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Angelopoulos & Smet (2017) Notice-and-fair-balance: how to reach a compromise

Notice-and-fair-balance: how to reach a compromise between fundamental rights in European intermediary liability

by Christina Angelopoulos and Stijn Smet in JOURNAL OF MEDIA LAW, 2016, VOL. 8, NO. 2, 266-301

Otherwise, as Horten, using the example of copyright, has emphasised, the risk exists that no resolution will be possible: 'When two industries with conflicting interests are asked to self-regulate, it only entrenches the differences in their business models, and that is why "cooperation" between Internet service providers and the entertainment industry struggles to work without a court ruling.' See Monica Horten, The Closing of the Net (Polity, 2016) 142.

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