Lo scorso 13 dicembre la Commissione europea ha pubblicato il primo rapporto sul funzionamento della propria piattaforma di Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) istituita dal Regolamento (UE) n. 524/2013 e lanciata nel febbraio del 2016 con l’intento di facilitare la risoluzione delle dispute – transfrontaliere e non - sorte tra professionisti e consumatori attraverso strumenti alternativi a quelli giurisdizionali.

On August the 18th, in China, the Hangzhou Cyber Civil Court heard its first civil trial, dealing with a copyright infringement case between a novelist and a web company that offered her novel to its online subscribers without her permission. All the actors of the trial met via video chat.  

The Judge presiding over the case was indeed conducting the hearing from a Hangzhou-based courtroom, equipped with technological facilities allowing the members of the public to watch a projection of the video, while a computer program transcribed the minute of the trial.