Das Buch nimmt die Zukunft vorweg. Es beschreibt den genauen Weg unserer Gesellschaft in die Digitale Welt - in die Smarte Gesellschaft. Unsichtbares wird nun sichtbar: Erzählt wird, wie die Smartphones und Apps zu neuen Partnern in allen Lebenslagen werden konnten. Es werden die kalifornischen...

The debate about the economic power of large tech firms has led to the insight that due to the key role of personal data on large digital platforms competition and privacy issues are deeply intertwined. This leads also to a complex relationship between competition law and data protection (or...

Starting in the 1960s with the Kennedy Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), nontariff measures (NTMs) have been replacing tariffs continuously as the core element of trade negotiations. Today they take centre stage in all EU trade agreements with industrialised and...

In this paper, Ms. Wilkinson covers the relationship between the copyright and the data protection regimes in Canada. In her study of the question, Ms. Wilkinson explains how the control over information created under copyright regime contrasted with the control created under data protection...

Changes that are constantly taking place in the digital economy cause increasing instability of legislation in the field of data protection and security. For example, in Ukraine, under martial law, there is an urgent need to adapt the legal regulation to European data protection standards (in...

Das Spannungsfeld zwischen dem geistigen Eigentum und den Bedingungen, die für einen freien Wettbewerb erforderlich sind, stellt die Wissenschaft vor große Herausforderungen. Die Beiträge dieses Sammelbandes spiegeln Facettenreichtum und Tiefe der damit angesprochenen Problematik wider....