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Hidden Engines Of Destruction, Andrea Matwyshyn Mar 2009

Hidden Engines Of Destruction, Andrea Matwyshyn

Andrea Matwyshyn

This article explores whether a duty to warn should exist in the context of digital products. It argues in favor of creating a “reasonable expectation of code safety.” Section I explains the dominant ways that digital products can harm consumers through their code and not their content, focusing on functionality and information security harms. Section II reviews existing regulation of digital products and highlighted their focus on improving information parity and consumer control over digital product relationships. Section II then sets forth the scope of the duty to warn and protect from harms in real space owed by possessors of …


Grundläggande Immaterialrätt, Ulrika Wennersten, Ulf Maunsbach Dec 2008

Grundläggande Immaterialrätt, Ulrika Wennersten, Ulf Maunsbach

Ulrika Wennersten

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Internet Killed The Copyright Law: Perfect 10 V. Google And The Devastating Impact On The Exclusiive Right To Display, Deborah B. Morse Dec 2008

Internet Killed The Copyright Law: Perfect 10 V. Google And The Devastating Impact On The Exclusiive Right To Display, Deborah B. Morse

Deborah Brightman Morse

Never has the dissonance between copyright and innovation been so extreme. The Internet provides enormous economic growth due to the strength of e-commerce, and affords an avenue for creativity and the wide dissemination of information. Nevertheless, the Internet has become a plague on copyright law. The advent of the digital medium has made the unlawful reproduction, distribution, and display of copyrighted works essentially effortless. The law has been unable to keep pace with the rapid advance of technology. For the past decade, Congress has been actively attempting to draft comprehensible legislation in an effort to afford copyright owners more protection …