Europe’s War on U.S. Platforms

Legal Frontiers in Digital Media Podcast

Europe’s War on U.S. Platforms

Many government entities in the EU appear to be gunning for U.S.-based digital companies. This is reflected in the new copyright law discussed in the earlier panel, but is also seen in a variety of data protection & privacy regulations: GDPR, Privacy Shield, right to be forgotten (including possibility of requiring global search removals under Google Spain, and expansion of RTBF beyond search engines), and increasing discomfort among U.S. platforms that the EU is seeking to project its law and values on the rest of the world. This panel will attempt to better understand Europe’s way of thinking about these issues and offer strategies for digital companies – not just the big players – but smaller startups that will have to grapple with the unintended consequences of the long arm of European regulations. This session will open with a 20-minute keynote speech from Yale Law School Dean, Robert Post, based on his paper, “The News about Google Spain: Management, Civility,
and The Right to Be Forgotten.”

Panelists:
Jacob P. Goldstein, Associate General Counsel, Dow Jones & Company Inc. (Moderator)
Robert Post, Dean and Sol & Lillian Goldberg Professor of Law, Yale Law School (Keynote)
Jens van den Brink, Attorney at Law/ Partner, Kennedy Van der Laan
Jonathan Kanter, Partner, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
Daphne Keller, Director of Intermediary Liability, Stanford Center for Internet & Society

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