Study on the making available right and its relationship with the reproduction right in cross-border digital transmissions

Prepared by De Wolf & Partners for the European Commission, here. 

U.S. judge concerned Android antitrust lawsuit too vague

Reuters, here. 

The Future of Privacy: Digital Life in 2025

Pew Research Center, here. 

Prêt numérique en bibliothèque: à peine acté, déjà critiqué

Lexpress.fr, ici. 

After Intel: Effects-Based Approach, Price-Cost Test, and Administrability

M. Motta, Presentation, here. 

How much traffic did Facebook deliver to Bing? Very little

Insidefacebook, here. 

Apple 'failing to protect Chinese factory workers'

BBC.com, here.

Apple's reaction here (from The Verge)

IP and Standard Setting

OECD Competition Committee, Note by Germany, here. 

Opinion 2/13 on EU Accession to the ECHR: The CJEU as Humpty Dumpty

Eutopialaw.com, here. 

Google aiming to go straight into car with next Android

Reuters, here.

Monopolkommission: Die Zähmung der Internet-Giganten

FAZ.net, hier.

Microsoft stops offering alternative browsers to Windows users in Europe

PCWorld, here. 

ETH-Bibliothek document delivery service is admissible

Ethz.ch, here.

Federal Court's press release ici; Judgment 4A_295/2014 hier. 

Governments Should Make Markets, Not Just Fix Them

M. Mazzucato, here. 

Canada court to order Apple to turn over records in iPhone probe

Reuters.com, here. 

EU court ruling could make it easier to get patents for cell therapies

Out-law.com, here. 

How to crack the Booking.com algorithm

Tnooz, here. 

WIPO: Study On Copyright Exceptions Stimulates Broad Discussion With Author

IP-Watch, here. 

Deux ententes entre fabricants de produits d'hygiène et d'entretien sanctionnées

Autorité de la concurrence, magnifique Communiqué de presse ici, Décision ici. 

IP, Standard Setting, and Injunctions

M. Dolmans, OECD Competition Committee, here. 

Intellectual Property and Standard Setting

OECD Competition Committee, Note by the United States, here. 

Global internet authority ICANN has been hacked

TheVerge, here. 

Independent Library Report for England

Presented to Government by William Sieghart and an expert panel, here. 

Google looks to head off U.S. antitrust lawsuit over Android

Yahoo.finance, here.

An organism which is incapable of developing into a human being does not constitute a human embryo within the meaning of the Biotech Directive

CJEU Case C-364/13,  here.

The art – and science – of scaling in the two-sided marketplace

TheNextWeb, here. 

The Everything Book: reading in the age of Amazon

TheVerge, here. 

Leak shows: Trade treaty TiSA could undermine national data protection regulations

Netzpolitik.org, here. 

Apple Wins Decade-Old Suit Over iTunes Updates

NYTimes, here.

Consultation on proposed changes to proceedings in order to align with Directive on antitrust damages actions

EC, here.

Open Content – A practical guide to using Creative Commons Licences

T. Kreutzer for UNESCO, here. 

Jury finds Apple not guilty of harming consumers in iTunes DRM case

TheVerge, here. 

The economics of open and closed systems

Autorité de la concurrence and CMA, here (French version here).

The sharing economy: Will self-regulation by startups suffice to protect consumers?

TechRepublic, here.

Scrutinizing Patent Assertion Entities: What Competition Enforcers are Doing

AAI and CCIA, Video here.

Parity clauses from hotel distribution contracts to be banned once for all

HotRec.eu, here.

CBP onderzoekt nieuwe privacyvoorwaarden Facebook

CBPweb.nl, hier. 

Boycott Called Against Spanish Newspaper Publishers' Association Titles In Protest Of New Copyright Law

TechDirt, here. 

Uber responds to Sen. Al Franken: ‘We care deeply’ about privacy

VentureBeat, here. 

E-Book Legal Restrictions Are Screwing Over Blind People

Wired, here. 

Monday's e-book antitrust appeal hearing went well for Apple

Fortune.com, here. 

Mobilitics, saison 2 : Les smartphones et leurs apps sous le microscope de la CNIL et d'Inria

CNIL, ici. 

Datenschutz: Justizministerium drängt auf klaren Rechtsrahmen für Scoring

Heise.de, hier. 

CBP issues sanction to Google for infringements privacy policy

CBPweb.nl, here. 

ACCC authorises resale price maintenance for the first time

Clifford Chance, here. 

UberPop sera interdit dès le 1er janvier

LeMonde, ici.

