Tuesday, November 23, 2021

EU Parliament’s key committee adopts Digital Markets Act

 Euractiv, here

Big Business Declares War on Lina Khan

 M. Stoller, here

Andreas Schwab - Digital Markets Act Version of 18-11-2021 - Compromise Amendments

 


Here

Press Conference, Video here.

Italy fines Amazon and Apple $230M over antitrust charges


 TechCrunch, here.

The Italian decision qui

Merger control and FDI interplay: Article 21 as a potential tool towards further convergence in FDI rules

 Clifford Chance, here

DISINFORMATION RISKS, REGULATORY GAPS AND ADEQUATE COUNTERMEASURES

 Expert Opinion Commissioned by the Landesanstalt für Medien NRW, here

Google v Commission (Google Shopping): A Case Summary

 N. Moreno Belloso, here

Epic CEO Tim Sweeney calls for a universal app store to combat tech monopolies

 Protocol, here

EU Shopping judgment: what does equal access to Google's general results pages mean?

 Hausfeld, here

Stream your brain! Speculative economy of the IoT and its pan-kinetic dataveillance

 S. Ahn, here

MARKET STUDY ON THE PHARMACEUTICAL SECTOR IN INDIA

 Competition Commission of India, here

WhatsApp privacy policy tweaked in Europe after record fine

 BBC, here

Noyb files another complaint against Amazon Europe – black box algorithm discriminates customers

 Noyb, here

Apple’s concession on the right to repair

 FT, here

Small business holds key to tech's antitrust fate

 Axios, here

The Future of Digital Spaces and Their Role in Democracy

 Pew Research Center, here

Synergies between Data protection law and competition law


W. Kerber, L. Specht, here

Wettbewerb und Datenschutz: Wie Kastor und Pollux, hier.

Coalition for App Fairness Statement on Digital Markets Act (DMA) Vote by European Parliament

 Here

Thursday, November 18, 2021

A competition policy fit for new challenges

EC, Communication here.  

The beautiful Annex here

Wednesday, November 17, 2021

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS AND EVIDENCE IN ABUSE CASES

 OECD Background Note by S. Roberts, here

Bundesrat verbietet Knebelverträge bei Hotelbuchungen

 NZZ, hier. [Gut - Meine Erklärung here]                          

Competition issues concerning news media and digital platforms

 OECD, Background Paper, here

Ex ante regulation of digital markets

OECD, Background Note here.  

Environmental Considerations in Competition Enforcement: Legal Assessment

 OECD Background Note, here

Joe to Lina re oil prices

 Here

Big Tech as Global Problem

The Grande Dame of Antitrust Law, Video here.  

CMA to open up electric vehicle charging competition on motorways

 CMA, here

7th CUTS-CIRC Biennial Conference on Competition, Regulation and Development-Day 01

 Day 01, Video here

Day 02, Live here

In Moscow’s Technological Advances, a ‘Double-Edged Sword’

NYTimes, here.  

Support study accompanying the Commission Notice on the evaluation of the definition of relevant market for the purposes of Community competition law

For the EC, here

Facebook goes after the creator of InstaPy, a tool that automates Instagram likes

 Algorithm Watch, here

Facial recognition: Huge risks for our societies

 EDPS, Video here

Wednesday, November 10, 2021

Tuesday, November 02, 2021

Meta to Meta (Sudans)

 


Report on Stablecoins

 Federal Reserve, here

China’s new platform guidelines translated

 H/T I. Brown, here.

BECOMING THE DMA: THE PARLIAMENT’S COMPROMISE (FOR NOW)

 D'Kart, here

Leitlinien für die Vereinbarkeit des Genossenschaftswesens mit dem Kartellrecht

 Bundeskartellamt, hier

La mia "Cooperativa di fronte al diritto antitrust" qui (*2008*) : chissà cosa scriverei di diverso? 

Artificial Intelligence Systems as Inventors?

 J. Drexl at al., here

MARKET DESIGN

 N. Agarwal, E. Budish, here

Regulating platforms and ecosystems: an introduction

 M. Jacobides, I. Lianos, here

Smart Contracts and the Digital Single Market Through the Lens of a 'Law + Technology' Approach

 T. Schrepel, here

Truck cartel in Spain: Advocate General Rantos clarifies the temporal scope of the directive on the compensation of victims of anti-competitive practices

 CJEU, here

Open Logistics Foundation gegründet

 Frauenhofer, hier

AI and Governance

 DigitalEU, here

Completed acquisition by Facebook, Inc. of GIPHY, Inc.

 CMA, the decision here.

Pomodoro costoluto fiorentino salvato dai cinesi grazie al “Golden Power” di Draghi


InToscana, qui.  

Italy vetoes sale of seed producer to Chinese-owned Syngenta, officials say

 CNA, here

Australia also wants Google to unbundle search from Android

 ArsTechnica, here

The Interim Report, here


Computational Competition Law and Economics

 Hellenic Competition Commission, here

Easier cartel rules for packaging, logistics companies, EU's Vestager says

 Reuters, here

Digging into Google’s push to freeze ePrivacy

 


Natasha the Great (TechCrunch), here

Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property: copyright and patents

 UK Gov, here

Why are you on Facebook?

 S. Vergnolle, here