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.

Awards and Recognition

• Member of the Canada Research Chairs College of Reviewers 2001-Present
• Faculty Fellow, IBM Centre for Advanced Studies 2003-Present
• Tremayne-Lloyd Faculty Fellow 2006-2008
• Bar of Law Society of Upper Canada (Ontario) 2003-Present
• Law Commission of Ontario Research Advisory Board 2007-2008
• Visiting Fellow, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane 2005-2006
• Fellow of International Academy, Research, and Industry Association 2009-Present

Research Interests

• Autonomic Computing
• Service Level Agreements
• Patterns
• I am also interested in pursuing the nexus of law and computer science in areas such as:
• The interrelationship between law, policy and new technologies. Should the state regulate online commerce?
• How can consumer protection be addressed for security and privacy?
• How can micro-transactions (such as Millicent) and electronic cash technologies be regulated?
• Rights and obligations of those who create, gather and control information in the 21st century.
• Are intellectual property laws adequate to protect the new forms of publication?
• Are databases within the scope of original works for the purposes of copyright?
• How are the competing rights of the owner of a medium to be balanced with the owner of the intellectual property rights stored on that medium?
• The use of the paradigm of 'cyberspace'.
• Can there be a multi-jurisdictional court for the Internet to act as an alternative to resolving conflict of law jurisdiction problems for electronic communication based disputes (e.g. usenet defamation)?
• Is the use of online arbitration an alternative to litigation?
• Should disseminators of electronic information be treated as publishers?
• What extent does the client browser determine web functionality?
• Software Agent interactions and security. Cybercrimes
• Enforcement of information trespass to what extent should 'hacking' be criminalized?
• Regulation of transborder transgressions

Publications

Books

Fitzgerald, B. and Perry, M. (eds and chapters) Knowledge Policy for the 21st Century: Legal Perspectives ( Irwin Law, 2012).	Fitzgerald, B., Perry, M. et al. Creating a Legal Framework for copyright Management of Open Access Within the Australian Academic and Research Sector. Sydney: Sydney University Press, 2006.

Chapters in Books

• Perry, M., "Towards Legal Protection for Digital Rights Management in India: Necessity or Burden?" in Relevance of IPR: Status And Prospects (2011) S. Dominic Keating, Abha Agnihotri and Ajit Varma New Delhi, India: IK International 2011 (in Press).
• Perry, M. "Accessing Accessions, Biobanks and Benefit-Sharing" in The Governance of Research Biobanks Eds. Giovanni Pascuzzi, Umberto Izzo, and Matteo Macilotti, forthcoming 2011 Springer (subject to some edits, peer reviewed).
• Perry, M. "The Protection of Rights Management Information:
• modernization or cup half full?" in From "Radical Extremism" to "Balanced Copyright": Canadian Copyright and the Digital Agenda. Ed. Michael Geist. Toronto: Irwin Law, 2010 (peer reviewed).
• Perry, M. "From Pasteur to Monsanto: Approaches to Patenting Life in Canada." An Emerging Intellectual Property Paradigm. Ed. Ysolde Gendreau. UK: Edward Elgar, 2008 (peer reviewed).
• Kaminiski, H. (G) and Perry, M. "Employing Intelligent Agents to Automate SLA Creations." Emerging Web Services Technology. Eds. Cesare Pautasso and Christoph Bussler. Basel: Birkhäuser, 2007 (peer reviewed).
• Perry, M. "Rights Management Information." In the Public Interest: The Future of Canadian Copyright Law. Ed Michael Geist. Toronto: Irwin, 2005 (peer reviewed).
• Perry, M. "Chapter 30: Information Technology." Electronic Business Law. New Zealand: Butterworths Lexis, rv.10, 2004.
• Crossan, M., Wilkinson, M.A. and Perry, M. (with casewriters Trevor Hunter and Tammy Smith), "Napster, MP3 and the Music Industry." Business case republished in Strategic Management: A Casebook. Eds. M.M. Crossan, J.N. Fry, J.P. Killing, and R.E. White. Toronto: Prentice Hall, 2002, pp. 129-145.
• Perry, M. and Zhang, Q. (G) "SITA: Protecting Internet Trade Agents from Malicious Hosts." Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications. Eds. Samuel Pierre and Roth Glitho. New York: Springer, 2001, pp. 173-184 (peer reviewed).
• Perry, M. "Chapter 30: Information Technology." Electronic Business Law. New Zealand: Butterworths Lexis, 2001, pp. 23001-23023.
• Perry, M. "Domain Names." Transnational Cyberspace Law. Ed. Ibusuki. Tokyo: (in Japanese) Nippon Hyoron Sha, 2000, pp. 79-87.

