1. Scale Free Law: Network Science and Copyright Andrés Guadamuz González AHRC Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law

2. Raising Leviathan? Or what do Newton, Hobbes and Smith have in common?

3. Random social networks

4. Scale-free social networks

5. Distributions “ Bell” Distributions Power Law Distributions

6. Random and scale-free networks

7. The Internet

8. Normal topologies

9. Scale-free topologies

11. Six degrees of interdisciplinary collaborations

12. Six degrees of… sexual contacts?

13. Six degrees of… yeast proteins?

14. Long tail economics

16. ISP: Six degrees of one web sites

17. New copyright policies for the long tail

18. P2P is good for the tail Source: David Blackburn, Online Piracy and Recorded Music Sales (2004) 165,054 133,983 99% 47,357 45,255 95% 26,934 26,531 90% 9,831 10,110 75% 2,851 2,852 50% 745 757 25% 277 281 10% 166 170 5% 70 73 1% Sales with 30% less file-sharing Actual Sales Percentile

19. P2P network map

20. Cascading failures

21. Networks operate in a deterministic manner

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