Intermediary Liability in the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Intermediary Liability in the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Michael B. Landau (Georgia State University)

ISBN:9789403522135
Kluwer Law International

Certain platform operators in the digital economy, most notably internet service providers, have beneited from safe harbours and limitations to their liability for online infringements committed by the users of their services. While in case of Google’s project to digitize book contents without the permission of copyright holders, a settlement agreement was reached, it is questionable whether others, such as data miners, can replicate this deal. As copyright law is in the course of being adapted to include data mining exceptions, the question is what types of transformative uses of protected information may exempt such miners and other intermediaries like data
processors from liability, be it under copyright or antitrust laws.