Glossary of Platform Law and Policy Terms
Konstantinos Stylianou is an Associate Professor in Competition Law and Regulation at the University of Leeds. His areas of focus are the law and policy of digital markets, antitrust, and blockchain. He has worked on projects funded by the EU, Swedish Competition Authority, Google, Facebook, and Thailand’s National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission among others, and he has been involved with the Hellenic Competition Commission and the Greek Government on the reform of competition law in Greece. He holds an S.J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied as an Onassis Scholar, an LL.M. from Harvard University, where he studied as a Fulbright Scholar, and an LL.M. and LL.B. from Aristotle University.
Author: Konstantinos Stylianou ‘Self-preferencing’ is the practice of giving preferential treatment to one’s own complementary products or services when they are in competition with products and services provided by other entities using the platform (Crémer, 2019). The term rose to prominence after the Google Shopping case (2017) where the European Commission accused Google of ‘self-preferencing’… Continue reading Self-preferencing
Author: Konstantinos Stylianou ‘Platform neutrality’ expresses the idea that products or services that function as platforms should not unreasonably discriminate against complements. Platform neutrality was popularized after a report issued by the French National Digital Council (Conseil National du Numérique) in 2014, which advanced numerous recommendations on the issue (CNNum, 2014). The concept of ‘platform neutrality’ draws… Continue reading Platform Neutrality