Some Refereed Research Papers*

• Margoni, T. (P) and Perry, M. "Ownership in Complex Authorship: Joint Works in Italy and the United States of America." [2012] European Intellectual Property Review 34.1.
• Lutfiyya, H., Ramachandran, K. (G) and Perry, M. "Decentralized Approach to Resource Availability Prediction using Group Availability in a Desktop Grid." Future Generation Computer Systems (forthcoming).
• Al-Jazaff, Z. (G), Capretz, M., and Perry, M. "Towards a Unified Trust Framework for Trust Establishment and Trust Based Service Selection." 24th Annual IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (2011) (accepted).
• Al-Jazaff, Z. (G), Capretz, M., and Perry, M. "Trust Metrics for Services and Service Providers." 6th International Conference on Internet Web Applications and Services (2011) (accepted). Acceptance rate: 31%.
• Margoni, T. (P), Perry, M. and Ramachandran, K. (G) "Clarifying Privacy in the Cloud." Cyberlaws: The Second International Conference on Technical and Legal Aspects of the e-Society (2011): pp. 12-17. Acceptance rate: 47%.
• Margoni, T. (P) and Perry, M. "Legal Consequences of Packet Inspection." Cyberlaws: The Second International Conference on Technical and Legal Aspects of the e-Society (2011): pp. 18-21. Acceptance rate: 47%.
• Margoni, T. (P) and Perry, M. "From Music Tracks to Google Maps: Who Owns Computer-Generated Works?" Computer Law and Security Review 26.6 (Nov. 2010): pp. 22-49.
• Perry, M. and Wilkinson, M.A. "University Research and Protection of Confidential Information." Canadian Intellectual Property Review 26 (2010): pp. 92-122.
• Margoni, T. (P) and Perry, M. "Free Libre Open Source Software as a Public Policy Choice: An Inquiry into the Canadian Situation." International Journal on Advances in Internet Technology 3 (2010).
• Al-Jazaff, Z., Capretz, M., and Perry, M. "Online Trust: Definition and Principles." 5th International Multi-conference on Computing in the Global Information Technology (2010): pp. 163-168. Acceptance rate: 30%
• Lutfiyya, H., Ramachandran, K. and Perry, M. "Decentralized Resource Availability Prediction for a Desktop Grid." Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid), 10th IEEE/ACM International Conference (2010): pp. 643-648. Acceptance rate: 23%
• Margoni, T. (P) and Perry, M. "FLOSS for the Canadian Public Sector: Open Democracy." ICDS’ 4th International Conference on Digital Society (2010): pp. 294-300. Acceptance rate: 31%
• Margoni, T. (P) and Perry, M. "Interpreting Network Discrimination in the CRTC and FCC." ICDS’ 4th International Conference on Digital Society (2010): pp. 301-306. Acceptance rate: 31%
• Khalaj, A., Lutfiyya, H. and Perry, M. "The Proxy-based Mobile Grid." Mobileware (2010): pp. 59-69.
• Noorian, L. (G) and Perry, M. "An Autonomic Software License Management System: an Implementation of Licensing Patterns." The 5th International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems (2009): pp. 257-263. Acceptance rate: 29%
• Perry, M. and Zhao, Q. (G) "An Ontology for Autonomic License Management." 5th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (2008): pp. 204-211.
