Antitrust Damage Actions in Europe: Race to the Middle?

J. Delgado, here.

Das grosse Feindbild Google

Nzz.ch, hier. 

Making Your Privacy Practices Public

K. Harris, Attorney General, California Department of Justice, here.

Does Google want to own the online travel-booking market?

TheEconomist, here.

This is the comment I left on the Economist's website: "As possible game changers, also worth mentioning are the investigations and decisions by competition authorities in the online hotel booking sector.They could make advertising in Google less crucial..."

AG Cruz Villalon says that certain parodies may be prohibited if against fundamental values of society

IPKat, here. 

Interview with Pam Samuelson, one of the founders of the Authors' Alliance

PublishersWeekly, here. 

Old friends in new frocks? MFN clauses in the online hotel booking sector/17

(Previous installments here)

This and other anticompetitive potentials of retail-price MFNs may be strengthened in the presence of a network of such clauses. Thus, the German Competition Authority found that the vast majority of hotels in Germany was under a retail MFN obligation with at least one of the three most popular hotel booking platforms, and this made practically impossible for an entrant platform to pursue a “consumers’ side” initiation/growth strategy based on commission-cuts and lower display prices.

Four things we’ve learned from the EU Google judgment

Iconewsblog, here.