Warum all die Pakete?

FAZ.net, hier. 

Commission announces the launch of market tests in investigations in the online hotel booking sector by the French, Swedish and Italian competition authorities

EC, here.

Italian Competition Authority, here.
Swedish Competition Authority, here.
French Competition Authority, here.

Text of the proposed commitments (in French), here. 

Che cosa indica e come si traduce la parola inglese whistleblower?

Accademia della Crusca, qui.

Facebook dumps Microsoft Web search results

Reuters.com, here. 

Glitch Causes Items To Be Sold On Amazon For 1p

News.Sky.com, here. 

The economics of P2P lending

Bruegel.org, here. 

The Rise of a New Smartphone Giant: China's Xiaomi

NYTimes.com, here. 

Former iTunes Engineer Tells Court He Worked to Block Competitors

WSJ, here.

Kenneth Crews Presenting the Update of His Report to WIPO SCCR

Archived Webcast here (Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights: Twenty-Ninth Session - December 8 to December 12, 2014, Wed 10, Afternoon, from 4:47). 

The Independence of National Competition Authorities

A. Italiener, here. 

Obama's DOJ is bringing its big guns to the Apple e-book appeal

Fortune.com, here. 

Efficiencies and Antitrust Reconsidered: An Evolutionary Perspective

T. Horton, here. 

Consolidation of Proposed Texts Contained In Document SCCR/26/3

Prepared by African Group, Brazil, Ecuador, India and Uruguay, here. 

COMESA's merger assessment guidelines: What you need to know

Werksmans.com, here.

Urheberrecht: Razzia bei Betreibern und Nutzern zweier E-Book-Plattformen

Heise.de, hier. 

Canada competition watchdog probing Apple over iPhone contracts

PcWorld, here.

Google Forced Amazon To Remove Its Main Shopping App From The Play Store Because Of Its Appstore Integration

Android Police, here.

Dear Günther, we need to talk about ancillary copyright

Some European Publishers, Letter here.

EU Quizzes Google Rivals on Search and Ads

Businessweek.com, here. 

Google's Schmidt: You have nothing to fear from AI

Cnet.com, here. 

Barclays and Deutsche Bank to be investigated over forex algorithm

EuropeanCeo.com, here

The Internet of Things

OECD Technology Foresight Forum 2014, here. 

Shaping Up to the Future

Raconteur.net, here. 

The Data Protection Directive applies to a video recording made with a surveillance camera installed by a person on his family home and directed towards the public footpath

Case C-212/13, František Ryneš v Úřad pro ochranu osobních údajů, here. 

Google News Shuttered in Spain Thanks to “Ancillary Copyright” Law

EFF.org, here.

See also  here (ElMundo) and here (FAZ). 

Dancing around data

M. Stucke and A. Grunes, here. 

Google Cultural Institute opens up as a platform for museums to build their own mobile apps

VentureBeat, here. 

Canada: Tories target cross-border price gap with Competition Bureau bill

Theglobeandmail.com, here. 

Giants of digital: separating the signal from the noise and the sound from the fury

A. Chisholm, here. 

Nokia's map app for Android is no longer a Samsung exclusive

Theverge.com, here. More background info here.

Android Wear gets Lollipop update, adds watch face API, new features

Arstechnica.com, here. 

Open Letter to App Marketplaces from 23 Privacy Authorities

Priv.gc.ca, here. 

The Object of Effects

A. Italiener, here.

The General Court confirms that the French Ordre national des pharmaciens restricted competition on the clinical biology analysis market

Case T-90/11, here.

La CNMC y la economía colaborativa

CNMCblog, aquí

Intel and Article 102 TFEU Case Law: Making Sense of a Perpetual Controversy

P. Ibáñez Colomo, here.

Android's winning mobile strategy: Sell to the poor

TechRepublic, here.

How much of your news site’s search traffic comes from Google News? Probably 5 to 25 percent

Nieman.lab, here.

Foreign Antitrust Defendants Feel Some Relief from the Reach of the Sherman Act in Civil Matters

Shearman.com, here.

The Sharing Economy and Consumer Protection Regulation: The Case for Policy Change

Mercatus Research, here. 

YouTube Now Tells You How Copyrighted Music Will Affect Your Video Before You Upload It

TechCrunch, here. 

A privacy policy for cars: What automakers know about you (and what they’re doing with it)

Washingtonpost, here. 

Amazon Debuts New 'Make an Offer' Feature for Price Negotiations

Streetinsider.com, here. 

