Big Data: The Amazing Numbers in 2015

Bigdatanews, here. 

Google Ads Boss: ‘We Need to Deal With’ Ad Blocking as an Industry

Recode.net, here. 

Transport for London’s plans to crack down on taxi hire app Uber

Order-order.com, here. 

Gazprom: seeking a rapprochement with the EU?

Bruegel, here

Court Strikes Down Payments to College Athletes

NYTimes, here. 

Formula 1 presto nel mirino dell’antitrust europeo?

S. Benedettini, qui.

Most millennials are willing to pay for content, but not so much for news

Niemanlab.org, here. 

China hands Microsoft administrative fine over Xbox venture

Reuters.com, here.

Insumos Esenciales, Reguladores y Lecciones para América Latina

Entrevista con el Prof. Richard Whish, aquì. 

Neue Top Level Domains: zögerliche Nutzung der Marken-Privilegien

Heise.de, hier. 

Enquiries into Intellectual Property's Economic Impact

OECD, here. 

The Connectivity Declaration

Here. 

Julia Reda: „Eine europäische Öffentlichkeit braucht ein europäisches Urheberrecht“

J. Reda, hier. 

Competition, Trade and Development

E. Fox, Video here. 

Le projet de loi pour une République numérique

Republique-numerique.fr/, ici.

Google Search Is 4th Most Popular App & Growing Faster Than Facebook

SearchEngineLand, here.

Data Driven Everything Remains Elusive

TechCrunch, here.

A structural break cartel screen for dating and detecting collusion

C. Crede, here. 

Google Said to Be Under U.S. Antitrust Scrutiny Over Android

Bloomberg, here. 

Leistungsschutzrecht: Snippet-Tarif der VG Media "nicht angemessen"

Heise.de, hier. 

Competition rebooted: Enforcement and personal data in digital markets

A. Lamadrid, here. 

Public consultation on the regulatory environment for platforms, online intermediaries, data and cloud computing and the collaborative economy

Questionnaire, here.

(Short) Background info, here.

Safe Harbor menacé : l'industrie du Cloud monte au créneau

Numerama.com, ici. 

Building a global community of practice

M. Vestager, here. 

Loterie Nationale belge condamnée pour abus de position dominante

LeVif.be, ici. 

Broadening the Lens on Investigating Potential Collusion in the U.S. Airline Industry

AAI, here. 

How big (and bad) adblocking could get – and why news sites should sell adblockers

TheOverspill, here. 

The Arrival of Artificial Intelligence and “The Death of Contract”

I. Kerr, here. 

European Court Adviser Calls Trans-Atlantic Data-Sharing Pact Insufficient

NYTimes, here, 

Stellungnahmen zur Sektoruntersuchung Nachfragemacht im Lebensmitteleinzelhandel

Bundeskartellamt.de, hier. 

The Web as Platform Data: Flows in Social Media

A. Helmond, here. 

If cars cheat, what else?

NYTimes, here. 

The Internet of Everything: Data, Networks & Opportunities

M. Ohlhausen, here.

VW scandal highlights irony of EPA opposition to vehicle software tinkering

ArsTechnica, here.

See also EFF, here. 

Who owns the road? The IoT-connected car of today—and tomorrow

Deloitte, here. 

Airlines' privacy policies do little to protect consumers' personal data

LATimes, here. 

Big Data and smart devices and their impact on privacy

European Parliament, Study for the LIBE Committee, here. 

The Macron Law: what it changes in Competition Law

Eversheds.com, here. 

Les chiffres qui expliquent pourquoi Uber cartonne

LeMonde, ici. 

The Digital Single Market, consumers and EU competition policy

J. Laitenberger, here. 

Upcoming OECD buoyant roundtable: Competition and across platform parity agreements!

OECD, here.

Facebook’s Restrictions on User Data Cast a Long Shadow

WSJ, here. 

Five steps to success in the sharing economy

PCW, here. 

Welcome To The Internet Of Cheating Things

TechDirt, here.

