The "Geo-blocking Regulation," introduced in 2018, addresses discriminatory online practices affecting consumers based on their location, residence, or nationality. The present study is part of on-going monitoring and seeks to provide a holistic review of the evolution of cross-border e-commerce...

The digitization of content has led to the emergence of platforms that draw information from multiple sources. This paper investigates whether aggregation of content by a single platform encourages users to “skim” content or to investigate it in depth. We study a contract dispute that led a...

How do intellectual property rights influence academic science? We investigate the consequences of the introduction of software patents in the U.S. on the publications of university researchers in the field of computer science. Difference-in-difference estimations reveal that software scientists...

The proposed Digital Markets Act (DMA) is an opportunity to prevent and remedy anti-competitive conduct by large digital platforms. If the Act is designed in an adequate manner to target specific problems, it can improve the contestability of platform services markets and markets that rely...

This book addresses the challenges of datafication through the lens of international economic law. We are undergoing a wave of datafication practices. If such practices simply continue to evolve without being examined and repaired along the existing path of development, the same issues will...

"This book aims to provide advanced undergraduate and graduate students with a comprehensive review and analysis of the legal, ethical and regulatory environments, both national and international, that relate to businesses and the Internet. Topics covered in the book include American...

We study the production of knowledge when many researchers or inventors are involved, in a setting where tensions can arise between individual public and private contributions. We first show that without some kind of coordination, production of the public knowledge good (science or research...

The accuracy of computer systems represents the property that they are working as the users expect. Very often, these computer systems give inaccurate or wrong results. However, designing correct computer systems is a complex and expensive task. There are several ways to deal with this problem....

There is an ongoing conflict between software copyright owners and a vast majority of users who are continually finding ways to use the software without paying. The paper investigates the attitudes of the users towards application of licensed or unlicensed software. Through in-debt analysis of...

Internet banking or e-banking refers to the facility through information and communication technology. Internet banking is increasingly becoming popular because of both convenience and flexibility. Computer fraudsters are always trying to gain illegal access to the information of financial and...

Wer heute ein Fahrzeug oder eine Maschine reparieren will, braucht Zugriff auf Daten und Schnittstellen. Für viele Handwerksunternehmen wird „Zugang“ zur Schlüsselfrage der digitalen Wirtschaft. In dieser Studie wird herausgearbeitet, welche Regeln derzeit dafür gelten. Dabei zeigt sich:...

Part 1 -- Chapter 1: 1. Don’t Pursue Transformations, Make The Software Shift -- Chapter 2: 2. Create New Value through Customer Progress, Not by Meeting Requirements -- Chapter 3:To Multiply Value, Mitigate Complexity First -- Part 2 -- Chapter 4: Don't Procure Software, Create a Dynamic...

Measures restricting data flows outside one's borders, including mandatory data/server localization measures, are not only a barrier to trade, but also largely ineffective in achieving better internet security or trust. Nevertheless, governments deploy such measures, primarily on grounds of...

On the ancient Silk Road, treasure-laden caravans made their arduous way through deserts and mountain passes, establishing trade between Asia and the civilizations of Europe and the Mediterranean. Today's electronic Silk Roads ferry information across continents, enabling individuals and...

This Article provides the first systematic account of software applications as works of scholarship. Software is scholarship to the extent that software functionality is derived from scholarly research, software is used as a means to develop scholarship, or software is used as a medium to...

Open Source Digital Library Software packages have much potential for modern Library and Information Centers. It is the software that you can modify, fix, add to, and distribute to others. The Open Source Software (OSS) is becoming an increasingly popular software development method and it...

Several scholars as well as industry professionals have claimed that there is a "software-biased shift" in the nature and direction of innovation in that software development is a core part of innovation activities in firms across a wide array of industries. Empirical firm-level evidence of such...

Der Consumer-IoT-Bereich entwickelt sich mit hoher Dynamik. Die Anzahl vernetzter Produkte für Verbraucher nimmt kontinuierlich zu und bietet gegenüber herkömmlichen Produktvarianten vielfach erweiterte Anwendungsmöglichkeiten und damit zusätzlichen Nutzen. Es besteht erhebliches Potential...

This study extends the literature on fighting software piracy by investigating how Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) regimes interact with technology to mitigate software piracy when existing levels of piracy are considered. Two technology metrics (internet penetration rate and number of PC...

Networks powered by algorithms are pervasive. Major contemporary technology trends-Internet of Things, Big Data, Digital Platform Power, Blockchain, and the Algorithmic Society-are manifestations of this phenomenon. The internet, which once seemed an unambiguous benefit to society, is now the...

The concept of ‘the commons’ has been used as a framework to understand resources shared by a community rather than a private entity, and it has also inspired social movements working against the enclosure of public goods and resources. One such resource is free (libre) and open source...

Digital Library initiatives are gaining momentum and many open source digital library software emerged. These developments necessitate universal standard for digital library software. Conforming the software to universal standard means compromising local requirements. No matter how general the...

Although the essential facilities doctrine has not been applied recently anymore in EU competition enforcement, it is regularly referred to in EU policy discussions as a tool to open up markets in which ‘tech giants' act as gatekeepers to consumers. Considering that the digital economy is not...

Software has become an integral part of our life when everything in our life is connected with the digital world. Being a valuable technology in the internet age, software has also contributed for the development of economy as well. It has created large number of job across the globe and a boom...

After a decade of bruising legal battles, the courts and software industry norms largely resolved the costly war over the scope of copyright protection for computer software. By the mid 1990s, freedom to develop interoperable devices, systems, and software triumphed over broad copyright...