Much has been written about most favoured nation clauses or agreements in the context of online platforms (also known as retail MFNs), and the challenges faced by competition authorities in assessing the potential anti-competitive nature of such agreements. The perceived absence of a clear legal...

The rise of digital platforms has dramatically changed the digital economy over the past decade. This development has sparked a controversy about how the regulatory framework has to be adapted to the new platform economy. More recently, the focus of the debate is shifting to fairness in...

The abuse of market power by dominant firms continues to be one of the most controversial areas of EU competition law and tying is perhaps the most complex and intractable abuse. The European Commission investigation into suspected infringements of EU competition law by Google in relation to...

The contractual responsibility of online platform operators has been subject to an intensive debate in the recent past. While the platform operators usually seek the role of mere intermediaries without considerable liability for the proper performance of the main contracts, there is increasing...

The particularity of the business activities of companies in the digital sector and the lower turnover of the companies involved which on multiple occasions understates the market power derived from access to vast amounts of data, implies that jurisdiction on such cases is not straightforward....

The Directive on copyright in the Digital Single Market with its 86 recitals and 32 articles constitutes a major regulatory overhaul of European copyright legislation in light of the “[r]apid technological developments continue to transform the way works and other subject matter are created,...