This chapter analyzes the privacy, intellectual property, competition policy, and human rights law implications of the rise of Facebook and the threat of a natural monopoly in social networking. Facebook instructed its users that it may provide friend lists and other profile information to third...

This chapter is within Part II of the book, on “IP Liberties,” in which the scope of copyright is the focus. The law generates or reflects a dialectic in which (1) those creating content without access to capital, who apply their labor to what has come before, argue for narrower rights; (2)...

P2P file-sharing dominated the illegal online uses of copyrighted materials since its appearance in 1999. In 2012, I have concluded my research on this field in a monograph. Six years passed by and it is time to double-check what foreseeable consequences came through and how some other...