Private Power, Online Information Flows and EU Law

Daly’s very readable book provides an important and well-researched contribution in an area – competition law – that is now inextricably linked to the domains of other legal specialties such as privacy and data protection, the right of expression, and intellectual property. Thus, this book is highly recommended reading for Internet scholars, whatever their specific area of expertise. -- Prof. Gregory Voss * Journal of Intellectual Property, Information Technology and E-Commerce Law * In this book, legal scholar Angela Daly has not only closely analyzed how European Union regulation is frustrated by crossnational technological and economic power, but has also provided more general food for thought about how regulation does and could work to support public values, including equal access and inclusion, in communication innovation. -- Patricia Aufderheide American University, USA * International Journal of Communication * ... Daly’s observation adds thoughts to an emergent discourse on private power as a distinct phenomenon which needs to be conceptualized and further researched in legal scholarship ... The growing body of literature—including Daly’s work—not only indicates but also drives a regulatory and societal paradigm shift, even if this proceeds in slow motion. -- Heiko Richter, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition * International Journal of Law and Information Technology * This methodical, constructively critical work is punctuated by conclusions that trace out ways in which European citizens and consumers can have more effective protection in the future from the European Union. -- Pierre Bouvier * Bulletin Quotidien Europe *