The platform economy : unravelling the legal status of online intermediaries / Bram Devolder (ed.).
2019
K564.C6 P53 2019 (Mapit)
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Title
The platform economy : unravelling the legal status of online intermediaries / Bram Devolder (ed.).
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Imprint
Cambridge : Intersentia, [2019]
Description
xxii, 398 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Formatted Contents Note
Part I. Key legal issues: Regulatory disruption and regulatory opportunities: 1. Digital platforms: To regulate or not to regulate? Message to regulators: Get the economics right first, then focus on the right regulations
2. Contractual liability of the platform / Bram Devolder
3. Law evasion in the platforms economy: The Uber case / Nicolas Van Damme
4. Regulating the sharing economy in China: A national report / Liyang Hou
Part II. Platforms and EU laws: Where are we now and what lies ahead? : 1. Competition law in the peer-topeer economy / Friso Bostoen
2. Draft model rules on online intermediary platforms / Marie Jull Sørensen
Part III. Platforms and social law: Rethinking labour protection and social security to address non-standard work? : 1. The court of justice of the EU, Uber and labour protection: A labour lawyers' approach
2. Social protection of non-standard workers: The case of platform work / Paul Schoukens, Alberto Barrio and Saskia Montebovi
3. Social security and the platform economy in Belgium: Dilemma and paradox / Yves Stevens
4. And what about the gig worker? Transport law as a lifeline to gig workers falling outside labour law protection / Wouter Verheyen and Fiona Unz
Part IV. Platforms and revenue law: Pushing the boundaries of direct and indirect taxation? : 1. International corporate taxation of digital platforms / Dina Scornos and Niels Bammens
2. Collecting value added tax in the platform economy: Overview of the fundamental issue and recent EU 2018 developments / Edoardo Traversa and Maria Lamensch
3. Uber's approach to value added tax: Testing the limits of the European VAT legislation / Kenneth Vyncke.
2. Contractual liability of the platform / Bram Devolder
3. Law evasion in the platforms economy: The Uber case / Nicolas Van Damme
4. Regulating the sharing economy in China: A national report / Liyang Hou
Part II. Platforms and EU laws: Where are we now and what lies ahead? : 1. Competition law in the peer-topeer economy / Friso Bostoen
2. Draft model rules on online intermediary platforms / Marie Jull Sørensen
Part III. Platforms and social law: Rethinking labour protection and social security to address non-standard work? : 1. The court of justice of the EU, Uber and labour protection: A labour lawyers' approach
2. Social protection of non-standard workers: The case of platform work / Paul Schoukens, Alberto Barrio and Saskia Montebovi
3. Social security and the platform economy in Belgium: Dilemma and paradox / Yves Stevens
4. And what about the gig worker? Transport law as a lifeline to gig workers falling outside labour law protection / Wouter Verheyen and Fiona Unz
Part IV. Platforms and revenue law: Pushing the boundaries of direct and indirect taxation? : 1. International corporate taxation of digital platforms / Dina Scornos and Niels Bammens
2. Collecting value added tax in the platform economy: Overview of the fundamental issue and recent EU 2018 developments / Edoardo Traversa and Maria Lamensch
3. Uber's approach to value added tax: Testing the limits of the European VAT legislation / Kenneth Vyncke.
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.
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Includes bibliographical references.
Call Number
K564.C6 P53 2019
Language
English
ISBN
9781780686349 (hardback)
178068634X (hardback)
178068634X (hardback)
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