Now in its second edition, this work contains a collection of sample agreements, presenting annotated contracts from the digital media sector in typical formats used by the industry. It includes agreements for wireless apps, digital downloads, user generated content, social networks, and cloud content. The work goes beyond traditional precedents by giving practical, business-minded commentary and background information to assist both readers intending to draft their own documents and those looking for hands-on guidance when reviewing standard form documents received from other parties. Its commercially-grounded approach will be of value to business affairs teams, entrepreneurs and start-ups in the digital media space as well as legal professionals working in private practice or in-house. Its primary jurisdictional focus is the UK but its scope is international with extensive comparative law comments and practical cross-border guidance for our connected online world. This sector-specialist guide is now supported by an accompanying website with agreements available to download and edit, as well as additional supporting material in the text itself .

This work provides detailed coverage of the current state of international treaty law in respect of copyright issues relating to the Internet and E-commerce. The centre-piece of the book is an article-by-article analysis of the two key World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) treaties tackling the subject: the WIPO Copyright Treaty and the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty, both negotiated primarily as a response to technological developments such as the Internet. It also includes detailed comparative material showing how the WIPO treaties are being implemented elsewhere in the world, and in particular how the EU, Japan and the US are responding to these key issues. This includes analysis of the key EU Directive on Copyright and Related Rights in the Information Society, which is intended to roll out protection across Europe for copyright holders operating in the digital arena.

This book presents a transnational and transsystemic perspective on the role of contract in Internet Governance, and considers parameters for assessing the utility and legitimacy of contracts in this context. Bygrave presents definitions and parameters of internet governance and the role of contract alongside examples of how these are used in the ever-changing internet world. He examines topical and well-known mediums such as Facebook in relation to their policies and online parameters. Taking into account legal developments across jurisdictions and within both common law and civil law systems, Bygrave explores the idea of the contract as the principal means of governing the virtual world.

This comprehensive guide for management professionals discusses the IT-related legal issues faced by businesses on a daily basis. Legal concepts and terminology are notoriously difficult for non-specialists, but this book explains in plain English the relevant legal frameworks and gives examples from actual cases. New material in this edition include chapters on GDPR, cyber security, cloud computing contracts and Agile.

This book offers conceptual analyses, highlights issues, proposes solutions, and discusses practices regarding privacy and data protection in transitional times. It is one of the results of the 15th annual International Conference on Computers, Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP), which was held in Brussels in May 2022. We are in a time of transition. Artificial Intelligence is making significant breakthroughs in how humans use data and information, and is changing our lives in virtually all aspects. The pandemic has pushed society to adopt changes in how, when, why, and the media through which, we interact. A new generation of European digital regulations - such as the AI Act, Digital Services Act, Digital Markets Act, Data Governance Act, and Data Act - is on the horizon. This raises difficult questions as to which rights we should have, the degree to which these rights should be balanced against other poignant social interests, and how these rights should be enforced in light of the fluidity and uncertainty of circumstances. The book covers a range of topics, including: data protection risks in European retail banks; data protection, privacy legislation, and litigation in China; synthetic data generation as a privacy-preserving technique for the training of machine learning models; effectiveness of privacy consent dialogues; legal analysis of the role of individuals in data protection law; and the role of data subject rights in the platform economy. This interdisciplinary book has been written at a time when the scale and impact of data processing on society - on individuals as well as on social systems - is becoming ever more important. It discusses open issues as well as daring and prospective approaches and is an insightful resource for readers with an interest in computers, privacy and data protection.

Das Handbuch prasentiert die Kernbereiche des E-Commerce-Rechts in den meisten EU-Mitgliedstaaten und den USA: Vertragsrecht, Verbraucherschutz, Urheberrecht, das Recht gegen den unlauteren Wettbewerb, Kartellrecht, Providerhaftung, Geldtransfer und Datenschutz. Die Landerberichte folgen einem gemeinsamen Fragenkatalog. Aufgrund der einheitlichen und ubersichtlichen Struktur findet der Leser schnell kompetente Antwort auf seine Rechtsfragen in allen Staaten.

