Steelie Neelie: European Commissioner Neelie Kroes, In Her Own Words

Edited by Ryan Heath, here. 

Schumpeter: Vergesst mir die Banken nicht!

FAZ, hier. 

Research in the digital age

R. Dijkgraaf, here. 

El Congreso aprueba la 'tasa Google': los buscadores tendrán que pagar a los editores

Ecoteuve.es, aquì. 

The Remunerated Statutory Limitation for News Aggregation and Search Engines Proposed by the Spanish Government - Its Compliance with International and EU Law

R. Xalabarder, here. 

OFT issues decision in mobility scooters sector

CMA's website (?), here.

Original OFT's press release, here. 

Competition Bureau sets out preliminary views on patent agreement settlement enforcement

Thecompetitor.ca, here.

If at first you don’t succeed – Booking.com and Expedia investigation re-opens

EU-Competitionlaw.com, here.

Dutch copyright law succumbs to aging as exhaustion extends to e-books

M. Olvedo Cuevas, here.

Der Streit ums E-Book und seine Erschöpfung

BuchReport.de, hier.

Mission sur l’exploration de données

J. Martin, ici.

Millions of 'orphan' artworks and historic documents to be seen under new copyright laws

Independent.co.uk, here. 

FCC moves to treat online video like cable, a boon for Aereo

ArsTechnica, here. 

YouTube Considering An Ad-Free, Subscription-Based Version

TechCrunch, here. 

Enjoining Injunctions: The Case Against Antitrust Liability for Standard Essential Patent Holders Who Seek Injunctions

D. Ginsburg, T. Owings, and J. Wright, here. 

US regulator drops BP, Statoil oil price-fixing probe

Reuters.com, here. 

Die Wut der Chinesen auf VW

FAZ.net, hier.

When is a Flavor/Taste Trademark Possible?

Jdsupra.com, here. 

Text mining : vers un nouvel accord avec Elsevier

Scoms.hypotheses.org, ici.. 

Cheaper oil: Winners and losers

TheEconomist, here. 

Der Platzhirsch im Hotelgeschäft verteidigt sein Revier

FAZ, hier.

Abuse Of Dominance By Patentees: A Pro-Innovation Perspective

A. Abbott, here.

Judge Shuts Door on Hotel Price-Fixing Class Action

LitigationDaily.com, here.

CMA to reopen the hotel online booking investigation

CMA, here.

An EU-wide Google tax in the making?

Juriareda.eu, here.

Handelsblatt here.

Who’s Really Winning The Search War?

SearchEngineLand, here.

Droht durch Google und Amazon eine Monopolisierung der digitalen Welt?

Netzpiloten.de, hier.

Is (teaching) Economics doing more harm than good?

B. Lucey, here.

Ebola and Big Data

TheEconomist, here.

Competition Matters: Enforcing the Antitrust Laws on Behalf of the American Consumer

B. Baer, here.

Connecting the Antitrust Dots: In Praise of Herb Hovenkamp

B. Baer, here.

The Ruling of the General Court in Intel: Towards the End of an Effect-based Approach in European Competition Law?

P. Nihoul, here

The Importance of Economic Analysis When Assessing Vertical Agreements

J. Davies, Presentation here. 

Competition Enforcement in the Internet-Based Trade – Current Practice of the BKartA

G. Kallfass, presentation here. 

El ejemplo de otros países muestra que la tasa Google será un fracaso

Adslzone.net, aquì.

Texto de la LPI aprobado por el Senado aquí

EuGH C 348/13 BestWater - "Framing": Framende Links keine Urheberrechtsverletzung

B. Knies, Video hier.

Beschluss hier.
Vorabentscheidungsersuchen hier. 

Digitisation and Democracy: The challenges of shaping the Digital Society

J. Hofmann, here. 

Amazon is doing the world a favor by crushing book publishers

Vox.com, here.

On the link between "dynamic pricing" and competition by innovation

www.dilbert.com/

Google's New Search Downranking Hits Torrent Sites Hard

TorrentFreak.com, here. 

¿Hay que desmantelar Amazon o Google?

