Monday, April 30, 2012

Friday, April 27, 2012

FTC Chairman on Do Not Track, Google probe and more

Blog.sfgate.com, here. 

Financing R&D into medicines particularly needed in resource-poor settings

WHO, Consultative Expert Working Group on Research and
Development: Financing and Coordination, here. 

AGCM AVVIA ISTRUTTORIA SU UGF-PREMAFIN E SOSPENDE L’OPERAZIONE FINO ALLA CHIUSURA DEL PROCEDIMENTO

Provvedimento qui. 

Durchbruch für die private Kartellrechtsdurchsetzung im UK? Department for Business Innovation and Skills veröffentlicht Diskussionspaper zum private enforcement

S.Peyer, hier (Gastbeitrag auf Kartellblog). 

USING COPYRIGHT TO PROMOTE ACCESS TO INFORMATION AND CREATIVE CONTENT

WIPO, here. 

Digital Archiving

The Economist, here. 

Competition among competition journals (?)

New: Journal of Antitrust Enforcement. The editors are Ariel Ezrachi and William Kovacic, here.

AU Federal Court on "time shifting"

National Rugby League Investments Pty Limited v Singtel Optus Pty Ltd [2012] FCAFC 59, here. 

Overview of National Reports About 'Balancing Copyright'

R. Hilty, S. Nérisson, here. 

Harmonizing Patent Law: The Untamable Union Patent

H. Ullrich, here. 

Friday, April 20, 2012

Norwegian Competition Authority against fixed book price law

Press release, here. 

Oracle/Google: Rumble in the Java jungle

The Economist, here. On tech issues behind the legal dispute read also here (from news.cnet.com)

AU High Court rules in favour of iiNet

Summary here; judgment here. 

Turning Smartphones into Mobile Wallets – What Are the Issues?



Techpolicy.com, here.

Monday, April 16, 2012

2011 Report on the Application of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights

European Commission, here. 

Supreme Court grants cert to Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons

Scotusblog.com, here. 

Technology Regulation

Panel at Stanford University, video here.
• Prof. Richard Epstein, New York University School of Law
• Prof. Anthony Falzone, Stanford Center for Internet and Society
• Prof. Mark Lemley, Stanford Law School
• Mr. Peter Thiel, President, Clarium Capital
• Hon. Ted Ullyot, General Counsel, Facebook
• Moderator: Dean Larry Kramer, Stanford Law School.

Interpretation and Institutional Choice at the WTO

G. Shaffer, J. Trachtman, here. 

New government report on IP doesn't say what Big Content thinks it says

Arstechnica.com, here

Academic publishing: Open sesame

The Economist, here. 

EBook-Kartellklage: Quellen

German American Law Journal, hier. 

History Repeats: Publishers, Retailers, and Antitrust

A.Katz, here. 

Zur Rolle des Urheberrechts und zum Leistungsschutzrecht für Presseverlage

T. Kreutzer im Interview, hier. 

John Palfrey Discusses Online Privacy with FTC Commissioner Julie Brill

Video here. 

France solves its XXe century book problem!

L. Guibault, here. 

The DOJ believes that Apple is forcing you to pay more for e-books

P. Karolczyk, here. DOJ's antitrust suit here. EU Commission's comment, here. 

THE OBJECTIVES AND PRINCIPLES OF UNILATERAL CONDUCT LAWS

The ICN The Unilateral Conduct Working Group, here. 

PREDATORY PRICING ANALYSIS

The ICN Unilateral Conduct Working Group, here.  

ICN's Framework for Merger Review Cooperation

Proposed by the Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC), here. 

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Antitrust and Google

R. Bork, here. 

Private Digital Libraries and Orphan Works

R. Picker, presentation here. 

SOCIETE BOUYGUES TELECOM contre la France

ECHR, Requête no 2324/08, ici et communiqué de presse ici. 

Viacom v. YouTube


UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT, Docket No. 10-3270-cv.

Thursday, April 05, 2012

AGCM su alcune delle problematiche ancora aperte in tema di "liberalizzazioni"

G. Pitruzzella, audizione parlamentare, qui, p. 3-5.
Settori interessati:
- carburanti
- assicurazioni
- banche

Competition law in the European Union after the Treaty of Lisbon

I. Lianos, here (from Academia.edu).

EP Committee on Industry, Research and Energy on ACTA

Draft opinion, here. 

The Next Generation of Global Competition Law

S. Weber Waller, here.