Internet governance: the evolution of theories of governing cyberspace by Mirta Cavallo The Internet, with its dynamic and propulsive nature, has had a revolutionary impact on our society. Inter alia, it has changed the landscape of regulation and political communication. If one looks at cyberspace from what Orin Kerr calls an internal perspective, it appears that emails, tweets, videos and…
Going toward a full-scale smart contracting revolution? Maybe not by Mirta Cavallo From the information society to the value society. The technological landscape is constantly evolving, with a pervasive and disruptive ([1]) impact on the economic, social and legal sphere. A transition currently taking place is from an “information society” – based on transfers of information via the transmission control…
Search engine bias: when antitrust meets the “Nirvana Fallacy” of search neutrality di Mirta Cavallo «To exist is to be indexed by a search engine» [1] Introduction In high tech markets, changes in technologies determine significant changes in the market as well. This often occurs quickly and in unpredictable ways. And when antitrust intervenes in such dynamic…
Jurisdictional issues on the Internet: national values and territoriality in a world without borders
Jurisdictional issues on the Internet: national values and territoriality in a world without borders di Mirta Cavallo «Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel. […]. You have no moral right to rule us nor you do possess any methods of enforcement we have true reason to fear. […] Cyberspace does not lie within your…
The evolving role of Internet gatekeepers A European Union Perspective on Digital Copyright and Internet Service Providers’ Liability di Mirta Cavallo «It makes me indignant when I hear a work blamed not because it’s crude or graceless, but only because it’s new. Had the Greeks hated the new the way we do, whatever would have been able to grow to be old?»…