J. Alfaro, aquì.

Antitrust Litigation- The Way Ahead

J. Almunia, here.

The War Against Airbnb

R. Epstein, here.

Opinion: The criterion “new public” as developed in the Svensson case

ALAI, here.

Etude des perceptions et usages du livre numérique

Hadopi/IFOP, ici. 

Eight years on from the OFT's CUPI study: Lessons learned and remaining hurdles

dot.econ, here. 

Intellectual property enforcement

L. Neville-Rolfe, here. 

Retail Energy Competition and Consumer Empowerment

CERRE, Discussion Paper, here. 

Alliances entre distributeurs: le gouvernement saisit l'Autorité de la concurrence

Boursorama, ici. 

Georgia State Academic Fair Use Decision Vacated by 11th Circuit: A (Relatively) Quick Read for the Busy Practitioner

Trademarkandcopyrightlawblog.com, here. 

Comcast - Time Warner Cable, MB Docket No. 14-57

Professors' Letter to the FCC, here. 

The Sky is Rising - 2014 Edition

Here.

Two Europes or One Europe?

N. Kroes, here. 

Verlage knicken beim Leistungsschutzrecht ein

Golem.de, hier.

From the antitrust mailbag: manufacturer-imposed requirements

FTC, here.

Q1: Are the wondering retailers generally satisfied with this type of explanation?
Q2: Does it apply to platforms as well?

The Fondue Conspiracy

Sepp Barmettler, the Cheese Rebel

NPR: Planet Money, Podcast here.

More about the Cheese Union (Käseunion) in A. Thier, Schweizerische Kartellrechtstradition und „more economic approach,“  621, at 640 ff., here.




Update: I tasted the Sbrinz cheese for the first time after listening to the NPR Podcast. Delicious indeed, and already a competition policy scholar's favourite.

BGH decision "Yellow dictionary" colour trade mark dispute

IPKat, here.

Big Data and the Future for Privacy

N. Richards, J. King, here. 

Oeuvres transformatives : faut-il faire de YouTube le « Seigneur des Mashups » ?

Scinfolex.com, ici. 

The Technology Transfer Block Exemption

Out-law.com, here. 

Case C-470/14, EGEDA – will a state-financed ‘private copy’ scheme deliver fair compensation?

Eulawradar, here. 

Inter Partes Review: An Early Look at the Numbers

B. Love, S. Ambwani, here. 

Agency 2.0: Competition Authorities Will Need to Think - Again

Agreements between Amazon and publishers are starting rolling out, see here and here. It is not very hard to predict that these agreements will come to be scrutinized quite closely by competition authorities on both sides of the Atlantic and beyond. While, it seems, conspiracy theories this time round could be safely ruled out, it would be high time to develop comprehensive assessment criteria with regard to vertical restraints triggered by, or in the context of, electronic platforms.  

Google Penguin 3.0: Worldwide Rollout Still In Process, Impacting 1% Of English Queries

SearchEngineLand, here.

Honeywell Gets EU Complaint With DuPont Over Car Coolant

Bloomberg.com, here.

E-Book-Preise: Amazon einigt sich mit Bonnier

Heise.de, hier. 

Big, bad Amazon

TheEconomist, here. 

"Why are you searching here for your lost keys? Because there is light here": Reflections on Competition Policy in Europe

J. Fingleton, Video here. Speech notes here. 

European Commission settles cartel on bid-ask spreads charged on Swiss Franc interest rate derivatives; fines four major banks € 32.3 million

Press Release, here. 

Competition Enforcement: A Practical Perspective

A. Mundt, Video here.

"The ECN is a unique success, and a model for other areas of law."

The role of competition authorities in fostering growth and consumer welfare

P. Roth, Presentation here; Video here. 

Banks: Too Big to Manage Ethically?

Dealbook.nytimes.com, here.

Amazon: it’s not the power, it’s the lost focus

J. Gans, here. 

European Commission proposes ratification of Marrakesh Treaty to facilitate access to books for visually impaired persons

Press Release, here. 

Uber Economics: There is no such thing as bad publicity

Bruegel.org, here. 

82 Things Publishers Do (2014 Edition)

The scholarly kitchen, here. 

