Despite few formal opportunities to participate in platform governance, social media creators use public callouts to shape community norms and place pressure on the platform.
Research articles on INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
The monetisation of video game user-generated content provokes a challenge to copyright’s assumption of users as ‘amateur’ creators.
While the upload filters introduced by the EU copyright reform are being transposed into national law, this study examines how uploaders perceive copyright regulation and what further demands they have.
This article explains how copyright law and content moderation undermine the incentive for mashup producers to create mashup expressions.
Digital Scarcity is a credibly maintained limitation, imposed through software, of digital information, goods or services that may be accessed and used entirely digitally.
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Digital commons, understood as shared information, culture and knowledge resources created and maintained online, are a crucial concept to think about the development of the digital sphere beyond surveillance capitalism and steer it toward a more socially inclusive and sustainable economy and a renewal of democracy.
Can platforms delete whatever content they want? Not everywhere, say the authors of this paper, which shows why certain social networks ‘must carry’ some content – and how users in some jurisdictions can force the companies to allow them into their communicative space.
This article highlights what we know about the empirical effects of data-campaigning in political campaigns and how those findings fail to live up to claims about its power.
Why did China’s Alibaba platform reform its enforcement practices in line with demands from the US government and US companies?
Manufacturers of “smart goods” can remotely alter or destroy software-enabled devices to further their corporate interests, a form of post-purchase control termed “bricking”.