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This timely and thought-provoking book explores how the protection of copyright in the digital age requires a reconsideration of how this is balanced with other fundamental rights and freedoms. Analysing the impact of the rise of digital technologies and the internet on copyright regimes, it particularly focuses on the effects of recent reforms to the EU’s legal framework for the protection and enforcement of copyright.
This book gathers contributions related to the most pressing problems and challenges that new information and communications technologies (ICT) and digital platforms introduce into the labour market, and the impact they have on the way that people work, their rights and even their health and dignity. In addition, there are also chapters studying personal data protection, which is currently a topic of maximum interest due to the New European Regulation about it. The contributors here are drawn from around the world, with several countries represented, such as Portugal, Spain, Italy, Brazil, Australia and Venezuela. The book will appeal lawyers, legal and human resources experts, economists, judges, academics and staff from trade unions, and employers’ representation. The volume features insights and contributions in different languages, with chapters in Spanish (12), English (6) and Portuguese (4).
The changes brought about by digital technology and the consequent explosion of information known as Big Data have brought opportunities and challenges in all areas of society, and the law is no exception. This book, Knowledge of the Law in the Big Data Age contains a selection of the papers presented at the conference ‘Law via the Internet 2018’, held in Florence, Italy, on 11-12 October 2018. This annual conference of the ‘Free Access to Law Movement’ (http://www.fatlm.org) hosted more than 60 international speakers from universities, government and research bodies as well as EU institutions. Topics covered range from free access to law and Big Data and data analytics in the legal ...
The use of data in society has seen an exponential growth in recent years. Data science, the field of research concerned with understanding and analyzing data, aims to find ways to operationalize data so that it can be beneficially used in society, for example in health applications, urban governance or smart household devices. The legal questions that accompany the rise of new, data-driven technologies however are underexplored. This book is the first volume that seeks to map the legal implications of the emergence of data science. It discusses the possibilities and limitations imposed by the current legal framework, considers whether regulation is needed to respond to problems raised by data science, and which ethical problems occur in relation to the use of data. It also considers the emergence of Data Science and Law as a new legal discipline.
This fully revised and updated second edition of The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Law provides a wide-ranging and diverse critical survey of comparative law at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It summarizes and evaluates a discipline that is time-honoured but not easily understood in all its dimensions. In the current era of globalization, this discipline is more relevant than ever, both on the academic and on the practical level. The Handbook is divided into three main sections. Section I surveys how comparative law has developed and where it stands today in various parts of the world. This includes not only traditional model jurisdictions, such as France, Germany, and the Unite...
I primi due decenni di questo secolo sono stati fortemente segnati da emergenze di ogni tipo: terrorismo, crisi finanziaria, disastri naturali, migrazioni, cambiamenti climatici, infine la pandemia di Covid,19. Come conseguenza della globalizzazione e della geopolitica globale, gli effetti di queste emergenze sono aumentati, richiedendo interventi a diversi livelli, anche sul piano giuridico. Allo stesso tempo, questa tensione globale è spesso messa in discussione da un approccio più locale alle questioni economiche e sociali. Il presente volume raccoglie gli atti del XXVI Convegno biennale dell'Associazione italiana di diritto comparato, dedicato alla indagine sulle conseguenze di tali emergenze per il diritto comparato. Può ragionevolmente discorrersi di un “diritto comparato delle emergenze”? Se le emergenze sono diventante caratteristica strutturale del nostro mondo globalizzato, dovranno i giuristi , tradizionalmente “inseguitori” dei fenomeni sociali , adattare il proprio approccio e adeguarsi al costante mutamento dei contesti giuridici? DOI: 10.13134/979-12-5977-137-7
Uno dei fenomeni emergenti nelle società contemporanee è l’offuscamento dei confini tra la dimensione “pubblica” e quella “privata”. La trasformazione digitale è tra i motori di tale processo, insieme all’evoluzione delle relazioni economiche e sociali, in un contesto caratterizzato da crescenti scambi e contaminazioni culturali, nonché da emergenze ambientali e sociali. La privatizzazione di aspetti tradizionalmente attribuiti al potere dello Stato, insieme alla caratterizzazione sempre più in chiave pubblicistica di relazioni precedentemente considerate di pertinenza della sfera privata, mettono in discussione molti campi del sapere, tra cui quello del diritto. Le (un tempo) rassicuranti categorie giuridiche tradizionali risultano profondamente coinvolte da tale processo. In particolare, la distinzione tra diritto pubblico e diritto privato è oggi sempre più sottoposta a tensioni e rivela la propria inadeguatezza ove si vogliano leggere in modo corretto le implicazioni giuridiche dei nuovi fenomeni sociali. DOI: 10.13134/979-12-5977-393-7
The constitutionalization of intellectual property law is often framed as a benign and progressive integration of intellectual property with fundamental rights. Yet this is not a full or even an adequate picture of the ongoing constitutionalization processes affecting IP. This collection of essays, written by international experts and covering a range of different areas of intellectual property law, takes a broader approach to the process. Drawing on constitutional theory, and particularly on ideas of "new constitutionalism", the chapters engage with the complex array of contemporary legal constraints on intellectual property law-making. Such constraints arising in international intellectual...
This book adds a critical perspective to the legal dialogue on the regulation of ‘smart urban mobility’. Mobility is one of the most visible sub-domains of the ‘smart city’, which has become shorthand for technological advances that influence how cities are structured, public services are fashioned, and citizens coexist. In the urban context, mobility has come under pressure due to a variety of different forces, such as the implementation of new business models (e.g. car and bicycle sharing), the proliferation of alternative methods of transportation (e.g. electric scooters), the emergence of new market players and stakeholders (e.g. internet and information technology companies), an...
Fundamental Rights Protection Online presents an in-depth analysis of national, supranational and international attempts at online speech regulation, illustrating how the law has been unsettled on how to treat intermediaries.