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The platform economy : unravelling the legal status of online intermediaries

Title
The platform economy : unravelling the legal status of online intermediaries / Bram Devolder (ed.).
Publication
Cambridge : Intersentia, [2019]

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Devolder, Bram
Description
xxii, 398 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
Summary
On 20 December 2017 and 10 April 2018 respectively, the Court of Justice of the European Union passed two landmark cases on the legal status of internet platform Uber. The Court established that Uber does not merely provide an app, but rather offers a full transport service. Without Uber there would be no market for non-professional drivers using their own vehicles. Moreover, the platform exercises a decisive influence over the conditions under which drivers provide their service. These rulings address the very core of several highly debated questions on the legal status of online intermediaries such as Uber, Airbnb and TaskRabbit. Is regulatory intervention needed to reap the potential benefits of the platform economy or to mitigate the potentially negative consequences of regulatory disruption? Can platforms be held liable for the proper execution of services provided by others? Does existing national regulation impose disproportionate market restrictions on innovators? Should we rethink labour protection and social security to address the potential loss of social protection of non-standard workers? How can revenue law be improved to tackle elaborate (international) schemes to avoid direct and indirect taxation? In this book, a panel of international legal experts unravel the legal status of online intermediaries? a thorny knot that legislators, judges and lawyers across the globe are facing.
Subject
  • Electronic commerce > Law and legislation
  • Internet > Law and legislation
  • Multi-sided platform businesses > Law and legislation
  • Multi-sided platform businesses
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN
  • 9781780686349 (hbk.)
  • 178068634X (hbk.)
OCLC
  • on1061308955
  • SCSB-9301957
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library