The Fourth IASTED International Conference on
Law and Technology
~LawTech 2006~

October 9 – 11, 2006
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Owning Avatars: Legal Control of Human and Non-Human Data Representations

Prof. Dan L. Burk
Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly Professor of Law
University of Minnesota, USA

Biography of the Keynote Speaker

Keynote Speaker Portrait

Professor Dan L. Burk is an internationally prominent authority on the law of intellectual property, who specializes in the areas of cyberlaw and biotechnology. After visiting the University of Minnesota during the 1999–2000 academic year, Professor Burk joined the Law School faculty in the Fall of 2000 as Professor of Law and Vance K. Opperman Research Scholar. During 2001–2002, he held the Julius Davis Chair in Law. He currently holds the Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly Professorship in Law.