Friday, June 21, 2024

Apple Intelligence Features Not Coming to Europe at Launch Due to [unwillingness to comply with the DMA and most interesting AI features not launched until 2025 in any case]

 MacRumors, here.

DMA - Review of Apple's Compliance Proposal

 Open Web Advocacy, here.

BOOKING HOLDINGS / ETRAVELI GROUP

 Case M.10615, here.

Fostering a Federated AI Commons ecosystem

 T20 Policy Briefing, here.

Calculating Empires - A Genealogy of Technology and Power Since 1500

 K. Crawford and V. Joler, here.

Kenya: Watchdog now goes after tech giants with law review

 The Standard, here

(Disclosure: consulting for Article 19 until Isa comes back, and worked with others on the submission 😎 - great experience for an academic to work a bit for civil society, highly recommended and also necessary, given the current situation)

Tech industry groups oppose plans for digital competition law

 Hindustan Times, here.

Wednesday, June 19, 2024

The Promise and Perils of Human Rights for Governing Digital Platforms: Symposium Introduction

 TechPolicyPress, here.

Transatlantic Dialogue: areas of convergence

 DOJ, here.

How the EU’s DMA is changing Big Tech: all of the news and updates

 The Verge, here.

EBU publishes “strategic asks” on generative AI and media

 BroadbandTVNews, here.

REDISCOVERING ADAM SMITH

 M. Holyoak, here.

Learning from the EU’s Mistakes: What To Do About Google’s Dominance in Search

 T. Cowen et al., here.

How to master Europe's digital infrastructure needs

 Internet Society, here.

We put the Google Finance link first

 Google, video here.

The Hacking of Culture and the Creation of Socio-Technical Debt

 e-flux Journal, here.

What’s All the Fuss About Antitrust?

 ACS, here.

The alarm bells are ringing: Competition is the solution to the productivity crisis - in Canada

 M. Boswell, here

Video here.

SCiDA Podcast on the DMA!

 Here.

UBS/Credit Suisse: FINMA schliesst Kontrollverfahren ab

 FINMA, hier.

Africa: The need for a new competition policy approach in digital economies

 F. Wang'ombe Kariuki, R,.Mazer, here.

Wettbewerbsbehörde beantragt Geldbuße gegen Brau Union

 ORF, hier.

RTL/DPG: Vergunning aanvragen

 ACM, Beslissing in NL and E-DeepL.

Friday, June 14, 2024

Meta pauses plans to train AI using European users’ data, bowing to regulatory pressure

 TechCrunch, here.

How Big Tech Is Killing Innovation

 M. Lemley, M. Wensley, here.

Mario Draghi: An Industrial Strategy For Europe

 M. Draghi, here.

Procompetitive Industrial Policy – Note by Italy

 At the OECD, here.

Wettbewerbsrecht in der digitalen Transformation

 H. Schweitzer Video (2023)  hier.

Antitrust Policy and Artificial Intelligence: Some Neglected Issues

 C. Rikap, here.

Heike Schweitzer (RIP) on "How to Fix a Failing Art. 102 TFEU"


Video here.

Pre-print Paper here (advance article published by JECLAP on the day she died, here)

2023 Presentation at the "Professorentagung" hier (Hintergrundpapier des Bundeskartellamtes hier)

Monday, June 10, 2024

2024 Milton Handler Lecture on Antitrust: Bill Baer on Competition Policy and Enforcement

 Video here.

Procompetitive Industrial Policy

 EU at the OECD, here.

Monopolisation, Moat Building and Entrenchment Strategies

 US at the OECD, here. And the EU, here.

The Evolution of the Case Law on ‘Abuse’ of Dominance in EU Competition Law

 P. Akman, audio here

The impact of the EU General data protection regulation on product innovation

 K. Blind et al. here

Pay or Okay coercion or a fair deal

 CPDP.ai, video herehere

Fifty Years of the Brussels-New York Connection

 EC and Fordham, video herehere

Entretien avec Shoshana Zuboff : les mutations du capitalisme de surveillance à l'ère de l'IA

 France Culture, Podcast ici

Opinion on Meta’s reference offer published in March 2024 to facilitate WhatsApp interoperability under Article 7 of the Digital Markets Act

 BEREC, herehere

Governing Digitization in Public Interest

 F. Bria, herehere

What Is Bold, Old, and Necessary about the DOJ’s Lawsuit Against Live Nation-Ticketmaster

 J. Kwoka and Tommaso, here

AI governance in India – law, policy and political economy

 D. Joshi, herehere

Three Algorithms in a Room

 L. Goldstein, herehere

BMW, Mercedes, Thyssenkrupp und VW dürfen zum Erwerb von bestimmten Technologielizenzen gemeinsam verhandeln

 Bundeskartellamt, hierhier

Intelligence artificielle : la CNIL poursuit ses travaux pour une IA innovante et respectueuse de la vie privée

 CNIL, iciici

EX-ANTE VERSUS EX-POST IN COMPETITION LAW ENFORCEMENT: BLURRED BOUNDARIES AND ECONOMIC RATIONALE

 P. Bougette & Friends, herehere

Auswirkungen von KI auf die Meinungsvielfalt und Regulierungsansätze

 KEK, hierhier

50 YEARS OF THE GERMAN MONOPOLIES COMMISSION

 D'Kart, here

Where it all began: The Bundeskartellamt’s Meta case

 Germany at the OECD, here.

Mass Surveillance in Digital Markets Raises Many Privacy and Competition Concerns

 US at the OECD, here.

The intersection between competition and data privacy

 OECD, Background Note here.

Apple has drawn a fuzzy line about what counts as console emulation on iPhone

 AppleInsider, here.

The Digital Fixer

 


Part I, Part II, and Part III.