DITD
- Main investigator:
- Xalabarder Plantada, Raquel
- Area:
- Social sciences
- Area of specialization:
- Network society, Law, Politics and the Internet
- Affiliation center:
- Faculties
- UNESCO codes:
- 560508, 560503, 590601, 560505, 560507, 560502, 560504, 5603
- ODS:
- Intellectual property, industrial property
- IT security
- Data science
- Information security
The aim of the Internet Law research group is to analyse the legal problems derived from the implementation of digital technology and the Internet within the law. Specifically, it examines intellectual and industrial property, personal data, privacy and image rights, the protection of electronic commerce consumers and users, the liability of Internet services providers, the resolution of online conflicts and the new forms of crime against these laws, within a context of normative (including the international enforcement of laws) and market globalization.
This legal analysis is carried out applying an interdisciplinary approach, which enables the various fields of legal expertise to work together and mutually enrich each other, without foregoing the necessary specialization required by any legal research.
The research team brings a very broad, proven experience in the analysis of the legal implications derived from digital technology and the Internet.
Intellectual property on the Internet
Studying the legal implications of the protection of intellectual property with relation to digital media and the internet.
Responsibility of Internet service providers
Studying the attribution of responsibility to service providing agents for offences and crimes committed on the Internet.
E-commerce and online dispute resolution
Analysis of the legal questions related to online contracting (with consumers and between businesses) and different forms of online dispute resolution.
Personal data protection
Analysis of the legal issues concerned with the protection of personal data.
International Enforcement and Governance
The international enforcement of industrial and intellectual property rights and personal data protection, and their relationship with international trade and the protection of fundamental rights.
Cybercrime and Computer Forensics
Analysis of the criminal implications of actions carried out on Internet and using digital media. Digital evidence.
Fundamental rights
The impact of digital media and Internet on the protection of fundamental rights: freedom of expression, privacy, image rights, access to information and culture.