Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Emerging Issues at the Intersection of Commercial Law and Technology
- The Cambridge Handbook of Emerging Issues at the Intersection of Commercial Law and Technology
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Contemporary Technological Developments
- Part II The Implications of Emerging Product Design and Business Models
- 8 E-Commerce Platforms as Product Merchants and Sellers
- 9 3D Printing
- 10 The Right to Repair, Intellectual Property, Exhaustion, and Preemption
- 11 Repairing the Third Wave of Computing
- 12 Ending Smart Data Enclosures
- 13 Behavioral Implications and Emerging Legal Issues in Innovative and Digital Product Design
- Part III Contracting and Dispute Resolution
- Index
12 - Ending Smart Data Enclosures
The European Approach to the Regulation of the Internet of Things between Access and Intellectual Property
from Part II - The Implications of Emerging Product Design and Business Models
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 February 2025
- The Cambridge Handbook of Emerging Issues at the Intersection of Commercial Law and Technology
- The Cambridge Handbook of Emerging Issues at the Intersection of Commercial Law and Technology
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Contemporary Technological Developments
- Part II The Implications of Emerging Product Design and Business Models
- 8 E-Commerce Platforms as Product Merchants and Sellers
- 9 3D Printing
- 10 The Right to Repair, Intellectual Property, Exhaustion, and Preemption
- 11 Repairing the Third Wave of Computing
- 12 Ending Smart Data Enclosures
- 13 Behavioral Implications and Emerging Legal Issues in Innovative and Digital Product Design
- Part III Contracting and Dispute Resolution
- Index
Summary
The EU is attempting to indirectly regulate the Internet of Things by improving access to data through a cross-sectoral data governance framework. On the face of it, recent EU data governance laws – Data Governance Act, Digital Markets Act, Digital Services Act, AI Act – go in the direction of more open, accessible, and reusable data. However, they tend to balance that ethos with provisions that IoT big tech can use to retain and strengthen data enclosures. This chapter aims to critically assess whether the attempt to balance openness and IP results in the prevalence of closed IoT systems, thus ultimately preventing smart data from reuse that would otherwise benefit society at large.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Emerging Issues at the Intersection of Commercial Law and Technology , pp. 258 - 283Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025