Das Buch gibt einen umfassenden Uberblick uber das DomainLaw - dem Namens- und Kennzeichenrecht im Internet. Behandelt werden zentrale Bereiche des DomainLaw wie beispielsweise das Vergabeverfahren sowie der nationale, europaische und internationale Rechtsschutz von Domain-Namen. Eine Reihe potentieller Rechtsprobleme werden dargestellt, die es zu wissen gilt, wenn man selbst Domaininhaber/in ist oder sich anderweitig mit diesem Bereich beschaftigt. Das Werk dient als zuverlassiger und verstandlicher Rechtsberater, um sich in dem sehr komplexen Bereich des Namens- und Kennzeichenrechts im Internet orientieren zu konnen. Es richtet sich sowohl an Praktiker aus Wirtschaft, Justiz und Anwaltschaft, als auch an Studierende und Wissenschaftler."

Dieses Buch gibt einen umfassenden rechtlichen Uberblick uber den Vertrieb von Waren und Dienstleistungen im Internet. Behandelt werden zentrale Bereiche des elektronischen Geschaftsverkehrs. Dazu zahlen beispielsweise das Vertragsrecht, Prozessrecht sowie das Fernabsatzrecht im Internet. Eine Reihe potentieller Rechtsprobleme werden dargestellt, die es zu wissen gilt, wenn man selbst Waren- und Dienstleistungsvertrage uber das Internet abschliesst oder sich anderweitig mit diesem Bereich beschaftigt. Dieses Buch dient als zuverlassiger und verstandlicher Rechtsberater, um sich in dem sehr komplexen Bereich des Vertriebs- und Fernabsatzrechts im Internet orientieren zu konnen. Es richtet sich sowohl an Praktiker aus Wirtschaft, Justiz und Anwaltschaft, als auch an Verbraucherschutzverbande und Wissenschaftler."

Do copyright laws directly cause people to create works they otherwise wouldn't create? Do those laws directly put substantial amounts of money into authors' pockets? Does culture depend on copyright? Are copyright laws a key driver of competitiveness and of the knowledge economy?
These are the key questions William Patry addresses in How to Fix Copyright. We all share the goals of increasing creative works, ensuring authors can make a decent living, furthering culture and competitiveness and ensuring that knowledge is widely shared, but what role does copyright law actually play in making these things come true in the real world? Simply believing in lofty goals isn't enough. If we want our goals to come true, we must go beyond believing in them; we must ensure they come true, through empirical testing and adjustment.
Patry argues that laws must be consistent with prevailing markets and technologies because technologies play a large (although not exclusive) role in creating consumer demand; markets then satisfy that demand. Patry discusses how copyright laws arose out of eighteenth-century markets and technology, the most important characteristic of which was artificial scarcity. Artificial scarcity was created by the existence of a small number gatekeepers, by relatively high barriers to entry, and by analog limitations on copying.
Markets and technologies change, in a symbiotic way, Patry asserts. New technologies create new demand, requiring new business models. The new markets created by the Internet and digital tools are the greatest ever: Barriers to entry are low, costs of production and distribution are low, the reach is global, and large sums of money can be made off of a multitude of small transactions. Along with these new technologies and markets comes the democratization of creation; digital abundance is replacing analog artificial scarcity.
The task of policymakers is to remake our copyright laws to fit our times: our copyright laws, based on the eighteenth century concept of physical copies, gatekeepers, and artificial scarcity, must be replaced with laws based on access not ownership of physical goods, creation by the masses and not by the few, and global rather than regional markets. Patry's view is that of a traditionalist who believes in the goals of copyright but insists that laws must match the times rather than fight against the present and the future.

Il volume ha a oggetto sia gli attuali criteri di distribuzione dei contenuti audiovisivi digitali sia gli emergenti problemi per gli utenti finali non piu semplici consumatori ma anche produttori di informazione. In particolare vengono analizzati gli effetti dei nuovi sistemi di gestione dei diritti di proprieta intellettuale per l accesso ai contenuti cercando di comprendere i meccanismi che hanno permesso ai processi di digitalizzazione di operare un cambio di rotta nelle modalita produttive, distributive e di fruizione dei diversi media. L indagine propone inoltre le possibili strategie per risolvere o migliorare i fenomeni degenerativi legati alla pervasivita della tecnologia come strumento di controllo sociale prendendo in considerazione una revisione della normativa e una serie di misure a tutela degli utenti.

