Short description:

The Internet has brought about unprecedented changes to modern life, creating a connected society but also radically opening up the question of how to design and apply legal rules in a digital world. This thoroughly revised second edition provides an updated exploration of the latest developments and controversies in European Internet law.

Long description:

The Internet has brought about unprecedented changes to modern life, creating a connected society but also radically opening up the question of how to design and apply legal rules in a digital world. This thoroughly revised second edition provides an updated exploration of the latest developments and controversies in European Internet law.

Paying close attention to recent acts and proposals, including the Digital Services Act (DSA), Digital Markets Act (DMA), AI Act and others, this Research Handbook traces the developments of main regulatory ideas; provides criticism of the methods, principles, approaches and enforcement; and gives a critical analysis of the normative side of regulation. The expert contributors are clustered around the main regulatory fields and each deals adeptly with one or more of the key features of the passed or proposed acts.

Providing a critical analysis of the EU?s regulatory efforts in digital regulation, this discerning Research Handbook will be a useful reference tool for academics and postgraduate students specialising in international law, e-commerce, consumer law and IT law. It will also be of interest to practitioners, including governmental officials and data protection officers.

?The Research Handbook gives us much-needed insight into what may be considered as the central struggle of contemporary law, i.e. the attempt to regulate the digital revolution. A must-read for anyone trying to understand the law in 21st century.?

Table of Contents:

Contents:

Preface ix

PART I POLICY, GOVERNANCE AND REGULATORY TOOLS
1 EU Internet policy in the 2020s 2
Gerald Spindler
2 EU Internet law in the era of convergence and digital platforms: the
interplay with EU telecoms and media law 45
S?ren Sandfeld Jakobsen
3 Designing EU digital laws 62
Andrej Savin
4 Do algorithms need to be regulated, and if so, what algorithms? 79
Arno R. Lodder and Zachary Cooper
5 Leveraging conducts in the digital economy: a competition and
regulatory perspective 93
Christian Bergqvist and Elisa Faustinelli

PART II INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW
6 EU copyright law, an ancient history, a contemporary challenge 119
Tatiana-Eleni Synodinou
7 Limitations to copyright in the digital age, safeguards for users? rights,
creativity and authors? remuneration interests 148
Christophe Geiger, Franciska Schönherr and Bernd Justin Ju?tte
8 The making of EU copyright law: building blocks, current appearance,
and future transformations 178
Eleonora Rosati

PART III JURISDICTION
9 Where does ?making available? occur? 193
Jane C. Ginsburg and Antonia von Appen
10 Jurisdiction over cyber torts under the Brussels I Bis Regulation 214
Sandrine Brachotte and Arnaud Nuyts

PART IV INTERNAL MARKET AND PLATFORMS
11 Digital Services Act: a reform of the e-Commerce Directive and much more 231
Sebastian Felix Schwemer
12 Platform responsibility in the Digital Services Act: constitutionalising,
regulating and governing private ordering 252
Giancarlo Frosio
13 The European Commission?s Proposal for an Artificial Intelligence Act 270
Martin Ebers
14 A European legal framework for digital identities, digital authentication
and electronic signatures: reflections on a moving target 292
Niels Vandezande and Jos Dumortier

PART V CONSUMERS AND MARKETING
15 Persuasion, manipulation, choice architecture and ?dark patterns? 308
Jan Trzaskowski
16 The sustainability gap in the regulation of e-commerce 329
Nikola Schiefke and Hans-W. Micklitz
17 Unsafe and still online: proposals to improve product safety on online
marketplaces 344
Christine Riefa
18 Regulating the wild world of digital services in the EU 366
Joasia Luzak

PART VI CITIZENS AND THE INTERNET
19 User empowerment in the age of algorithms: two steps forward, one step back? 387
Emily M. Weitzenboeck
20 Tackling cyberscams through EU criminal law 410
Alisdair A. Gillespie
21 The reshaping of the freedom of expression in the digital environment
in light of the role of social networks 427
Oreste Pollicino and Marco Bassini
22 Embedded data protection ? how law and technology interact 466
Colette Cuijpers and Mara Paun

Index