Regulating Internet Platforms in the EU: The Emergence of the ‘Level playing Field’

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Abstrakt

This paper analyses the European Union's regulatory policy on platforms. The first part of the paper looks at the how the EU formulates platform policy while the second analyses the proposed and existing laws that already cover them. The final part looks at the consequences of the level playing field as the guiding regulatory principle. The main argument is that EU regulatory intervention concerning platforms seeks to bring linear providers in line with platforms through the "level playing field" or, in other words, that the EU seeks to protect the incumbents and minimise disruption rather than enhance the value-creating potential of platforms.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftComputer Law & Security Review
Vol/bind34
Udgave nummer6
Sider (fra-til)1215-1231
Antal sider17
ISSN0267-3649
DOI
StatusUdgivet - dec. 2018

Bibliografisk note

Published online: 17 September 2018

Emneord

  • EU IT policy
  • EU internet law
  • Platforms
  • EU telecoms Law

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