In 2011, a macaque monkey used a camera belonging to British photographer David Slater in Indonesia to take a self-portrait. The selfie picture became famous worldwide after it was published in the British media. In 2014 Slater sent a removal request to Wikimedia Commons, which indicated that...

The paper looks at the legal nature of so-called open licenses - agreements designed to provide permissions to users and publishers through quot;some rights reservedquot; clauses. The article starts with the assertion that copyright licenses are contracts in Civil Law jurisdictions, and looks at...

This article deals with some of the intellectual property protection of biotechnology in developing countries. The article does not pretend to present an exhaustive study about the subject, but to provide an introduction to the problems faced by developing nations. There are several...

The recent demise of the proposed Directive on Computer-Implemented Inventions has overshadowed its complex background and the interplay of conflicting interests that it brought into play. Copyright (which already protects all software) and patent law (which protects much software in the United...

The advent of sophisticated artificial neural networks has opened new artistic opportunities, but also a variety of new legal challenges. Computer programs such as Google's Deep Dream can take an image and process it in manners that resemble biological networks, producing artwork that is both...

How can we regulate the Internet? This seemingly innocent question has been the subject of countless books and articles for just over the past twenty years. Part of the reason why it continues to be a vibrant and relevant topic is the difference of opinions on what is going on. On the one hand...

The use of non-proprietary software licenses - such as the Free Software (FS) and Open Source Software (OSS) license models - is definitely on the increase, showing that the open development models are viable and sometime even commercially successful systems. Amongst these models, one of the...

The use of non-proprietary software licenses - such as the Free Software (FS) and Open Source Software (OSS) license models - is definitely on the increase, showing that the open development models are viable and sometime even commercially successful systems. Amongst these models, one of the...

Networks are everywhere. The staggering complexity and seemingly chaotic nature of everyday life is actually a collection of different networks interacting with us from the moment that we wake up to the time we go to sleep. We are constantly surrounded by the social network, the financial...