Online services shape how we consume media, read the news, watch films, stream content, or play games — and the Digital Services Act, along with the Digital Markets Act, have rewritten the rules for everyone doing business online. Wiggin is here to help you navigate this sea change.
The Digital Services Act (DSA) now governs anyone doing business online in Europe. As a true market regulation, it touches any entity with a connection to the European Single Market: whether your company is based in London, New York, Shanghai, or Brussels, its rules will apply.
The DSA applies to all companies providing intermediary services in the EU — from mere conduit and caching to hosting services and online platforms. In practice, the DSA covers much of the internet ecosystem: social media platforms, online marketplaces, video sharing services and other hosting or intermediary services that store or transmit user uploaded information.
The DSA may apply to anyone, but it will also apply differently to everyone depending on the type and size of the service. The regulatory obligations build up like the layers of an onion, starting with basic transparency duties applicable to all providers, and extending to systemic risk assessments for very large services platforms and search engines.
Despite the short time since the DSA entered fully into force, Wiggin has already assisted and advised dozens of companies across the media, technology and entertainment spectrum on virtually every aspect of DSA compliance: from scoping and transparency obligations to minors protection, limitations on liability, injunctions, KYBC requirements, content moderation, notice and action mechanisms/trusted flaggers and systemic risk assessment.
The Digital Markets Act (DMA) is the legislative counterpart to the DSA. It aims at levelling the playing field in European digital markets, through rules which ensure fair competition in markets where there are large ‘gatekeeper’ platforms.
The DSA and the DMA are undoubtedly the most significant interventions in the digital single market in recent times. We have put together a DSA Hub so that you can easily stay up to date with all of the latest news and navigate the potential impact on your business.