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… Zoekresultaten 23 oktober 2020 door: in Law On 15 October, the Swedish Consumer Agency, its Scientific Council and Maastricht University (in particular the Law & Tech Lab) hosted the webinar 'Consumers and businesses in digital markets – An unequal … national consumer authorities, consumer organizations, businesses and supranational law-makers on the challenges and opportunities of digital consumer markets. 'Consumers and businesses in digital markets – An unequal relationship?’ (15 October 2020, webinar organized by the Swedish Consumer Agency/Scientific Council/Maastricht Law&Tech Lab): webinar recording available. During the webinar, 322 attendees were watching the event live, with 470 participants registered in total. This shows a growing …
… Zoekresultaten 10 juni 2022 door: N.J. Philipsen in Law Digitalization has gradually changed business models and reshaped human lifestyles. The rise of business models based on the collection and processing of consumer data allows undertakings to charge business … prices for the same goods or services, offered at precisely the same time. This technique, which is called “AI-enabled price discrimination”, has deeply affected people’s daily life. For example, when ordering the same hotel room on the same Chinese website at precisely the same time, a loyal customer was charged more than a new customer (see CCTV.com ). Not surprisingly, AI-enabled price discrimination has been widely employed in both business-to-business and business-to-consumer relationships. … prices for the same goods or services, offered at precisely the same time. This technique, which is called “AI-enabled price discrimination”, has deeply affected people’s daily life. For example, when ordering the same hotel room on the same Chinese website at precisely the same time, a loyal customer was charged more than a new customer (see CCTV.com ). … Why AI-enabled price discrimination is not always undesirable: lessons from law and economics …
… Zoekresultaten 1 juli 2019 door: W.P.M. Wolters in General Heath, Medicine and Life Sciences Horizon Europe: game change? Van Horizon 2020 naar Horizon Europe ‘Evolution, not revoltion’ was het uitgangspunt bij de start van de voorbereiding van het nieuwe … leveren alsook bijdragen aan de lange termijn transitiedoelstellingen. Strategic planning van Horizon Europe In de ‘strategic planning’ zal Fase 1 over eigen keuzes maken gaan en wat daarmee te willen bereiken. In Fase 2 wordt hierover een publieke web-consultatie gehouden. Hieruit volgt een ‘Orientation Document’ dat tijdens de publieke ‘Research & Innovation Days’ in september a.s. wordt besproken. In Fase 3 worden de bekende koepelorganisaties geraadpleegd. Hierna wordt in een volgende fase … leveren alsook bijdragen aan de lange termijn transitiedoelstellingen. Strategic planning van Horizon Europe In de ‘strategic planning’ zal Fase 1 over eigen keuzes maken gaan en wat daarmee te willen bereiken. In Fase 2 wordt hierover een publieke web-consultatie gehouden. Hieruit volgt een ‘Orientation Document’ dat tijdens de publieke ‘Research & Innovation Days’ in september a.s. wordt besproken. In Fase 3 worden de bekende koepelorganisaties geraadpleegd. Hierna wordt in een volgende fase …
… Zoekresultaten 14 januari 2021 door: in Law Nowadays, the prominent role social media has in our society cannot be denied, plenty of people define themselves through their presence online. Social media has become remarkably important, so that it is not unusual … attention within the platform is also growing and as such, influencers among others will go to great lengths to become more noticeable. This strive has resulted in influencers to pursue an easy way to gain attention by buying fake followers from the web. We, more specifically, will focus on the role of the dark web in those circumstances. Arguably, this matter would not be something usually associated with the dark web and black-market sites. Given the nature of the dark web and the fact that … it materialize into one's account? The concerned offer includes a 100 Instagram likes alongside a ‘Lifetime Warranty’ with no substantial explanation of the latter’s meaning. The offer also abstractly describes how to add those likes to a specific profile. Indeed, the influencer wanting to buy that package would have to provide a link to their profile which would have to remain public in order to gain the fake followers/ likes. No further specificity or software is included in such an offer; …
… 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 … (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 …
… 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’ …
… 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 …
… 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 … 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 … 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 …