Brussels Antitrust Seminar Demonstrates Shifting European Landscape For Competition Enforcement In Wake Of ECJ MasterCard Judgment

Antitrusttoday.com, here. 

Public libraries: the right to digitise and the right of reproduction

S. Yakovleva, here.

Amazon closes a contract with one major book publisher (not that one, though)

Mhpbooks.com, here.  For more speculations see here and here.

More on Android

Chillingcompetition.com, here. 

European Pharmaceutical Antitrust after Groupment des Cartes Bancaires – Time to Rethink the Approach to Pay For Delay Settlements?

S. Gallasch, here. 

Antitrust Analysis of Reverse Payment Settlements After Actavis: Three Questions and Proposed Answers

J. Wright, here. 

In Georgia State University E-Reserves Case, Eleventh Circuit Endorses Flexible Approach to Fair Use

ARL Policy Notes, here.

Why The Justice Department Won't Go After Amazon Even Though Paul Krugman Thinks It's Hurting America

BusinessInsider, here.

Simon & Schuster Strikes Amazon Deal Reviving Agency Ebook Pricing

DigitalBookWorld, here.

Apple’s quiet mobile revolution

J. Gans, here.

Amazon’s Monopsony Is Not O.K.

P. Krugman, here.

GSU E-Reserves case: Appeals court overturns finding of fair use

Copyright.org, here.

Thoughts on High-Priced Textbooks

ConversableEconomist, here.

Google's Anti-Competitive and Unfair Practices in Digital Leisure Markets

A. Chirita, here.

Different Views on Competition

TheWhyFactor, Podcast here.

Reforming economics: Try the business school

TheEconomist, here.

Google tweaks search engine to combat piracy

TheHill, here.

What everyone’s getting wrong about Amazon

Qz.com, here.

Alternatives to the Patent System that are used to support R&D efforts

J. Love for the WIPO Secretariat, here.

The Dark Market for Personal Data

F. Pasquale, here.

Sharing Economy: Deutsche teilen (noch) nicht

Spiegel.de, hier.

The Future of the Book: From Papyrus to Pixels

The Economist, here. 

Joshua Wright on the "Expertise Hypothesis"

Regblog.org, here. 

Googles Geldmaschine stottert leicht

Heise.de, hier.

Google’s Sundar Pichai Welcomes Antitrust Scrutiny on Android

WSJ.com, here. 

Belgium, Japan to 7th Circuit: Don’t interfere with our antitrust enforcement!

AntitrustUpdateBlog, here.

Uber wrangling regulations (and setting some hope on the FTC)

Interview with Brian Worth,  Uber Public Policy Lead, Harvard Kennedy School Policycast, here.

Report says illegal Airbnb apartments made up over a third of the company's NYC revenue

TheVerge, here.

Report from the NY State Attorney General's office here.

New WikiLeaks of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement Intellectual Property Chapter — Analysis of Copyright Provision

Policynotes.arl.org, here. 

Google defends flight search – it’s hard to do it well and industry doesn’t appreciate us

Tnooz.com, here. 

Resolution on enforcement cooperation among data protection authorities

Here.

Jean Tirole's (provisional) legacy

Bruegel.org, here. 

Are Google’s search results deceptive, or can consumers identify ads on their own?

Gigaom, here.

Business Benefit from Public Data

Blog.opengroup.org, here. 

Cartel members may argue that damage caused by cartel was passed on to customers

De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek, here. 

YouTube has paid $1 billion to rights holders via Content ID since 2007

ArsTechnica, here.

Q. and A. With Jean Tirole, Economics Nobel Winner

NYTimes, here

Whois-Daten werden schleichend zentralisiert

Heise.de, hier.

El Nobel de Economía a Jean Tirole: mucho más que regulación

Cnmcblog.es, aquì.

Überwachungskapitalisten unter sich

FAZ.net, hier.

ACCC cracks down on taxi company for blocking goCatch

CNET,  here.

Eric does it again

I-comp.org, here.

Regulatory Case in North Carolina Appears to Trouble Supreme Court

NYTimes, here.

How Jean Tirole’s Work Helps Explain the Internet Economy

NYT, Here.

