Consumer opt-outs: a damp squib?

Kluwercompetitionlawblog.com, here. 

A Dutch Court Hands Down the First Substantive Damages Judgment in the Netherlands for an Infringement of Competition Law

Mwe.com, here. 

Buying Keyword Ads on People's Names Doesn't Violate Their Publicity Rights--Habush v. Cannon

Blog.ericgoldman.org, here. 

Statement of the Working Party on current discussions regarding the data protection reform package

Article 29 Data Protection Working Party, here. 

Penguin Faces June 3 Trial in e-Books Case

Publishersweekly.com, here. 

Freier Zugang zu öffentlich finanzierten Forschungsergebnissen

Antrag der SPD, Deutscher Bundestag, hier. 

Plenty of bits in the sea

The Economist, here. 

Conclusions of the Internet of Things public consultation

Here. 

How Antitrust Lost Its Goal

B. Orbach, here. 

Unlocking the Value of Personal Data: From Collection to Usage

Weforum.org, here. 

Recordings of ICN Town Hall Meetings Available

Here. 

Should the E-Book Case Presage the Decline of the Per Se and Market Share Doctrines?

S. Semeraro, here. 

„Google ist nicht die Caritas“

Handelsblatt.com, hier. 

EuGH: Heftiger Streit um "Recht auf Vergessen" im Internet

Heise.de, hier. 

Vertical Restraints for On-Line Sales

P. Buccirossi, here (Note submitted to the OECD Competition Committee).

REPORT ON THE OECD/ICN SURVEY ON INTERNATIONAL ENFORCEMENT CO-OPERATION

OECD, here. 

IFPI Digital Music Report 2013

Here. 

Motorola/Google Proposed Consent Order

Comment, G. Manne, here. 

The Price of Reputation: Is the market for protected personal information about to take off?

The Economist, here. 

Open Data Is Not Just For Governments Anymore

Blogs.forrester.com, here. 

Saisine d’office pour avis portant sur le secteur de la distribution pharmaceutique

Autorité de la concurrence, Décision n° 13-SOA-01 du 25 février 2013, ici. 

Copyright Disruption In The Cloud: U.S. Courts Divided Over Rights Required For Streaming Entertainment Content From The Cloud – Could A U.S. Supreme Court Showdown Be Looming?

Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP, here. 

Evidence-Based Antitrust Enforcement in the Technology Sector

J. Wright, here. 

Foursquare checks in to more revenue with credit card specials

Cnet.com, here. 

Preisparität bei Amazon

Kartellblog.de, hier. 

Integrate or Separate - Institutional Design for the Enforcement of Competition Law and Consumer Law

K. Cseres, here. 

International perspectives on e-books in libraries

CILIP in Wales, here. 

US and UK deal makes GPS technology free and open

Cpaglobal.com, here. 

Zur Verfassungswidrigkeit des Leistungsschutzrechts für Presseverleger

A. Blankenagel, W. Spoerr, hier.

Entwurf eines Gesetzes zur Nutzung verwaister Werke und zu weiteren Änderungen des Urheberrechtsgesetzes

Referentenentwurf, hier.

Amazon to open market in second-hand MP3s and e-books

Newscientist.com, here. 

Ein Referentenentwurf für das Zweitverwertungsrecht

Iuwis.de, hier. 

Indagine conoscitiva: risarcimento diretto e assetti concorrenziali del settore RC auto

AGCM, IC42, qui.

Thomas Hoeren: Leistungsschutzrecht würde Notifizierungspflicht verletzen

Leistungsschutzrecht.info, hier. 

Google News: “We made history in a very good way for the citizens of France.”

Kluwercopyrightblog.com, here. 

EU and US push WIPO negotiations against human rights, for restrictions on exceptions

KEIonline.org, here. 

Dutch Royal Library obtains license to provide access to cultural heritage

Futureofcopyright.com, here. 

Google may reach antitrust settlement with E.U. in second half of the year

Washingtonpost.com, here. 

Amazon Squashing Affiliates Who Promote Free Kindle Books

Goodereader.com, here. 

