The recently enacted "Civil Rights Framework for the Internet" (Marco Civil), is a Law that has set the grounds for different Internet related rights in Brazil. Among its provisions are the ones related to network neutrality. Due to the importance of the topic, as well as its relevance for the...

This paper tracks the rapidly evolving landscape for digital trade and e-commerce across five Northeast Asian economies: China, Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, and Taiwan. These five countries are at the cutting edge of the digital revolution with increasingly wired citizens and innovative...

Im Internet 2.0 konsumiert man nicht nur Informationen passiv, sondern kann sie selbst als Text, Bild, Video etc. zur Verfügung stellen. Menschen vernetzen sich aktiver als jemals zuvor in und mit "sozialen Medien" - weltweit. Zugleich lassen sich Daten über Nutzer noch leichter gewinnen....

Ineffectual legal-assistance cooperation increasingly prompts governments to apply laws extraterritorially or to force data localisation, with dire consequences for the free flow of data and the global economy. As a result, different layers of national laws counteract and sometimes contradict...

The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) will be renegotiating its binding rules, known as the International Telecommunication Regulations (ITRs) at the World Conference on International Telecommunication (WCIT) in Dubai this December, which will be the first principal update since 1988....

The study of policy discourse comprises actor-centered and content-oriented approaches. We attempt to close the gap between the two kinds of approaches by introducing a new methodology for the analysis of political discourse called Discourse Network Analysis. It is based on social network...

There is considerable debate regarding the use of intellectual property rights (IPR) to spur innovation in the software industry. In this paper we focus on the choice of intellectual property right regimes and industry growth. We begin by developing a growth optimal mixture of open source and...

The economic characteristics of software and transaction costs explain, why closed source and open source software co-exist. It is about the efficient use of a non- and anti-scarce resource. But because of ex-post transaction costs that lead to information asymmetries, some property rights...