Digital Rights

M. Favale – A Wii too stretched? The ECJ extends to game consoles the protection of DRM- on tough conditions

M. Favale, ‘A Wii too stretched? The ECJ extends to game consoles the protection of DRM- on tough conditions’, European Intellectual Property Review, [2015] 37 (2), 101-106 The paper analyses the European Court of Justice ruling in Nintendo Co Ltd v PC Box Srl (C-355/12) on whether the protections for technological protection measures (TPMs) under… Read more » about 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

M. Borghi and S. Karapapa, “Search engine liability for autocomplete suggestions: personality, privacy and the power of the algorithm”, International Journal of Law and Information Technology, 23 (4), 2015. The article is concerned with the liability of search engines for algorithmically produced search suggestions, such as through Google’s ‘autocomplete’ function. Liability in this context may… Read more » about M. Borghi and S. Karapapa – Search engine liability for autocomplete suggestions: personality, privacy and the power of the algorithm

CIPPM Co-Director Dr. Dinusha Mendis contributes to FP7 MAPPING Project in Hannover

On 22-23 September 2015, Dr. Dinusha Mendis was invited to the First General Assembly of the FP7-funded MAPPING Project. MAPPING – Managing Alternatives for Privacy, Property and Internet Governance – held its First General Assembly on 22-23 September at Hannover Congress Centrum. The event brought together stakeholders from three key areas including Internet Governance, Privacy… Read more » about CIPPM Co-Director Dr. Dinusha Mendis contributes to FP7 MAPPING Project in Hannover

Mind the Terms of Service! A closer look at the ToS with special reference to consumer’s privacy.

Do you ever read the small printed details online or you just click away and download your desired app/software without even taking a second look? Our LL.M students Keziah Gitonga, Mehmet Arvas, Amanda Kemmer Soares, Constantinos Papantoniou and Timur Temirgazin have taken a closer look at the ToS of some of the most popular content providers:… Read more » about Mind the Terms of Service! A closer look at the ToS with special reference to consumer’s privacy.

CIPPM research features in the Report of the Speaker’s Commission on Digital Democracy

The Speaker’s Commission on Digital Democracy launched on the 26th January 2015 after a long period of consultation and research. Argyro Karanasiou has provided evidence discussing lawmaking the digital era and her work is cited (n 18, 23, 73) in the report, which can be found here. On Tuesday 3/2/2015 Argyro attended the reception in… Read more » about CIPPM research features in the Report of the Speaker’s Commission on Digital Democracy