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DRM and modchips: Time for the Court of Justice to do the "right" thing (2014)
Journal Article
Gillen, M. C. (2014). DRM and modchips: Time for the Court of Justice to do the "right" thing. SCRIPTed: A Journal of Law, Technology and Society, 11(3), 229-244. https://doi.org/10.2966/scrip.110314.229

This paper looks at three key cases; UsedSoft (C-458/13), PC Box (C-355/12) and Grund (C-458/13), on the topic of the extent and nature of a copyright holders abilityto constrain future uses of their copyrighted works in the field of software and cri... Read More about DRM and modchips: Time for the Court of Justice to do the "right" thing.

Lawyers and cyberspace: Seeing the elephant? (2012)
Journal Article
Gillen, M. (2012). Lawyers and cyberspace: Seeing the elephant?. SCRIPTed: A Journal of Law, Technology and Society, 9(2), https://doi.org/10.2966/scrip.090212.130

This paper considers the problem of Internet regulation, and how it has been exacerbated by poor theoretical models for cyberspace. Furthermore, it considers how the conceptual difficulties with regard to the nature of cyberspace have been replicated... Read More about Lawyers and cyberspace: Seeing the elephant?.

Bringing the globe into globalization: Models of capacity building and technology transfer (2011)
Journal Article
Gillen, M. (2011). Bringing the globe into globalization: Models of capacity building and technology transfer. European Journal of Law and Technology, 2(2),

Legal policy on the global stage has combined with history, nature and economics to create an inherently unequal playing field for states seeking to undertake industrial development or agricultural reform at this point in time. The reasons for this a... Read More about Bringing the globe into globalization: Models of capacity building and technology transfer.

For all of our languages we are not natives here (2010)
Journal Article
Gillen, M. (2010). For all of our languages we are not natives here. International Journal of Innovation in the Digital Economy, 1(3), 40-55. https://doi.org/10.4018/jide.2010070103

This paper seeks to explore the concept of the digital divide by critiquing the notion of the digital native and its relationship to the legal conception of technology transfer and sited knowledge. It is the contention of this paper that technology t... Read More about For all of our languages we are not natives here.