• Kaminski, H. (G) and Perry, M. "Autonomic Creation of Service Level Agreements." IADIS e-Society (2008): pp. 379-386.
• Kaminski, H. (G) and Perry, M. "Another Pattern Language for Open Source Software Licensing." OOPSLA PLOP Workshop (2007).
• Kaminski, H. (G) and Perry, M. "A Pattern Language for Open Source." SugarLoafPLoP (2007).
• Perry, M., Zhao, Q. (G) and Zhou, Y. (G) "Agent Design of SmArt License Management System Using Gaia." Third International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems (ICAS'07) (2007): pp. 9. Acceptance rate: 27%.
• Kaminski, H. (G) and Perry, M. "Using Intelligent Agents in SLA Negotiations." 4th IEEE European Conference on Web Services: Emerging Technologies Workshop (2006).
• Fitzgerald, B. and Perry, M. "FLOSS as Democratic Principle." International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society (2006).
• Kaminski, H. (G) and Perry, M. "Verifiable Electronic Voting System: An Open Source Solution." IASTED Law and Technology Conference (2006).
• Perry, M. and Watt, S. "Software as Performance." IASTED Law and Technology Conference, (2006).
• Kaminski, H. (G), Lutfiyya, H., Madhavji, N., Perry, M. and Sherdil, K. (G) "Differentiating Web Service Offerings." International Conference on Information Society (i-Society) (2006): pp. 80-88.
• Kaminski, H. (G) and Perry, M. "SLA Automated Negotiation Manager for Computing Services.", CEC-EEE '06 Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Conference on E-Commerce Technology and The 3rd IEEE International Conference on Enterprise Computing, E-Commerce, and E-Services (2006): pp.347-350.
• Callan, P. and Perry, M. "Developing Legal Protocols and Practices for Managing Copyright in Electronic Theses." Electronic Theses and Dissertation Conference (2006) (abstract review only).
• Perry, M., Zhao, Q. (G) and Zhou, Y. (G) "Agreement-aware Semantic Management of Services." International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems (ICAS'06) (2006): pp. 4 (abstract) (Best Paper Award).
• Kaminski, H. (G) and Perry, M. "Service Level Agreements Negotiation Manager." OOPSLA '05: Short Presentation (2005).
• Perry, M. "Rights Management Information." In the Public Interest: The Future of Canadian Copyright Law. Ed. Michael Geist. Toronto: Irwin Law 2005.
• Kaminski, H. (G) and Perry, M. "Pattern Language for Software Licensing." Tenth European Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs (EUROPLoP Conference) (2005): pp. 177 - 219.
• Perry, M. and Wilkinson, M.A. "Leveraging Knowledge Assets: Can Law Reform Help?" Canadian Journal of Law and Technology 4.1 (2005): pp. 1-20.
• Bauer, M., Perry, M. and Wang, L. (G) "A Token-Based Software License Protection Framework Using One-Way Hash Functions." World Congress in Applied Computing EEE05 (2005).
• Perry, M., So, C. (G) and Watt, S. "Towards an Accessible Web through Semantic Web Standards." International Conference on Computers for People with Special Needs (CSPN ‘05) (2005): pp. 10-16.
• Kaminski, H. (G), Kari, L. and Perry, M. "Who Counts Your Votes?" IEEE International Conference on e-Technology, e-Commerce and e-Service (EEE05) (2005): pp. 598-603.
