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Future Law: Challenges for Law, Technology and Culture

Future LawEmerging Technology, Regulation and Ethics

Edited by Lilian Edwards, Burkhard Schafer and Edina Harbinja

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About this book

How will law, regulation and ethics govern a future of fast-changing technologies?
  • Focuses on the practical difficulties of applying law, policy and ethical structures to emergent technologies both now and in the future
  • 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
  • Asks where law might go next and how to regulate new-phase technology such as artificial intelligence, ‘smart homes’ and automated emotion recognition
  • Uses examples from popular culture such as books, films, TV and Instagram – including Black Mirror, Disney princesses, Star Wars, Doctor Who and Rick and Morty – to bring hypothetical examples to life

Bringing together cutting-edge authors from academia, legal practice and the technology industry, this book explores and leverages the power of human imagination in understanding, critiquing and improving the legal responses to technological change.

Contributors

Paul Bernal Senior Lecturer, School of Law, University of East Anglia

Damian Clifford Flemish Research Council (FWO) Aspirant Fellow, KU Leuven Centre for IT & IP Law

Melissa de Zwart Dean of Law, Adelaide Law School, University of Adelaide

Catherine Easton Reader in Law, University of Lancaster

Lilian Edwards Professor of Law, Innovation and Society, Newcastle Law School, Newcastle University

Andres Guadamuz Senior Lecturer in Intellectual Property Law, University of Sussex

Rob Hamper PhD Candidate, University of New South Wales

Edina Harbinja Senior Lecturer in Media/Privacy Law, Aston Law School, Aston University

Andrew Katz Partner, Moorcrofts LLP, UK and Visiting Researcher, University of Skövde, Sweden

Michaela MacDonald Teaching Fellow, Queen Mary University, London

Alana Maurushat Professor of Cybersecurity and Behaviour, Western Sydney University

Miranda Mowbray Lecturer in Computer Science, University of Bristol

Andelka M Phillips Senior Lecturer, Te Piringa (Faculty of Law), University of Waikato, and Research Associate, Centre for Health, Law and Emerging Technologies (HeLEX), University of Oxford

Burkhard Schafer Professor of Computational Legal Theory, School of Law, University of Edinburgh

Lachlan D Urquhart Lecturer in Technology Law, School of Law, University of Edinburgh and Visiting Research Fellow, Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute, School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham

Table of contents

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

About the contributors

Lilian Edwards

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

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

Edina Harbinja is Associate Professor in Law at the University of Birmingham

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