Oktoberfest 2015: no beer without patents

EPO, here. 

Droit au déréférencement : rejet du recours gracieux formé par Google à l’encontre de la mise en demeure

CNIL, ici. 

Big Tech Has Become Way Too Powerful

NYTimes.com, here. 

VW Is Said to Cheat on Diesel Emissions; U.S. to Order Big Recall

Nytimes.com, here. 

Uber Files Antitrust Suit Against Taxi Commission; Defiantly Turns On UberX

Stlouis.cbslocal.com, here. 

Airlines not trying very hard to fight intermediaries in Google search

Tnooz, here. 

Uber accused of price-fixing in $150M lawsuit by Edmonton taxi companies

CBC.ca, here. Legal filing here (competition, §§ 348 ff.).

Transfer fees could go if Fifpro wins legal action against Fifa

TheGuardian, here. 

Huawei v ZTE – No More Need To Look At The Orange Book In SEP Disputes

White & Case, here. 

BlaBlaCar, Airbnb : le Sénat veut fiscaliser les revenus supérieurs à 5.000 euros

LesEchos.fr, ici. 

Herzensbrecher - Dating-Plattform Lovoo im Fake-Verdacht

Heise.de, hier. 

German and Spanish Competition Authorities Got It Right on the Ancillary Copyright for Press Publishers

Project-disco.org, here. 

Measuring The Offline Value Of Paid Search Clicks During The Holidays & Beyond

Searchengineland.com, here. 

Does the 'right to be forgotten' apply to company registers?

Case C-398/15 - Manni, Questions to the CJEU (not yet available on the Curia's website - ?), referring Corte di Cassazione qui.

Exploitative Prices in European Competition Law

A. Robles Martín-Laborda, here. 

E-books: A Tale of Digital Disruption

R. Gilbert, here. 

Global Innovation Index 2015

WIPO, here. 

Online Platforms and the EU Digital Single Market: Call for Evidence

UK House of Lords, here. 

EU Directive on Antitrust Damages Actions: an economic analysis

P. van Wijck, J. Winter, here. 

Patent Settlements in the Pharmaceutical Industry: What Can We Learn From Economic Analysis?

W. Kerber, S. Frank, here. 

Searching a Rationale for Search Neutrality in the Age of Google

V. Falce, M. Granieri, here. 

Public and Private Antitrust Enforcement: Does the EU Directive Preserve Leniency Incentives?

M. Buiten, here. 

The valuation of unprotected works: A case study of public domain photopraphs on Wikipedia

P. Heald, M. Kretschmer, K. Erickson, here. 

Justice Department Will Not Challenge Expedia's Acquisition of Orbitz

Justice.gov, here. 

Apple will ask Supreme Court to hear its ebooks price-fixing case

Fortune.com, here. 

Refusal to license intellectual property under Chinese antitrust regime

Internationallawoffice.com, here. 

5 Ways Big Data is Making a Splash in the Insurance Industry

Bigdatanews.com, here. 

TV ad on abuse of dominance (India)

Video here.

Thank you CCI! Also a powerful introduction to a course on competition policy for managers.

Should libraries start ditching books to bring in new tech?

Washingtonpost.com, here.


“Siempre imaginé que el Paraíso sería algún tipo de biblioteca”
Jorge Luis Borges

Nestlé likely to lose bid to trade mark shape of Kit Kat bars in light of EU court ruling

Out-law.com, here. 

A Berne-compatible reconciliation of hyperlinking and the communication to the public right on the internet

ALAI, here. 

CMA closes hotel online booking investigation

CMA, Press release here. 

Stretching EU competition law tools for search engines and social networks

I. Graef, here. 

Fair Use vs. Algorithms: What the Dancing Baby Did to Copyright

Motherboard.vice.com, here. 

Is Uber's ultimate goal the privatisation of city governance?

TheGuardian.com, here. 

Competition impact assessment

CMA, Part 1 here; 2 here. 