Right to Be Forgotten: Google Sentenced to Pay Damages in Spain

M. Peguera, here.

Patents and Standards - A modern framework for IPR-based standardization

ECSIP Consortium for the European Commission, here.

J. Tirole cited once, at p. 30.

Google’s Schmidt Heads to Berlin Talks to Soothe Rattled Germans

Bloomberg.com, here.

The EU Commission’s “contempt” of national courts? - C-170/13 Huawei Technologies

Verfassungsblog.de, here.

Linux Foundation Does Open Source Drones

G. Moody, here.

Trends and milestones in competition policy since 2010

J. Almunia, here.

Challenges of international co-operation in competition law enforcement

OECD, Report here; Statistical Highlights here. 

Adobe’s Latest E-Book Misstep: This Time, It’s Not the DRM

Copyrightandtechnology.com, here. 

Wie Nobelpreisträger Jean Tirole auch Deutschland prägte

WSJ, hier.

Google's Chairman Says Amazon — Not Bing — Is Its Biggest Search Competitor

BusinessInsider.com, here. See also E. Schmidt, The New Gründergeist, here. 

Is There a Vatican School for Competition Policy?

T. T'óth, here.

EU Commission congratulates Economics Nobel winner

Press Release, here.

Mr Tirole's research has direct relevance to current policy issues.

TheEconomist, here.

Bozza di Dichiarazione dei Diritti in Internet

Camera dei deputati, Commissione per i diritti e doveri in Internet, qui.

Jean Tirole: Market Power and Regulation

Scientific Background on the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2014,  here.

Popular science background here.

Tirole's 2013 lecture on two-sided markets, part 1 here, and part 2 here.

In essence, a nobel prize to the "more economic approach"...

Google rivals get help with antitrust campaign -- from Google

CNEt, here.

Looking ahead: preparing for the digital economy – view from the new competition regulator

A. Chrisholm, here.

La machine Booking face à la gronde des hôteliers

Lesechos.fr, ici.

Paulo Coelho Tells Publishers 'Don't Be Greedy'

PublishersWeekly, here.

Amazon must be stopped

F. Foer, NewRepublic.com, here.

Japanese court orders Google to halt search harassment

The Japan Times, here.

Why Germans Are Afraid of Google

NYT.com, here.

Weaving Europe’s single competition enforcement area

J. Almunia, here. 

In Net Neutrality Discussion, Lawsuits Loom Large

Bits.blogs.nytimes.com, here. 

How Patents Provide the Foundation of the Market for Inventions

D. Spulber, here. 

Canada: New Copyright Exception for Political Advertising?

Here.

EU’s TTIP negotiation mandate

Here.

Alice decision a big reason for sharp fall in US patent litigation

Iam-magazine, here.

The Google Case: Where are we now?

I-comp.org, here. 

HarperCollins ups royalty for books sold through their website

Mhpbooks.com, here.

CMA sets out proposals to lower payday loan costs

CMA, here. 

Google asks Supreme Court to decide Oracle copyright fight

Reuters.com, here. Google's certiorari petition here.

Der Staat als Unternehmer

Arbeitskreis Kartellrecht, Hintergrundpapier, hier.

September 2014 New Patent Case Filings Down 40% From September 2013

Lex Machina, here.

Amazon führt E-Book-Flatrate in Deutschland ein

Heise.de, hier.

Vestager: Answers to EP Questionnaire

Here.

When the cookies crumbled, so did your web anonymity

TheGuardian.com, here.

Top 10 Lines Uttered by Economists At The FCC's Open Internet Roundtable (With English Translations)

Forbes.com, here.

MasterCard to mine Facebook user data

Smh.com.au, here.

Cash is not Always King in Pharma Pay-to-Delay Deals, a Judge Rules

WSJ.com, here.

Apple Facing Trial Over Whether Its Use Of DRM Violated Antitrust Laws

TechDirt, here.

Antitrust and the Patent System: A Reexamination

H. Hovenkamp, here.

Skyscanner: CAT quashes commitments in the online booking sector

Competition Bulletin, here.

Judge Posner orders Sherlock Holmes estate to pay attorneys’ fees for “form of extortion”

McDermott Will & Emery, here.

