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Call for Papers
5th International Workshop for Technical, Economic and Legal Aspects
of Business Models for Virtual Goods
incorporating the 3rd International ODRL Workshop
Oct 11 - 13 2007 in Koblenz, Germany.
http://www.VirtualGoods.org
Virtual Goods 2007 is organized by the GI Working Group E-Commerce and in parallel with IFIP Working Group 6.11 Communication Systems in Electronic Commerce.
What it is about
With the rise of new digital music portals, the development
of copyright laws world-wide and the increasing success of
alternative models, the discussion on digital rights management
is even more intense than ever before. Digital content, e.g.,
MP3 music, flash films, or electronic books, is coming up more
and more in the Internet, and doubts that technical protection
alone will suffice are increasing. Existing technical approaches
to digital rights protection are proprietary and mutual
incompatible, they establish closed user groups. Moreover,
they overestimate the technical chances to transfer usage
rules of physical goods to the digital world by control of
end-user devices.
Any business model of virtual goods must include not only
the virtual objects and their technical control functions,
but also the human actors and their personal and economic
interest. What is needed is a simple and safe technololgy
which supports a balance of interests between creators,
providers and consumers of digital goods. Current technology
does not give satsifactory answers.
The goal of this conference is to bring together experts
from scientific and practical fields, researchers from different
disciplines, developers, and users interested in electronic
commerce of virtual goods. We will assess current methodologies
and bring forward new research directions.
We expressly welcome research contributions from different
fields, including computer sciences, economics, business,
law, human sciences and other relevant disciplines.
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)
Paper Submission Guidelines
Submit your paper to:
grimm(at)uni-koblenz.de and/or
hass(at)uni-koblenz.de
Conference Proceedings and Publishing in the Web
Accepted papers will be printed in a Conference Proceedings Volume
published by Nova Science Publishers, Inc., Hauppauge, New York, USA.
https://www.novapublishers.com/catalog/
(Contract in process)
Abstracts and slides of presentation will be published in the Web
at http://www.virtualgoods.org
Technical Commitee
Rüdiger Grimm
IT Risk management
University Koblenz-Landau
grimm(at)uni-koblenz.de
Berthold Hass
New Media
University Koblenz-Landau
hass(at)uni-koblenz.de
Jürgen Nützel
Computer Science - Digital Rights Management
4FriendsOnly.com Internet Technologies AG, Ilmenau
jn(at)4fo.de
Keynote Speakers
Dr. Susanne Guth
Technical Lead Music/DRM, o2 Germany, Munich
Prof. Dr. Karlheinz Brandenburg
Director,
Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology, Ilmenau
Program Committee
Borka J. Blazic, University and Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, SLO
Nathaniel Borenstein, IBM Lotus Division, Ann Arbor MI, USA
Karlheinz Brandenburg, Technical University Ilmenau, DE
Wojciech Cellary, The Poznan University of Economics, PL
Jana Dittmann, Uni Magdeburg, DE
Ed Gerck, Safevote Inc., San Rafael, CA, USA
Ruediger Grimm, University of Koblenz, DE (chair)
Susanne Guth, o2 Germany, Munich, DE (esp. ODRL Initiative)
Berthold Hass, University in Koblenz, DE (chair)
Thomas Hess, University Munich, DE
Renato Iannella, National ICT Australia (NICTA), AU (esp. ODRL)
Peter Kropf, Université de Montréal, CAN
Deepa Kundur, Texas A&M University, USA
Paolo Nesi, University of Florence, IT
Kia Ng, University Leeds, UK
Juergen Nuetzel, 4FriendsOnly.com AG, Ilmenau, DE (chair)
Günther Pernul, Uni Regensburg, DE
Einar Stefferud, Internet Visionary, USA
Frank Stoll, UBS, Zürich, CH
Herwig Unger, Fernuniversitaet Hagen, DE
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Important Dates
Extended to June 10, 2007 |
Full papers submitted |
July 15, 2007 |
Notification of acceptance |
September 1, 2007 |
Deadline for registration |
September 1, 2007 |
Print-ready papers due |
October 1, 2007 |
Web-ready presentations due |
October 11 - 13, 2007 |
Workshop in Koblenz |
Text only:
http://virtualgoods.tu-ilmenau.de/2007/VG2007_CfP.txt
PDF version:
http://virtualgoods.tu-ilmenau.de/2007/VG2007_CfP.pdf
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