The challenges of digitisation for consumers / Gerd Billen -- Digital revolution : challenges for contract law / Reiner Schulze, Dirk Staudenmayer -- Conformity of 3D prints : can current sales law cope? / Christian Twigg-Flesner -- 3D printing : the limits of contract and challenges for tort /...

The sharing economy, underpinned by digital platforms like Airbnb and Uber, which pair individuals' needs and wants, from accommodation to rides, is on the ascent. These new business models, where capital and labor are provided by several dispersed individuals rather than by a single centralized...

The paper focuses on the challenges that the ‘sharing economy' presents to the updating of the European Union's (EU) Audiovisual Media Service Directive (AVMSD), part of the broader Digital Single Market (DSM) strategy of the EU. It suggests that the convergence of media markets and the...

The digitalisation of work is creating new ways of intermediating work, with for example platforms intermediating work between individuals online. These so-called online collaborative platforms have the potential to fundamentally change the labour market, but for the moment, with an estimated...

The chapter provides an overview of taxation in the EU and the taxation of the sharing economy in general. First, I turn to examine whether and if so, to what extent, secondary EU tax legislation applies in the sharing economy and how other areas of law, such as labour law, affect taxation....