Title Brexit and the digital single market / Alison Harcourt

Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2023 ©2023

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Description 1 online resource Summary The Digital Single Market (DSM) 2014-19 was the largest component of the EU's Single Market programme. It comprised a considerable number of Directives, Regulations, and instruments to facilitate cross-border digital services. The DSM was important for the UK given that one-fifth of its service exports stem from the digital sector and the EU represents its largest export market. The UK had substantial input in DSM policy. This book examines the important historical role of the UK in DSM development, the consequences of Brexit for the UK's digital sector, and future EU and UK policy trajectories. It assesses vertical industry sectors (audio-visual media services, online platforms, telecommunications, creative industries) and horizontal sectors (competition law, consumer issues, data protection, copyright). The book demonstrates how the UK acted as a policy entrepreneur in pushing for a deregulatory framework by exploiting temporal events historically. It then observes the current challenges presented by Brexit which includes loss of the country-of-origin principle and freedom of movement, changes to copyright and VAT regimes, complications with cross-border data transfer, administrative procedures, and international taxes on digital products and services. The book finds that the UK continues to innovate in the digital sector but is constrained by external factors both at EU and global levels. It also observes how EU policy is taking a new direction in its 2020 Digital Strategy programme which leans towards greater protection of European champions and digital sovereignty, a tightening of its data protection regime, and greater regulatory intervention in digital markets Subject European Union -- Great Britain. SUBJECT European Union fast Subject Trade regulation -- European Union countries Information technology -- Economic aspects -- European Union countries Electronic commerce -- European Union countries Knowledge economy -- European Union countries Information technology -- Economic aspects -- Great Britain Electronic commerce -- Great Britain Knowledge economy -- Great Britain Electronic commerce Information technology -- Economic aspects Knowledge economy Trade regulation Sociology & anthropology. Media Studies. European Union countries Great Britain Form Electronic book ISBN 0191983772 9780191983771 9780192899392 0192899392

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