Conceptions in the Code

Stefan Larsson is Associate Professor in Technology and Social Change at Lund University Internet Institute (LUii) in Sweden, and a sociolegal researcher who studies issues in the intersection of conceptual, legal and social change, particularly in relation to digitisation and the Internet. He holds a PhD in Sociology of Law as well as a PhD in Spatial Planning, and an LLM. He is co-founder of LUii as well as the Cybernorm research group at Lund University, and has led various research projects related to trust in a digital context, open data, law and digital challenges, digital consumption and indebtedness, and more.

• 1. HOW WE UNDERSTAND TECHNOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL CHANGE 1.1. Conceptual Struggles in Societal Change 1.2. Neutral Infrastructure or Filtering Mediator1.3. Cognition, Law, and Digital Technology 1.4. Outline of the Book 1.5. Conceptual Metaphors1.6. Copyright as a Case1.7. Intended Audience 2. METAPHORS AND NORMS 2.1. Conceptual Metaphor Theory 2.2. Embodiment2.3. Metaphors and Law2.4. Cognition and Norms2.5. Skeuomorphs and the Conceptualisation of the Digital World2.6. Skeuomorphs and conceptual path dependence2.7. Summing Up 3. THE EMBODIED LAW 3.1. Corpus Juris3.2. Embodiment and the Creation of Meaning3.3. Seeing the Embodiment: Justice Under Law3.4. Discussion: Law Incarnate3.5. Conclusions 4. CONCEPTIONS OF COPYRIGHT4.1. Metaphors We File-share By4.2. Method4.3. Findings and Analysis4.4. Conclusions 5. COPIES: A METAPHORIC EXPANSION OF COPYRIGHT 5.1. Copies and their rights5.2. The Pirate Bay Case and the Calculation of Value5.3. Analysis: The Problem of Regulating Copies5.4. Conclusions: Copy Me Unhappy 6. PLATFORM, STORAGE OR BULLETIN BOARD? THE SWEDISH PIRATE BAY COURT CASE 6.1. Categorization, Digitalisation and Law 6.2. The Pirate Bay6.3. The Pirate Bay as a Metaphoric Court Case6.4. Liability of the Functions6.5. Outlook: Generativity in Decentralisation6.6. Normative Implications of Skeuomorphs6.7. Conclusions 7. BETWEEN FORM AND FUNCTION IN (INTELLECTUAL) PROPERTY 7.1. Between form and function 7.2. Renner and (Intellectual) Property 7.3. The P in IP 7.4. Conceptual Legal Change7.5. Conceptual Transition of (Intellectual) Property7.6. Körperlich and Control7.7. Summing up: Conceptual Legal Change 8. CONCLUSIONS: CONCEPTIONS IN THE CODE8.1. Metaphors, law, and digitality8.2. Conceptual Path-Dependence8.3. The Digital Challenge to Copyright8.4. Metaphors and Power8.5. "Invent the age! Invent the metaphor!"8.6. Sum: Technology and Social Change References