A powerful argument for new laws and policies regarding cyber-security, from the former US Secretary of Homeland Security. The most dangerous threat we-individually and as a society-face today is no longer military, but rather the increasingly pervasive exposure of our personal information; nothing undermines our freedom more than losing control of information about ourselves. And yet, as daily events underscore, we are ever more vulnerable to cyber-attack. In this bracing book, Michael Chertoff makes clear that our laws and policies surrounding the protection of personal information, written for an earlier time, need to be completely overhauled in the Internet era. On the one hand, the collection of data-more widespread by business than by government, and impossible to stop-should be facilitated as an ultimate protection for society. On the other, standards under which information can be inspected, analysed or used must be significantly tightened. In offering his compelling call for action, Chertoff argues that what is at stake is not only the simple loss of privacy, which is almost impossible to protect, but also that of individual autonomy-the ability to make personal choices free of manipulation or coercion. Offering colourful stories over many decades that illuminate the three periods of data gathering we have experienced, Chertoff explains the complex legalities surrounding issues of data collection and dissemination today and charts a forceful new strategy that balances the needs of government, business and individuals alike.

Das Buch ermoglicht eine schnelle aber gleichwohl fundierte Einarbeitung in das Datenschutzrecht. Es ist insbesondere an Rechtsanwalte, Datenschutzbeauftragte und andere Praktiker sowie Studierende gerichtet, die sich erstmals vertieft mit dem Datenschutzrecht beschaftigen. In einer kurzen Einfuhrung werden die Ziele, die Historie und die Rechtsquellen des Datenschutzrechts sowie der Anwendungsbereich der datenschutzrechtlichen Vorschriften erlautert. Im Anschluss daran erfolgt eine Darstellung der zentralen datenschutzrechtlichen Grundsatze, wie etwa des Zweckbindungsgrundsatzes etc. Weitere Kapitel beschaftigen sich ausfuhrlich mit den Anforderungen an die Zulassigkeit der Datenverarbeitung und den erganzenden Verpflichtungen, z.B. auf Unterrichtung, Auskunft etc. Abschliessend geht der Autor auf datenschutzrechtliche Besonderheiten in spezifischen Wirtschaftsbereichen ein und erlautert diese eingehend."

This book brings together papers that offer conceptual analyses, highlight issues, propose solutions, and discuss practices regarding privacy, data protection and enforcing rights in a changing world. It is one of the results of the 14th annual International Conference on Computers, Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP), which took place online in January 2021. The pandemic has produced deep and ongoing changes in how, when, why, and the media through which, we interact. Many of these changes correspond to new approaches in the collection and use of our data - new in terms of scale, form, and purpose. This raises difficult questions as to which rights we have, and should have, in relation to such novel forms of data processing, the degree to which these rights should be balanced against other poignant social interests, and how these rights should be enforced in light of the fluidity and uncertainty of circumstances. The book covers a range of topics, such as: digital sovereignty; art and algorithmic accountability; multistakeholderism in the Brazilian General Data Protection law; expectations of privacy and the European Court of Human Rights; the function of explanations; DPIAs and smart cities; and of course, EU data protection law and the pandemic - including chapters on scientific research and on the EU Digital COVID Certificate framework. This interdisciplinary book has been written at a time when the scale and impact of data processing on society - on individuals as well as on social systems - is becoming ever starker. It discusses open issues as well as daring and prospective approaches and is an insightful resource for readers with an interest in computers, privacy and data protection.