Microsoft likely to make more money from Android than from its own Windows phones

BBC News, here.

Rapport de la mission du CSPLA sur les « œuvres transformatives »

V. Benabou, ici.

Does UK copyright law have a sense of humour?

A. Rendle, here.

Ddl Concorrenza, dall’energia alle banche tutte le misure allo studio del governo

IlFattoQuotidiano.it, qui.

Iceland: Competition Authority Fines Dairy Company

IcelandReview.com, here.

Google Flight Search, four years in: Not the competition-killer critics feared

WashingtonPost, here.

Apple vs. Google: The Privacy Revolution Rumble

HuffPost, here.

Ecuador: Nuevas reglas para los supermercados

Pbplaw, aquí.

L'impression 3D, nouveau défi du droit de la propriété intellectuelle ?

M. Berguig, ici.

Understanding and Maximizing America's Evolutionary Economy

R. Atkinson, here.

Commission approves acquisition of WhatsApp by Facebook

Press Release, here.

"Although WhatsApp is not active in online advertising, the Commission examined whether the transaction could strengthen Facebook's position in that market and hamper competition. In particular, the Commission examined the possibility that Facebook could (i) introduce advertising on WhatsApp, and/or (ii) use WhatsApp as a potential source of user data for improving the targeting of Facebook's advertisements. The Commission concluded that, regardless of whether Facebook would introduce advertising on WhatsApp and/or start collecting WhatsApp user data, the transaction would not raise competition concerns. This is because after the merger, there will continue to be a sufficient number of alternative providers to Facebook for the supply of targeted advertising, and a large amount of internet user data that are valuable for advertising purposes are not within Facebook's exclusive control."

The Right to be Forgotten: Not an Easy Question

F. Pasquale, here.

Kartellamt greift vorerst nicht in Streit Google/Verlage ein

Reuters.com, hier. 

Antitrust Nominee in Europe Promises Eye on Big Tech Companies

Bits.blogs.nytimes.com, here

Regolamento Agcom a tutela del diritto d'autore online: il TAR Lazio conferma la legittimità dell'impianto regolamentare del provvedimento, ma rinvia alla Corte Costituzionale

Dirittodautore.it, qui.

Ordinanza qui.

Las demandas colectivas chocan con el sistema judicial español

Expansiòn, aquì.

Finally, a Big 5 publisher raises digital royalties (but there’s a catch)

GigaOm, here.

Exercising choice: some reflections on competition enforcement in online markets

P. Marsden, here.

How big data could help stop the Ebola outbreak

CNBC, here.

German publishers accuse Google of “blackmail” as search firm axes News snippets

GigaOm, here. 

Big US tech companies face major patent losses in the post-Alice world

Iam-magazine.com, here

The Devil is in the Retail

A. Italiener, here.

{Of course, with less concentration on both the supplier and retailer sides of the market we could've had, possibly, higher levels of innovation and better choice for consumers. How do you measure that?}

Russian Retailers Bet on E-Books Before Amazon Entry

Bloomberg.com, here. 

The ballad of Google Spain

Paul Bernal's Blog, here. 

The Horizon Report Europe: 2014 Schools Edition

Here.

The economic impact of modern retail on choice and innovation in the EU food sector

European Commission, Final Report, here. Press Release, here. 

How The Proposed Payments Legislation Will Restrain Competition Among Payment Card Schemes And Harm Consumers In The European Union

D. Evans, here. 

UK Treasury Plans to Criminalise All Benchmark Fixing LIBOR-Led by Example

ForexMagnates.com, here.

What an Economist Brings to a Business Strategy

Blogs.hbr.org, here. 

WIPO General Assembly Fails to Draw any Conclusions on Exceptions and Limitations

IFLA.org, here.



(For transparency's sake: this blog's author was part of the team representing IFLA at WIPO GA). 

Google : comment mettre en œuvre le droit à l’oubli ?

Méta-Media, ici.

Authors Guild Met With DoJ to Seek Investigation Into Amazon's Practices Guild Says Retailer Is Abusing Its Market Power in Hachette Dispute

WSJ, here.

To Avoid Liability, Google Limits German News Content To Headlines

SearchEngineLand, here.