The Law of Global Digitality by C. Kettemann, Matthias; Peukert, Alexander; Spiecker gen. Döhmann, Indra;

Series: Routledge Research in the Law of Emerging Technologies;

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Edition number 1
Publisher Routledge
Date of Publication 29 January 2024

ISBN 9781032255507
Binding Paperback
No. of pages272 pages
Size 234x156 mm
Weight 530 g
Language English

Short description:

Comparing six different areas of law that have been particularly exposed to global digitality, namely laws regulating consumer contracts, data protection, the media, financial markets, criminal activity, and intellectual property law, this work considers whether we can identify a particular mediality of law in the digital age.

Long description:

The Internet is not an unchartered territory. On the Internet, norms matter. They interact, regulate, are contested and legitimated by multiple actors. But are they diverse and unstructured, or are they part of a recognizable order? And if the latter, what does this order look like?

This collected volume explores these key questions while providing new perspectives on the role of law in times of digitality. The book compares six different areas of law that have been particularly exposed to global digitality, namely laws regulating consumer contracts, data protection, the media, financial markets, criminal activity and intellectual property law. By comparing how these very different areas of law have evolved with regard to cross-border online situations, the book considers whether cyberlaw is little more than "the law of the horse", or whether the law of global digitality is indeed special and, if so, what its characteristics across various areas of law are. The book brings together legal academics with expertise in how law has both reacted to and shaped cross-border, global Internet communication and their contributions consider whether it is possible to identify a particular mediality of law in the digital age.

Examining whether a global law of digitality has truly emerged, this book will appeal to academics, students and practitioners of law examining the future of the law of digitality as it intersects with traditional categories of law.

1 Introduction

2 IPR Enforcement

2.1 Takedown Orders of Courts: De Iure and de Facto Effects

2.2 Intermediaries’ Enforcement Measures

2.2.1 The Central Role of Intermediaries

2.2.2 Intermediaries’ Enforcement Measures and Their Transnational Effect

2.2.2.1 Domain Name Registrars

2.2.2.2 Access Providers

2.2.2.3 Host Providers and Search Engines

2.2.2.4 Follow the Money: Advertising and Payment Services

2.2.3 Summary

3 Licensing IPRs

4 Conclusion

PART II

Data Protection/Privacy

3 The More the Merrier: A Dynamic Approach Learning From Prior Misgovernance in EU Data Protection Law

INDRA SPIECKER GEN. DÖHMANN

1 Introduction

2 The Historical Approach to Data Protection Law—An Overview

2.1 Goals

2.2 Instruments

3 Reaction of Today’s Data Protection Law to the Challenges of Global Digitality

3.1 Core Regulatory Goals

3.1.1 Data Protection as a Safeguard of Democracy

3.1.2 Power Asymmetry

3.1.3 GDPR as Unifier

3.2 Core Regulatory Instrumental Approach

3.2.1 Precautionary Principle Versus Risk-Based Approach and the Concept of Technological Neutrality

3.2.2 Data Protection Law as Consumer Protection and Fair Competition Law

3.3 Content Regulation

3.3.1 Enforcement Deficit

3.3.2 Territorial Scope

3.3.3 Enforcement of the Enforcement

3.3.4 Internet Regulation

4 Conclusion and Outlook

4 Giving the Invisible Hand a Relatively Free Hand: Data Privacy in the US and the Unfortunate, but Lawful, Commodification of the Person

RONALD J. KROTOSZYNSKI, JR.

1 Introduction: The Myriad Cultural and Legal Difficulties of Safeguarding Informational Self-Determination Against Non-Government Actors in the US

