The legal aspects of the internet and new technologies, with particular focus on human rights, is a rapidly evolving and dynamic research area with a strong interdisciplinary component. In the digital era, conventional legal thinking has been challenged in an unprecedented manner breaking new ground in legal scholarship: how is this new medium to be understood and regulated? Internet law related research is an all-encompassing field of scholars drawing from law, computer sciences, communication and media studies and sociology, striving to provide answers to the challenges of the digital economy.
CIPPM is one of the few research centres in the UK with remarkable activity in this field benefiting from the expertise of its members on a broad range of issues: online surveillance and cybersecurity, big data and privacy by design, free speech and new media, distributed architectures and internet governance. Online privacy and data processing legislative framework in the EU is examined thoroughly by the Centre’s Director, Professor Maurizio Borghi. His research on “Online Data Processing Consent under EU Law” (co-authored with F. Ferretti and S. Karapapa) has provided empirical evidence from the UK towards building a robust theoretical model. CIPPM’s Argyro Karanasiou has written extensively on free speech and human rights in the digital era while she has been invited as an academic stakeholder to many international fora on internet governance, most notably IGF 2013 as ISOC’s Ambassador. Her theory on techno-legal policy models, based on distributed architectures, is a notable example of the diverse and intricate questions posed in the online sphere.
The Centre’s active involvement and research is further evident in the funded PhD studentship commencing in September 2014, which shall be examining the legal implications of Big Data, a promising and exciting new frontier.
Legal and ethical implications of ‘Vehicle to Everything’ - Project coordinators: Sally Weston and Freyja van den Boom Project description The context for this project is data from Vehicle to Everything (V2X) and how it will transform the insurance sector and revolutionise the way consumers engage with insurers. V2X is an intelligent transport system where all vehicles and infrastructure systems are monitored and interconnected... Read more » about Legal and ethical implications of ‘Vehicle to Everything’
Data protection compliance of UK websites - Emprical study on data processing consent; survey of 200 most-popular e-commerce UK websites The study aimed at understanding the level of compliance with data protection requirements by websites registered in the United Kingdom. It carried out a statistical survey and an empirical study on the practices of online service providers concerning the processing of personal... Read more » about Data protection compliance of UK websites- Maria Lillà Montagnani: “Virtues and Perils of Algorithmic Enforcement and Content Regulation in the EU – A Toolkit for a Balanced Algorithmic Copyright Enforcement”
- Maurizio Borghi “Data portability and regulation of digital markets”
- Roger Brownsword: “Informational Rights, Informational Wrongs, and Regulatory Responsibilities”
- M. Favale – A Wii too stretched? The ECJ extends to game consoles the protection of DRM- on tough conditions
- M. Borghi and S. Karapapa – Search engine liability for autocomplete suggestions: personality, privacy and the power of the algorithm
- Argyro Karanasiou – “Kickin’ The Clouds Away”: A rights-based approach for mesh networks as community media
- A. Karanasiou – Towards a Magna Charta for the Internet
- A. Karanasiou – The Changing Face of Protesting in the Digital Era
- A. Karanasiou – Towards Securing Free Expression Online
- M. Borghi, F. Ferretti, S. Karapapa – Online data processing consent under EU law
Ana Santos Rutschman “The IP of COVID-19” May 19, 2021 - Online public lecture - Wednesday 19 May, 17:00
Informational Ecosystems (Regulating for and from the Abyss) May 20, 2020 - ***THE EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED***
Péter Mezei – From Leonardo to the Next Rembrandt: The Future of Authorship, Originality and Moral Rights in the Age of Algorithms February 6, 2020 - Public Lecture - Thursday 6 February 2020, 18:00
Alison Cronin – Regulation by Information: Democratic deficit and the dangers of the new regulatory paradigm November 27, 2019 - Research Seminar - Wednesday 27 November
Maurizio Borghi – Algorithmic Commons: how copyright can mitigate the dangers of artificial intelligence November 6, 2019 - Research seminar - Wednesday 6 November
Major discovery by Dr Claudy op den Kamp in identifying the first-ever copyrighted motion picture registration October 19, 2022 - A major discovery in the world of copyright and film has been unearthed by Principal Academic in Film and CIPPM Member, Dr. Claudy Op den Kamp. As a Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress, Claudy unearthed the evidence – that many have been looking for decades but have not been successful – identifying the... Read more » about Major discovery by Dr Claudy op den Kamp in identifying the first-ever copyrighted motion picture registration
CIPPM acquires an extensive computer law collection October 18, 2022 - The Centre for Intellectual Property Policy and Management is pleased to announce the acquisition of the private collection of grey literature, journals and books belonging to Stephen Saxby, formerly Professor of IT Law and Public Policy at Southampton University (1977-2016). Professor Saxby has a long history in the field, and was the first person in... Read more » about CIPPM acquires an extensive computer law collection Working Paper 04-2021: Marcella Favale “Robots as the New Judges: Copyright, Hate Speech, and Platforms” August 23, 2021 - Abstract On the 16th of October 2020, a middle-school teacher, Samuel Paty, was beheaded by a terrorist who would not know of his existence if not for a number of videos posted on social media.[1] Yet, a law against publishing heinous content on line was approved in France on the 13th of May.[2] But in... Read more » about Working Paper 04-2021: Marcella Favale “Robots as the New Judges: Copyright, Hate Speech, and Platforms”
CIPPM panel at the CPDP Conference 2021 January 24, 2021 - CIPPM / Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence has sponsored a panel at the 14th International Conference Computers, Privacy & Data Protection (CPDP) “Enforcing rights in a changing world”, Brussels 27 -29 January 2021. The panel “Rethinking opennes in the context of Artificial Intelligence” will be held on Wednesday 27 January at 18:30 (CET). Chair: Freyja... Read more » about CIPPM panel at the CPDP Conference 2021 Informational Ecosystems: workshop postponed March 25, 2020 - In light of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Workshop Information Ecosystems (Regulating for and from the Abyss), scheduled for 20 May 2020, has been postponed to a date to be determined in Autumn. Tanks for your understanding. The organising committee: Professor Roger Brownsword, Professor Maurizio Borghi and Dr Jeffrey Wale.
