In this article, we analyse how the European legislator is currently responding to some of the recent changes in the media and communications environment with the adoption of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive. What is the European approach to address the challenges brought about by the...

This study deals with live and silent auctions of domain names. It develops a domain name appraisal model for decisions related to marketability, brand, traffic, industry e-commerce value trademark assessment. It focuses on ICANN NAF WIPO IRS type of resolution dispute cost benefit analysis and...

We observe for several decades a general strengthening of intellectual property rights. This environment crystallizes the tensions around patents, copyright and trademarks. We present the various factors that have contributed to this situation with a focus on the digital world and especially the...

<alinea/> Domain names are subject to purchases and sales in a market which is becoming increasingly important. The creation of new first level (top level) domain names is controlled by an organization which enjoys a monopoly position : the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)....

The concern of this contribution is a problem connected with a limited usage of Internet space, which is based on domain names connecting common users with terminal information for the World Wide Web. The main focus is especially on a legislation of disputes for .eu domain names. After the...

The last 10 years witnessed an exponential growth of the Internet. According to Hobbes' Internet Timeline, the Internet hosts are about 93 million, while in 1989 they were 100,000. The same happens for second level domain names. In July 1989 the registered domains were about 3,900 while they...

Nel momento in cui la Commissione europea ha ritenuto necessario intervenire per chiarire le modalità di applicazione dell'art. 82, ha dovuto fronteggiare numerosi problemi, tra i quali l'assenza nel Trattato di una definizione di "abuso" e la mancanza di una cospicua produzione...

Статья посвящена актуальным вопросам реализации такого принципа гражданского права как свобода договора. Охарактеризовав перечень ее форм, автор обращает...

The article is devoted to the problem of freedom of the will in civil law, that is insufficiently explored in civil law science. Historical and legal approach to the analysis of formation and development of the concept of freedom of the will in subjective civil law, stated in the article, let us...