2 The First Amendment Will Make Comprehensive Personal Data Protection Laws Difficult to Enact and Enforce 1

3 The Patchwork Quilt of Federal Statutory Privacy Protections and the First Amendment

4 Constitutional Data Privacy Rights, the State Action Doctrine, and the Scope of Constitutional Rights in the US

5 Why Does the US Lack Strong, General Personal Data Protections Against Non-Governmental Entities?

6 Global Digitality, Personal Data Protection, and "The Law of the Horse"

7 Conclusion

PART III

Consumer Contract Law

5 The Challenge of Globalized Online Commerce for U.S. Contract and Consumer Law

CHRISTOPHER G. BRADLEY

1 Introduction

2 A Ragged Patchwork of Consumer Protection Laws, Regulations, and Institutions

3 The Limits of Technological Approaches to Consumer Protection

4 Not Ready to Restate: A Rejected Consumer Contracting "Bargain"

5 Marshaling Doctrinal, Regulatory, and Technological Protections for Consumers in the Digital Age

6 Conclusion

6 Paradigms of EU Consumer Law in the Digital Age

FELIX MAULTZSCH

1 Introduction

2 The Market-Centred Approach to Contract Law

3 International Jurisdiction and Conflict of Laws: Connecting Factors

4 Extra-Territorial Application of EU Consumer Law

5 Trends in Substantive EU Sales Law

6 Alternative Means of Dispute Resolution and Enforcement of Consumer Rights

7 Private Governance by Contract and Technology

8 Conclusions

PART IV

Media Law

7 Law of Digitality: Media Law—U.S. Perspectives

ELLEN P. GOODMAN

1 Digital Platform Disclosure Obligations for Political and Commercial Advertising

2 Digital Platform Disclosure Obligations for Deep Fakes and Bots

3 Government Access Obligations Under the First Amendment’s Public Forum Doctrine

4 Digital Platforms’ Exposure to Liability as Publishers and Distributors

4.1 Judicial Interpretations of Section 230

4.1.1 Herrick v. Grindr LLC

4.1.2 Force v. Facebook, Inc.

4.2 Territorial Question

5 Intermediary Liability Reform Proposals

5.1 Ex Post Duty of Care

5.2 Creating Genre-Based Statutory Limitations

5.3 Creating Narrow Content-Based Carve-Outs

5.4 Expanding the Definition of Content "Development"

5.5 "Political Neutrality" Mandates

5.6 Section 230 as Regulatory Leverage

5.7 Requiring User-Identification Procedures

5.8 Knowledge-Based Standard

6 U.S. Initiatives to Counter Disinformation

8 European Media Law in Times of Digitality

STEPHAN DREYER, MATTHIAS C. KETTEMANN, WOLFGANG SCHULZ AND THERESA JOSEPHINE SEIPP

1 Introduction

2 The European Communication Order in Digitality

2.1 Media-Specific Legal Instruments

2.2 Sector-Specific Legal Framework

2.2.1 E-Commerce and Electronic Services Law

2.2.2 Telecommunications Law

2.2.3 Contract and Consumer Protection-Related Specifications in the Media Sector

2.2.4 Special Provisions Under Competition Law

2.2.5 Special Provisions Applicable to Intellectual Property Rights

3 Reform of Europe’s Media Order

3.1 The Year of Reform

3.2 Digital Services

3.3 Digital Markets

4 Conclusions

PART V

Financial Regulation and Criminal Law

9 Regulating Virtual Currencies

ROLAND BROEMEL

1 Digital Currencies as a Form of Global Digitality

1.1 Digital Currencies as a Digital Phenomenon

1.1.1 Blockchain as a Specifically Digital Technology

1.1.2 Added Value of Payment Data

1.1.2.1 Data as a Commercial Factor: Cross-Market Business Models

1.1.2.2 Impact on Digital Payment Services and Currencies

1.1.2.3 Development of Digital Ecosystems in Digital Financial Services

1.1.2.4 Ecosystems in Digital Currencies

1.2 Virtual Currencies as a Specifically Global Phenomenon

1.2.1 Technical Factors of Globality

1.2.2 Economic Factors of Globality

1.2.2.1 Exchange Costs and Economic Functions of Money

1.2.2.2 Part of the Network Instead of a Geographical Area

2 Legal Framework of Virtual Currencies

2.1 Adaptation

2.1.1 Banking Supervision Law

2.1.1.1 Virtual Currency as Category: Unit of Account or Crypto Value

2.1.1.2 Regulatory Assessment of the Activities

2.1.2 Stablecoins as E-Money?

2.1.3 Civil Law

2.1.4 Securities Law

2.2 Specific Challenges of Digitality

2.2.1 Prevention of Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism

2.2.2 Investor and Consumer Protection in the Issuing of Virtual Currencies

2.2.3 Specific Regulatory Requirements for "Value-Referenced Tokens"

3 Conclusion

10 Criminal Law of Global Digitality: Characteristics and Critique of Cybercrime Law

BEATRICE BRUNHÖBER

1 Defining Criminal Law of Global Digitality

1.1 From Computer Crime to Cybercrime

1.2 Cybercrime Offenses

2 The Challenging Global Dimension of Cybercrime

2.1 Global Challenges

2.2 Approaches to Addressing Global Cybercrime

3 Legislative Approaches

3.1 Distinguishing International From Transnational Criminal Law

3.2 United Nations Measures

3.3 The Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime

3.4 European Union Framework Decisions and Directives Addressing Cybercrime

3.5 Economic Community of West African States Directive on Fighting Cybercrime

4 Policy Approaches

4.1 United Nations Policy Measures for Addressing Cybercrime

4.2 Regional Policy Strategies for Dealing With Cybercrime

5 Characteristics and Weaknesses of Global Digitality Criminal Law

5.1 Characteristics of Current Global Digitality Criminal Law

5.2 Weaknesses of Present Global Digitality Criminal Law

6 Conclusion

Conclusion: The Law of Global Digitality: Findings and Future Research

MATTHIAS C. KETTEMANN AND ALEXANDER PEUKERT

1 The Theme

2 The Findings

3 Suggestions for Future Research

Index