• Perry, M., Zhao, Q. (G) and Zhou, Y. (G) "Reasoning Over Ontologies for SLAs." IEEE International Conference on e-Technology, e-Commerce and e-Service (EEE'05) (2005): pp. 381-384.
• Bauer, M. and Perry, M. "Policies, Rules and their Engines: What Do They Mean for SLAs?" proceedings of Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems Conference KES (2004): pp. 1164-1170.
• Perry, M., Zhao, Q. (G) and Zhou, Y. (G) "Delegation Model for Enforcement of On-demand Service Level Agreement." 8th World Multi-Conference On Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, (SCI2004) (2004).
• Perry, M. "Lifeform Patents: the High and the Low." Journal of International Biotechnology Law 1.1 (2004): pp. 20-27.
• Nabbali, T. (U) and Perry, M. "Introducing Carnivore: Going for the Throat with Precision Surveillance." TLF 2.41 (2004) (A version of paper was first published in the Computer Law and Security Report, 20.2, below).
• Nabbali, T. (U) and Perry, M. "Going for the Throat: Carnivore in an Echelon World Part II." Computer Law and Security Report 20.2 (2004): pp. 84-97.
• Perry, M., Zhao, Q. (G). and Zhou, Y. (G) "Policy Driven Licensing Model for Computer Software." 4th IEEE International Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks POLICY (2003): pp. 219-228.
• Nabbali, T. (U) and Perry, M. "Introducing Carnivore: Going for the Throat with Precision Surveillance" (2003) v2_0031, pp. 31-40. (A version of this paper was first published in the Computer Law and Security Report, 19.6, below).
• Nabbali, T. (U). and Perry, M. "Going for the Throat: Carnivore in an Echelon World" Computer Law and Security Report 19. 6 (2003): pp. 456-467.
• Perry, M., Zhao, Q. (G) and Zhou, Y. (G) "Policy Enforcement Pattern." 9th Conference of the Pattern Language of Programs Proceedings (2002) pp. 1-14.
• Krishna, P. and Perry, M. "Making Sense of Mouse Tales: Canadian Lifeform Patents Topsy-Turvy." European Intellectual Property Review 23.4 (2001): pp. 196-204.
• Perry, M. "Audio-files on Trial." Butterworths Technology Law Forum 1.1 (2000): pp. 2-5.
• Chisick, C. and Perry, M. "Copyright and Anti-circumvention: Growing Pains in a Digital Millennium." New Zealand Intellectual Property Journal (2000): pp. 261-275.
• Perry, M. "Copyright Undecided, but Headnotes Lack Originality." European Intellectual Property Review 22.5 (2000): pp. 237-241.
• Perry, M. "Another Look at Appropriation of Digital Persona: Domain Names at the Costs Hearing." New Zealand Business Law Quarterly (1999): pp. 7-12.
• Perry, M. "Judges Reasons for Judgment - Intellectual Property Rights." New Zealand Universities Law Review 18 (1999): pp. 257-293.
• Perry, M. "Cybersquatters or Entrepreneurs - When is Legal Intervention Appropriate?" New Zealand Business Law Quarterly (1998): pp. 111-117.
• Perry, M. "Acts of Parliament: Privatisation, Promulgation, Crown Copyright — is there a Need for a Royal Royalty?" New Zealand Law Review (1998): pp. 493-529.
• Perry, M. "Roadblocks to LIINZ - Problems Facing Public Access to New Zealand Laws." Law Via the Internet (1997): pp. 128-136.

