The Contractual Rights and Obligations of Prosumers on Social Media Platforms: Recognizing Use Value

How can con­tract law con­tribute to a fair bal­ance between the rights of pro­sumers and social media plat­forms? This con­tri­bu­tion assess­es the val­ues that con­tract law should reflect, propos­ing the recog­ni­tion of use val­ue along­side the exchange val­ue of prod­ucts on the mar­ket. It then con­sid­ers which mech­a­nisms in con­tract law could be employed to do jus­tice to both values.