SCRIPT-ed December 2006

The latest issue of SCRIPT-ed is now online. In this issue:

Editorial:

• Alastair Kent, "Patients and IP – Should we care?"
  

Special Issue on Privacy:

• Lilian Edwards, "Introduction to the Special Issue"
• When personal data, behavior and virtual identities become a commodity: Would a property rights approach matter?, Corien Prins
• Andreas Busch, "From Safe Harbour to the Rough Sea? Privacy Disputes across the Atlantic"
• Judith Rauhofer, "Just because you’re paranoid, doesn’t mean they’re not after you: Legislative developments in relation to the mandatory retention of communications data in the European Union"
• Caroline B Ncube, "Watching the watcher: recent developments in privacy regulation and cyber-surveillance in South Africa"
• Ralf Bendrath and Rikke Frank Jørgensen, "The World Summit on the Information Society – privacy not found?"
• Miranda Mowbray, "Implementing Pseudonymity"
• Andrea M. Matwyshyn, "Penetrating the Zombie Collective: Spam as an International Security Issue"
• Philip Leith, "Squeezing Information out of the Information Commissioner: Mapping and measuring through online public registers"
  

Peer-reviewed articles:

• Philip Ruthen, "Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) - The imposition of ‘truth’?"
• Aurelio Lopez-Tarruella Martinez, "Licences for Use of Digital Works: The Difficult Balance Between Right-holders and Users"
  

Analysis:

• Ana María Delgado García & Rafael Oliver Cuello, "The Spanish Tax Administration and the Internet".
• Nicolas Jondet, "La France v. Apple: who’s the dadvsi in DRMs?"
  

Book Reviews:

• Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software, Joseph Feller et al (editors). Reviewed by Andres Guadamuz
• Copyright and Other Fairytales, Helle Porsdam (editor). Reviewed by Maureen O'Sullivan
• Xenotransplantation: Law and Ethics, Sheila A. M. McLean and Laura Williamson. Reviewed by Jessica Wright.