Media Freedom under the Human Rights Act provides the most comprehensive analysis to date of the impact of Article 10 ECHR, as received through the Human Rights Act 1998, on the substantive law governing freedom of expression in the media. Fully up to date, the book provides extensive coverage of crucial recent developments in this field; these include: the key cases of Ashworth and Punch in the area of contempt; the ground-breaking privacy decisions in Von Hannover v Germany and Campbell v MGN; full consideration of theoretical approaches to explicit speech and blasphemy, including a detailed critique of Strasbourg case-law in the area; detailed discussion of the new offence of incitement to religious hatred; the new scheme for content regulation of broadcasting under the Communications Act 2003 in the light of Prolife Alliance; a full survey of recent domestic and Strasbourg caselaw in the areas of copyright and political defamation, and analysis of the early impact of the Freedom of Information Act. The authors - both leading academics in the field - have drawn on significant comparative decisions to formulate a coherent and provocative critique of the relationship between media law and freedom of expression, and suggested principles which make a significant contribution to the legal discourse surrounding media freedom in the Human Rights Act era. The result is a book which provides a scholarly and theoretically informed analysis of this very topical subject, of interest to those studying at all levels and practising in this area of law.

Will cyberanarchy rule the net? And if we do find a way to regulate our cyberlife will national borders dissolve as the Internet becomes the first global state? In this provocative new work, Jack L. Goldsmith and Tim Wu dismiss the fashionable talk of both a 'borderless' net and of a single governing 'code'. Territorial governments can and will, they contend, exercise significant control over all aspects of Internet communications. Examining policy puzzles from e-commerce to privacy, speech and pornography, intellectual property, and cybercrime, Who Controls the Internet demonstrates that individual governments rather than private or global bodies will play that dominant role in regulation. Accessible and controversial, this work is bound to stir comment.

Die Fallsammlung liefert Studenten und Referendaren der Wahlfachgruppe "Wirtschaftsrecht" das R stzeug f r die sichere Beherrschung der Fallbearbeitungstechnik. Insbesondere wird der Fokus auf eine Synthese von materiellem und prozessualem Recht gelegt. Der Inhalt umfasst die Bereiche des Urheberrechts, Wettbewerbsrechts, Kartellrechts, Markenrechts und Patentrechts. Weiterf hrende Literaturhinweise zu den jeweiligen Problemkomplexen am Ende der jeweiligen Fallbearbeitung helfen beim selbst ndigen Lernen.

Now available in a paperback edition, law and technology guru Richard Susskind, author of bestselling The Future of Law, brings together in one volume eleven significant essays on the application of IT to legal practice and the administration of justice, including key topics such as knowledge management and the impact of electronic commerce and electronic government. This edition includes a new Preface, in which Susskind puts forward his views on the burst of the dotcom bubble, offers an extension to his Grid to cover in-house lawyers, and comments on the next big things in this area: e-learning, document assembly, online dispute resolution, e-mail management, and matter-centric systems.

Since 25 May 2018 the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (GDPR) has applied, representing a significant overhaul of data protection law in the European Union. Although it was drafted and passed by the European Union, the GDPR imposes obligations onto organisations anywhere, so long as they collect or target data relating to people in the EU. It is one of the toughest privacy and security laws in the world and harsh fines are levied against those who violate its privacy and security standards. This commentary provides a detailed examination of the individual articles of the GDPR and is an essential resource aimed at helping legal practitioners prepare for compliance. The second edition includes guidelines on the interpretation of the GDPR published by the European Data Protection Board as well as new case law by the Court of Justice of the European Union. This revised and updated edition includes: *a general introduction to data protection law; *full text of the GDPR's articles and recitals; *article-by-article commentary explaining the individual provisions and elements of each article. In addition to lawyers and in-house counsel, this book is also suitable for law professors and students, and offers comprehensive coverage of this increasingly important area of data protection legislation.

Is social media changing who we are? We assume social media is only a tool for our modern day communications and interactions, but is it quietly changing our identities and how we see the world and one another? Our current debate about the human behaviors behind social media misses the important effects these social networking technologies are having on our sense of shared morality and rationality. There has been much concern about the loss of privacy and anonymity in the Information Age, but little attention has been paid to the consequences and effects of social media and the behavior they engender on the Internet. In order to understand how social media influences our morality, Lisa S. Nelson suggests a new methodological approach to social media and its effect on society. Instead of beginning with the assumption that we control our use of social media, this book considers how the phenomenological effects of social media influences our actions, decisions, and, ultimately, who we are and who we become. This important study will inform a new direction in policy and legal regulation for these increasingly important technologies.