Rechtswissenschaft

Ronny Hauck, Franz Hofmann, Herbert Zech

Verkehrsfähigkeit digitaler Güter

Jahrgang 8 () / Heft 2, S. 141-148 (8)

Tangible goods lose ground to intangible content. This raises a lot of legal questions: How to design contracts concerning digital content? Is anybody legally liable to provide updates? What about the principle of neutrality of platforms or protection of technological measures and rights-management information? The most controversial issue, however, is whether digital goods are marketable or whether it is possible to limit the free circulation of these goods by technical or contractual means. The question of free circulation of digital goods is a cornerstone within the development of a Law of Digital Goods itself. Accordingly, a conference in Basel on 9 October 2015 was dedicated to discuss this topic from an economic, historical, doctrinal and last but not least political perspective. All presentations are published in this volume. The contributions underline the increasing significance of contract law. However, convincing arguments regarding tangible goods are not necessarily convincing in the digital context. Developing a Law of Digital Goods is a major future challenge for lawyers.
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Ronny Hauck Geboren 1972; Studium der Rechtswissenschaft in Erlangen; 2004 Erstes Juristisches Staatsexamen; 2007 Zweites Juristisches Staatsexamen; 2008 Promotion; 2014 Habilitation an der Universität Augsburg; 2014/2015 Lehrstuhlvertretungen an der Universität München sowie am Karlsruher Institut für Technologie.

Franz Hofmann ist Inhaber des Lehrstuhls für Bürgerliches Recht, Recht des Geistigen Eigentums und Technikrecht an der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9470-8613

Herbert Zech ist Inhaber des Lehrstuhls für Bürgerliches Recht, Technik- und IT-Recht an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin sowie Direktor am Weizenbaum-Institut für die vernetzte Gesellschaft.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4625-6602