Crowd Pleaser

The Remaking of Property Rights in Digital Spaces

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ID12973791
AuthorsShelly Kreiczer‐Levy (0000-0003-4579-8901, College of Law and Business, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume17
Issue1
Pages23-43
Publication date2023-05-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueLaw & Ethics of Human Rights (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1938-2545 • E-ISSN: 2194-6531
PublisherDe Gruyter (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/lehr-2023-2007
OpenAlexW4382364918
LanguageEN
Citations received1

This article explores the remaking of classical liberal rights in digital spaces, with a focus on property rights in artificial intelligence (AI) crowds. The rise of crowds in digital and technological spaces has created new opportunities for users, but their accumulated contributions create added value for the platforms and manufacturers that manage the crowd, leading to a curtailment of individual autonomy. The article identifies two parallel processes that characterize individuals’ involvement in digital crowds: manufacturers construct the property rights of individual users as crowd-based rights, while also working to de-crowd users in other contexts. The article compares crowd-based rights to potential group rights and individual rights in non-digital spheres, exposing the weakness of manufacturer-constituted crowd-based rights. The article concludes by discussing possible legal conceptions of the crowd and its governance

Autonomy · Bundle of rights · Business · Computer security · Construct (python library · Corporate governance · Crowds · Digital Rights · Epistemology · Fundamental rights · Human rights · Internet privacy · Law and economics · Political science · Property (philosophy · Property rights · Right to property · Sociology · Blockchain Technology Applications and Security · Computer Science · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Ethics and Social Impacts of AI · Law

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