EC Commission sends Statement of Objections to Apple on App Store rules for music streaming providers

 

Here.

App Marketplaces

 ACCC, Digital platform services inquiry Interim report No. 2, here. 

Joint statement on merger control enforcement

 CMA, ACCC, Bundeskartellamt, here. 

After Google and Facebook: The Future of Journalism and Democracy

 Open Markets Institute, here. 

Antitrust Applied: Examining Competition in App Stores

 Klobuchar Hearing, here. 

Apple to boost ads business as iPhone changes hurt Facebook

 FT, here. 

China’s central bank fights Jack Ma’s Ant Group over control of data

 FT, here. 

Some Khan Art

 

Facebook: Fragen

 Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf, Beschluss, hier. 

The Bank of England and fintech: public support for private innovation

 Bank of England, here. 

The antitrust orthodoxy is blind to real data harms

C. Caffarra, G. Crawford, J. Ryan, here. 

Europe's Proposed Limits on AI Would Have Global Consequences

 Wired, here. 

RBI moves to bring more parity between fintechs and banks

 ORF, here. 

‘A State in the disguise of a Merchant’: Tech Leviathans and the rule of law

 OfTheWedge, here. 

Rethinking Data in the Platform World: Alternative Data Governance

Automated Decision-Making and Society, Data Governance here; Market and Platforms  here.

New rules for Artificial Intelligence – Questions and Answers

EC, here.  

EU’s AI proposal must go further to prevent surveillance and discrimination

 EDRI, here. 

MailOnline sues Google for allegedly hiding links to its articles

 The Guardian, here. 

Humanizing Automation

 B. Schneiderman, here. 

Illumina’s $7.1 billion play for cancer startup Grail faces global headwinds

 MLex Podcast, here. 

When your journal reads you

 Elephant in the lab, here. 

DATENSCHUTZ UND DATENSICHERHEIT IN DATENÖKOSYSTEMEN

 IIP-Ecosphere Whitepaper, hier. 

Artificial Intelligence and Unfair Competition – Unveiling an Underestimated Building Block of the AI Regulation Landscape

 S. Scheuerer, here. 

Demande d’avis du Médiateur du cinéma sur les modalités de sortie des films en salle

 Adlc, ici. 

Data Ethics of Power A Human Approach to Big Data and AI

G. Hasselbalch, PhD defence presentation here; Thesis here.

Turkey: Google abused its dominant position

 Decision here (very succinct version, motivations to come - Google Translate).

Scoping paper – Competition law enforcement at the intersection between competition, consumer protection, and privacy

 ICN, here (old but fresh).

Eurosystem report on the public consultation on a digital euro

 ECB, here. 

China Warns 34 Tech Firms to Curb Excess in Antitrust Review

 Bloomberg, here (and here Google Translation)

Italy vetoes takeover of semiconductor firm by Chinese company Shenzhen - sources

 Reuters, here. 

Productivity Versus Power: The Role of Law and Technology, (Mis)perceptions and Ideology

 O. Bar-Gill, Y. Benkler, here. 

Rethinking Competition: From Market Failures to Ecosystem Failures

 M. Jacobides, I. Lianos, here. 

Big Tech doublespeak on AI ethics

 K. Hao, here. 

Leaked 2-month old draft EU AI Regulation

 Here. 

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Upholds FTC’s Opinion against Generic Pharmaceutical Company Impax Laboratories, LLC

 FTC, here. 

What do consumer associations really think of the DMA and the DSA?

 DSA, here; DMA, here. 

Why it’s easier to move country than switch social media

 C. Doctorow, here. 

The new US antitrust administration

 Concurrences, here. 

Jack Ma’s Ant called to end anti-competition in payments

 TechCrunch, here (and here).

Three Surprises in the Supreme Court’s Google v. Oracle Decision

 P. Samuelson, here. 

Digital Cluster Markets

 H. Hovenkamp, here. 

Can Computational Antitrust Succeed?

Stanford Computational Antitrust podcast, here. 

Data Trusts: Next Steps And Link To Financial Institutions

 IFC, here. 

FTC urges courts not to dismiss Facebook antitrust case

 ArsTechnica, here. 

THREE QUESTIONS THAT WILL DECIDE EPIC V. APPLE

 The Verge, here. 

Indikatorik und Governance-Ansätze zur Analyse und regulatorischen Gestaltung datenbasierter Märkte in Deutschland

 Tilburg University, hier. 

What Critics Don’t Understand About NFTs

 J. Zittrain, W. Marks, here. 

UK software reseller sues Microsoft for £270m

 FT, here. 

How the Supreme Court saved the software industry from API copyrights

 ArsTechnica, here. 

GUTACHTEN ZUR PSD2-UMSETZUNG IN DEUTSCHLAND

 VZBV, hier.

PRIVATSPHÄRE BEI DIGITALEN FINANZDIENSTLEISTUNGEN SCHÜTZEN

 VZBV, hier.

Amazon BuyBox und die Monopolkommission

 Das Erste, hier. 

Bafin schafft unabhängiges Vergleichsportal für Girokonten

 Handelsblatt, hier.

Adtech and Real-Time Bidding under European Data Protection Law

 M. Veale, F. Borgesius, here. 

5th Annual Conference on FinTech and Regulation: New Challenges and New Solutions

 Videos here.  

Digital Markets Unit (non-statutory) - terms of reference

 CMA, here. 

EDPB-EDPS Joint Opinion on the Digital Green Certificate

 Here. 

Anticipated acquisition by Crowdcube Limited of Seedrs Limited: Provisional findings report

 CMA, here. And FT, here. 

Facebook’s Kustomer buy could face EU probe after merger referral

 TechCrunch, here. 

Facebook acquisition of Kustomer, and concerns about data protection

 J. Ryan, here. 

The Case for Waiving Intellectual Property Protection for Covid-19 Vaccines

 P. Ranjan, here. 

Online platforms: Economic and societal effects

 EPRS Study, here. 

Lessons for industrial policy from development of the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine

 Industrial Strategy Council, here. 

Food Data Trust

 Food Standards Agency, here. 

Not Just Personal Data Stores

 MyDex, here. 

Comfort letter: cooperation at a Matchmaking Event – Towards COVID19 vaccines upscale production

 EC, here. 

Annabelle Gawer : « La régulation des plateformes digitales est une question géopolitique »

 Influencia, here. 

Apple invests $50M into music distributor UnitedMasters alongside a16z and Alphabet

 TechCrunch, here. 

Adaptive Antitrust

 M. Meagher, here. 

Workshop on Governing online platforms: policy options for shaping a principled digital future

 EP, Video here. 

Justice Thomas argues for making Facebook, Twitter and Google utilities

 Protocol, here. 

The Supreme Court sided with Google in its epic copyright fight against Oracle

 TechCrunch, here. 

“Power Is Evil in Itself”: The Ordoliberal Quest for a Privilege-Free Order

 ProMarket, here. 

Victory for Fair Use: The Supreme Court Reverses the Federal Circuit in Oracle v. Google

 EFF, here. 

Google v. Oracle: The End

 Mark Lemley explains (from 05:30), here; the Court here.