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Data Imperialism: The Gdpr's Disastrous Impact On Africa's E-Commerce Markets, Cara Mannion
Data Imperialism: The Gdpr's Disastrous Impact On Africa's E-Commerce Markets, Cara Mannion
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
The European Union (EU) recently passed the General Data Protection Regulation--a sweeping regulatory framework that sets a new global standard for the collection, storage, and use of personal data. To ensure far-reaching compliance with the GDPR, the EU has adopted a strict take-it-or-leave-it approach--countries that wish to engage with digital users in the EU must either comply with the GDPR's expansive data obligations or risk losing access to the world's largest trading block.
This presents significant obstacles for several African nations. Notably, no African country currently has domestic laws that comply with the GDPR. Even if they did, several African …
People V. Robots: A Roadmap For Enforcing California's New Online Bot Disclosure Act, Barry Stricke
People V. Robots: A Roadmap For Enforcing California's New Online Bot Disclosure Act, Barry Stricke
Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law
Bots are software applications that complete tasks automatically. A bot's communication is disembodied, so humans can mistake it for a real person, and their misbelief can be exploited by the bot owner to deploy malware or phish personal data. Bots also pose as consumers posting online product reviews or spread (often fake) news, and a bot owner can coordinate multiple social-network accounts to trick a network's "trending" algorithms, boosting the visibility of specific content, sowing and exacerbating controversy, or fabricating an impression of mass individual consensus. California's 2019 Bolstering Online Transparency Act (the "CA Bot Act') imposes conspicuous disclosure requirements …
The Price Of Closing The Value Gap: How The Music Industry Hacked Eu Copyright Reform, Annemarie Bridy
The Price Of Closing The Value Gap: How The Music Industry Hacked Eu Copyright Reform, Annemarie Bridy
Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law
Sweeping changes are coming to copyright law in the European Union. Following four years of negotiations, the European Parliament in April 2019 approved the final text of the Digital Single Market (DSM) Directive. The new directive contains provisions for enhancing cross-border access to content available through digital subscription services, enabling new uses of copyrighted works for education and research, and, most controversially, "clarifying" the role of online services in the distribution of copyrighted works.
Article 17 of the DSM Directive is directed to the last of these goals. It was designed to address the so-called value gap-the music industry's longstanding …
The Very Brief History Of Decentralized Blockchain Governance, Michael Abramowicz
The Very Brief History Of Decentralized Blockchain Governance, Michael Abramowicz
Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law
A new form of blockchain governance involving the use of formal games that incentivize participants to identify focal resolutions to normative questions is emerging. This symposium contribution provides a brief survey of the literature proposing and critiquing the use of such mechanisms of decentralized decision-making, and it evaluates early laboratory and real-world experiments with this approach.