Google Fights to Stop Lawsuit Over ‘Clandestine’ Cookies

Bloomberg.com, here. 

Uber’s “ruthless execution” and “swagger” are key to its success

VentureBeat, here. 

Exclusion and sources of technological competition in mobile networks

K. Stylianou, here. 

Oracle asks Supreme Court to reject Android copyright case

ComputerWorld, here. 

Future of AI and the Law

R. Susskind, Video here. 

Signé protocole sur la diffusion du livre numérique par les bibliothèques publiques

Livreshebdo.fr, ici.  

The rule of law on the Internet and in the wider digital world

 Council of Europe, Commissioner for Human Rights, here. 

Hachette will start selling books straight from Twitter

GigaOm, here.

Das sind Amazons wahre Probleme

FAZ.net, hier.

Per Se Versus Rule of Reason Analysis for Paid Priority on the Internet

ICLE, here.

AstraZeneca and Ranbaxy Win a Closely Watched Pay-to-Delay Case

Blogs.wsj.com, here. 

Herr Mundt bei der Studienvereinigung

KartellBlog, hier.

Les idées de Manuel Valls pour la protection des données personnelles

Numerama.com, ici.

We Can’t Trust Uber

NYTimes,here.

Standardised APIs to be used to facilitate data portability in banking

Out-law.com, here.

When G.M. was Google

NewYorker, here.

Google admits that advertisers wasted their money on more than half of internet ads

QZ.com, here.

Zuckerberg is on shaky ground criticizing Apple’s business model

VentureBeat, here.

Modifying devices - Wanted: a tinkerer’s charter

TheEconomist, here.

Apple on trial: company execs say DRM was forced on them by record labels

ArsTechnica, here.

5th Report on the Monitoring of Patent Settlements

EC, here.

How to regulate data protection across EU borders remains main sticking point to reform

Out-law.com, here. 

Jean Tirole: Ökonomie-Nobelpreisträger 2014

J. Haucap, H.-T. Normann, hier. 

Data sharing and open data for banks

Fingleton Associates and Open Data Institute, here.

Google faces antitrust allegations over its ad-buying network

Finance.yahoo.com, here.

The role of competition in banking markets

A. Chrisholm, here. 

In Google Books Appeal, judges focus on profit and security

Gigaom.com, here.

Intel v Commission: Keep Calm and Carry on!

R. Whish, here (via ChillingCompetition).

Strumenti di Better Regulation e test PMI

G. Pitruzzella, qui.

Sinking of South Stream gives Brussels a headache

Euractiv.com, here.

IP and Standard Setting

European Union, Note, OECD Competition Committee, here.

Hawking’s speech software goes online as open source

Iol.co.za, here.

Second Bite: Can Apple clear its name in the ebooks drama?

Fortune.com, here.

Flickr Plans To Sell Creative Commons Photos And That's Okay...

TechDirt, here. 

Technology is Culture

Ccianet.org, here. 

Why Eric Schmidt doesn’t know how Google works

Venturebeat.com, here. 

No abuse of a dominant position by AstraZeneca

ACM.nl, here. 

EU Asks Russia's Yandex for Evidence in Potential Google Antitrust Case

Sputniknews.com, here.

GigaOm's original news here.

Google's search deal with Apple expires in early 2015, could bring new default to Safari

AppleInsider, here.

3G standard essential patent valid and infringed: irrelevant whether Vringo is a troll

IPKat, here.

Nature makes all articles free to view

Nature, here. 

Mark Lemley and Intel’s Doug Melamed discuss patent law issues

Stanford Lawyer, here. 

Who pays for us to browse the web? Be wary of Google’s latest answer

E. Morozov, here. 

ACM’s strategy regarding enforcement of vertical restraints

C. Fonteijn, here.

Star Witness in Apple Lawsuit Is Steve Jobs

NYTimes, here.

Original Complaint (2005) here. Original Motion to Dismiss here. 

Priceline maintains focus on reducing friction for local experiences, no plans to become the next Oracle

Tnooz.com, here.

The Tempting Of Antitrust: Robert Bork and the Goals of Antitrust Policy

D. Crane, here. 

Out of control? Robert Bork’s portrayal of the U.S. Antitrust system in the 1970s

W. Kovacic, here. 

Robert Bork’s Forgotten Role in the Transaction Cost Revolution

A. Meese, here. 

Bork and Microsoft: Why Bork Was Right and What We Learn About Judging Exclusionary Behavior

H. First, here.