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… Zoekresultaten 10 maart 2019 door: A. Unknown in Law The workshop will focus on different contributions that identify potential legal wrongs arising out of decentralization, with the goal of exploring old and new remedies (both substantive and procedural) that could correct them, while emphasizing the … (Maastricht University), Andres Guadamuz (University of Sussex), Felix Pflücke (Oxford University) and Isabelle Wildhaber (University of St. Gallen). 15 March 2019, Faculty of Law, Oxford University Rewind to the early 1990’s: an infant World Wide Web recently created by Tim Berners-Lee was starting to redefine the way people were connected globally. First came communication services (e-mail) and a shift from physical to digital marketplaces (e-commerce). Then came the rise of Internet platforms, in what is now deemed to be Web 2.0 – prosumers generate content on platforms such as YouTube, Facebook, Instagram (social media), or offer their individual services on Uber, Airbnb or TaskRabbit (peer-to-peer/gig platforms). These developments have been both lauded and …
… Zoekresultaten 2 februari 2021 door: E.S. Börjedal in Law About a year ago, this blog published my contribution “ Let us not forget about EU fundamental rights ,” which addressed the situation at the EU’s external borders. At the time, the decision of the ECtHR in the case of N.D and N.T v. Spain, was heavily criticised for failing to protect the right to request international protection. The judgment was …
… Zoekresultaten 11 december 2018 door: X. Lin in Law Authors may sentence fictional characters to death to counter unwanted transformation of their characters. The authorship that copyright vests in authors grants them indisputable authority over their creations, so that their characters do not die from users’ transformation. The deaths of fictional characters are rarely associated with …
… Zoekresultaten 9 maart 2020 door: E.S. Börjedal in Law Human rights violations continue to be a major issue at the EU’s external borders and pushbacks have been reported in several EU Member States. Most recently, the spotlight has been on Spain’s long-standing practice of pushbacks at the border of Melilla, as the ECtHR handed down its long-awaited judgment in the case of N.D and N.T v. Spain …
… Zoekresultaten 2 april 2019 door: A. Unknown in Law Organizers: Mariolina Eliantonio (Maastricht University, Department of Public Law) Catalina Goanta (Maastricht University, Law&Tech Lab) Isabelle Wildhaber (University of St. Gallen, Institute for Work and Employment FAA-HSG) When issues first arise in connection with how disruptive … laws. Yet courts – just as lawmakers – are often criticized for their perceived inability to understand technology and keep up with its pace. As innovation develops and transforms Internet architecture, users and governance, marking ashift from the web 1.0 of the early 90’s to the platform-dominated web 2.0, it gives rise to more complex legal questions. On the one hand, with the advent of peer-to-peer economy around platforms such as Youtube, Instagram, AirbnB or TaskRabbit, legal certainty is under siege, as shown by various referrals by …
… Zoekresultaten 4 september 2019 door: M.A. Paul in General Opening speech Opening Academic Year 2019-2020 The purpose of the opening of the academic year is to project optimism and discussing the way ahead. This is more difficult this year as we have experienced or expecting some dramatic changes to the higher education … at our university. There is another development that worries us. Rumour has it that the Netherlands will put restrictions on internationalisation of universities, going against the trend of many other countries that are considering the international profile of universities a societal need. A societal need because the influx of the skills of international talent is deemed essential for economic wealth and societal health. We are carefully watching the developments in the Netherlands, but at the same time join the discussion and make it very clear that we continue on our chosen path of an international and European profile, which is the DNA of Maastricht University. But after all, my role here is not to complain, but to explain why our university should claim a special position in these discussions, a role that is based on our tradition, our current strategy and …
… Zoekresultaten 30 maart 2021 door: in Law The Nutri-Score has been officially endorsed in France, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Spain and in other European countries they have been voluntarily used by large, private retail corporate groups. Given its underlying aim of helping curbing … called the European Commission to opt for Nutri-Score, an approach for applying nutrient profiling criteria for front-of-package labelling schemes that uses an algorithm to derive a consolidated score representing a product’s overall nutritional profile through a scale of 5 colours from green to dark orange and 5 letters from A to E to represent, respectively, best to worst nutritional quality. The Nutri-Score has been officially endorsed in France, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, …
… Zoekresultaten 15 oktober 2014 door: L.L.G. Soete in General At the start of this academic year, on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, I was asked to participate in a debate here in Maastricht on “borders”: the frontiers that surround us here in the southernmost part of the country to the … but also in at least one other language of the Euregion. For me, this is ultimately what our nearby borders invite us to take on board: knowledge of the culture and language on the other side. This text was also published in the Maastricht University (web) magazine , October 2014. L.L.G. Soete Andere blogs: General Alumni Arts and Social Sciences Business and Economics Corona Heath, Medicine and Life Sciences Law Maastricht Students Psychology and Neuroscience Science and Engineering …
… Zoekresultaten 14 juni 2018 door: in Law This is a brief analysis of Facebook’s data sharing practices under unfair competition rules in the US and EU. A paper on this topic co-authored by myself and MEPLI research fellow Stephan Mulders will be available shortly, and it will be presented at … but also about their friends, in addition to granting access to private messages sent on the platform (see Table 1 below). The amount of information belonging to user friends that Facebook allowed third parties to tap into is astonishing. The extended profile properties permission facilitated the extraction of information about: activities, birthdays, check-ins, education history, events, games activity, groups, interests, likes, location, notes, online presence, photo and video tags, photos, questions, relationships and relationships details, religion and politics, status, subscriptions, website and work history. Extended permissions changed in 2014, with the second version of the Graph API (v2.0), which suffered many other changes since (see Table 2) [7]. However, one interesting thing that stands out when comparing versions 1.0 and …
… Zoekresultaten 5 juli 2022 door: in Law As Internet users produce creative content (generally referred to as ‘user-generated content’ or ‘UGC’) by building on pre-existing copyrighted material, one might wonder how the current EU copyright regime deals with this phenomenon, especially after the recent addition of the Digital Single Market Directive. UGC in the context of the EU copyright regime In today’s participatory Web 2.0, a wide array of new technologies has enabled users to easily create content and to subsequently make it available to large audiences by posting it on websites or platforms. However, as users deploy pre-existing copyrighted works as a starting point for further creation, there is a need to strike a balance between the rights of copyright holders in their intellectual property and the freedom of …