Book review: The Platform Economy – Unraveling the Legal Status of Online Intermediaries

“Platforms” and “online intermediaries” are creatures of the digital era that IP policy-makers and lawyers have come to know rather well […or have they ?]. And indeed, there is a plethora of scholarly work available on the Napsters, Googles and YouTubes of this world. And now there is a new genre of platforms that is catching the attention of intellectual property experts and policy-makers: the platforms of the “gig economy”, with Uber as the poster child. “The Platform Economy – Unraveling the Legal Status of Online Intermediaries”, editor Bram Devolder, introduces us to the main legal challenged posed by this new generation of platforms. WARNING: This book is actually not directly about intellectual property BUT [don’t go anywhere!] it is this Kat’s feline intuition that the topic will be of growing importance to the intellectual property industries (notably the copyright industries). Hence this IPKat…

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