By Dr. Konstantina Bania
The UK has built a “rival” to the EU’s Digital Markets Act – and it is now starting to use it. Under the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act (DMCCA), the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)
By Dr. Konstantina Bania
With its Grand Chamber judgment in Meta Platforms Ireland v AGCOM (C‑797/23), the Court of Justice of the EU has handed down a major ruling on Article 15 of the DSM Copyright Directive. Beneath the technicalities
By Dr. Konstantina Bania and Philine Wassenaar
A deep dive into the European Commission’s first wave of Digital Markets Act enforcement, ongoing investigations, and what the 2026 review tells us about regulating Big Tech in the age of AI
The
Over the past decade, a striking paradox has emerged in digital content markets. On the one hand, we have an unprecedented explosion of creativity; independent journalists, podcasters, musicians, game developers and influencers can, in principle, reach global audiences from a
By Dr. Konstantina Bania
By the time a digital‑markets case reaches a court room, a paradoxical situation has arisen: the business model in the file is obsolete, the market definition section reads like historical fiction, and the junior in chambers
Europe is stuck in a static industrial structure with few new companies rising up to disrupt existing industries or develop new growth engines. This is not because we lack
By Dr. Konstantina Bania
A California jury has done something US courts have long refused to do: hold Meta and YouTube legally responsible not for what users post, but for how their platforms are designed to keep children hooked. By
Parity clauses remain firmly on the German competition authority’s radar, as the recent CHECK24 case illustrates. More importantly, the authority’s concerns are not limited to classic contractual clauses. They also extend to ranking, visibility and other commercial tools capable of
In November 2025, the European Commission (“Commission”) proposed a “Digital Omnibus” regulation to amend several EU legislations.[1]
Although presented as a simplification exercise to strengthen Europe’s competitiveness, the proposal revisits key provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
