The EU is committed to making the Single Market fit for the digital age,
by enhancing the protection of consumers and data subjects, while
providing businesses with the legal certainty they need to invest in
this field and support growth and innovation. In this context, European Contract Law and the Digital Single Market,
an edited collection consisting of carefully selected contributions by
leading scholars, addresses the impact of digital technology on European
Private Law in light of the latest legislative developments including
the EU Regulation of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons
with regard to the processing of personal data and on free movement of
such data, as well as the European Commission’s proposals of 9 December
2015 for a Directive on the supply of digital content, for a Directive
on online and other distance sale of goods and for a Regulation on the
cross-border portability of online content services in the internal
market. The book analyses new and urgent issues in the field of
contract, data protection, copyright and private international law:
namely the EU approach to personal information as a tradeable commodity
and as the object of a fundamental right of the individuals concerned,
the protection of consumers’ and users’ rights in contracts for the
supply of digital content and on online and other distance sales of
goods, the cross-border portability of online content services, the new
features of standard contracts in the digital market and the issues
surrounding the emergence of the so called platform economy. 
