Competition Law, Regulation and Digital Platforms

Japan, China, UK, EU and USA
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-78854-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 120 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 380 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia

This book confronts and analyses how competition law in its present form is unable to deal with the new advances in digital technology that have made tech giants not subject to national jurisdictions as they straddle the world, with a particular focus on Japan, China, UK, EU and USA.

Demonstrating how the gatekeeping role of digital platforms has broken through the boundaries of national regulation, this book highlights examples where companies have broken and infringed antitrust law with impunity, pursuing self-preferencing and unfair competition practices solely for their own profitability. It also identifies how tech giants can open their digital platforms for fair use by consumers, small and medium enterprises (SMEs), and creators ,while still allowing tech giants to maintain their important role as gatekeepers of digital security that protects users from cyberattacks. This is followed by an examination of the similarities between tech giants and big pharma within the competition law and intellectual property context, revealing how tech giants are beginning to target the healthcare sector.

Exploring how intellectual property rights are interwoven through new modernising regulations to curtail the dominance of Big Tech on digital platforms, this book will appeal to students, scholars and practitioners of Business Ethics, Intellectual Property, Law, and Regulation.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fuchikawa, Kazuhiko

Taplin, Ruth

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Wirtschaftsrecht Gewerblicher Rechtsschutz Gewerblicher Rechtsschutz allg., Marken- und Kennzeichenrecht
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Unternehmensethik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft Informationstechnik, IT-Industrie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Rechtswissenschaften Wirtschaftsrecht Gewerblicher Rechtsschutz Wettbewerbs- und Kartellrecht, Werberecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Overview 2. Regulating Non-Price Exclusionary Conducts and Preferential Treatments in the Digital Economy 3. Fair Competition and Appropriate Use of Data and Algorithms in the Digital Platform Business-Case Studies and Policy Approaches in Japan 4. Cloud Computing and Competition Law 5. Regulation and Competition: A Study on Competition Regulation among Digital Platforms in China 6. Addendum- Excessive Patenting in Big Pharma: Should This Strategy be Regulated by Competition Law as Big Tech Targets Healthcare?  7. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Ruth Taplin (PhD London School of Economics and Political Science [LSE] and Graduate Diploma in Law) is Director of the Centre for Japanese and East Asian Studies, London, Editor/Founder of the Interdisciplinary Journal of Economics and Business Law (IJEBL), Professor Taplin is the author/editor of 28 books and over 200 articles. Early on in her career she was chosen as a future leader in the Japanese field for the UK.

Kazuhiko Fuchikawa is an Associate Professor of Competition Law at Keio University, Japan. Professor Fuchikawa is a winner of the Masatoshi Yokota Memorial Award (New Face Award of the Japan Association of Economic Law), 2015.