Wednesday, March 23, 2022
« Wouldn’t it be nice to solve all such problems in one go? »
…famously said the former Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes in the long aftermath of the EU Microsoft case referring to interoperability issues caused by Big Tech. More than a decade after Kroes expressed that wish, the DMA moves exactly in this direction, with mandated interoperability for ancillary services *and* for so called horizontal interoperability of instant messaging (albeit limited to one-to-one communications with late openings with regard to group chats and calls), as it has been reported by the FT and Politico today. More could be done, and the devil will likely be in the technical details of the obligations, of course, but it’d be a promising beginning.
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Podcast, here .
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Course Description Competition policy has long been regarded as an essential framework for any economy based on market exchange. Its logic...
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Euractiv, here. While some influential US/EU academics want us to largely forget the DMA and go back to a revised 102 😔.
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OECD, here. Tbd today, Trento U.
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Video here . Pre-print Paper here (advance article published by JECLAP on the day she died, here ) 2023 Presentation at the "Professo...
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C. Ortiz, here.
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Socalled " Guidelines " (Linee guida sulla gestione dei diritti d'autore nelle università) by the AIDRO (Associazione Italiana...
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The European Council, here .

