Private Law Theory

“Our world is digitalizing, meaning that nearly everything can be found on the Internet, such as press publications. This has led to some worrisome consequences for press publishers. The European legislator has created the press publishers’ right to address some of these effects. The development of our digital era has been affecting our usage, production and distribution of authorized works. Press publications have become widely available on the Internet and, consequently, news aggregators (eg Apple News and Google news) and media monitoring services (eg Hootsuite and Tailwind) emerged …” (more)

[Daniek van de Ven, Maastricht University, 25 January]

First posted 2021-01-26 11:30:21