This paper aims at describing the future legal challenges related to information products and services on the Mobile World Wide Web. Using a few scenarios, we describe what the most essential characteristics of the future Mobile Web will be and how information products and services will be used on it. The scenarios are built using a systematic method. As the emerging problems are very complex, ...

This article aims at describing the future legal challenges related to information products and services on the Mobile Internet and World Wide Web. Using a scenario-based methodology, we describe the most essential characteristics of the future Mobile Internet and how information products and services would be used on it. The scenarios are built using a systematic method. As the emerging proble...

BACKGROUND Digital health services empower people to track, manage, and improve their own health and quality of life while delivering a more personalized and precise health care, at a lower cost and with higher efficiency and availability. Essential for the use of digital health services is that the treatment of any personal data is compatible with the Patient Data Act, Personal Data Act, and o...

The problems of accessing legal information and, in particular, legal literature are examined in conjunction with the creation of a portal to Italian legal doctrine. The design and implementation of services such as integrated access to a wide range of resources are described, with a focus on the importance of exploiting metadata assigned to disparate legal material. On the basis of the results...

International business is increasingly undertaken within flexible, multi-organisational eBusinesses to address the needs of the global market. Underpinning this are Businessto-Business (B2Bs) processes and Web Services. The purpose of this paper is to outline new ideas to speed-up business processes, to allow early intervention by mediators or arbitrators, thereby avoiding litigation. It addres...

Using the Web Ontology Language (OWL) for knowledge representation in the legal domain is very promising but has some limitations. The language is complex thus hard to comprehend, still decidability results in a limited expressiveness which may introduce serious problems in modelling. An aspect of limited expressiveness is the tree-model property of OWL, which can be overcome using rule formali...

The goal of this paper is to analyze the behavior of digital music consumers on the Internet. Using clickstream data on a panel of more than 16,000 European consumers, we estimate the effects of illegal downloading and legal streaming on the legal purchases of digital music. Our results suggest that Internet users do not view illegal downloading as a substitute to legal digital music. Although ...