Isheta Boruah interviews Associate Professor Guido Noto La Diega (University of Stirling and University of Connecticut) about their book "Internet of Things and the Law" (Routledge) with a focus on the Intellectual Property aspects, for the podcast "In Conversation with Competition and IPRs".

Link to the book: https://www.anrdoezrs.net/click-100739177-14076226?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.routledge.com%2FInternet-of-Things-and-the-Law-Legal-Strategies-for-Consumer-Centric-Smart%2FDiega%2Fp%2Fbook%2F9781138604797

Link to the podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/29pasxV3AarZtUVSNiaAsa?si=c279d232874b4073

Book launch of Guido Noto La Diega's "Internet of Things and the Law: Legal Strategies for Consumer-Centric Smart Technologies" (Routledge 2022) https://www.routledge.com/The-Internet-of-Things-and-the-Law-Legal-Strategies-for-Consumer-Centric/Diega/p/book/9781138604797

Internet of Things and the Law: Legal Strategies for Consumer-Centric Smart Technologies is the most comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the legal issues in the Internet of Things (IoT). For decades, the decreasing importance of tangible wealth and power – and the increasing significance of their disembodied counterparts – has been the subject of much legal research. For some time now, legal scholars have grappled with how laws drafted for tangible property and predigital ‘offline’ technologies can cope with dematerialisation, digitalisation, and the internet.

As dematerialisation continues, this book aims to illuminate the opposite movement: rematerialisation, namely, the return of data, knowledge, and power within a physical ‘smart’ world. This development frames the book’s central question: can the law steer rematerialisation in a human-centric and socially just direction? To answer it, the book focuses on the IoT, the sociotechnological phenomenon that is primarily responsible for this shift.

After a thorough analysis of how existing laws can be interpreted to empower IoT end users, Noto La Diega leaves us with the fundamental question of what happens when the law fails us and concludes with a call for collective resistance against ‘smart’ capitalism.

Can universities force teachers to record their lectures? Are the declarations of academic freedom a mere performance? Are Zombie professors the future? I answer these and other questions in this short presentation of "Death Becomes HE: The Rise of Lecture Capture in the Panopt(ic)o(n)" at Gikii 2021, the coolest (and most feline) conference evah. This research is co-authored with Giulia Priora, Bernd Justin Jütte, and Léo Pascault and will appear with the more serious title of "Capturing the Uncapturable: The Relationship between Universities and Copyright through the Lens of the Audio-Visual Lecture Capture Policies" in the forthcoming book "Art and Literature in Copyright Law: Protecting the Rights of Creators and Managers of Artistic and Literary Works" edited for Edward Elgar by Enrico Bonadio and Cristiana Sappa