Amazon, Big Six publishers face antitrust suit from indie bookstores over ebook DRM

TheVerge.com, here.

Criticizing the FTC’s Proposed Order in the Google Patent Antitrust Case

G. Manne, here. 

The Case for Online Obscurity

W. Hartzog & Frederic Stutzman, here. 

White House announces new US open access policy

Blogs.nature.com, here. 

Internet Competition and E-books: Challenging the Competition Policy Acquis?

S. Vezzoso (this blog's author), Presentation here (ppt file). 

WIPO Special Session SCCR negotiations on treaty for blind, 20 February 2013 version of the text

KEIonline.org, here. 

Mercedes-Benz and three commercial vehicle dealers to pay £2.6 million for breaching competition law

OFT, here. 

Google declares open war on Europe’s privacy rights

Privacysurgeon.org, here. 

Europäisches Parlament: Industrie-Ausschuss stimmt gegen Datenschutz

Netzpolitik.org, hier. 

Twitter releases API for advertisers, enabling integration with cross-platform tools

TheVerge.com, here. 

Fresh Thinking on Potential Antitrust Responses to Abusive Patent Troll Enforcement Practices

R. Skitol, here. 

Amazon’s ‘price parity’ clause attracts attention of German antitrust regulator

Gigaom.com, here.  See also the Bundeskartellamt Press Release, here, and the Washington Post's first take, here. 

AGCM c. Bayer Cropscience

Cons. Stato Sez. VI, Sent., 29-01-2013, n. 548, qui.

The Transcript of Oral Argument in Bowman v. Monsanto: Where's Patent Exhaustion for Self-Replicating Patented Seeds?

Groklaw.net, here. 

Draft proposals for amending EU competition rules on technology transfer agreements

Public consultation, here. 

Bruxelles attaque Paris sur les e-books

Lesechos.fr, ici. 

How Parody Inspires Great Design

Blogs.hbr.org, here. 

Why it's time to stop using open source licences

G. Moody, here. 

Google privacy debacle merits fine: case is "test" of draft privacy rules

Reuters.com, here. 

Bund lässt Software gegen Urheberrechtsverletzungen entwickeln

Heise.de, hier. 

U.S. justices hostile to farmer's argument against Monsanto

Reuters.com, here. 

Closed Discussions At WIPO On Treaty For Blind, As New Text Emerges

Ip-watch.org, here. 

Federal Trade Commission v. Phoebe Putney Health System

No. 11–1160. Argued November 26, 2012—Decided February 19, 2013, here. 

WIPO Special Session negotiations on treaty for blind, Feb 18th version of text

KEIonline.org, here. 

Ebook Best-Seller Prices Plummet to Below $8.00 as Retailers Get Set to Start Discounting Macmillan Titles

Digitalbookworld.com, here. 

EU Commission decides not to prolong maritime transport antitrust guidelines

Press Release, here. 

Economics of Vertical Restraints for Multi-Sided Platforms

D. Evans, here. 

China: first ever national standard on personal data privacy

Mondaq.com, here. 

As 3-D Printing Become More Accessible, Copyright Questions Arise

Npr.org, here. 

Como añadir peso a la cadena alimentaria

Fedeablogs.net, aquì. 

Competition Law and Personal Data : Preliminary Thoughts on a Complex Issue

D. Geradin & M. Kuschewsky, here. 

Elusive big data: The thing, and not the thing

TheEconomist.com, here. 

Malleable malls: Shopping centres are proving well-suited to the digital age

TheEconomist.com, here. 

Intellectual Property: Exclusive Rights for a Purpose – The Case of Technology Protection by Patents and Copyright

H. Ullrich, here. 

Why the DOJ (Antitrust Division) should intervene in the GSU case

Arielkatz.org, here. 

European Economic and Social Committee on the Collective Management Draft Directive

Here. 

Four companies that are changing digital reading in Africa

PaidContent.com, here. 

Japan Probe Pops Car-Part Keiretsu

WSJ, here. 

