Focus areas

Copyright in the Metaverse

Posted . Filed under Artificial Intelligence, Creative Industries, Emergent Technologies, Focus areas, Projects.

This project funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciene (JSPS) analyses UK and Japanese copyright laws and how they relate to the Metaverse. The project was awarded to Professor Dinusha Mendis to take up a short term invitational professorship at Waseda University Tokyo from July – October 2023. It was carried out… Read more » about Copyright in the Metaverse

Roger Brownsword and Maurizio Borghi (eds): “Law, Regulation and Governance in the Information Society”

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Roger Brownsword and Maurizio Borghi, (eds), Law, Regulation and Governance in the Information Society(Routledge, 2023) 396 pp This edited collection seeks to map the landscape of contemporary informational interests, to evaluate a range of recognised and putative rights and wrongs associated with modern information societies, and to consider how law, regulation, and governance should be… Read more » about Roger Brownsword and Maurizio Borghi (eds): “Law, Regulation and Governance in the Information Society”

Roger Brownsword: “Technology, Governance and Respect for the Law: Pictures at an Exhibition”

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Technology, Governance and Respect for the Law: Pictures at an Exhibition (Routledge, 2023) 210 pp In the context of the technological disruption of law and, in particular, the prospect of governance by machines, this book reconsiders the demand that we should respect the law, simply because it is the law. What does ‘the law’ need… Read more » about Roger Brownsword: “Technology, Governance and Respect for the Law: Pictures at an Exhibition”