Florent Thouvenin – författare

This book examines the fundamental question of how legislators and other rule-makers should handle remembering and forgetting information (especially personally identifiable information) in the digital age. It encompasses such topics as privacy, data protection, individual and collective memory, and the right to be forgotten when considering data storage, processing and deletion. The authors argue in support of maintaining the new digital default, that (personally identifiable) information should be remembered rather than forgotten.

The book offers guidelines for legislators as well as private and public organizations on how to make decisions on remembering and forgetting personally identifiable information in the digital age. It draws on three main perspectives: law, based on a comprehensive analysis of Swiss law that serves as an example; technology, specifically search engines, internet archives, social media and the mobile internet; and an interdisciplinary perspective with contributions from various disciplines such as philosophy, anthropology, sociology, psychology, and economics, amongst others.. Thanks to this multifaceted approach, readers will benefit from a holistic view of the informational phenomenon of “remembering and forgetting”.

This book will appeal to lawyers, philosophers, sociologists, historians, economists, anthropologists, and psychologists among many others. Such wide appeal is due to its rich and interdisciplinary approach to the challenges for individuals and society at large with regard to remembering and forgetting in the digital age.

Reto M. Hilty hat im europäischen, deutschen und schweizerischen Immaterialgüterrecht tiefe Spuren hinterlassen. Aus Anlass seiner Emeritierung als Direktor des Max-Planck-Instituts für Innovation und Wettbewerb und als Professor ad personam an der Universität Zürich würdigen seine Freunde, Kollegen und Schüler sein Wirken mit dieser Festschrift. Die Bandbreite der Themen und die Vielfalt der Autoren spiegeln die Vielschichtigkeit der Tätigkeiten des Jubilars. Die Festschrift enthält Beiträge zu Grundsatzfragen des IP-Rechts, zum Patent-, Urheber-, Design- und Markenrecht, zum Schutz von Geschäftsgeheimnissen, zum Recht der geographischen Herkunftsangaben sowie zum Kartell- und Lauterkeitsrecht. Ein Schwerpunkt liegt auf den Herausforderungen der Digitalisierung, insb. auf dem Umgang des IP-Rechts mit Daten und Künstlicher Intelligenz (KI).

Reto M. Hilty has left a deep mark on European, German and Swiss intellectual property law. On the occasion of his retirement as Directorof the Max-Planck-Institute for Innovation and Competition and as Professor ad personam at the University of Zurich, his friends and colleagues pay tribute to his work with this Festschrift. The range of topics and the variety of authors reflect the impressive spectrum of Reto’s activities. The Festschrift contains contributions on fundamental questions of IP law, on patent, copyright, design and trademark law, on the protection of trade secrets, on the law of geographical indications as well as on antitrust and unfair competition law. One focus is on the challenges of digitalisation, in particular on how IP law deals with data and artificial intelligence (AI).