The Google News Case and Legal Change

Massimiliano Granieri, University of Brescia, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, is publishing What Does Not Kill You Makes You Stronger. Legal Evolutionism and the Unusual Case of Google News in the Italian Antitrust Review (2015). Here is the abstract.

The Google News case offers an enticing perspective for scholars interested in investigating the reasons that explain legal change. The case adds to the history of copyright and to the relationship between technological progress and regulatory responses, concurring to a possible reconstruction of how legal systems adapted over time. This short papers supports the view that evolutionism applied to law provides a convincing paradigm to describe (and possibly predict) the interaction of intellectual property protection, spontaneous private ordering and state intervention.

Download the article from SSRN at the link.