Overview
- Provides an up-to-date overview of current legal developments in the global regulation of innovative technologies
- Combines theoretical insights and comparative case-law research
- Suggests alternatives for governing access to new essential and scarce information resources
- Offers provocative parallels and analogies between the regulative rules of technologies for the biological and communicative fields
Part of the book series: Law, Governance and Technology Series (LGTS, volume 26)
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
Keywords
- Scientific and Technological Innovations
- Governing Science and Technology
- Science and Technology Advances
- Rights Claims in Digital Media
- Communication Technologies and Regulatory Dilemmas
- Social Changes and Individual Rights
- Boundary of Freedom of Expression in the Digital Age
- Legal Framework for the Internet
- Internet Control Rules
- Anti-Piracy Legislation
- Copyright Protection
- UK Digital Economy Act
- Rights Claims in the Biosciences
- Biosciences and the New Frontiers of Rights
- Private Ownership of Genetic Resources
- Changing the Landscape for Biotechnology
About this book
The volume is devoted to the relevant problems in the legal sphere, created and generated by recent advances in science and technology. In particular, it investigates a series of cutting-edge contemporary and controversial case-studies where scientific and technological issues intersect with individual legal rights. The book addresses challenging topics at the intersection of communication technologies and biotech innovations such as freedom of expression, right to health, knowledge production, Internet content regulation, accessibility and freedom of scientific research.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Nicola Lucchi is Associate Professor of Law at the Jonkoping University International Business School (JIBS) where he is also affiliated researcher with the Media Management and Transformation Centre (MMTC). Prior to joining JIBS, he was EU Marie Curie post-doc Fellow Researcher at Centre for Philosophy of Law of the Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium), research associate in comparative law and adjunct professor at the University of Ferrara (Italy)
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Impact of Science and Technology on the Rights of the Individual
Authors: Nicola Lucchi
Series Title: Law, Governance and Technology Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30439-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-30437-3Published: 22 June 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-80810-9Published: 07 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-30439-7Published: 14 June 2016
Series ISSN: 2352-1902
Series E-ISSN: 2352-1910
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 187
Number of Illustrations: 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law , Legal Aspects of Computing, IT Law, Media Law, Intellectual Property, Fundamentals of Law