The European Union's Digital Single Market Strategy: A conflict between government's desire for certainty and rapid marketplace innovation (Stuart N. Brotman, Brookings)

Many of the major success stories of the digital age—Google, eBay, Amazon, and Facebook, to name a few—have originated in the U.S. rather than Europe. According to European Commission (E.C.) President Jean-Claude Juncker that's due to "cross-border barriers and differences in national telecoms, spectrum, copyright, e-commerce, data protection and consumer law regimes." To bring Europe on a more globally competitive footing, the EU's draft Digital Single Market Strategy (DSMS) aims to reduce geoblocking barriers for consumers purchasing digital content, create a new balance on protecting content creators' rights in copyright, and harmonize rules throughout the EU for online purposes

http://www.brookings.edu/research/papers/2016/05/24-digital-single-market-strategy-brotman