The paper reflects on responsibilities and duties of care of online intermediaries as set out in the E-Commerce Directive and gives recommendations for a possible future EU Digital Services Act....
This study presents an overview of possible options for an effective model of enforcement for a future Digital Services Act. Four key areas of regulatory design are emphasised; the failure of self-regulation in relation to platforms; the importance of correct regulatory framing; the necessity of...
This short study looks at the scope of the hosting safe harbour, in view of policies with respect to illegal content online and questions about the scope of Article 14 of the Electronic Commerce Directive (2000/31/EC) from a legal and practical perspective. Specifically, the study addresses the ...
In order to make a consistent selection of top OSM providers per country, we used three sources of data: Alexa country ranks, Similarweb country ranks within the “Social Media” category, and APPlyzer ranking data collected from the Apple and Google app stores. A fourth source, Apptopia, was used...
