The internet has had a profound impact on the production, distribution and consumption of cultural goods and knowledge. Some markets have been replaced, others are being restructured, and alternative forms of creation, such as digital commons, are taking center stage. While access to culture and knowledge is favored by digital technologies, they also enable new forms of control and, above all, provoke transformations that upset the balances between the different actors that are part of a chain or sector.

This area investigates these transformations and how norms and institutions relate to them, as is the case with copyright, sectoral regulations such as audiovisual and telecommunications, competition law, as well as internet policies that impact digital platforms and business models.