Regulating Industrial Internet Through IPR, Data Protection and Competition Law is the result of a larger project titled ‘Future Regulation of Industrial Internet (FRII)’, a collaborative academic-industry study funded by Business Finland (former Tekes) – the Finnish Funding Agency for Innovation, and the industrial consortium between 2016 and 2019. The digitization of industrial processes has suddenly taken a great leap forward, with burgeoning applications in manufacturing, transportation and numerous other areas. Many stakeholders, however, are uncertain about the opportunities and risks associated with it and its effect on businesses and national economies. Clarity of legal rules is now a pressing necessity. This book, the first to deal with legal questions related to Industrial Internet, follows a multidisciplinary approach that is instructed by law concerning intellectual property, data protection, competition, contracts and licensing, focusing on business, technology and policy-driven issues. It aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of the Industrial Internet regulation. What’s in this book: Experts in various relevant fields of science and industry measure the legal tensions created by Industrial Internet in our global economy and propose solutions that are both theoretically valuable and concretely practical, identifying workable business models and practices based on both technical and legal knowledge. Perspectives include the following: regulation of Industrial Internet via intellectual property rights (IPR); data ownership versus control over data; artificial intelligence and IPR infringement; patent ownership in Industrial Internet; abuse of dominance in Industrial Internet platforms; data collaboration, pooling and hoarding; legal implications of granular versioning technologies; and misuse of information for anticompetitive purposes.
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Preface Part I: Overview of the Industrial Internet Technology and Business Chapter 1: Industrial Internet Technologies Chapter 2: Business and Research Perspectives of Industrial Internet Applications Chapter 3: Decentralizing the Web and the Industrial Internet: An Alternative Solution to Data Control Chapter 4: Industrial Internet Solutions and Data Ownership Versus Control Over Data Part II: The Industrial Internet and Intellectual Property Law Chapter 5: Artificial Intelligence and Copyright Protection Chapter 6: AI and IPR Infringement: A Case Study on Training and Using Neural Networks Chapter 7: Owning Data via Intellectual Property Rights: Reality or Chimera? Chapter 8: 3D Printing, Platformization and IPR: Balancing Stagnation and Innovation Chapter 9: Patent Market in the United States: Perspective of SME Patent Owners in the Industrial Internet Part III: The Industrial Internet and Data Protection Chapter 10: The IIoT and Design for Contextually Relevant Data Protection Chapter 11: Data Protection, Certification and the Fourth Industrial Revolution Chapter 12: Finding the ‘Personal’ in the Industrial Internet: Why Data Protection Law Still Matters Chapter 13: Government Access to User Data: Towards More Meaningful Transparency Reports Part IV: The Industrial Internet and Competition Law Chapter 14: Switching Costs and Abuse of Dominance in the Industrial Internet of Things Platforms Chapter 15: Data Collaboration, Pooling and Hoarding under Competition Law Chapter 16: The Antitrust Relevance of Granular Versioning Chapter 17: Are Tech Giants (Mis)using Information for Anti-competitive Purposes? Part V: The Industrial Internet and Contract Law Chapter 18: Agile Methods and Their Impact on Project Management and Contracting Chapter 19: Conflict Management for Regulation-Averse Blockchains? – Bibliography Table of Cases Table of Legislation Index