Digital Markets Act with Professor Jürgen Kühling

The BTLJ Podcast

The BTLJ Podcast team sits down with Professor Jürgen Kühling, a member of the German Monopolies Commission, to discuss the implications of the Digital Markets Act (DMA) for big tech companies and consumers. The Digital Markets Act recently went into effect on November 1, 2022, when this interview was recorded. For more reading on this subject, refer to the following links: Bill Batchelor, Frederic Depoortere, Aurora Luoma, Giorgio Motta, and Ingrid Vandenborre, EU Digital Markets Act Enters Into Force on November 1, Creating New Regulatory Regime for Large Tech Platforms, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP (Oct. 12, 2022), https://www.skadden.com/insights/publications/2022/10/eu-digital-markets-act-enters-into-force#:~:text=The%20DMA%20sets%20out%20rules,and%20national%20competition%20law%20rules Digital Markets Act - The New Era of EU Digital Regulation for Big Tech, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP (June 1, 2022), https://www.akingump.com/en/news-insights/digital-markets-actthe-new-era-of-eu-digital-regulation-for-big-tech.html. Ryan Browne, EU targets U.S. tech giants with a new rulebook aimed at curbing their dominance, CNBC (Mar. 25, 2022, 5:41 AM), https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/25/digital-markets-act-eu-targets-big-tech-with-sweeping-new-antitrust-rules.html Bipartisan Lawmakers Urge President Biden to Demand Changes to Discriminatory EU Tech Bill, U.S. Congresswoman Suzan DelBene (Feb. 23, 2022), https://delbene.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=3047 Stefan Modrich and David DiMolfetta, Big fines can scare Big Tech, but enforcing Digital Markets Act is key – experts, S&P Global Market Intelligence (Apr. 1, 2022), https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights/latest-news-headlines/big-fines-can-scare-big-tech-but-enforcing-digital-markets-act-is-key-8211-experts-69620415