Other peer reviewed contributions:

• Lutfiyya, H., Perry, M. and Ramachandran, K. (G) "Decentralized Resource Availability Prediction Using P2P Desktop Grids." Centre for Advanced Studies Conference Exhibit, Toronto: November 2009 (National Research Council/IBM).
• Lutfiyya, H., Perry, M. and Ramachandran, K. (G) "A Peer to Peer Cloud Design." Centre for Advanced Studies Conference Exhibit, Toronto: October 2008 (National Research Council/IBM).
• Bauer, M., Perry, M. and Qiao, Y. (G) "SLA Data Mapping." Centre for Advanced Studies Conference Exhibit, Toronto: October 2005 (National Research Council/IBM).
• Mohan, S. (U) and Perry, M. "The Auto Web Manager using Java and DB2." Centre for Advanced Studies Conference Exhibit, Toronto: October 2004 (National Research Council/IBM).
• Perry, M., Zhao, Q. (G). and Zhou, Y. (G) "Autonomic License Manager." Centre for Advanced Studies Conference Exhibit, Toronto: October 2004 (National Research Council/IBM).
• Perry, M., Zhao, Q. (G) and Zhou, Y. (G). "Ontologies for On Demand Service Level Agreements." Centre for Advanced Studies Conference Exhibit, Toronto: October 2004 (National Research Council/IBM).
• Perry, M., Zhao, Q. (G) and Zhou, Y. (G) "Rule Engine Integration for On Demand Business." Centre for Advanced Studies Conference Exhibit, Toronto: October 2004 (National Research Council/IBM).
• Perry, M., Zhao, Q. (G) and Zhou, Y. (G) "On Demand Service Level Agreements and Enforcement." Centre for Advanced Studies Conference Exhibit, Toronto: October 2003.
• Perry, M., Zhao, Q. (G) and Zhou, Y. (G). "Autonomic Licensing." Centre for Advanced Studies Conference Exhibit, Toronto: October 2003.
• Perry, M., Zhao, Q. (G). and Zhou, Y. (G) "Component Licensing Model." CASCON Exhibit, Toronto: October 2002 (National Research Council/IBM).
• Nabbali, T. (U) and Perry, M. "Going for the Throat: Techniques in Crime Control or Denial of Privacy." Law Commission of Canada Conference: "In Search of Security" (2003).
• Perry, M., Zhao, Q. (G) and Zhou, Y. (G) "Policy Management." Centre for Advanced Studies Conference Exhibit, Toronto: October 2002.
• Perry, M. "Materials and Interaction: Using Electronic Means to Enhance Learning." ALTA Legal Education Seminar Paper, Sydney: October 1997.
• Perry, M. "Transforming Teaching and Learning with Information Technology." Apple University Consortium Academic Conference, University of Queensland: September 1996.

Abstracts and/or papers presented

• Perry, M. "Canadian Copyright Reform." Roundtable. University of Victoria, Wellington New Zealand: July 2010 (invited).
• Perry, M. "Regulating Advances in Biotechnology." Amity University, Delhi, India: July 2010 (invited).
• Perry, M. "Accessing Accessions: Legal Issues for Biobanks." International Conference on Comparative Issues in the Governance of Research Biobanks, Facoltà di Giurisprudenza - Università di Trento: May 2010.
• Perry, M. "Deep Pockets, Packets and Harbours: ISP Liabilities." Current Law Forum, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India: April 2010.
• Perry, M. "Issues for Genetics." First International Spidermite Symposium, Logrono, Spain: October 2009.
• Perry, M. "Autonomic Licences from Patents." Fifth International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems, Valencia, Spain: April 2009.
• Perry, M. "SaaS, the Web2 for Business: Can We Put it in a Cloud?" Sao Paul, Brasil: July 2008.
• Kaminiski, H. (G) and Perry, M. "Open Source Software Licensing Patterns." OOPSLA Conference, Montreal: October 2007.
• Perry, M. "From Digital Rights Management to Conducer." Knowledge Policy for the 21st Century, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada: April 2007.
• Perry, M. "FLOSS for Government." Knowledge Policy for the 21st Century, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada: April 2007.
• Perry, M. "Self Managed Licensing Systems. " Knowledge Policy for the 21st Century, Brisbane: June 2007.
• Perry, M. "Virtual Worlds and Virtual Licensing: A Creative Commons Approach." Playing the Gallery Conference, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada: October 2007 (invited).
• Perry, M. "Digitizing Artifacts: Propertisation." Traditional Knowledge, Intellectual Property, and Indigenous Culture Conference, Cardozo Law School, New York: February 2002 (peer reviewed and invited).
• Krishna, P. and Perry, M. "Plant hsp90 and its Putative Cochaperones: a Genomics Perspective." EuroConference and EMBO Workshop: Mechanisms and Cellular Functions of Molecular Chaperones, Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain: May 2001 (peer reviewed).
• Chisick, C. and Perry, M. "Does Canada Need Anti-Circumvention Legislation?" CALT Conference, Quebec: May 2001.
• Perry, M. "Public Policy and Primary Legal Materials." AustLII Conference on Computerisation of Law via the Internet: Panel, Sydney: June 1997 (invited).

