Antitrust in WeChat times

Hogan Lovells, here.

TRANSACTIONS BETWEEN PEERS (P2P). A STEP FORWARD

ACCO, here.

Adblocking goes mobile

PageFair, here.

CJUE : peut-on revendre une licence Microsoft d’occasion sur un disque non authentique ?

Nextimpact, ici.

Zeitenwende im Urheberrecht: Verfassungsgericht erlaubt Sampling

NetzPolitik, hier.

Internet of Things: antitrust concerns in the pipeline?

Baker & McKenzie, here.

Nostrums for Rostrums

Economist, here.

Study on the role of online intermediaries

For the EC, here.

Google Wins Trial Against Oracle, Saves $9 Billion

S. Jeong, here.

Automakers, tech companies decide to make deals, not war (competition?)

Reuters, here.

Schuhe aus der Hochgeschwindigkeitsfabrik

FAZ, hier.

Why the Very Silly Oracle v. Google Trial Actually Matters

S. Jeong, here.

Géoblocage : la musique et les e-books ont gagné une bataille

Contexte, ici.

Online Platforms and the Digital Single Market Opportunities and Challenges for Europe

EC Commission, here.
Staff Working Paper on Online Platforms here. 

How competition supports innovation

M. Vestager, here.

EVA joins CEPIC‘s competition law complaint against Google Image Search

CEPIC, here.

2nd Circuit Libor ruling

Here.

Theranos teaches Silicon Valley a hard lesson about accountability

WashingtonPost, here. 

Control Mechanisms for CRM Systems and Competition Law

R. Hilty, T. Li, here.

CMA response to BIS consultation on moving Land Registry operations to the private sector

CMA, here. 

Saisine d’office pour avis portant sur l’exploitation des données dans le secteur de la publicité en ligne

Autorité de la concurrence, Décision ici.
A voir aussi:

fiche 1 : le secteur de la publicité en ligne en chiffres

fiche 2 : les acteurs de la publicité programmatique

fiche 3 : big data et publicité sur internet

Machine Bias

Propublica.org, here.

International enforcement cooperation in mergers: main principles and recent experiences

EC, Competition policy brief, here.

Q&A: The impact and evolution of the sharing economy

PewResearchCenter, here. 

Copyright reform comes a little closer in Ireland

E. O'Dell, here. 

Platform Privacy: The Missing Piece of Data Protection Legislation

M. Westerlund and J. Enkvist, here. 

The rise of APIs

TechCrunch, here. 

Germany’s supreme court ruling on online games and bots could affect entire EU

VentureBeat, here. 

Regulating Revolution: An Introduction to 3D Printing and the Law

A. Daly, here. 

Internet Competition & Regulation of Online Platforms

CPI and Computer and Communications Industry Association, here. 

AI will create 'useless class' of human, predicts bestselling historian

TheGuardian. here.

Comment survivre à la «disruption»

LeTemps, ici.

Transaction costs and the sharing economy

Uberlandia, Brazil

A. Henden, I. Windekilde, here.

Competition and Poverty

T. Begazo and S. Nyman, Here.

How Can Competition Law Enforcement in the Digital Economy Help in the Fight Against Poverty?

A. Mansour, Here.

Ownership and licensing of the articles posted on SSRN: principles for reassuring authors

AuthorsAlliance.org, here.

Scientists Are Just as Confused About the Ethics of Big-Data Research as You

Wired, here.

The application of the law to machine learning and artificial intelligence

Law Society,  Podcast here.

The big tech drive to encourage hotel loyalty

HotelMarketing, here.

Remembering Ronald Coase's Legacy

O. Williamson, here.

How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds — from a Magician and Google’s Design Ethicist

T. Harris, Here.

Google answered some of our questions about its fancy new AI chip

Recode, Here.

Istruttoria nei confronti di Net Service per ipotesi di abuso della posizione dominante

Provvedimento qui.

La CNMC impugna el Decreto sobre viviendas vacacionales en Canarias

CNMC, here.

Oracle-Google Dispute Goes to Heart of Open-Source Software

NYTimes, here. 

Kartellrechtliche Beschränkung von Online-Verkäufen über Amazon und eBay

Cmshs-bloggt.de, hier.
Vorlagebeschluss hier.

Goodreads is finally cashing in on its devoted community

Wired, here. 

UK High Court on Plain Packaging

"The" Expert

Here.
Worthwhile read for your week-end.

Read also here.



