STORRE Collection: Electronic copies of Law and Philosophy blog posts and website contributions.
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Electronic copies of Law and Philosophy blog posts and website contributions.2024-03-20T01:44:13ZIntervista al Prof. Guido Noto La Diega per la recente pubblicazione: “Internet of Things and the Law: Legal Strategies for Consumer-Centric Smart Technologies”
http://hdl.handle.net/1893/34928
Title: Intervista al Prof. Guido Noto La Diega per la recente pubblicazione: “Internet of Things and the Law: Legal Strategies for Consumer-Centric Smart Technologies”
Author(s): Noto La Diega, Guido
Abstract: Interview about my book "Internet of Things and the Law" for the magazine Diritto Mercato TTecnologia (in Italian)2023-03-07T00:00:00ZEmergency Remote Teaching: a study of copyright and data protection terms of popular online services (Part I)
http://hdl.handle.net/1893/33184
Title: Emergency Remote Teaching: a study of copyright and data protection terms of popular online services (Part I)
Author(s): Ducato, Rossana; Priora, Giulia; Angiolini, Chiara; Giannopoulou, Alexandra; Justin Jütte, Bernd; Noto La Diega, Guido; Pascault, Leo; Schneider, Giulia
Abstract: Very few institutions were prepared for the transition to distance learning. Although most teachers would have been familiar with online learning platforms and communication services, the swift move to Emergency Remote Teaching (ERT) took most universities by surprise. Some universities were able to rely on licensed software, repurposed to instruct students, and provide their staff with appropriate training. Others left it to their teachers to identify software and IT services for delivery of teaching. In both scenarios, institutions and teachers had little time to assess the suitability of the online tools in the requisite detail. As preliminary data are showing, the use of online videoconferencing and e-learning platforms under ERT circumstances raises several points of concern in terms of privacy and data protection (see here, here and here) as well as intellectual property, in particular copyright law (see here, here and here). This series of two blogposts intends to shed light on the critical aspects of and potential “creepy” functions hidden in the jungle of terms of service and privacy policies of online services used for ERT. Our aim is to verify whether sufficient and clear information is provided, in order to enable teachers to carry out teaching activities and interact with their students without uncertainties as to the potential legal consequences of their use and concerns regarding the protection of their personal data.2020-05-27T00:00:00ZThe Being of Replicants
http://hdl.handle.net/1893/26384
Title: The Being of Replicants
Author(s): Wheeler, Michael
Abstract: First paragraph: It’s a common observation thatBlade Runnerinspires us to reflect on what it means to be human. The principal cause for such reflection is, of course, the cast of replicants – the bioengineered humanoid creatures originally produced by the Tyrell Corporation to work on off-world colonies. As the opening, scene-setting text famously informs us, following a bloody off-world mutiny by a group of Nexus 6 replicants, the creatures are declared illegal on Earth and are hunted down and terminated (‘retired’) by special police units known as blade runners. Against this backdrop, the replicants repeatedly engage our thoughts and emotions by blurring the distinction between the human and the non-human. Confronted by an event such as Rachael’s distressed reaction when Deckard exposes the truth about her ‘memories’ or Roy Batty’s poetic dying speech, we ask ourselves one of those stubborn and demanding existential questions: ‘what does it mean to be human?’. Unsurprisingly, this is a question that philosophers through the ages have tried to answer, and one historically influential response comes from the controversial German thinker, Martin Heidegger, most notably in the pages of his groundbreaking 1927 text,Being and Time. Of course, Heidegger didn’t know anything about replicants. Nevertheless, as I hope to show, we can use his ideas to see the blurring of the human and the non-human inBlade Runnerin a new and productive light.2017-10-24T00:00:00Z