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The rapid expansion of sharing economy platforms has generated enormous controversy. Law and the "Sharing Economy" closely examines the challenges that arise from this phenomenon with regard to labour, market, technology and regulation through a legal and interdisciplinary lens. The controversy...
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Currently, virtual world governance is the product of end user license agreements, contracts which attempt to provide a complete legal and enforcement system to the virtual world. This method of governance is flawed, however, and results in participant frustration. Alternative approaches that...
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network environments such as cyberspace. The U.S. government, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and theoreticians …
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Distributed ledger technology especially in the form of publicly coordinated validation networks such as Ethereum and Bitcoin with their own monetary circles provide for a revealing litmus test for current financial regulatory schemes. The paper highlights the interrelation between distributed...
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Technology has made us a ‘global’ community in the literal sense of the word. Whether we are ready or not mankind now has a completely integrated information market place capable of moving ideas to any place on this planet in minutes. Information and ideas will go where they are wanted and...
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This article seeks to examine the fertility, for the regulation of cyberspace, of the "pyramid-network hypothesis … describing more accurately how law is being created in cyberspace, how legal norms in cyberspace interact, and how the … hierarchies among creators of legal norms in cyberspace may be understood. In other words, it seeks to provide an answer to the …
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This paper examines the functioning of virtual currencies as payment systems through crypto-currency exchanges and the likely impact their integration with traditional payment systems may have on the interdependent global payment systems. Being a potential global transformational phenomenon,...
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Virtual assets are a concept that has made its way into the modern financial and legal lexicon in recent years. Markets are formed around them, transactions are conducted with them, they are the object of increased interest in the field of investment activities. The need for legal regulation of...
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