"I earn a living fronting an organization that kills one thousand two hundred human beings a day; twelve hundred people. We're talking two jumbo jet plane loads of men, women, and children. I mean there's Attila, Genghis, and me, Nick Naylor the face of cigarettes, the colonel Sanders of nicotine. This is where I work, the Academy of Tobacco Studies. It was established by seven gentlemen you may recognize from C-Span. These guys realized quick if they were gonna claim cigarettes were not addictive they better have proof. This is the man they rely on, Erhardt Von Grupten Mundt. They found him in Germany. I won't go into the details. He's been testing the link between nicotine and lung cancer for thirty years, and hasn't found any conclusive results. The man's a genius, he could disprove gravity."
Thank you for smoking

Third Circuit Provides Guidance on Loyalty Discounts

Schiff Hardin, Here.

Google's Data Dominance

M. Kearns, here.

Big Data Enters the Agenda of EU Antitrust Authorities

Skadden, here.

Technology‑led Innovation and Emerging Services in the Canadian Financial Services Sector

Competition Bureau, here.

Google’s chatbot strategy is missing something important

VentureBeat, here. 

Data Mobility at the Intersection of Data, Trade Secret Protection and the Mobility of Employees in the Digital Economy

G. Surblyte, here.

Google Appeals French Right-To-Be-Forgotten Ruling

NYTimes, here.

The Dutch parliament bans zero rating

EDRi, here.

Shared, Collaborative and On Demand: The New Digital Economy

Pew, Study here. 

TTIP on Competition

Wikileaks, here. 

The CMA is right to place its faith in tech, not gimmicks

Cityam.com, here. 

Majority of accommodation providers in the EU offer online booking

Eurostat, here. 

Online tracking: A 1-million-site measurement and analysis

S. Englehardt, A. Narayanan, here. 

It’s the Data, Stupid: What Elsevier’s purchase of SSRN also means

SavageMinds, here. 

The Smoking Gun in Android Antitrust Case

TheInformation, here. 

Staples/Office Depot: Memorandum Opinion

E. Sullivan, here. 

TripAdvisor chief on Instant Book, hotel direct campaigns and tours and activities

Travolution.com, here. 

Guide to big data and the Australian Privacy Principles

Office of the Australian Information Commissioner, Consultation Draft, here. 

Oracle CEO claims it discounted Java by 97.5% to beat out Android on Amazon’s Paperwhite

TechCrunch, here. 

Less Logic, More Health: How Behavioral Economics Can Improve Incentives

Knowledge@Wharton, here. 

Training Computer Programs

Wired, here. 

Colleges Shouldn’t Have to Deal With Copyright Monitoring

P. Samuelson, here. 

An Introduction to Intellectual Property

M. Lemley P. Menell, R. Merges, here.

Google To Enter The Chat Bot Market With New Developer Tools, Integrations

AndroidPolice, here. 

EU-wide cybersecurity rules adopted by the Council

Council of the EU, here. 

Sharing Research Data

S. Summers, Presentation here. 

Runkeeper: A Message to Our Users

Here. And reply by the Forbrukerådet here.

Polish competition authority declares that Uber does not pose a threat to competition and protection of consumer interests.

A. Stawicki, here.
Statement of UOKiK's position here. 

Tripadvisor chief Stephen Kaufer sees no threat from direct hotel booking

IrishTimes, here. 

Waze va concurrencer BlaBlaCar avec un service de covoiturage

Numerama, ici. 

Pratiques Unilatérales

F. Marty, A. Wachsmann, Chroniques ici. 

CMA warns UK estate agents against colluding in online portal selection

EU-competitionlaw.com, here.

Elsevier acquires online community SSRN

TheBookseller, here.
See also here.
See Elsevier's post here.
There is somewhere a lesson to be learned about how communities are formed and monetized in the platform society. Moreover, would authors respond/react by increasingly disintermediating (own blog, other more "private" repositories, etc.), possibly? Or what about a broader ArXiv?

Oracle v. Google - Day 5

S. Jeong, Storify here. 

Die Hotel-Branche soll die Zimmerpreise von Buchungsplattformen wieder unterbieten dürfen, kündigt Wirtschaftsminister

Tiroler Tageszeitung, hier. 

Retail banking market investigation: Provisional decision on remedies

CMA, here.

Waze brings its carpooling service to the Bay Area

TechCrunch, here.

A brief history of disobedience

Seriously..., Podcast here.

How much of an optimistic disobedient person are you?

Vermieter zeigen Berliner Ferienwohnungs-Verbot bei EU an

Morgenpost, hier.

Made in Roma - Marchi di produzione e di possesso nella società antica

Museo dei Fori Imperiali, Mostra, info qui.
V. anche S. Pastor, Dal “Domo Roma” al “Made in Roma”, qui.

Blockchain startups make up 20% of largest crowdfunding projects

VentureBeat, here.

