The Law of Global Digitality

• Other Authors: C. Kettemann, Matthias (Editor), Peukert, Alexander (Editor), Spiecker gen. Döhmann, Indra (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Taylor & Francis 2022
• Series: Routledge Research in the Law of Emerging Technologies
• Subjects: Jurisprudence & general issues; Bots; business law; Central Bank Digital Currency; Commercial Law; Conflict of laws; Consumer Contracts; Cybersquatters; code is law; criminal law; cross-border digital issues; cyberlaw; Data Protection Law; Deep Fakes; Digital commerce; Digital Platform Disclosure Obligations; digital communication; European General Data Protection Regulation; Facebook; financial markets; GDPR; Global Commerce; Global Digitality; global communication networks; global digital issues; Intellectual property enforcement; IP rights; jurisdiction; local legal systems; Money laundering
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

The Internet is not an unchartered territory. On the Internet, norms matter. They interact, regulate, are contested and legitimated by multiple actors. But are they diverse and unstructured, or are they part of a recognizable order? And if the latter, what does this order look like? This collected volume explores these key questions while providing new perspectives on the role of law in times of digitality. The book compares six different areas of law that have been particularly exposed to global digitality, namely laws regulating consumer contracts, data protection, the media, financial markets, criminal activity and intellectual property law. By comparing how these very different areas of law have evolved with regard to cross-border online situations, the book considers whether cyberlaw is little more than "the law of the horse", or whether the law of global digitality is indeed special and, if so, what its characteristics across various areas of law are. The book brings together legal academics with expertise in how law has both reacted to and shaped cross-border, global Internet communication and their contributions consider whether it is possible to identify a particular mediality of law in the digital age. Examining whether a global law of digitality has truly emerged, this book will appeal to academics, students and practitioners of law examining the future of the law of digitality as it intersects with traditional categories of law.