Published volume ‘I diritti nelle piattaforme’ by Prof. Cesare Pinelli and Prof. Ugo Ruffolo

The book “I diritti nelle piattaforme” (“Rights in Platforms”) by Prof. Cesare Pinelli and Prof. Ugo Ruffolo, published by Giappichelli, is now available.

The volume explores both public and civil law profiles of the dialectic between the rights and duties of platforms and users, also with regard to the evolution of European legislation (Digital Service Act, Digital Market Act, General Data Protection Regulation) and the issues of  “digital constitutionalism”.

The new medium has become both interactive and a new private agora of the “free market of ideas”, and it imposes, therefore, reflection on multiple issues:

• the legitimacy of limits imposed on free speech through content moderation clauses (contractual, self-regulatory, by coregulation);
• the possibility of equating certain web communications with the “press” also pursuant to Article 21 of the Italian Constitution;
• the tools to counter disinformation and fake news, as well as excesses of user profiling;
• the constitutional limits to inhibitory enforcement and the possibilities of recourse to alternative non-inhibitory remedies (warning labels, corrective releases...);
• the possible role of new collective, “representative” and “class” actions.

Finally, the examination is extended to the new questions posed by both the new dimensions of the metaverse and the irruption of generative A.I. systems such as ChatGPT.