16 March 2005, London, UK, eCulture Workshop
Workshop hosted by the UK's Sixth Framework Central Information Point (FP6UK) to network and refine proposals for EU funding opportunities under IST call 5. This programme addresses the strategic objective 'Access to and preservation of cultural and scientific resources'.
http://fp6uk.ost.gov.uk/page.aspx?SP=1121

17-18 March 2005, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
First European Creative Commons meeting
http://www.creativecapital.nl

17-18 March 2005, Budapest, Hungary
Workshop on open access issues 'The Future of the Scientific Information Chain - The Role of Publishers and Learned Societies' organised by the ALLEA Standing Committee on Intellectual Property Rights and STM, The International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers
http://www.allea.org/cfdata/output/news_detail.cfm?news__id=62

31 March 2005, deadline call for papers on DRM
Special session on Digital Rights Management during the 31st Euromicro conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA) 2005 in Porto, Portugal. This special session is open to discuss technical, legal and business issues with DRM and the social aspects regarding users understanding and fair use. Papers should be around 6-8 pages (not exceeding 6000 words) and include an abstract.
http://www.idt.mdh.se/euromicro-2005/

6 April 2005, Brussels, Belgium
European Commission public workshop on DRM

6-8 April 2005, Belfast, Ireland, BILETA 2005
Over-Commoditised; Over-Centralised; Over-Observed: the New Digital Legal World?
http://www.law.qub.ac.uk/bileta2005/callforpapers.html

12 April 2005, Deadline funding applications
Civil rights organisations and initiatives are invited to send funding applications to the German foundation 'Bridge - Bürgerrechte in der digitalen Gesellschaft'. A total of 15.000 euro is available for applications that promote civil rights in the digitised society.
http://www.stiftung-bridge.de

12-15 April 2005, Seattle, USA, CFP 2005
The annual Computer, Freedom, Privacy Conference is accepting proposals will be held in the Westin Hotel in Seattle, Washington.
http://www.cfp2005.org

14-16 April 2005, Padova, Italy, FLOSS 2005
http://www.floss2005.org/

27-28 May 2005, Florence, Italy, E-Privacy Conference 2005
This edition of the foremost Italian conference on privacy in the digital age will focus on automatic data collection and retention. The organising committee is inviting papers from possible speakers. The deadline for submitting papers and presentations is 17 April, notification of acceptance will be given on 24 April. During the conference the first Italian Big Brother Award Ceremony will be held in the stunningly beautiful Palazzo Vecchio.
http://e-privacy.firenze.linux.it/

6-11 June 2005, Benevento (Naples), Italy
Digital Communities 2005
http://www.ssc.msu.edu/~espace/DC2005.html

17-18 June 2005, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
3d Amsterdam Internet Conference organised by OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media

11-15 July 2005, Genova, Italy, OSS 2005
http://oss2005.case.unibz.it/index.html

28-31 July 2005, Den Bosch, The Netherlands
What The Hack, major open air hacker / internet lifestyle event
http://www.whatthehack.org/

8-9 September 2005, Brussels, Belgium
EuroSOCAP Workshop on confidentiality and privacy in healthcare. 3 year programme to develop new ethical standards for privacy and patient access to (electronical) files, started on 31 january 2003.
http://www.eurosocap.org