Andrew Murray* Abstract A keynote speech delivered at the 2013 conference of the British & Irish Law, Education & Technology Association, on 11 April 2013, at the University of Liverpool.. Cite as: A Murray, “Looking Back at the Law
Drafting Options for Contributor Agreements for Free and Open Source Software: Assignment, (Non)Exclusive Licence and Legal Consequences. A Comparative Analysis of German and US Law
Tim Engelhardt * Abstract Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) has become so widespread that it is now used in virtually every type of device and is distributed in almost every market. Scores of FOSS projects offer their software and
Internationalisation of FOSS Contributory Copyright Assignments and Licenses: Jurisdiction-Specific or “Unported”?
Axel Metzger * Abstract Some of the major Free and Open Source (FOSS) projects use contributory copyright assignments and licenses to clarify the ownership of developer’s contributions and to allow the project to grant sublicenses and enforce copyright claims in
Comparative analysis of copyright assignment and licence formalities for Open Source Contributor Agreements
Andres Guadamuz* and Andrew Rens** Abstract This article discusses formal requirements in open source software contributor copyright assignment and licensing agreements. Contributor agreements are contracts by which software developers transfer or license their work on behalf of an open source
Governance, Social Media and The Cybercitizen – Always in Motion is the Future
Andrew Power* Abstract This article considers the emerging technologies known as Web 2.0 and how changing technologies may change the way we think about governance. In the last thirty years digital computing has had a transformational effect on the way
The European Unified Patent Court: Assessment and Implications of the Federalisation of the Patent System in Europe
Dimitris Xenos* Abstract The push for the creation of a European Unified Patent Court (UPC) aims to achieve the federalisation of the patent system in Europe. By replacing the jurisdiction of national courts in the legal disputes relating to patents
Private But Eventually Public: Why Copyright in Unpublished Works Matters in the Digital Age
Damien McCallig * Abstract Digital life is no longer only concerned with online communication between living individuals; it now encompasses post-death phenomena of inheritance, legacy, mourning and further uses of our digital remains. Scholars and practitioners seeking an appropriate legal
Disaster Victim Identification in the Information Age: The Use Of Personal Data, Post-Mortem Privacy and the Rights of the Victim’s Relatives
Jan Bikker* Abstract The digital age as we know it nowadays has not only transformed the way we communicate, bond and form relationships with each other, but has also created a digital world in which we are no longer anonymous
Does the EU Data Protection Regime Protect Post-Mortem Privacy and What Could Be The Potential Alternatives?
Edina Harbinja* Abstract This article aims to shed some light on post-mortem privacy, a phenomenon rather neglected in the legal literature. Acknowledging the quite controversial nature of the phenomenon and certain policy and legal arguments pro and contra, the paper
Access to the Digital Self in Life and Death: Privacy in the Context of Posthumously Persistent Facebook Profiles
Elaine Kasket* Abstract Digital-age phenomena pose a myriad of challenges to the management of privacy, and one such phenomenon is the posthumously persistent Facebook profile, created and regulated by an individual during life but repurposed after death as a site