Future Law
Emerging Technology, Regulation and Ethics
Published on 14. December 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
408 pages
978-1-4744-1762-4 (ISBN)
Description
How will law, regulation and ethics govern a future of fast-changing technologies? Bringing together cutting-edge authors from academia, legal practice and the technology industry, Future Law explores and leverages the power of human imagination in understanding, critiquing and improving the legal responses to technological change. It focuses on the practical difficulties of applying law, policy and ethical structures to emergent technologies both now and in the future. It covers crucial current issues such as big data ethics, ubiquitous surveillance and the Internet of Things, and disruptive technologies such as autonomous vehicles, DIY genetics and robot agents. By using examples from popular culture such as books, films, TV and Instagram - including 'Black Mirror', 'Disney Princesses', 'Star Wars', 'Doctor Who' and 'Rick and Morty' - it brings hypothetical examples to life. And it asks where law might go next and to regulate new-phase technology such as artificial intelligence, 'smart homes' and automated emotion recognition.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
622 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4744-1762-4 (9781474417624)
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Persons
Lilian Edwards is Chair of Law, Innovation and Society at Newcastle University. Her principal research interests are in the law relating to the Internet, the Web and new technologies, with a European and comparative focus. She also has close links with the Oxford Internet Institute. She is Associate Director, and was co-founder, of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Centre for IP and Technology Law (now SCRIPT). She has co-edited four bestselling editions of Law and the Internet (Hart Publishing, 1997, 2000, 2009 and 2018) with Charlotte Waelde and a collection of essays, The New Legal Framework for E-Commerce in Europe (Bloomsbury, 2005). Burkhard Schafer is Professor of Computational Legal Theory at the University of Edinburgh. He is co-founder and co-director of the Joseph Bell Centre for Legal Reasoning and Forensic Statistics. Edina Harbinja is Reader in Law at Aston Law School, Aston University. Her principal areas of research concern legal issues surrounding the Internet and emerging technologies. She has published widely on aspects of internet law and regulation and has been a visiting scholar and invited speaker to universities and conferences internationally. She has pioneered the concept of post-mortem privacy. Her research has been highly impactful and has been cited by legislators, courts and policymakers worldwide. Edina regularly engages with the media, and her key appearances include Nature, TEDx, BBC, ABC, The Guardian, Thomson and Reuters etc.
Content
Table of cases, Table of statutes
Introduction
1. The Future's Already Here, It's Just Unevenly EditedLilian Edwards, Burkhard Schafer and Edina Harbinja
Part I. From Privacy and Princesses, to Security and Star Wars
2. Privacy and Identity Through the Eyes of Disney PrincessesPaul Bernal
3. White Noise from the White Goods? Privacy by Design for Ambient Domestic ComputingLachlan Urquhart
4. Citizen-Consumers in a Personalised Galaxy: Emotion Influenced Decision-Making, A True Path to the Dark Side?Damian Clifford
5. Big Data Ethics: Darth Vader and the Green Cross ManMiranda Mowbray
6. Security Vulnerabilities, Backdoors, Exploits and the Marketplace for Each: The Return of Boba Fett - Bug Bounty Hunter in the New RepublicAlana Maurushat & Rob Hamper
Part II. A Matter of (Future) Life and Death
7. Will My Genes Really Help Me Fit Into Those Jeans? Personal Genomics and Wrap ContractsAndelka M. Phillips
8. On Living and Undead Wills: ZombAIs, Technology and the Future of Inheritance LawBurkhard Schafer
9. 'Be Right Back': What Rights Do We Have Over Post-Mortem Avatars of Ourselves?Lilian Edwards & Edina Harbinja
Part III. Regulating Autonomous Technologies: Software Are Doing it For Themselves
10. Autonomous Intelligent Agents and the Roman Law of SlaveryAndrew Katz & Michaela MacDonald
11. Autonomous Vehicles: An Analysis of the Regulatory and Legal LandscapeCatherine Easton
Part IV. Textual Poaching - Copyright in a Remix World
12. Living in a Remixed World: Comparative Analysis of Transformative Uses in Copyright LawAndres Guadamuz
13. Repost This: Instagram and the Art of Re-photographyMelissa de Zwart
Index
Introduction
1. The Future's Already Here, It's Just Unevenly EditedLilian Edwards, Burkhard Schafer and Edina Harbinja
Part I. From Privacy and Princesses, to Security and Star Wars
2. Privacy and Identity Through the Eyes of Disney PrincessesPaul Bernal
3. White Noise from the White Goods? Privacy by Design for Ambient Domestic ComputingLachlan Urquhart
4. Citizen-Consumers in a Personalised Galaxy: Emotion Influenced Decision-Making, A True Path to the Dark Side?Damian Clifford
5. Big Data Ethics: Darth Vader and the Green Cross ManMiranda Mowbray
6. Security Vulnerabilities, Backdoors, Exploits and the Marketplace for Each: The Return of Boba Fett - Bug Bounty Hunter in the New RepublicAlana Maurushat & Rob Hamper
Part II. A Matter of (Future) Life and Death
7. Will My Genes Really Help Me Fit Into Those Jeans? Personal Genomics and Wrap ContractsAndelka M. Phillips
8. On Living and Undead Wills: ZombAIs, Technology and the Future of Inheritance LawBurkhard Schafer
9. 'Be Right Back': What Rights Do We Have Over Post-Mortem Avatars of Ourselves?Lilian Edwards & Edina Harbinja
Part III. Regulating Autonomous Technologies: Software Are Doing it For Themselves
10. Autonomous Intelligent Agents and the Roman Law of SlaveryAndrew Katz & Michaela MacDonald
11. Autonomous Vehicles: An Analysis of the Regulatory and Legal LandscapeCatherine Easton
Part IV. Textual Poaching - Copyright in a Remix World
12. Living in a Remixed World: Comparative Analysis of Transformative Uses in Copyright LawAndres Guadamuz
13. Repost This: Instagram and the Art of Re-photographyMelissa de Zwart
Index