Website Blocking: Evolution or Revolution? 10 Years of Copyright Enforcement by Private Third Parties

Computational substrates of social norm enforcement by unaffected third parties

Enforcement of social norms by impartial bystanders in the human species reveals a possibly unique capacity to sense and to enforce norms from a third party perspective. Such behavior, however, cannot be accounted by current computational models based on an egocentric notion of norms. Here, using a combination of model-based fMRI and third party punishment games, we show that brain regions prev...

Rule Enforcement with Third Parties in Secure Cooperative Data Access

In this paper, we consider the scenario where a set of parties need to cooperate with one another. To safely exchange the information, a set of authorization rules is given to the parties. In some cases, a trusted third party is required to perform the expected operations. Since interactions with the third party can be expensive and there maybe risk of data exposure/misuse, it is important to m...

Public-Private Contractual Networks and Third Parties' Rights

* PD Dr. iur. (Fribourg/Switzerland), LL.M. (Frankfurt a.M.), attorney-at-law (Zurich), [email protected]. This research has been presented at the Second Max Planck PostDoc-Conference on European Private Law. I would like to thank Professor Pascal Pichonnaz (Fribourg, Switzerland) for supporting my application to the conference. Furthermore, I would like to thank all participants of the conferenc...

Exploitable Results by Third Parties

Nanosciences : evolution or revolution ?

In miniaturised objects fabricated by modern technology the smallest linear size may be of a few nanometers. In the field of microelectronics, the advantages of such a miniaturisation are huge (increased complexity and reliability, reduced costs). The technology is now approaching the limits where further size reduction will be impossible, except for very novel techniques such as molecular elec...