Angela Daly, Private Power, Online Information Flows and EU Law: Mind the Gap Book Review 8 Journal of Intellectual Property, Information Technology and Electronic Commerce Law 2017

8 J. Intell. Prop. Info. Tech. & Elec. Com. L. 89 (2017)
Angela Daly, Private Power, Online Information Flows and EU Law: Mind the Gap

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Angela Daly, Private Power, Online Information Flows and EU Law: Mind the Gap

Angela Daly, Private Power, Online

Information Flows and EU Law: Mind the Gap

Hart Publishing 2016,18/4 pages, ISBN 978-1-50990-063-3

by W. Gregory Voss, Professor of Business Law, Universitb de Tououse, Tououse Business School (TBS),
Toulouse

© 2017 W. Gregory Voss
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Mind the Gap, 8(2017) JIPITEC 89 para 1.

This book, which is part of the Hart Studies in
Competition Law series, may, at first glance, seem
to fall outside the scope of the main areas of
interest for many scholars in intellectual property,
information technology, and e-commerce law.
However, the European Commission's issuance
of a Statement of Objections to Google regarding
comparative shopping services, the opening of a
formal competition law investigation into Google's
conduct related to the Android mobile operating
system, both in 2015, followed by a 2016 report of
the French and German competition authorities
on competition law and the collection and use of
data, should have put an end to any doubt about
the interest of competition law to the sectors such
scholars study. Furthermore, this book's subject
matter is not limited to competition law and concerns
European Union telecommunications regulation,
privacy and data protection law, the right to free
expression, and technical measures intended to limit
the impact of concentrations of private economic
power on online information flows as well.

2 The first chapter of the book provides an introduction,
sets out the mission of the book and outlines
its structure and approach. The second chapter
establishes the book's theoretical framework which
serves as the basis for the discussions of what Daly
calls the 'substantive' part of the book, consisting
of discrete 'case studies' and providing examples of

existing EU law. The first of these is contained in
chapter three on dominance and internet provision,
particularly covering net neutrality. In the fourth
chapter, dominance and internet search are the
subject, focussing as might be expected on Google.
The fifth chapter deals with dominance and mobile
devices, placing an emphasis on application (or
Iapp') stores. The last of the 'substantive' chapters
is chapter six, which covers dominance and the
cloud, followed by a conclusion (chapter seven).
Notably, each of the substantive chapters contains
a competition law analysis, followed by a discussion
of other areas of law (data protection and privacy,
free expression, etc.) and technique. The chapters
are fairly well balanced in terms of length, with
the sixth chapter on the cloud being the shortest
of the 'substantive' chapters, likely because of
its 'speculative' nature, and the fourth chapter
on internet search being slightly longer than the
theoretical chapter (chapter two) and the chapter
on mobile devices (chapter six), due to the European
Commission's investigations in this area.

3 In the first chapter, Daly sets out some of the limits
of the book. First, it does not cover state-only
control of online information flows, such as for the
prevention of crime. Second, only current EU law
(including the European Convention on Human
Rights, as amended) is discussed in detail, to the
exclusion of 'possible conceptual reforms'. Finally,

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