Emergent Technologies

M. Favale – Death and Resurrection of Copyright, between Law and Technology

M. Favale, ‘Death and Resurrection of Copyright, between Law and Technology’, Information and Communication Technology Law, Volume 23, Issue 2, 2014 The paper reviews copyright philosophical, economic and social justification confronted by the dematerialization of creative outputs.  Digital Rights Management (DRM) is the tool implemented by copyright owners to adjust to the advent of the… Read more » about M. Favale – Death and Resurrection of Copyright, between Law and Technology

D. Mendis and D. Secchi – A Legal and Empirical Study of 3D Printing Online Platforms and an Analysis of User Behaviour

D. Mendis & D. Secchi – A Legal and Empirical Study of 3D Printing Online Platforms and an Analysis of User Behaviour (London: Intellectual Property Office; 2015) Download Report here (64 pages). This is the first of a two-party study (and an executive summary) commissioned and funded by out for the UK Intellectual Property Office… Read more » about D. Mendis and D. Secchi – A Legal and Empirical Study of 3D Printing Online Platforms and an Analysis of User Behaviour

P. Reeves and D. Mendis – The Current Status and Impact of 3D Printing Within the Industrial Sector: An Analysis of Six Case Studies

P. Reeves and D. Mendis, The Current Status and Impact of 3D Printing Within the Industrial Sector: An Analysis of Six Case Studies (London: Intellectual Property Office; 2015) Download Report here (86 pages). This is the second of a two-party study (and an executive summary) commissioned and funded by out for the UK Intellectual Property… Read more » about P. Reeves and D. Mendis – The Current Status and Impact of 3D Printing Within the Industrial Sector: An Analysis of Six Case Studies

D. Mendis, D. Secchi and P. Reeves – A Legal and Empirical Study into the Intellectual Property Implications of 3D Printing

D. Mendis, D. Secchi and P. Reeves, A Legal and Empirical Study into the Intellectual Property Implications of 3D Printing (London: Intellectual Property Office; 2015) Download Report here. This is the the Executive Summary drawn from a two-party study commissioned and funded by out for the UK Intellectual Property Office and authored by Dr. Dinusha… Read more » about D. Mendis, D. Secchi and P. Reeves – A Legal and Empirical Study into the Intellectual Property Implications of 3D Printing

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