The field of copyright law is dynamic and shaped by technological advances. The disruptive digitization of the last three decades has enabled on the one hand more creativity and on the other hand facilitated copyright infringement. Technology itself has become a tool of copyright management and...

The purpose of this chapter is to shed light on the rules created in preferential trade agreements (PTAs), their evolution over time, and the positioning of the main stake-holders – the EU and the US. The mapping of the new data governance regime in trade agreements should not however be...

The ELSI White Paper is the final achievement of the ELSI Task Force for the National Research Programme “Big Data” (NRP 75). It is an informational document that provides an overview of the key ethical, legal, and social challenges of big data and provides guidance for the collection, use,...

The chapter seeks to provide a better understanding and contextualization of the highly dynamic field of digital trade rulemaking driven by free trade agreements (FTAs). The analytical lens is directed in particular towards the more recent and advanced models of digital trade rulemaking, such as...

In the face of new technological developments triggered by the process of digitization and more recently, the increased importance of data to societies, the European Union (EU) has updated its approach in external trade policy. Key changes have been made in particular in the dedicated electronic...

This article is set against the complex backdrop of the evolution of the data-driven economy and its regulation, and seeks to provide a better contextualization of the topic of data protection as a matter of trade law. It looks at the recent proliferation of rules on data flows, specifically...

The article explores the transformations triggered by digitalization in the domain of global trade law and seeks to evaluate the nature and the effects of the unfolding legal adaptation in this field of international law. For this purpose, the article starts by mapping the sweeping effects of...

Rising economies face a crucial dilemma when establishing their position on international patent law. Should they translate their increasing economic strength into political power to further developing countries' interests in lower levels of international patent protection? Or, anticipating a...

With the increased role of data in societies, the interfaces between trade and privacy protection have become multiple and intensified, and raise important questions as to adequate regulatory design that can reconcile economic and non-economic concerns, national and international interests. This...

The chapter starts with a brief look into disruptive technologies and discusses the Internet as a discrete type of general purpose technology (GPT). It then explores the sweeping effects of digitization at different levels of the economy and on trade and trade policies. In order to understand...