{"id":30939,"date":"2025-09-16T09:04:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T07:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.itm.nrw\/new-paper-on-pay-or-consent-publised\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T09:04:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T07:04:58","slug":"new-paper-on-pay-or-consent-publised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itm.nrw\/en\/new-paper-on-pay-or-consent-publised\/","title":{"rendered":"New research paper on Pay or consent published"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"63\" data-end=\"266\">Today, a detailed paper that I co-authored with my colleague <strong data-start=\"124\" data-end=\"138\">Nora-Marie Fuchs<\/strong> was published on the pending case before the <strong data-start=\"184\" data-end=\"192\">CJEU<\/strong> concerning <strong data-start=\"204\" data-end=\"263\">Meta, the DMA, and the so-called &#8220;Pay or Consent&#8221; model<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"268\" data-end=\"471\">In our analysis, we demonstrate that even the very term <em data-start=\"324\" data-end=\"342\">&#8220;Pay or Consent&#8221;<\/em> is misleading, and that the debate risks being steered in the wrong direction &#8211; to Meta&#8217;s detriment &#8211; because of this framing.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"473\" data-end=\"731\">The research paper is available for free via SSRN:<br data-start=\"523\" data-end=\"526\"><strong data-start=\"526\" data-end=\"651\">&#8220;Compatibility of Subscription-Based Models with Article 5(2) of the DMA &#8211; Case Study: Commission v. Meta Platforms Inc.<\/strong>&#8220;<br data-start=\"651\" data-end=\"654\">\ud83d\udd17 <a class=\"decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5490206\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\" data-start=\"657\" data-end=\"729\">Read here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, a detailed paper that I co-authored with my colleague Nora-Marie Fuchs was published on the pending case before the CJEU concerning Meta, the DMA, and the so-called &#8220;Pay or Consent&#8221; model. In our analysis, we demonstrate that even the very term &#8220;Pay or Consent&#8221; is misleading, and that the debate risks being steered in [&#8230;]\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":29946,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1067],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itm.nrw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itm.nrw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itm.nrw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itm.nrw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itm.nrw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30939"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.itm.nrw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30943,"href":"https:\/\/www.itm.nrw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30939\/revisions\/30943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itm.nrw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itm.nrw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itm.nrw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itm.nrw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}