'This topical study proposes introducing a subjective, non-exclusive right of all users to access and obtain the data that the data industry hides behind its walls. It would supersede or displace the current regulatory access control mechanisms and ease the transition to a general data-driven economy. Insistently argued, this academic advocacy of an individual rights approach to ordering data markets deserves to be discussed by all circles concerned.' Hanns Ullrich, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
1. Introduction; 2. The data-driven economy; 3. Competition law; 4. General and sector-specific regulations; 5. The objectives of regulating the data-driven economy; 6. The intellectual property law system and data; 7. An access and transfer right to data; 8. Conclusion.