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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
On legal bubbles: some thoughts on legal shockwaves at the core of the digital economy
Contributor:
Giraudo, Marco
Published:
Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2022
Published in:
Journal of Institutional Economics, 18 (2022) 4, Seite 587-604
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/s1744137421000473
ISSN:
1744-1374;
1744-1382
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
AbstractFor two decades, economic agents have been investing in the personal data-driven industry on the assumption that courts, the keepers of the legal systems, would have backed their claims, turning their technological control of personal data into legally protected property rights. Courts' backing has proved only temporary as they are now revising early solutions by constraining collection, use, and trade of personal data to protect the hierarchically superior rights. The theory of ‘legal bubbles’ rationalizes the economics underlying the legal shockwaves affecting the personal data-driven economy. ‘Legal bubbles’ tend to arise when economic agents invest in the economic exploitation of a new resource in a context of uncertainty and ignorance about the legal implications of innovative activities. These legal foundations may eventually turn out to be unstable as a result of courts' ex-post attempt to re-adapt them to the previously ignored implications of unconstrained commodification, with disruptive economic consequences.