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Location, Location, Location: Jurisdiction and Enforcement in the Land where Location Does Not Exist
Introduction Legal dramas often focus on the climax of courtroom arguments and verdicts. In doing so, they gloss over crucial aspects...
Blockchain’s Potential in Addressing Statelessness
The emergence of blockchain technology is creating solutions to key issues that stateless people face. Stateless people and their...
Aleksejs Ivashuk
19 min read
The Airspace Tribunal and the Right to Live Without Physical or Psychological Threat from Above: In Conversation with Shona Illingworth and Nick Grief
Shona Illingworth is a Danish-Scottish artist and Professor of Art, Film and Media at the University of Kent, UK. Her work examines the...
Aidan Johnson
20 min read
Freedom to Think in the Age of AI: In Conversation with Susie Alegre
Susie Alegre is a leading international human rights lawyer who has worked on the most challenging legal and political issues of our...
Nadia Jahnecke
23 min read
A Journey through the Many Faces of Accountability: In Conversation with the Legal Advisors at eyeWitness to Atrocities
Anna Gallina is a Legal Consultant at eyeWitness to Atrocities. Julianne Romy formerly worked as a Legal Advisor at eyeWitness to...
eyeWitness to Atrocities
24 min read
Making Consent Meaningful Again: A Review of the Online ‘Consent’ Model and Alternative Approaches
I. Introduction From atoms to bits, digital convergence has made science fictions come true.[1] Web, mobile applications, smart homes,...
Jialiang Zhang
10 min read
Can Modern Appropriation Art be Reconciled with Copyright Law? A Closer Look at Cariou v. Prince
Artists have drawn ideas, thoughts, and concepts from the works of others for centuries. However, copyright infringement issues...
Marysia Opadczuk
15 min read
‘We’re All Mad As Hell Now’—How ‘Network’ (1976) Captures the Anti-Politics of Social Media
‘I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore!’ is a phrase that has been raptured up into the popular English lexicon, cited,...
Katherine Cross
21 min read
The Glitz and Glamour of the Metaverse
At the heart of the metaverse stands the vision of an immersive Internet—a gigantic, unified, persistent, and shared realm.[1] To the...
Danielle Jump
14 min read
Holding War Criminals to Account: The Challenges Presented by Information Warfare
The physical battlefield of the ongoing war between Ukraine and Russia is being closely scrutinised by the global community: each day,...
Alexandra Agnew, Mishcon de Reya
11 min read
Copyright in the Digital Age: Analysing the Achievements and Flaws in the EU Copyright Exceptions Domain
Copyright exceptions are an important part of international and European copyright frameworks, designed to ensure the balancing of...
Daniel Mooney
23 min read
Art in the Time of NFTs: Navigating the Challenges and Role of NFTs in Artists’ Reclamation of Control over their Publicity Rights
I see NFTs as a way to innovate, empower others and push the boundaries of how artists interact with their fans. I see NFTs…as the future...
Bo Hyun Kim
20 min read
New Technology, Ancient Battle
Since the detection of massive Russian interference in the 2016 American presidential election, there has been a morass of studies...
Askold Krushelnycky
11 min read
Theory and Politics under Technofeudalism: In Conversation with Yanis Varoufakis
As a theorist, economist, politician, author, and co-founder of two transnational democratic and progressive movements, Yanis Varoufakis...
Teresa Turkheimer
29 min read
The Twenty-First Century: A Bumpy Ride
Introduction COVID-19 should not have struck us so unawares: similar viruses, SARS and MERS, had emerged within the last 20 years, and...
Lord Martin Rees
18 min read
A Bit of Conversation: A Scientific Fiction
SCENE. Manhattan. Street with jazz club and apartment building on a muggy late summer evening.
Srinivasan Keshav
13 min read
Judges, Carpenters, and Computers: A Craft-Based Perspective on Judicial Decision-Making
Is a judge more like an artist or a scientist? This seems to be a trick question, and yet extreme versions of both perspectives have, at...
Reuben Andrews
13 min read
The Sustaining Cosmos
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. —William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1.5.167–68),...
Jonathan Jones
7 min read
Enclosing or Democratising the AI Artwork World
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Robin Mansell
16 min read
‘Alterers’ Filtering out Artists: Using the ‘Public’ Perspective to Preserve Moral Rights over Digital Art
In the digital age, the sharing of images is prevalent across a variety of online platforms. Instagram, one of the largest of these, can...
Thomas Hood
9 min read
The Space Race and Its Discontents: Hannah Arendt on Space, 1951-63
Introduction Arendt’s account of modernity and The Human Condition (1958)[1] Opening the final section of The Human Condition...
Clare Francis
20 min read
Copyright Law between Art and the Internet: In Conversation with Professor Andreas Rahmatian
Professor Andreas Rahmatian is Professor of Commercial Law at the University of Glasgow School of Law. Originally from Vienna, he...
Thomas Hood
22 min read
A Witness Walking to these Shores: Embodied Memory and the Dispersed Spatiality of Networked Presence
A witness walking to these shores in our time would not spy a single war-worn and sea-tossed Ithacan sailor returning to his homeland but...
Michael Joyce
16 min read
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