CHART OF THE DAY: How Much Money Amazon Is Making From The Kindle Ecosystem

BusinessInsider.com, here. 

Règles de confidentialité de Google : vers une action répressive et coordonnée des autorités européennes

CNIL, ici. 

European Copyright Society on Hyperlinking (Svensson CJEU Reference)

Here (pdf file).

Facebook May Already Be Taking Away Searches From Google

Mashable.com, here. 

European publishers slam Google copyright deal in France

Managingip.com, here. 

BnF: sacrifier le domaine public pour numériser les indisponibles

Actualitte.com, ici. 

Licensing Controversy — Balancing Author Rights with Societal Good

Scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org, here. 

Reps. Zoe Lofgren, Mike Doyle and Kevin Yoder Introduce Bill Expanding Access to Federally Funded Research

Lofgren.house.gov, here. 

Critical Cloud Computing

A Critical Information Infrastructure Protection (CIIP) perspective on cloud computing, ENISA, here. 

Macmillan to Pay $20 Million to Settle State, Class Action Price-Fixing Claims

Publishersweekly.com, here. 

Attention Rivalry among Online Platforms and Its Implications for Antitrust Analysis

D. Evans, here. 

Drug development: Teaching old pills new tricks

TheEconomist.com, here. 

Proposed new EU General Data Protection Regulation: Article-by-article analysis paper

UK Information Commissioner's Office, here. 

Vertical restraints in soccer: Financial Fair Play and the English Premier League

T. Peeters, S. Szymanski, here (pdf file).

Max Planck comments on draft directive on collective rights management

Ipkitten.blogspot.com, here

The people versus the bankers

TheEconomist.com, here. 

Google faces new privacy concerns over Android app market

Rawstory.com, here. 

The Privacy Legal Implications of Big Data: A Primer

Infolawgroup.com, here.

Read Any Good Web Sites Lately? Book Lovers Talk Online

Nytimes.com, here. 

Which countries receive the most in royalty and license fees?

World Bank, here.

Pratiques anticoncurrentielles dans le secteur de l'abattage et de la commercialisation du porc charcutier sanctionnées

Autorité de la concurrence, ici. 

La farmacia en el supermercado

ElPais, aquì. 

Spanish Tribunal Supremo on "screen scraping"

RYANAIR LIMITED v  ATRAPALO, S.L, here (Spanish).

Dutch government will end protection of non-original works to modernise copyright law

Futureofcopyright.com, here. 

Oracle vs Google legal war begins a new chapter

Newsandinsight.thomsonreuters.com, here. 

Materials from the GCLC lunch talk on Google

ChillingCompetition.com, here. 

FRAND, RAND, and SEP: Why These Acronyms Are Important

Techpolicy.com, here. 

BGH legt EuGH Frage zum technischen Schutz von Schutzmaßnahmen für Videospiele vor

Institut für Urheber- und Medienrecht, hier. 

Mining the Digital Gold Rush: The Legal (L)ore around France’s Data-Mining Tax

Iposgoode.ca, here. 

Yelp Defeats Legal Challenge to Its User Review Filter

E. Goldman, here. 

Functional Claiming and Software Patents

C. Chien, A. Karkhanis, here.

Money from Music: Survey Evidence on Musicians’ Revenue and Lessons About Copyright Incentives

P. DiCola, here. 

Domain disputes rise again as new gTLDs loom

Managingip.com, here. 

SPARC Europe response to the UK BIS Committee Open Access Inquiry

Here. 

Why Japanese readers don't like e-books

Tech.fortune.cnn.com, here. 

Responses of Creative Commons to House of Lords comments concerning the CC BY license

Here. 

U.S. appeals judges quiz lawyers on rules for patenting software

Newsandinsight.thomsonreuters.com, here. 

Access and the Public Domain

R. Picker, here.

Of particular interest to me is how broad access issues are likely to shape the "scale and scope of competition in the provision of the public domain". 

Efectos del carácter restrictivo de la normativa comercial sobre la competitividad de la economía catalana

Autoritat Catalana de la Competència, aquí.

