News and Research articles on Enclosure

Volume 2, Issue 3

Law of the cloud: on the supremacy of the user interface over copyright law

Primavera De Filippi, Research and Studies Center of Administrative Science (CERSA/CNRS), Université Paris II (Panthéon-Assas)
PUBLISHED ON: 18 Jul 2013 DOI: 10.14763/2013.3.175

The provisions of copyright law can potentially be bypassed by cloud computing applications whose interface is designed to regulate the access, use and reuse of online content.

KEYWORDS: Copyright, User interface, Terms of service, License, Public domain, Enclosure, Private regulation, Cloud computing