Tacit Agreement Under Section 1 of the Sherman Act

W. Page, here.

Online Platforms, Competition Rules and Consumer Protection in Travel Industry

M. Colangelo, V. Zeno-Zencovich, here.

European Union Competition Law, Intellectual Property Law and Standardization

D. Geradin, here.

The Problem of Intra-Personal Cost

B. Galle, here.

Hail and Farewell to The Google Books Case

J. Grimmelmann, here.

Forbes Tests New Tactics to Combat Ad Blocking

Forbes, Here.

The inside story of Facebook’s biggest setback

TheGuardian, Here.

Some hope for software patents in the US after the CAFC's Enfish decision, but this is no game-changer

Iam-Media, Here.

How expiring patents are ushering in the next generation of 3D printing

TechCrunch, Here.

Facebook news selection is in hands of editors not algorithms, documents show

TheGuardian, here.

Google faces record-breaking fine for web search monopoly abuse

TheTelegraph, here.

Okcupid And Google Deepmind: Happily Ever After? Purposes And Ethics In Datasharing

J. Persson, here.

Cybersecurity Futures 2020

The University of California, Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity, here.

(Already compulsory reading for students attending my classes next semester - you're warned).

Apple invests $1 billion in Chinese ride-hailing service Didi Chuxing

Reuters, here.

Who Will Own Your Data If the Tech Bubble Bursts?

TheAtlantic, Here.

Competition Policy in a World of Big Data (again)

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

Slightly revised and updated version (and yes, this week's FR and D Data Report is also considered).

EU’s Vestager Considers Third Antitrust Case Against Google

A. White, here. 

Matchmakers: The Future of Online Dating Platforms?

Arstechnica, here. 

What Platforms Do Differently than Traditional Businesses

D. Evans, R. Schmalensee, here. 

Draft Study on Copyright Limitations and Exceptions for Educational Activities

D. Seng, here.

Runkeeper tracks users when the app is not in use

Forbrukerradet, here. 

Ready for the week-end?

Spanish sherry maker fined by for cartel conduct aimed at raising export prices, here (Spanish)

Dispersion of Power as an Economic Goal of Antitrust and Competition Policy

S. Martin, here. 

Antitrust in the Age of Amazon

NYTimes, here.

In Oracle v. Google, a Nerd Subculture Is on Trial

S. Jeong, here. 

The Blockchain is the new Google

TechCrunch, here. 

European online travel marketplace Evaneos picks up $21M funding

TechCrunch, here. 

Bundeskartellamt gegen Facebook: Marktmachtmissbrauch durch Datenschutzverstöße?

D. Wiedmann, T. Jäger, hier.

Uber’s Antitrust Problem

Prospect.org, here.

In a $9 Billion Trial, Google's Secret Weapon Is a Filing Cabinet

MotherBoard, here. 

With help from Alexa, Kayak debuts voice-enabled travel search on Amazon Echo

SearchEngineLand, here. 

Fair use’ test at heart of $9 billion Google-Oracle copyright trial

MLex, here. 

GDPR and privacy are smokin’ hot for innovation right now

S. Carroll, here. 

Google to ban payday loan advertisements

WashingtonPost, here.
See also Led Astray, here. 

An EU exception for Text and Data Mining in the pipeline

Kluwer Copyright Blog, here. 

Targeted online ads: Do customers benefit from giving out personal information to advertisers?

Stanford Business, here. 

Patent Trolls: Moral Panics, Motions in Limine, and Patent Reform

E. Lee, here. 

Android Share Growth is Highest in EU5 (Great Britain, Germany, France, Italy, and Spain) in Over Two Years

Kantarworldpanel, here. 

3D, yes. But do it yourself not so much.

InsideStory, here. 

Wal-Mart Takes Another Swipe at Fees for Payment Cards

Bloomberg, here. 

Innovative uses of consumer data by financial institutions

EBA, Discussion Paper, here. 

Où est passé le bien commun ?

J. Tirole, ici. 

Keeping Pace in the Digital Age

T. McSweeney, Video here. Written comments here.

The next AI is no AI

TechCrunch, here. 

The Information Age is over; welcome to the Experience Age

TechCrunch, here. 

China's Baidu must cut paid-for adverts after death, regulators say

BBC, here. 

New report shows some publishers pay to join Snapchat's Discover section

Recode, here. 

The Role of Two-Sided Markets in United States v. American Express

E. Hochstadt and M. Thomas-Kennedy, here. 

BlaBlaCar dice que su conductor que más ganó obtuvo 3 euros en un año

ElPais, aquì. 

Competition Law, Market Power, and (Big) Data (retitled)

Autorité de la concurrence,
Bundeskartellamt, here.

The creators of Siri just showed off their next AI assistant, Viv, and it's incredible

TheVerge, here.
Demo here.