IP, Antitrust and Looking Back on the Last Four Years

R. Hesse, here. 

EU antitrust control and patent abuses

M. Mariniello, here (Video, 6:58).

Counting couch potatoes

TheEconomist, here. 

L'Open Data fragilisé par le droit sur les bases de données

Numerama.com, ici. 

LobbyPlag - Wie Konzerne Gesetze diktieren

Heute.de, hier. 

Antitrust Litigation: What’s Changed in Twenty-Five Years?

W. Kolasky, here. 

Innovation Nation at War (Posner and patents)

Nytimes.com, here. 

Un passo indietro per il software libero

A. Meo, qui. 

“Students are heavily dependent on studying from photocopies”

Thehindu.com, here. 

EU Personal Data Protection "Reform Package":Tracking Lobbyists' Influence

Europlag.eu, here. See also the background article to this project here (German).

IFLA Principles for Library eLending

Here. 

What Software Is Patentable? Federal Court To Consider In CLS Bank Rehearing

TechCrunch.com, here. 

Macmillan settles with DOJ, and Apple is last man standing in ebook pricing case

PaidContent.org, here.

Interesting to academia and beyond:
"Electronic versions of academic textbooks” are removed from the settlement’s “requirements and prohibitions” because the DOJ antitrust case focused only on trade books.

The Digital Economy

OECD, Competition Committee, DAF/COMP(2012)22, here.

Coup de coeur: the French contribution to the October 2011 hearing, p. 75 ff.

Google, the ACCC and the High Court

Core Economics, here. 

La BnF accusée de privatiser des oeuvres du domaine public

Lexpress.fr, ici. 

Charlottesville anti-drone resolution sparks similar action across US

Wired.co.uk, here. 

Protection of personal data

ECHR, Factsheet, here. 

Court of Appeal takes a punt on database rights

The1709blog.blogspot.com, here. 

Why Information Providers Need To Be Open To Sharing in Their Business Models

J. Gans, here. 

Comparative Analysis on National Approaches to ISP Liability for Copyright Infringement

I. Garrote Fernandéz-Diez, here.

AG Jääskinen on access to court files of public law competition proceedings

Case C‑536/11, here. 

Commission européenne : tentative scandaleuse d'éviter la réforme du droit d'auteur

Laquadrature.net, ici. 

Initial Comments on Orphan Works

Received by the US Copyright Office, here. 

Criticism Mounting Before German Data Portal Launch

Epsiplatform.eu, here. 

Cartel class actions and immunity programmes

E. Iacobucci, here. 

Is competition always good?

M. Stucke, here.

Efforts to Update and Strengthen Privacy Law in Europe and the United States

Letter from prominent US consumer and civil liberties organizations to US government leaders, here. 

New Year, New Project: Turning the Focus to Competition Policy for 2013

E. Pérez Motta, here. 

The Patent Policy Debate in the High Tech World: A Literature Review

K. Gupta, here. 

Leistungsschutzrecht für Presseverlage: Müsste Google wirklich zahlen? – eine kartellrechtliche Analyse

C. Kersting, S. Dworschak, hier. 

Market Dominance and Quality of Search Results in the Search Engine Market

I. Lianos, E. Motchenkova, here. 

Irish High Court Order following FitFlop investigation involving allegations of resale price maintenance

Competition Authority Press Release, here. 

The Nature of Competition in the Digital Age

Techliberation.com, ici. 

Numérisation à la BnF : comment la France se fait rouler

ActuaLitté.com, ici. 

Europe Moves Ahead on Privacy

NYTimes.com, here. 

The Right to Be Forgotten

R. Walker, here. 

Open archaeology

M. Lane, here. 

EU Commission enforcement action in pharmaceutical sector following sector inquiry (January 2013 update)

Press Release, here. 

Accord entre la vieille presse et Google, signé à l'Elysée

Numerama.com, ici. 

When Trade and Intellectual Property Collide

Iposgoode.ca, here. 

Mobile Privacy Disclosures

FTC Staff Report, here.