Private Power, Online Information Flows and EU Law

Mind The Gap

Angela Daly (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

184 Seiten

2016
Hart Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5099-0063-3 (ISBN)

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This monograph examines how European Union law and regulation address concentrations of private economic power which impede free information flows on the Internet to the detriment of Internet users’ autonomy. In particular, competition law, sector specific regulation (if it exists), data protection and human rights law are considered and assessed to the extent they can tackle such concentrations of power for the benefit of users. Using a series of illustrative case studies, of Internet provision, search, mobile devices and app stores, and the cloud, the work demonstrates the gaps that currently exist in EU law and regulation. It is argued that these gaps exist due, in part, to current overarching trends guiding the regulation of economic power, namely neoliberalism, by which only the situation of market failure can invite ex ante rules, buoyed by the lobbying of regulators and legislators by those in possession of such economic power to achieve outcomes which favour their businesses. Given this systemic, and extra-legal, nature of the reasons as to why the gaps exist, solutions from outside the system are proposed at the end of each case study. This study will appeal to EU competition lawyers and media lawyers.

Angela Daly is Vice Chancellor's Research Fellow at Queensland University of Technology's Faculty of Law (Australia), Adjunct Research Fellow at the Swinburne Institute for Social Research, and Research Associate at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society (Netherlands).

1. Introduction
2. The Internet, User Autonomy and EU Law
3. Dominance and Internet Provision
4. Dominance and Internet Search
5. Dominance and Mobile Devices
6. Dominance and the Cloud
7. Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum	01.12.2016
Reihe/Serie	Hart Studies in Competition Law
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	449 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Medienrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► Wirtschaftsrecht ► Wettbewerbsrecht
ISBN-10	1-5099-0063-2 / 1509900632
ISBN-13	978-1-5099-0063-3 / 9781509900633
Zustand	Neuware