The Future of Law and eTechnologies
This book presents groundbreaking discussions on e-residency, cryptocurrencies, scams, smart contracts, 3D printing, software agents, digital evidence and e-governance at the intersection of law, legal policies and modern technologies. The reader benefits
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Future of Law and eTechnologies
The Future of Law and eTechnologies
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Tanel Kerikma¨e • Addi Rull Editors
The Future of Law and eTechnologies
Editors Tanel Kerikma¨e Tallinn Law School Tallinn University of Technology Tallinn, Estonia
Addi Rull Tallinn Law School Tallinn University of Technology Tallinn, Estonia
ISBN 978-3-319-26894-1 ISBN 978-3-319-26896-5 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-26896-5
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Foreword
The rise and rise of the Internet and the digital economy that it enabled had a profound and as yet not fully mapped out impact on our understanding of law and the limits of regulation. Its borderless nature (seemingly) undermined the central regulatory role that the nation-state had since early modernity. The disintermediation that it facilitated subverted existing hierarchies and disrupted well-established business models. We see this tension when the EU tries to subject Google to its data protection regime, when Uber and the sharing economy get into conflict with regulation aimed at traditional services or when peer-to peer file servers call into question the business model of the film industry, especially the practice to release films for specific geographic areas at a time. Information technology did, however, not only create novel legal problems; it also created novel ways of finding out about them. Historically, the World Wide Web was conceived as a communication tool between research institutions worldwide, and without any doubt cross-border, collaborative research benefited greatly from the sharing of data and ideas that the new technology facilitated. Academic knowledge production changed dramatical
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