This study explores the process of creating avatars for Virtual Reality and metaverse
environments using a variety of specialized applications, including VRChat, Ready Player …

Following years of a liberal approach to digital technologies, platforms, services, and
markets, the EU has stepped up its action in recent years. The adoption of the General Data …

This Opinion describes and summarises the results of the interdisciplinary research carried
out by the authors during the course of a three-year project on intermediaries' practices …

The consolidation of the digital age has expanded the demand for justice. The challenges
characterising digital relationships have caused European policy-makers to reflect on the …

Social media platforms mediate and regulate how influencers engage in monetisation
practices. In this social-legal paper we examine one form of monetisation, influencer …

The democratization of technology to re-create content and make that content publicly
available has spurred a wave of user-generated content (UGC), which has produced …

User-generated content (UGC) is develo** rapidly as an emerging platform form,
however, the problem of indirect copyright infringement by algorithms is becoming more and …

In 2018, the portrait of Edmond de BellamyI became familiar in scholarly conversations
about Aland copyright law. The blurry figure of a vaguely aristocratic-looking man drew …

Online toxicity refers to a spectrum of problematic communicative phenomena that unfold in
various ways on social media platforms. Most of the current efforts to contain it focus on …

Profit distribution in sequential innovation is a crucial yet relatively unexplored area of
empirical research. With novel cross-section data from the game live-streaming industry, we …