New innovations are created every day, but today’s business leaders are focused on finding disruptive innovations which are cheaper and lower performing than upmarket technologies. They create new markets, and challenge the status quo of existing technological thinking creating uncertainty both in the future of the innovation and the outcome of the market upheaval. Disruptive innovation is an influential innovation theory in business, but how does it affect the law?
Several of these technologies have brought new ways for individuals to deal with copyright works while disrupting existing market expectations, while their ability to spawn social norms has presented challenges for legislation. Considering disruptive innovation as a class, this book examines innovations that have impacted copyright in the past, what lessons can be learned from how the law interacted with them, and how the law can successfully deal with them going forward. Creating comprehensive guidance that can be used when faced with disruptive innovations with the aim of more successful legislation, it considers whether copyright law itself has been disrupted through these innovations.
Exploring whether disruptive innovations as a class have unique properties that necessitate action by legislators and whether these properties have the possibility to disrupt the law itself, this book theorises how the law should deal with disruptive innovations in general, going beyond a discussion of the regulation of specific innovations to develop a framework for how law makers should deal with disruptive innovations when faced by one.
By:
Margery Hilko
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Weight: 467g
ISBN: 9780367354978
ISBN 10: 0367354977
Series: Intellectual Property, Theory, Culture
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 09 February 2021
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Preface Acknowledgements Chapter One: Disruptive Innovation & the Law Disruptive v Sustaining Innovation: the core of the theory What is Disruptive Innovation? Disruptive Innovation in Legal Discussion Disruptive Innovation: The Noun, the Theory, and the Challenge Chapter 2: Technology, law, and shifting society How Technology Changes Society & Societal Priorities Law, Society & Technology Why Disruptive Innovation? Signal to Noise Chapter 3: Social Norms and Disruptive Innovations Norms and Signals Question: Is the disruptive innovation linked to a demographically significant group? Question: Have conflicting norms arisen? Question: Is there interest in the technology? A Confluence of Factors, or how to affect policy Conclusion Chapter 4: Legislating for well known norms: Photocopying Early Development Period Pre-1959 Disruptive Period Development 1959-1970 Mature Technology Period Xerography's Social Norm influence on the Law Chapter 5: Legislating during the disruptive period: Radio Early Development Pre-1922 Disruptive Period 1922-1927 Mature Technology in the 1930s Differences between the US & UK Conclusion Chapter 6: Legislating Early: Personal Computers Before the Personal Computer Early Personal Computers 1976-1979 The Disruptive Period 1980-84 Post 1984 Conclusion Chapter 7: Disruptive Innovation and Regulation Innovation and Norms: Identifying Social Needs Disruptive technologies can highlight laws that require reform Disruptive innovations requires careful, cautious management by law reformers Regulating disruptive innovations Chapter 8: The Principles at Work The Disruptive Internet Artificial Intelligence: Disruptive Innovation or not? Applying the Principles Conclusion Chapter 9: Final Thoughts Index
Dr. Margery R Hilko lectures at the Sutherland School of Law at University College Dublin. With a LLM in Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law, her PhD was explored how disruptive innovations and the social norms they created affected copyright law. She continues to research in the areas of data protection, internet law, and intellectual property.
