Professor Perry was jointly appointed to the Faculty of Law and the Department of Computer Science, in 1999, following seven years at the University of Auckland Faculty of Law. Professor Perry’s legal research remains focused on the intersection of law and technology, with particular emphasis on Open Innovation, intellectual property rights, software licensing, and the blossoming field of biotechnology law. Being jointly appointed, Professor Perry has to address platforms in both Law and Computer Science, and in the last year prelected audiences from these disciplines in India, Australia, Brasil and New Zealand. In addition to papers published in Germany, United Kingdom, New Zealand and the United States, he was a regular commentator for television, radio and the newspapers in his areas of research. He is currently Associate Dean, Research, Graduate Studies, & Operations at the Faculty of Law.
Computer Science
From Music Tracks to Google Maps: Who Owns Computer-generated Works? (with Thomas Margoni), Computer Law & Security Review (2010)
Increasingly the digital content used in everyday life has little or no human intervention in...
The Protection of Rights Management Information: Modernization or Cup Half Full?, From "Radical Extremism" to "Balanced Copyright": Canadian Copyright and the Digital Agenda (2010)
Many papers in this collection discuss the history and development of Bill C-32, An Act...
A Framework for Automatic SLA Creation (with Halina Kaminski), Computer Science Faculty Publications (2008)
Negotiation is fundamental to business. Increased automation of business to business or business to customer...
An Ontology for Autonomic License Management (with Qian Zhao), Computer Science Faculty Publications (2008)
The license agreement can be seen as the knowledge source for a license management system....
Agent Design of SmArt License Management System Using Gaia Methodology (with Qian Zhao and Yu Zhou), Computer Science Faculty Publications (2007)
Modern software services and data centers require a license management system to regulate the agreements...
Law
From Music Tracks to Google Maps: Who Owns Computer-generated Works? (with Thomas Margoni), Computer Law & Security Review (2010)
Increasingly the digital content used in everyday life has little or no human intervention in...
The Protection of Rights Management Information: Modernization or Cup Half Full?, From "Radical Extremism" to "Balanced Copyright": Canadian Copyright and the Digital Agenda (2010)
Many papers in this collection discuss the history and development of Bill C-32, An Act...
From Pasteur to Monsanto: Approaches to Patenting Life in Canada, Law Faculty Publications (2008)
Over the last decade there has been diverse reaction to the patentability of lifeforms in...
Performance Rights for Software (with Stephen M. Watt), Law Faculty Publications (2006)
As we use software in increasingly varied contexts, the concept of a software license has...