The legal nature of online platforms: the Uber and Airbnb cases

With the Airbnb and Uber judgments, the Court of Justice has ruled on the legal qualification of two very important online platforms. In this article, we are going to understand to what extent an online platform can be qualified as an 'information society' and when not. One of the founding principles of the EU internal market is the free movement...

Selling online abroad: applicable law, geoblocking and antitrust law.

The purpose of this article is to provide the reader with ideas for structuring an online sales strategy aimed at foreign markets, taking into account EU regulations on geoblocking, the regulations of the countries to which one intends to export and, last but not least, antitrust law. 1. Geoblocking: what is it and when does it apply? Firstly, one must analysing the recent...