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

Posted . Filed under Emergent Technologies, Publications.

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”

Ruth Towse: “Digitization, Internet and Economics of the Creative Industries”

Posted . Filed under Creative Industries, Emergent Technologies, Knowledge Exchange, Publications.

Towse R., ‘Digitization, Internet and Economics of the Creative Industries’ in W. Gonzalez, (ed) The Internet and Philosophy of Science, (Routledge, 2023) The creative industries are increasingly understood to contribute significantly to national Income and economic growth. Made up of the performing, literary and visual arts, museums and heritage and the music, film, video, broadcasting… Read more » about Ruth Towse: “Digitization, Internet and Economics of the Creative Industries”

Melanie Stockton-Brown: “Ghosts and Punks: The Aesthetics of Copyright Law in Graphic Novels and Comics”

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Stockton-Brown M., Ghosts and Punks: The Aesthetics of Copyright Law in Graphic Novels and Comics(2023) 36(2) International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, 509- 527 Graphic justice and the law of aesthetics have in very recent years successfully brought law, aesthetics and comics scholarship into the same space. The culture of copyright infringement within comics… Read more » about Melanie Stockton-Brown: “Ghosts and Punks: The Aesthetics of Copyright Law in Graphic Novels and Comics”