The role of online intermediaries in allowing third parties to perform legal as well as illegal activities and the growing economic power of such intermediaries are profoundly challenging the legal framework established 20 years ago with the European Union e-Commerce Directive. European courts...

Open Access' main goal is not the subversion of publishers' role as driving actors in an oligopolistic market characterised by reduced competition and higher prices. OA's main function is to be found somewhere else, namely in the ability to subvert the power to control science's governance and...

Italian Abstract: Il presente saggio si colloca nell'ambito di uno studio interdisciplinare che si propone di analizzare alcune problematiche relative alla proprietà intellettuale ed al diritto dei contratti nella costruzione dei linguaggi di rappresentazione dei diritti digitali, nuove...

While scaling interdisciplinary processes, the only ones able to provide lawyers with the tools to play their role within the "cyberspace", this article deals with closed and open digital rights management systems in copyright law. Legal science and Information Technology (IT) have been facing a...

The "International Instrument on Permitted Uses in Copyright Law" (the Instrument) is the result of a research project for a balanced reconciliation of interests in copyright law. The project was coordinated by the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition and resulted in a legal...

This article examines how copyright law protect academics in the Italian, German, and US jurisdictions and how academic authors use copyright vis-à-vis intermediaries (i.e. universities and publishers). The analysis shows that many academics are dissatisfied with how copyright works in the...

The right to academic freedom protected both under international treaties and national constitutions is at the very heart of social, cultural, and economic development. As far as scientific research and teaching are concerned, copyright has to be considered within the context of a proper...