This paper is concerned with the question of how to deal with Google Shopping’s position on online markets in order to prevent harm to public welfare. From the perspective of sellers and buyers of goods and services in Germany, Google can be seen as a gatekeeper to the Internet and thus as an...

The doctrine of fair use allows limited copying of creative works based on the rationale that copyright holders would consent to such uses if bargaining were possible. This paper develops a formal model of fair use in an effort to derive the efficient legal standard for applying the doctrine....

The Constitution of the United States empowers the Congress to pass copyright laws to promote knowledge creation in the society and more specifically scientific knowledge. Many interesting economic studies have been conducted on copyright law, but very little research has been done to study the...

В представленной работе исследуются вопросы ограничения авторских прав на произведения, содержания которых противоречит публичному порядку государства. Автор...

<marquage typemarq="italique"/> The web is a gigantic space with one trillion webpages. In such a space where it is critical to find information, search tools offer internet users a way to dig into most of the available online materials. In order to provide their services, search engines need to process information from third...

The contribution analyzes the legal and ethic side of the infringement of copyright law in the university world from the not only theoretical point of view, but also with the use of practical knowledge. The focus is fixated mainly on the analysis of single reasons of this problem and on the...

<i>В статье рассматриваются правовые аспекты, регламентирующие отношения в сфере информации. Анализируется существующее законодательство об авторском праве,...</i>

This paper analyses the multiplicity of image rights in Europe and the classical conflictual relationship between the right to one’s own image and copyright law. First, the paper analyses the main mechanisms of legal protection of a person’s image in selected jurisdictions, in both the civil...

Online copyright infringement is one of the toughest challenges the content industry has faced in the twenty first century. Article 8(3) of the Information Society Directive, implemented under section 97A of the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, provides an injunctive remedy in...

The application of consumer law to digital content contracts encounters a number of obstacles. Some of these are rather typical for digital content markets, e.g., the legal consequences of the classification of digital content as “goods” or “services” and, more importantly, the absence...