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This open access book offers a comparative and inter-disciplinary perspective on the unique competition law challenges presented by the converged digital markets. Following the digitalisation of even the most traditional bricks-and-mortar sectors of the economy, a well-functioning internal market can only be guaranteed by ensuring the competitiveness of the digital markets. What role do intellectual property law and competition law play in this digital world? How can a more economic analysis strengthen innovation policies to achieve a truly competitive digital single market? The book provides a rigorous discussion of the many reasons why the regulatory responses, not just in Europe but in other jurisdictions too, may fall short. It addresses an array of procedural, substantive and other issues that are generating intense debate across the antitrust community. This includes the scope and objectives of digital regulation, whether the application of ex-ante rules would result in fragmentation and inconsistencies, and whether such regulatory regimes are an appropriate tool for substantive assessment. The book explores whether the application of these rules would effectively tackle the competition enforcement challenges seen under the competition laws, whether they can be applied without undermining other rights such as privacy, and whether they are appropriate for this digital age as well as the new digital era ahead of us. Part 1 offers a detailed inter-disciplinary perspective on the most recent legislative solutions in the European Union, namely, the Digital Services Act, the Digital Markets Act, and the Data Act. Part 2 offers competition and regulatory responses to these ever-emerging digital challenges by the UK, Latin American, Indian and Chinese regulators.

1. Regulating Digital Platforms: Shall We, Shall We Not? Kalpana Tyagi (Maastricht University, the Netherlands) Part 1: Digitalisation and EU's Regulatory Response 2. The Notion of Abuse: Cues from the Italian Amazon Case, Federico Ghezzi (Bocconi University, Italy) and Mariateresa Maggiolino (Bocconi University, Italy) 3. The Digital Markets Act: Tailoring the Tailors, Oles Andriychuk (Newcastle University, UK) 4. Assessing Geo-blocking as a Tool to Prevent Being Sued in EU Member States for Cross-border Copyright Infringements: A Plea for the 'Directed Activities' Approach to Jurisdiction, Birgit van Houtert (Maastricht University, the Netherlands) 5. Access to Data, Databases, and Algorithms in DMA and DSA, Joanna Mazur (University of Warsaw, Poland) Part 2: Global Responses to Digitalisation 6. Are Data Spaces the "Silver Bullet" for the EU Data Economy? Margherita Corrado (Bocconi University, Italy) and Laura Zoboli (University of Brescia, Italy) 7. Algorithmic Transparency in Rankings - Balancing IPR and Disclosures in the European Union And India, Pratiksha Ashok (UC Louvain, Belgium) 8. Regulating Digital Platforms: Intermediary Liability and Content Moderation in Copyright Enforcement, Subhashish Gupta (Indian Institute of Management, India) and Sneha Mehta (Associate, India) 9. Challenges to Competition and Innovation in Digital Markets: Insights from Latin American Cases, Juan David Gutierrez (Universidad del Rosario, Colombia) and Manuel Abarca (Estudio Lewin Abogados, Chile) 10. Decoding the Digital Markets Regulations: Context, Criteria, Containment and Beyond, Mehmet Bilal Unver (University of Hertfordshire, UK) 11. Assessment of AI-enabled Price Discrimination under Competition Law in China, Qian Li (Maastricht University, the Netherlands) and Niels Philipsen (Maastricht University, the Netherlands) 12. U.S. Competition Law in Digital Markets, Allen Grunes (Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, USA) and Rosa L Baum (Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, USA) Part 3: Summary 13. Content, Competition & Data: Ex-ante Regulation to Make Digital Markets Contestable, Kalpana Tyagi (Maastricht University, the Netherlands)

Author(s)	Edited by Kalpana Tyagi (Maastricht University, the Netherlands), Anselm Kamperman Sanders (Maastricht University, the Netherlands), Caroline Cauffman (Maastricht University, the Netherlands).
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN	9781509969388
Format	Hardback
Pages	320
Published in	United Kingdom
Published	22 Feb 2024
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