Personal digital assistants are on the rise (and they want to talk)

USAToday.com, here. 

OLG Düsseldorf lässt einstweilig abblitzen

Hotellerie.de, hier. 

The digital age of data art

TechCrunch, here. 

How blockchains could change the world

McKinsey, here. 

Millionenbuße wegen vertikaler Preisabsprachen beim Vertrieb von Bier

FAZ.net, hier.
Fallbericht hier.

Disruptive innovations in legal services

OECD Secretariat, Background Note here. 

New app gives Uber a little disruption of its own

BostonGlobe, here. 

Vehicle Dealers Allege Car Carrier Price Fixing

Maritime-executive, here.
Complaints here and here. 

Chasing the Uber model is killing a lot of on-demand companies

VentureBeat, here. 

The Platform Society

J. Van Dijk, Podcast here.

The Future of Machine Intelligence: Perspectives from Leading Practitioners

D. Beyer, here.

It begins: BotRevenue.com to serve ads in bots

VentureBeat, here.

Retrial of Oracle copyright infringement case against Google begins Monday

SFGate, here.

Auslieferung wegen Kartellvergehens: EuGH prüft Staatshaftung der Bundesrepublik im Fall Pisciotti

Juve.de, hier.

Why AI development is going to get even faster. (Yes, really!)

MappingBabel, here.

One of the world's largest digital libraries opens doors to text mining scholars

HathiTrust, Here.

Challenging Anticompetitive Acquisitions and Enforcement of Patents

AAI, here. 

How Android gets to 100% market share

TechCrunch, here.

Facebook is building AI that builds AI

Wired, here. 

Italian Film Industry Condemns Paramount’s EU Antitrust Deal

HollywoodReporter, here. 

CMA publishes one stop guide to obtaining redress for competition law breaches

Out-law.com, here. 

New regulations for the grocery sector now in force in Ireland

CCPC, here. 

eBay acquires AI-powered big data processor Expertmaker

TechCrunch, here. 

An analytical review of text and data mining practices and approaches in Europe

OFE, here. 

Regulating Patent Hold-Up

LCII Policy Brief, here. 

3D printing companies request Supreme Court clarification over cheerleader uniform copyright case

3ders.org, here.
Petition here.
Amicus Brief here. 

Open Data, Privacy, and Fair Information Principles: Towards a Balancing Framework

F. Borgesius, J. Gray & M. van Eechoud, here. 

Sensay, a chatbot for getting help with any task, passes 1 million users

VentureBeat, here. 

Merger Remedies Guide

ICN Merger Working Group, here. 

Government Advocacy and Disruptive Innovations

ICN Special Project Report, here.

Google AI has access to huge haul of NHS patient data

NewScientist, here.

Liability for robots/AI generated harm

N. Petit, presentations here and here.

Disruptive innovation: Competition enforcement challenges and advocacy opportunities

OECD Forum, contributions here.

Anticipating Disruptive Strategies

Deloitte, here.

Australia should follow Europe against US digital giants

TheAustralian, here.

Los grandes fabricantes alertan: la marca blanca es 'invisible' para Competencia

ElEspanol, aquí

Google y el abuso de posición de dominio: una cronología

CNMC, here.

Online platforms: Commission wants to make the internet more like traditional media

Communia, here.

Google Is Feeding Romance Novels To Its Artificial Intelligence Engine To Make Its Products More Conversational

BuzzFeed, here.

Ever-Litigious Apple Loses Copyright Battle With China Over iPhone

Sputniknews, here.

Accountable Algorithms

J. Kroll, J. Huey, S. Barocas, E. Felten, J. Reidenberg, D. Robinson, and H. Yu, here.

Big Data: A Report on Algorithmic Systems, Opportunity, and Civil Rights

The White House, here.

"Meet"...me

OFE, here.

Blockchain and big data privacy in healthcare

IAPP, here. 

Google and Microsoft have made a pact to protect surveillance capitalism

TheGuardian, here. 

The business face of Big Data: do we have to care

CEPIC, here.

Antitrust regulators get tough on Google

KoreanTimes, Here.

As Social Shifts To Video, Content Creators Win Transient Power And A Few Dollars

BuzzFeed,  here.

Always On: Privacy Implications of Microphone-Enabled Devices

Future of Privacy Forum, here.

Big Data Does Not Shield Tech Companies From Competition

A. Lambrecht, C. Tucker, here.

What's at Stake in Algorithmic Accountability?

N. Couldry, here.

Now at an UBER rocky antitrust court bench: a follow up on the UBER price-fixing case

J. Nowag, here.

Is blocking ad blockers really illegal in Europe?

DigiDay, here.

Getty’s high-resolution competition law complaint against Google in the EU

M. Sag, here.