In 2012, MediaFire was forced to shut down temporarily due to a court order, as part of a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by the adult entertainment company, TC Productions. The company was accused of facilitating the distribution of copyrighted content without permission.

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The CJEU judgements in the ‘Uber’ and ‘Airbnb’ cases may help to determine whether platform operators bear liability towards platform customers and on what grounds.

KEYWORDS: Online platforms, Sharing economy, Platform operator, Business user, Customer, Platform liability, E-commerce

This special issue on 'Regulating the sharing economy' includes five papers and an editorial which each contribute to knowledge by linking the social and economic aspects of sharing economy practices to regulatory norms and mechanisms.

KEYWORDS: Sharing economy, Peer-to-peer (P2P), Crowd-sharing

Virtual technologies make it possible for private individuals to compete with traditional taxis. How does this affect society and welfare?

KEYWORDS: Sharing economy, Transport, Crowdworking

This paper is part of Regulating the sharing economy, a special issue of Internet Policy Review guest-edited by Kristofer Erickson and Inge Sørensen. Disclaimer: This study was completed with the support of the German service sector union ver.di. We would like to thank the participating platforms and their communities for the opportunity to conduct a survey. We would also like to thank the jovoto platform for the implementation of an idea contest. Thanks also go to Prof. Dr. Christian Fieseler, BI Norwegian Business School and Prof. Dr. Wrona, TU Hamburg-Harburg, for their comments and reviews. Any errors remain the responsibility of the authors. Introduction and objectives Working on …

KEYWORDS: Crowdworking, Crowdsourcing, Sharing economy

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