Table of Contents 1. Executive Summary 2. Methodology & definitions 3. Net Neutrality 3.1. Key stakes 3.2. Net neutrality regulation 3.3. United States 4. Competition 4.1. Key Stakes 4.2. Sharing economy players endangering traditional businesses 4.3. Internet giants 5. Tax optimization 5.1. Key stakes 5.2. Internet giants 5.3. Taxation and sharing economy 6. Privacy 6.1. Key stakes 6.2. Privacy regulation 7. Copyrights 7.1. Introduction 7.2. Anti-piracy policies 7.3. The press issue 8. Miscellaneous 8.1. VoIP 8.2. Encryption, surveillance List of Tables
Table 1: OTT regulation deployment level per domain, per country Table 2 : European net neutrality approaches Table 3: Legal State of Uber in select countries Table 4: Major OTTs diversifying into various service domains Table 5: Comparison of VAT rates on linear and on-demand audiovisual media services Table 6: Corporate tax paid by 5 leading Internet players in France in 2011, in comparison to what these players would have paid had they been located and taxed in France Table 7: Tax/profit ratio paid by leading US Internet and non-Internet companies Table 8: Examples of sharing economy providers and their criteria of sending tax forms Table 9: Examples of tracking tools Table 10: Main characteristics of antipiracy policies in Common Law and Civil Law countries Table 11: Examples of graduated response implemented by selected countries List of Figures
Figure 1: Protesters at an FCC hearing on net neutrality (December 2014) Figure 2: Ofcom presentation on Net neutrality (2006) Figure 3 : South Korean net neutrality guidelines Figure 4: Uber post confirming the temporary suspension in Spain Figure 5: Yelp document showing how Google abuses its dominant search position Figure 6: The "Double Irish" and "Dutch sandwich" scheme Figure 7: Number of VoD providers situated in selected European countries Figure 8: "Starbucks Commitment to the UK", explaining their stance on corporate tax Figure 9: Airbnb Q&A page explaining local taxes and listing the locations in which Airbnb collects and remits the tax automatically Figure 10: Uber's blog post providing tax support for drivers using its platform Figure 11: Users concerned about private companies' and governmental interference with privacy Figure 12: Estimate of lost revenues due to electronic piracy in the recorded music sector, worldwide, 2010–2018 Figure 13: Illustration of the French three strikes procedure Figure 14: Description of Verizon's Copyright Alert Program Figure 15: Evolution of the number of piracy threat letters sent by type of content in Germany, 2011-2014 Figure 16: Members of Reform Government surveillance (April 2015)
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