디지털 무역협정상 온라인 플랫폼 공급자 책임의 검토: 국제규범 발전의 필요성을 중심으로

As the diversity and economic scale of online platform providers expand internationally, the responsibility regime for them will go beyond just domestic legal issues and lead to discussions on various international norms related to digital trade. While various types of responsibilities, such as P2P, P2B, and P2C, are regulated each country’s regime with different levels and contents, ultimately, the online platform provider responsibility system is expected to be discussed around the world continuously. However, compared to the speed of development and the increased need of further discussion, there has been little development of related norms. Therefore, these discussions and appropriate norms should be quickly reflected in the digital trade agreements that are developing regionally today. In this process, countries should be able to actively review the possibilities and problems of using existing international norms then take this into consideration when negotiating individual digital trade agreements. Current WTO/FTA provisions especially related to the fair competition are the ones to review. Digital trade agreements should also ‘international law’ and should seek harmony with the existing international law system such as the norms related to cyber security and state responsibility.