Emergent Technologies

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

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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.

Making sense of Digital Rights Management in Videogames

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CIPPM researcher Marcella Favale has been awarded a Fusion Investment Fund for a collaborative project on Making sense of DRM in game development (Madrigal) Restrictive technology can prevent you from copying certain CDs or DVDs to a portable device to watch during your train journey or even go as far as to dictate which brand… Read more » about Making sense of Digital Rights Management in Videogames

Making sense of DRM in game development (Madrigal)

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Restrictive technology can prevent you from copying certain CDs or DVDs to a portable device to watch during your train journey or even go as far as to dictate which brand of coffee capsules you put in your espresso machine. This is Digital Rights Management (DRM). The Madrigal project has been awarded a Fusion Investment… Read more » about Making sense of DRM in game development (Madrigal)

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

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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

Maurizio Borghi on “Legal regulation of search engines”

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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”