Nothing shows better how much the public sphere has changed that the Index of a book about it has the most references to “Social media platforms”, “Search engines” or “Gatekeepers”. „One might almost say that Google and Facebook gave birth to (the public sphere of) the twenty-first...

The right of integrity appeared at different times and with different content in different legal systems. Although the Berne Convention (BC) contains a compromise solution on the right of integrity, compared to this minimum requirement there are noticeable shifts towards both endpoints of the...

Swartz's law : the rise of AI censors -- Carceral communications law : freedom and censors in the public sphere -- Coordinated inauthentic activity : private police and political dissent -- The freedom of reach : kingly power versus knowledge commons -- Locking the web "open" : paths to a...

The insightful contributions shed new light on insufficiently examined issues and highlight connections that cut across the many different domains in which such regulations operate. Building upon the framework presented by David Post – one of the first and most prominent scholars of cyber...

This chapter in a forthcoming book attempts to map global patterns by which local tyrannies become sources of potentially global infringements on freedom of expression, particularly but not exclusively on the YouTube Web site. It illustrates certain parallels between the efforts to force...

This article describes the development of trademark liability for engaging in corporate criticism or parody on the Internet, and the emerging judicial consensus that imposing liability on this form of political speech violates the First Amendment rights of Internet users. The article begins by...

Anticompetitive collusion by intellectual property owners frequently triggered antitrust enforcement during the twentieth century. An emerging area of litigation and scholarship, however, involves conspiracies by potential licensees of intellectual property to reduce or eliminate opportunities...

Cheap, ubiquitous high-speed Internet access promises to accelerate economic growth, create new jobs and industries, advance education and lifelong learning, inform and improve health care decision-making, and raise living standards. Conversely, foregone broadband access by low income and other...

This article analyzes the Innovation Act, which passed the U.S. House of Representatives on a promise to deal with the problem of "patent trolls" or non-practicing entities (NPEs). The article surveys the NPE controversy from a variety of perspectives, including the history and theory of...

This piece explores the digitization and uploading to the Internet of full-text books, book previews in the form of chapters or snippets, and databases that index the contents of book collections. Along the way, it will describe the economics of copyright, the "digital dilemma," and...