Björn Lundqvist

Introduction to EU Internet Law provides a thorough introduction to the parts of European Union law that are particularly relevant to the Internet, including electronic commerce. Its eleven chapters introduce, analyse and discuss a variety of legal topics and their application to activities on or relating to the Internet. This book will serve as a valuable resource for lawyers, legal academics and law students who wish to familiarise themselves with Internet law or update their knowledge. It is also suitable as a general introduction for readers without a law background whose skills may be more technological than legal. Outline Contents 1 Law, Internet and the European Union 1 Jan Trzaskowski 2 Platform Regulation 27 Andrej Savin 3 Freedom of Expression, Content Control and ISP Liability 53 Andrej Savin 4 Privacy and Personal Data 95 Jan Trzaskowski 5 The Internal Market 173 Andrej Savin 6 Competition Law 207 Björn Lundqvist 7 Marketing Law 287 Jan Trzaskowski 8 Intellectual Property Law 345 Björn Lundqvist 9 Contract Law 403 Patrik Lindskoug 10 Performance of Contracts: Sales Law and Payments 431 Andrej Savin 11 Jurisdiction and Applicable Law 463 Patrik Lindskoug Jan Trzaskowski, Ph. D., is Law Professor at Copenhagen Business School and Aalborg University. Since the mid-1990s, he has dealt with legal and regulatory aspects of information technology. Andrej Savin, Ph. D., is Law Professor at Copenhagen Business School. His main research interests relate to information technology law, in particular Internet governance in the US and in Europe. His primary focus is on EU policymaking in the digital single market. Björn Lundqvist, LL. D., is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, Lund University. He has worked with commercial law and international e-commerce law since the mid-1990s. His major fields of interest are commercial law, international and comparative private law and property law. Patrik Lindskoug, LL. D., is Law Professor at Stockholm University. His research focuses on innovation, competition, property and law, and he takes a particular interest in the regulation of the digital economy.

Data collected and distributed on the internet is generally free, non-exclusive, and non-rivalrous. Yet online data is often difficult to access. This book examines the infrastructure for collecting, storing, and distributing data to show how it is embedded behind intellectual property and technological barriers. It proposes that the EU introduce an access and transfer governance right to data that can work in tandem with data protection rules. Chapters explore the subject matter of this protection, potential rights holders and the scope of the protection, and exceptions and limitations under intellectual property law and competition law. Comprehensive and timely, Regulating Access and Transfer of Data sets the foundations for a new legal system for our data-driven generation.

Digitaliseringen har djupgående effekter på samhället, och inte minst på konkurrensen. I Konjunkturrådets rapport 2021 beskriver och analyserar fyra forskare de ekonomiska mekanismer och de lagar och rättstillämpningar som tillsammans formar samspelet mellan digitalisering och konkurrens. Särskild vikt läggs vid att granska plattformsmarknader och nätverksexternaliteter. De resonerar kring vad utvecklingen innebär för en liten exportorienterad nation som Sverige och vad som kan göra svenska företag bättre rustade att möta framtida utmaningar i den digitala ekonomin. SNS Konjunkturråd 2021 består av Sten Nyberg (ordförande), professor i nationalekonomi, Stockholms universitet, Richard Friberg, professor i nationalekonomi, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm, Björn Lundqvist, docent i juridik, Stockholms universitet, och Robin Teigland, professor i Management of Digitalization, Chalmers tekniska högskola.

Europarätten har fått ett stort genomslag och intar numera en central roll i de nationella rättsordningarna. Detta tack vare medlemsstaternas och de nationella domstolarnas övervägande acceptans av europarätten trots att den griper in, påverkar, förändrar, tar över och i vissa fall till och med underkänner nationell rätt. Acceptansen är dock inte ovillkorlig utan europa rätten bygger på en levande dialog; ett kritiskt utbyte av tankar. Avsikten med boken Kritiskt tänkande inom europarätten är att den ska, tillsammans med en huvudbok i europarätt och väl anpassade seminarieövningar, refl ektera över de underliggande rättsliga spänningsfälten och utmaningarna som EU ständigt står inför. Boken utgör på så vis ett steg på vägen för juridikstuderande till ett självständigt kritiskt förhållningssätt till europarätten.

Due to disagreement between policymakers and innovation economists, antitrust agencies have been rather confused over when and how to use competition law in reference to research and development (R&D) joint ventures and collaborations. This important book dissects the antitrust treatment, in the USA and under EU law, of joint R&D ventures from the 1970s to the present day. It provides a comprehensive analysis of the modifications and amendments made to legal acts and guidelines. It also looks at the slow shift in the scant case law detected both under the antitrust laws of the USA and the competition rules of the EU. Björn Lundqvist demonstrates that the prevailing antitrust policies towards R&D collaborations are very similar in the USA and the EU, and that they both mirror a lenient attitude towards collaboration between competitors. Nonetheless, ultimately, the book shows that a more stringent attitude from the antitrust establishment can be discerned, and that the concept of the innovation market could possibly soon have a revival. This fascinating book caters to both researchers and practitioners in competition law and economics. The easy-to-follow chart and boxes will be particularly useful for practitioners when setting up R&D joint ventures.

Standardization under EU Competition Rules and US Antitrust Laws is a comprehensive and detailed legal analysis of standard-setting procedure and the regulation of standard essential patents. It deals with the competition law aspects of competitors' collaboration to create technical standards, as well as the contentious antitrust issues regarding access to standards and standard essential patents. The book shows that there is a clear difference between how standardization is scrutinized and judged in the two jurisdictions. In general, US courts use intellectual property law to address access to standard essential patents, while European courts utilize antitrust rules. Both avenues hold their specific benefits and disadvantages. However, the dichotomy between the tools used in the two jurisdictions also, according to the author, mirror a more fundamental change in attitude to central notions and values such as property, fairness, equity, public interest and competition. Offering in-depth analysis of the case law currently being written in courtrooms all over the world under the so-called 'patent war', the book puts forward a new method for applying competition law to standards and standard-setting - in both its collusive and monopolistic aspects - that will be of special interest to students, academics and practitioners.