The remodelled intersection between copyright and antitrust law to straighten the bargaining power asymmetries in the digital platform economy

This article provides an assessment of the interplay between copyright, contract freedom and antitrust law in the current digital platform economy, as it was settled by the European legal strategy for a (fair) digital single market. It primarily focuses on the Digital Single Market (DSM) Directive and the Digital Markets Act (DMA) Proposal, evaluating if competition law instruments represent exceptional or structural remedies to correct the current failures of contract freedom and copyright enforcement within the delicate balance between authors, editors and online platforms.