Social media platforms have evolved into the ‘modern public square' - with all the legal complexities involved. Public discourse, free speech and global online crime prevention are all at present under extreme pressures, due, ironically, to both significant over-blocking and under-blocking by...

The emergence of ‘deepfakes’, a recent Artificial Intelligence development, presents new challenges to regulations that question the applicability of existing law in the USA and the UK.As technology becomes more sophisticated, the range of uses of persona will potentially increase.While the...

The focus of this chapter is the analysis of a selection of contemporary technical tools employed to combat digital intellectual property infringements, notably blockchain, social media tools, blacklisting and whitelisting, follow-the-money tools, domain name tools, search engine deindexing,...

This study provides an overview of current approaches to online copyright infringements, focusing specifically on the responses to piracy in the digital sphere across the world. The study explores the global problem of online piracy, the different types of digital tools and administrative...