Digital Rights

Maurizio Borghi on “Legal regulation of search engines”

Posted . Filed under Digital Rights, Emergent Technologies.

Faculty seminar of Maurizio Borghi “Legal regulation of research engines: the end of the “consent architecture”?” Wednesday 28 January 2015, 1:00pm, Room PG22 The seminar will address search engine liability in the context of EU law and jurisprudence (e.g. Innoweb and the recent Ryanair case). It concludes that the European legislative framework is severely restricting… Read more » about Maurizio Borghi on “Legal regulation of search engines”

Melanie Dulong: Distributing Law: How P2P can influence legal thinking

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We are pleased to invite you to next week’s guest seminar on “Distributing Law: How P2P can influence legal thinking” by Dr Melanie Dulong de Rosnay (CNRS,LSE). Melanie is a permanent researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) Institute for Communication Sciences and a visiting Fellow at London School of Economics and Political Science… Read more » about Melanie Dulong: Distributing Law: How P2P can influence legal thinking

Argyro Karanasiou – “Kickin’ The Clouds Away”: A rights-based approach for mesh networks as community media

Posted . Filed under Digital Rights, Publications.

In her latest post in the LSE Media Policy Project Blog’s Alternative Internet(s) series, Argyro Karanasiou argues that policymakers must embrace decentralised Internet architectures as a way of breaking online informational monopolies. Below follows a copy of this article, originally posted here.    “Kickin’ The Clouds Away”: A rights-based approach for mesh networks as community media   Back… Read more » about Argyro Karanasiou – “Kickin’ The Clouds Away”: A rights-based approach for mesh networks as community media

CIPPM’s Argyro Karanasiou at the OSCE free media experts panel in Vienna

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Argyro Karanasiou, a member of CIPPM and Lecturer in Law at BU has been invited by the OSCE (Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe) Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatovich to join the experts meeting on open journalism. The high level meeting focused on the human rights and legal implications of Open… Read more » about CIPPM’s Argyro Karanasiou at the OSCE free media experts panel in Vienna