info: Volume 17 Issue 6

The public’s interest in intermediaries

Robin Mansell

The purpose of this paper is to examine recent developments in European policy debates concerned with whether governments should intervene in the digital intermediary marketplace…

Playing hide-and-seek? A legal perspective on the complex distinction between commercial and editorial content in hybrid advertising formats

Liesbeth Hellemans, Eva Lievens, Peggy Valcke

This paper aims to examine the challenges raised by hybrid advertising strategies for principles of identification and separation, included in various regulatory instruments, and…

Governance of algorithms: options and limitations

Florian Saurwein, Natascha Just, Michael Latzer

The purpose of this paper is to contribute to a better understanding of governance choice in the area of algorithmic selection. Algorithms on the Internet shape our daily lives…

Regulating the new information intermediaries as gatekeepers of information diversity

Natali Helberger, Katharina Kleinen-von Königslöw, Rob van der Noll

The purposes of this paper are to deal with the questions: because search engines, social networks and app-stores are often referred to as gatekeepers to diverse information…

Sketching the outline of a ghost: the fair balance between copyright and fundamental rights in intermediary third party liability

Christina Angelopoulos

The purpose of this article is to analyse the concept of a fair balance between conflicting fundamental rights in the context of intermediary liability for third party copyright…

The new middlemen of the digital age: the case of cinema

Jean Paul Simon, Pierre Jean Benghozi, Elisa Salvador

The purpose of this paper is to enquire into various forms of innovation and observable configurations in films are observable and document the specific technological fields in…

Guest editorial

Luciano Morganti, Andrea Renda, Kristina Irion