. The European Commission has announced a Digital Services Act package to strengthen the Single Market for digital services and foster innovation and competitiveness of the European online environment. The panellists will share their views on the regulatory discourse, focusing on the following three policy areas:
• Liability exemptions for hosting
• Other aspects of platform regulation
• Liability for non-hosting services (e.g. domain names, cloud computing, content delivery networks)
Discussants
- Prof. Dr. Jan Bernd Nordemann, Berlin
- Prof. Dr. Gerald Spindler, Göttingen
- Prof. Sophie Stalla-Bourdillon, PhD, Southampton (TBC)
- Dr. Aleksandra Kuczerawy, Leuven (TBC)
- Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sebastian Schwemer, PhD, Copenhagen
- Prof. Tobias Mahler, PhD, Oslo (moderator)
Background material
- Digital Services Act package https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/digital-services-act-package
- Introductory summary: ICANN paper
- Responses to the EU Commission's DSA consultation
- CENTR (ccTLD domain name registries) comment to DSA consultation
- Facebook comment
- Google comment
- UN high Commissioner comment
Recent studies:
Jan Nordemann et al., Digital services act: Improving the functioning of the single market, Annex to Niombo Lomba and Tatjana Evas (European Parliament), Digital services act: European added value assessment, 2020
Sebastian Schwemer, Tobias Mahler and Håkon Styri, Legal analysis of the intermediary service providers of non-hosting nature: Final report prepared for European Commission, 2020 (not yet published)
Gerald Spindler, Digital services act: Adapting commercial and civil law rules for commercial entities operating online: Legal assessment, Niombo Lomba and Tatjana Evas (European Parliament), Digital services act: European added value assessment, 2020
The webinar is co-organized by the SIGNAL project at the Norwegian Research Center for Computers and Law (University of Oslo) and the Centre for Information and Innovation Law at the University of Copenhagen.