INTRODUCTION
Digital platforms’ use of online news excerpts has been a prominent battleground in the increasing regulation of digital platforms in the European Union (EU). In particular, the debate has focused on the question of enforcing value-sharing between online content producers and such platforms. The aggregation services offered by digital platforms function as gateways to news, having become unavoidable trading partners with a much stronger bargaining position than that of the press publishers producing the news. With the transition from print to online news, as traditional business models relying on subscriptions and advertising revenue are failing, news publishers are experiencing competition from digital media and platforms and a need for new funding sources …
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Tone Knapstad, Fighting the tech giants – news edition: competition law’s (un)suitability to safeguard the press publishers’ right and the quest for a regulatory approach, Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice, volume 16, issue 12, December 2021, pages 1319-1332, https://doi.org/10.1093/jiplp/jpab144. Published: 3 December 2021.
First posted 2022-01-10 09:00:23
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