Intellectual Property Law | Open Access Articles

Essential Facilities Doctrine And China’S Anti-Monopoly Law, Yong Huang, Elizabeth Xiao-Ru Wang, Xin Roger Zhang

Elizabeth Xiao-Ru Wang

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Virtual Currencies: Bitcoin & What Now After Liberty Reserve, Silk Road, And Mt. Gox?, Lawrence J. Trautman

Lawrence J. Trautman Sr.

During 2013, the U.S. Treasury Department evoked the first use of the 2001 Patriot Act to exclude virtual currency provider Liberty Reserve from the U.S. financial system. This article will discuss: the regulation of virtual currencies; cybercrimes and payment systems; darknets, Tor and the “deep web;” Bitcoin; Liberty Reserve; Silk Road and Mt. Gox. Virtual currencies have quickly become a reality, gaining significant traction in a very short period of time, and are evolving rapidly. Virtual currencies present particularly difficult law enforcement challenges because of their: ability to transcend national borders in the fraction of a second; unique jurisdictional issues; …

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The Impact Of Introducing An Additional Copyright Fee For Sharing Third Party Content Online, Roya Ghafele

Roya Ghafele

During the course of 2014 the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) will decide whether the embedding of third party content is subject to a fee or not. Against this background I run a case study, where I estimate the impact of such a license fee on the disposable income of citizens of the European Union. I furthermore expand the analysis to approximate also the existing institutional capacity within the E.U. to capture such a novel revenue stream. The average European aged 16-75+ would have to give up 4.2 % of her net income. By the same token …