Technical Reports

• Perry, M., Submission to World Intellectual Property Organisation "RFC-3 Interim Report of the WIPO Internet Domain Name Process - The Management of Internet Names and Addresses: Intellectual Property Issues," March 1999
• Perry, M. and Barnard, L., Submission to the Law Commission "Report 50: Electronic Commerce I - A Guide for the legal and business community," New Zealand Law Commission, 1999, pp. 1-204.
• Perry, M., Submission to Parliamentary Council "Access to Acts of Parliament" October 1998
• Perry, M. and Huscroft, G., Submission to Commerce Commission "Technology Crimes Reform Bill" June 1997

Articles in non-Peer Reveiewed Journals and Conference Proceedings

• Perry, M., "Why we should worry" Editorial, Technology Law Forum January 2000
• Perry, M., "The Criminality of Changing Data on Computer Systems" [1998] New Zealand Law Journal 418-419
• Perry, M., "Cyberlawyers-Net Dreams or Facing the Inevitable" [1997] New Zealand Law Journal 309-310
• Perry, M., "The Curious State of Statutes" [1996] New Zealand Law Journal 373-376

Students

Post Doctoral Fellows

• Thomas Margoni, Post Doctoral Fellow, Law, GAP-M Project.
• Iyioha Irehobhude, Post Doctoral Fellow, Law, GAP-M Project.
• Remesh Karky, Post Doctoral Associate, Law, GAP-M Project.

Current Students

• Azade Khalaj, PhD Candidate, Grid and Autonomic Computing project
• Ali Mohamed, PhD Candidate, e-commerce aspects of Autonomic Computing project.
• Karthick Ramachandran, PhD Candidate.

Past Students

PhD

• Halana Kaminski, PhD, Computer Science "An Approach to e-Negotiations off Service Level Agreements." 2004-2010 (graduated).
• Zainab Al Jazzaf, PhD, Computer Science.
• Qian Zhao, PhD, Computer Science: "Semantic Agreement Aware Management of Services: SmArt Architecture: 2003-2007 (Graduated).
• Ritesh Patel, PhD Candidate QUT, Brisbane, Traditional Knowledge and Law, 2005-2008.
• Kamran Choudhery, PhD candidate, Computer Science: within Software Component Rights Use Management project 2002-2003 (joined faculty in Pakistan).
• Kshitij Singh, 6 month visiting PhD fellow from Banaras Hindu University (Varanasi, India) with Government of Canada (DFAIT) Grant, 2010. Research into Biotechnology Law.
• Govind Kumar, 6 month visiting PhD fellow from Banaras Hindu University (Varanasi, India) with Government of Canada (DFAIT) Grant, 2008. Research into Indian Copyright Reform.

Masters

• Sunita Tripathy, LLM, Technology Transfer.
• Viswa S Viswambharan, LLM, Criminalising Patent Infringement.
• Rohan Bhandari, LLM, Patents and Copyright in Software (graduated 2010).
• Deepshitka Dutt, LLM Grey Marketing in India and Canada (graduated 2010).
• Gustavo Gil, LLM, Privacy and Digital Rights Management 2008-2009 (graduated).
• Karthick Ramachandran, Grid and Cloud Computing, 2007–2009 (graduated).
• Rui Liu, Trademark Protection in China, 2006–2007 (graduated LLM).
• Qiao Yue, On Demand Service Level Agreements topic, 2004-2006 (graduated).
• Linzhong Wang, Token-based Software License Enforcement and Management Framework, 2003–2005 (graduated).
• Yu Zhou, Distributed Systems “Delegation Model for On Demand Service Level Agreements” 2003–2004 (graduated).
• Fujie Zhang, “A New Software Development Architecture Based On Mobile Components” 2002 – 2003 (graduated).
• Qian Zhao, “Component-Based Development and Licensing,” 2002 – 2003 (graduated).
• Xuexin Li, IPv6 and telecommunications, 2002 (graduated).
• Qin (Cindy) Zhang, MSc: Computer Science, Protecting Internet Trade Agents Malicious Hosts, 2000 – 2001 (graduated).