How to categorise network effects (and why)?

This post, co-authored by Paul Belleflamme and Martin Peitz (whom IPdigIT is very happy to welcome in its team!) …

You can never overcome network effects: the truth behind the myth.

In a book soon to be published, Matthias C. Kettemann and Stephan Dreyer have invited 50 authors to clear …

La nouvelle directive sur le droit d’auteur: un “texte équilibré” sur la responsabilité des plateformes?

Le 15 avril 2019, le Conseil de l’UE adoptait, en co-décision avec le Parlement européen, la directive sur le …

PROSEco: a ‘sparkling’ research project (3)

  In recent years, many innovative sharing economy platforms (SEPs) had a strong impact on their stakeholders: service providers …

PROSEco: a ‘sparkling’ research project (2)

PROSEco is an acronym for ‘Platform Regulation and Operations in the Sharing Economy‘. It is a research project that …

PROSEco: a ‘sparkling’ research project (1)

Over the last months, the two editors of this blog, Paul Belleflamme and Alain Strowel, have joined forces with …

Human embryos at the bar: the blurring lines between law and science in patent protection

The CJEU decision on Oliver Brüstle vs Greenpeace (C-34/10) – prepared by Rossana Ducato, post-doc researcher at UCLouvain and …

Is it possible in the U.S. to seek relief for copyright infringement immediately after having applied for registration? A matter of principle or just “a tempest in a tea pot”?

The case Fourth Estate Public Benefit v. Wall-Street.com LLC, et al., pending before the U.S. Supreme Court (see the …