Coordination of interests of participants in digital commodity platforms (marketplaces): legal problems

Abstract

The article examines problems that have emerged in practice related to the interaction of marketplace owners with sellers, buyers and other participants when concluding and executing contracts for the sale of goods on digital commodity platforms. The concepts of a digital platform, marketplace, and information aggregator, which have not received an unambiguous solution in legal acts, are defined, the legal status of the owner of the marketplace is investigated, and a negative assessment of the state of legal regulation of relations developing on digital product platforms (marketplaces) is given. A mechanism for legal regulation of the relations under consideration is proposed, which allows not to limit the development of marketplaces and at the same time ensure the coordination of the interests of marketplace owners as entities with significant market power with participants in transactions on digital commodity platforms.