Mit der Reform des Urheberrechts möchte die Europäische Union auf die technischen Entwicklungen und die zunehmende Dominanz digitaler Plattformen reagieren sowie einen digitalen Binnenmarkt vorantreiben. Die gewählten Mittel haben jedoch gravierende Nebenwirkungen wie...

Since the enactment of the first safe harbours and liability exemptions for online intermediaries, market conditions have radically changed. Originally, intermediary liability exemptions were introduced to promote an emerging Internet market. Do safe harbours for online intermediaries still...

Our submission to the U.K. House of Lords, Internal Market Sub-Committee is based on our joint research, which explores the effects Big Data and technology have on competition dynamics. It reviews the use of technology to facilitate collusion, conscious parallelism, and unilateral price...

As new legislative battles arise on the EU digital policy front, this article draws on recent EU negotiations related to the making of the Digital Single Market (DSM) to document the main lines of division between member states in this field, as well as coalition patterns in the Council of the...

The Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market might fundamentally change the way works and other subject matter protected by copyright will be used on online platforms. Article 17 of the Directive obliges such platforms, based on information they receive from rightholders, to ensure...

Products liability in the digital age entails reckoning with the transformative shift away from in-person purchases from brick-and-mortar stores toward digital purchases from e-commerce platforms. The epochal rise of the online storefront has vastly expanded the prevalence of direct-to-consumer...

There is broad international consensus that ex ante regulation is needed to address the market dominance of the very largest digital platforms and that there are benefits to having broadly coherent regulatory approaches across jurisdictions. Regulation in any one jurisdiction will have...