Brexit and the Digital Single Market

The Digital Single Market (DSM) comprised numerous Directives, Regulations, and other instruments aimed at facilitating cross-border digital services, including access to banking, shopping, streaming, and satellite television across European Union borders without restrictions. With one-fifth of service exports stemming from the digital sector, the DSM was vital for the UK, with the EU representing its largest digital services export market.

Brexit and the Digital Single Market 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. The book illuminates how the UK continues to innovate in the digital sector but also how it is constrained by external factors both at EU and global levels. It considers 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.

Timely and unprecedented, Brexit and the Digital Single Market is the first volume to comprehensively cover the implications of Brexit on the EU's DSM. This is an essential read for students and academics in political science and law, as well as civil servants, regulators, and policy makers working within the digital sector.

1:Brexit and the Digital Single Market
2:Audio-visual Media Services: the new regulatory environment
3:UK policy towards the creative industries sector post Brexit
4:The UK role in EU telecommunications policy, Brexit and beyond
5:The regulation of e-commerce post Brexit
6:Platform Regulation and the Liability of Intermediaries
7:Fintech: the UK as a global model
8:Competition law and state aid: decision-making in the digital sector
9:State aid and exclusive rights agreements
10:The history of EU data protection policy and UK entrepreneurship
11:Brexit and copyright
12:Conclusion: the UK's new place in the global digital world