“…It seems to us that a promising candidate for such an alternative approach would be to allow platform operators to sell their data to other companies. While the creation of data markets has been recommended for the purpose of fostering innovative use of such data, especially with regard to the application of machine learning techniques (Guse, Thiebes, Hennel, Rosenkranz, & Sunyaev, 2022;European Commission, 2022), such efforts have not yet been linked to the regulatory objective of curbing the power of platforms (Abbas, Agahari, van de Ven, Zuiderwijk, & Reuver, 2021). Even the Data Governance Act (DGA), another regulatory proposal by the European Commission that was published in the same year as the DMA and that is often portrayed as providing the legal basis for the creation of data markets (e.g.…”