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I’m in Edinburgh to present at DIS:E run by Ren Reynolds and Andrés Guadamuz.

My talk is on, predictably enough, the rule of law and legitimacy in virtual community governance. Particularly, I want to focus on two main ways that we can look at things differently: looking at the limits of contract rather than only the contractual terms themselves; and looking at procedural legitimacy rather than substantive rights. My slides are here in PDF.

I have arrived in Washington DC, where I’ll be a visiting researcher at Georgetown University Law Center for the 2010 / 11 academic year.

My main project over this time is to write my book on the governance of virtual communities. I’ll also be working on some new material on graduated response schemes in IP and also on open licensing.

If you’re in the area, or know of any great events I should get to, please let me know.