Monday, February 26, 2024

Innovation against change

 A. McLean, here.

Microsoft announces ‘AI access principles’ to offset OpenAI competition concerns

 TechCrunch, here.

Apple on course to break all Web Apps in EU within 20 days

 OWA, here

EU seeks to investigate Apple over cutting off web apps

 FT, here

Rotten Apple

 Adactio, here

How to Think About Remedies in the Generative AI Copyright Cases

 P. Samuelson, here

Privacy Advocates Urge European Regulators to Oppose Meta’s No-Ads Subscription Model

 CPI, here

Competition Law and Innovation II

 CENTI, Podcast with T. Schrepel, here

DOJ’s Jonathan Kanter says the antitrust fight against Big Tech is just beginning

 The Verge, here

7 changes to patch the EU’s Digital Markets Act and make open app markets a reality over Apple’s belligerent stance

GamesFray, here.  

Banking and Antitrust

 S. Omarova, G. Steele, here

Apple's App Store Compliance with the Digital Markets Act: The 7 Deadly Sins You Must Know

 Aptoide, here

Apple says it spent "tens of thousands of hours” on the DMA App Store solution after Microsoft complains

MSPowerUser, here.  

The American Schools of Antitrust

 T. Wu, here

Google Tweaked Search to Comply With EU Rules. Yelp Says It Makes Results Even More Unfair

 Wired, here

Whatsapp muss sich öffnen: Threema und Signal winken ab

 Heise.de, hier

German Court Rules Against Google in Competition Case

 Pymts, here

Helping Europe’s digital economy take off: An agenda for the next Commission

 CER, here

Reviewing Mergers Under Article 102 TFEU: Proximus/EDPnet (Belgium)

 F. Bostoen, here

In conversation with Sarah Cardell

  Cleary Gottlieb Antitrust Review podcast, here

Joint Inventorship: AI-Human Style

 Patentlyo, here

AG Kokott on Google Shopping

 Here

Data-related Obligations and Interoperability in the DMA

 CERRE, here

EPC Statement concerning Apple's compliance plans with the DMA

 Here

DOJ re Google AdTech

 PLAINTIFFS’ POST-TRIAL BRIEF, here

DMA Compliance workshops

18 March : Apple

19 March : Meta

20 March : Amazon

21 March : Alphabet

22 March : ByteDance

26 March : Microsoft

Can Telecommunications Regulation Inform Emerging Regulatory Approaches To Generative AI?: An Initial Inquiry

 D. Lawrence DOJ, here

Monday, February 19, 2024

Tuesday, February 13, 2024

Amazon hides cheaper items with faster delivery, lawsuit alleges

 ArsTechnica, here

 

[Of course they do :-), if they can get away with it...]

Wednesday, February 07, 2024

Launch of the GW Competition & Innovation Lab

 Video here

NB: None of the academic economists mentioned that they worked for consultancies - eg Richard Gilbert for Compass Lexecon. 

Interesting to see Hans Zeng (EC) there too.

Who’s financing the whole initiative isn’t mentioned on the website. I guess no private donors then (?). The “other” dynamic competition initiative hosted in Florence is instead openly financed (also) by a consultancy. 


Letter: Europe has an unri­valled record on anti­trust

 O. Guersent, here.

The article has ruffled some feathers, while others of a similar tone have passed unnoticed. It is true, as BEUC writes, the "EU’s guiding principle has been to uphold a competition enforcement standard based on broader values including consumer choice, innovation and quality rather than simply price". However, it must also be acknowledged that in the EU the more economic approach with a very strong "industrial organization flavour" and its laser focus on prices and models (along with the array of consultancies it brings along) remains fairly dominant and has not been directly challenged from a theoretical standpoint as is happening in the US. 

EU AI Act: Next Steps for Implementation

 iapp, here

What super-apps could mean for the communications sector

 Ofcom, here. Ofcom on interoperability here

CERRE DMA Conference

 Video here