Monday, March 11, 2024

Antitrust For Innovation: A Progress Report

 R. Gilbert, D. Melamed, here. 

DYNAMIC COMPETITION AND ANTITRUST: QUICK-LOOK INFERENCES FROM THE ANALYSIS OF BIG TECH’S R&D EXPENDITURE RATIOS

 J. Padilla et al., here. 

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

 DOJ, here. 

EU DATA ACT: NEW RULES ON DATA SHARING AND PORTABILITY OF CLOUD SERVICES NOW IN FORCE

Mayer/Brown, here. 

Full (Regulatory) Steam Ahead: Gatekeepers Issue the First Wave of DMA Compliance Reports

 A. Ribera Martinez, here. 

Challenging Big Tech in the Age of AI

 Public Knowledge, here. 

The Most Terrifying Words in Lina Khan’s Stand-Up Comedy Routine

 The Sling, here. 

Brussels to the Bay: How the DMA Transforms Digital Markets and Boosts Innovation

 EC, Video here. 

Competition and ‘Zeitenwende’

 S. Giegold, here. 

‘She’s going to prevail’: FTC head Lina Khan is fighting for an anti-monopoly America

 The Guardian, here. 

Elon Musk’s xAI to Open-Source Its Grok Chatbot, in Latest Swipe at OpenAI

 WSJ, here. 

A few words on digital mergers (Oh Freunde, nicht diese Töne)

 M. Vestager, here. 

Reflecting on 20 years of the EU Merger Regulation

 EC, here. 

Digital Markets Act: Apple und Google setzen einige Vorgaben nicht um

 vzbv, hier. 

Report on Competition Policy 2023

 EC, here. 

Commission Staff Report here. 

Interoperability in the Metaverse

 Videos here.

To comply with DMA, WhatsApp and Messenger will become interoperable via Signal protocol

 TechCrunch, here. 

C-604/22: IAB Europe

 CJEU, here. 

AWS follows Google in announcing unrestricted free data transfers to other cloud providers

 TechCrunch, here. 

II ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION LEGAL SERVICE 2024

 Video here. 

On the interplay between competition law and privacy: the impact of Meta Platforms case

 A. Gorecka, here. 

RETHINKING MY ECONOMICS

 A. Deaton, here. 

Apple’s exclusionary app store scheme: An existential moment for the Digital Markets Act

 J. Crémer et al., here. 


13 March 2024: the plenary of the European Parliament will vote on the AI Act

 Here.