Geld oder Daten! – Ihre Daten sind der Lufthansa teuer

Heise.de, hier. 

Google Found Guilty of ‘Abusing Dominant Market Position’ in Russia

WSJ, here. 

Google злоупотребляет доминирующим положением на рынке предустановленных магазинов приложений в ОС "Андроид"

Fas.gov.ru, вот and here.

Personal Data Stores

G. Brochot, J. Brunini, R. Larsen, D. Lewis, F. Liu Eisma, here. 

The Secret of Airbnb’s Pricing Algorithm

Spectrum.ieee.org, here. 

Provisional text of the Commission’s online platforms consultation

Politico.eu, here. 

Towards a new digital ethics

The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS), here. 

Intellectual property and competition

M. Vestager, here.

Why India’s online shopping revolution won’t kill brick-and-mortar stores

Qz.com, here.

What may make Amazon inclined to poach your product

HBR.org, here. Paper here. 

Die wettbewerbsrechtliche Zulässigkeit von Meistbegünstigungsklauseln auf Buchungsplattformen am Beispiel von HRS

L. Hamelmann, J. Haucap, C. Wey, hier.

Free Software Establishments in India Fight Back as Efforts to Spread Software Patents Are Reported

Techrights.org, here. 

Input Price Discrimination (Bans), Entry and Welfare

M. Dertwinkel-Kalt, J. Haucap, C. Wey, here.

In European Journal of Law and Economics 2015 under the title "Procompetitive Dual Pricing"

Matera v. Google

Case number 5:15-cv-04062, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, here. 

Impacto del Nuevo Artículo 32.2 de la Ley de Propiedad Intelectual

Nera para la Asociación Española de Editoriales de Publicaciones Periódicas (AEEPP), aquì. 

Emerging forms of innovation in the Internet of Things

Deloitte, here. 

Beschluss zum Streit um das Leistungsschutzrecht

Bundeskartellamt, hier.

"Auch ein marktbeherrschendes Unternehmen kann kartellrechtlich nicht dazu verpflichtet werden, bei einer ungeklärten Rechtslage ein erhebliches Schadensersatzrisiko einzugehen"

Décision du 9 septembre 2015 relative à une demande de mesures conservatoires de la société Gibmedia

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

The Billboard Effect is dead, says a study of hotels listed on OTAs

Tnooz, here. 

Competencia cuestiona la protección al sector del taxi

ElPais, aquì.

Cars, newspapers and permissionless innovation

B. Evans, here. 

Data protection and service providers - new obligations, liabilities and contract changes loom

Out-Law.com, here. 

Microsoft is using Bing to discourage Windows 10 users from downloading Chrome and Firefox

VentureBeat, here. 

Wettbewerbspolitik in digitalen Märkten aus Verbrauchersicht

Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband, hier. 

Quand "l'ubérisation" gagne (aussi) nos assiettes

LExpress.fr, ici. 

When Big Data Becomes Bad Data

Propublica.org, here. 

The Role of Market Transparency in Assessing MFN Clauses

I. Vandenborre, M. Frese, here. 

Canadian company accuses majors of anti-competitive behaviour over public domain Beatles tracks

Completemusicupdate.com, here. 

Responses to CMA Consultation Regarding Potential Remedies in the Energy Market Investigation

C. Waddams, M. Hviid, D. Deller, here. 

Checking Out? Hilton’s App Now Lets You Grab An Uber

TechCrunch, here. 

Uber verbieten, um Monopole zu schützen

J. Haucap, hier. 

Wie Online-Händler Kunden zum Kauf drängen

NDR.de, hier. 

Il caso Booking: prove generali di cooperazione tra le autorita nazionali di concorrenza

N. Latronico, qui.

The Essential Guide to drafting Commission documents on EU competition law

F. Ronkes Agerbeek, here. 

A lawyer's alleged double life could screw up one of the biggest antitrust settlements in US history

UK.businessinsider.com, here. 

Google Redress and Integrity Platform

Grip.eu, here. Press release here.