LOOKING AHEAD AT PRIVATE ENFORCEMENT OF THE DMA AND WHY THE DB STATION JUDGMENT DOES NOT HINDER STANDALONE DAMAGES CLAIMS

 Platform Law Blog, here. 

Apple asks court to halt Google search monopoly case

 The Verge, here.

A Personal Thank You to Lina Khan-From the Other Side of the Atlantic

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 😁

ROME, ITALY - When I started studying antitrust law at university, I thought it was about fairness, discovery processes, and the democracy of opportunities. What I actually found was more of an economic comedy, scripted by the Chicago School, with the help of crafty and unscrupulous lawyers, where monopolies were presented as harmless, even benevolent giants. For anyone with common sense, it was obviously a farce-or worse.

Then you and a few others showed up, Lina. You quietly pointed out the absurdity and called the game for what it was: unchecked economic power stifles innovation, pushes up prices, exploits workers, and steadily erodes democracy.

You fought hard, achieved a lot, and didn't get nearly enough time. Maybe it was already too late.

Thank you, Lina. You made antitrust law, for a brief period (?), exciting again-reviving it from its cursed sleep. And that, in itself, is nothing short of miraculous.

From the Archives:"Are Tech Giants too big for America's Democracy?" Yes!

 2017 OMI Panel, video here.

A Report from the Court Room Part II: Apple’s paramount significance for competition across markets on trial

 SCIDA Project, here.

Beyond geopolitics: Agency and modularity in mobile telecommunications in Kazakhstan

 O. Baldakova, E. Oreglia, here.

Breaking up the Tech-Giants, for Real? [Or Academic Nirvana ;-)?]

 A. D'Amico, A. Gerbrandy, here. 

International AI Safety Report

 AI Action Summit, here.

DeepSeek and Trump 2.0: Can Europe Keep Up in AI?

 AI Now, here.

European Union: the Commission’s evolving approach to digital mergers

 GCR, here.

CHARTING THE DIGITAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL FUTURE OF EUROPE: WHAT PRIORITIES FOR THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION IN 2024-2029?

 EUI, here.

Digital Sovereignty in the BRICS Countries

 Here.

Dominance of the maritime, logistics, and shipbuilding sector by China

 US Trade Representative, here.

THE ROLE OF BIG TECH AS DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE

 The Danish The Ministry of Digital Affairs, here.

The Mirage of Artificial Intelligence Terms of Use Restrictions

 M. Lemley, P. Henderson, here.

WHICH GOVERNANCE MECHANISMS FOR OPEN TECH PLATFORMS?

 CERRE, here.

Copyright and Artificial Intelligence - Part 2: Copyrightability

 US Copyright Office, here.

"the images across the Atlantic...In a way, democracy is at stake in this case" Hearing C-738 22 P (3/3) - Google

 Hearing C-738 22 P (3/3) - Google Android, Videos here.

DeepSeek just proved Lina Khan right

 Dropsitenews, here:

Alternative Recommendation Algorithms as an Antitrust Remedy in Digital (Democracy) Cases

 V. Robertson, J. Lasser, here.

Steve jobs on why xerox failed

 Video here.

CMA independent inquiry group publishes provisional findings in cloud services market investigation

 Here.

App Store Economy is Far From Open, Despite Efforts by Epic, Developers, and Regulators in the EU

 Epic, here.

Democracy or Domination

 T. Davies, S. Cohen, here.

AI-Complex Algorithms and effective Data Protection Supervision: Effective implementation of data subjects’ rights

 EDPB, here.

CMA to investigate Apple and Google's mobile ecosystems

Google here.

Apple here.

Consent or pay

 ICO, here.

Une grande soirée festive pour fêter l’entrée dans une nouvelle ère numérique

 HelloQuitteX, ici.

Influence by design

P. Bouchaud, A. Lesplingart, A. Atanasova, ici.

NEUN WETTBEWERBSPOLITISCHE EMPFEHLUNGEN ZUR BUNDESTAGSWAHL

 Monopolkommission, hier.

From principles to practice: The case for coordinated international LLMs supervision

 O. Borgogno, A. Perrazzelli, here.

“Is the “Exclusionary Effects” Filter set out under the Draft Guidelines on Article 102 TFEU an empty one?”

 A. Lamadrid, here.

Amazon AI deal leaves ‘zombie’ start-up in its wake, whistleblower says

WP, here.

Protecting Democracy in the Digital Era: What Can Competition Law Contribute?

 V. Robertson, here.

CODE and the UK Digital Agenda

 Here (Meta, Google etc. as members).

Consultation publique sur les modalités d’introduction d’un système de contrôle des concentrations susceptibles de porter atteinte à la concurrence et ne franchissant pas les seuils de notification en vigueur

 Adlc, ici.

Clara Chappaz, ministre chargée de l'Intelligence Artificielle et du numérique

 FranceInter, ici (30:52).

FTC Surveillance Pricing Study Indicates Wide Range of Personal Data Used to Set Individualized Consumer Prices

 FTC, here.

Federal Trade Commission Accomplishments under Lina Khan

 FTC, here.

Technology is at an Inflection Point. The FTC is on the Front Lines.

 FTC, here.

FTC Issues Staff Report on AI Partnerships & Investments Study

 FTC, here.

The EU vs. Big Tech: Regulating for innovation and sovereignty

 The Sound of Economics, Podcast here.

Concept note on a Digital Clearinghouse 2.0

 EDPS, here.

Time to build a European digital ecosystem

 FEPS Europe, here.

Mike Walker, Competition and Markets Authority: Role of Economics in Competition Analysis | DMCC Act

 Chez Oleg, here.

Was sich die Parteien auf die digitalen Fahnen schreiben

 Chaosradio, hier.

Time to build a European digital ecosystem

 FEPS, today (14.01.25) at 11.30 here.

Les maîtres du monde : l'Europe face aux géants du numérique

LCP, ici. 

The Illegal Practices of Big Tech & The Fight for Regulations in Trump’s 2nd Term (with Lina Khan)

Offline with Jon Favreau, Podcast here. 

Q&A: Taking On the Biggest Problems and the Biggest Companies

 The Prospect, here.

Meta Is Blocking Links to Decentralized Instagram Competitor Pixelfed

 404media.co, here.

Europe Calling “Feindliche Übernahme? – Wie Tech-Milliardäre unsere Demokratien zersetzen & was die EU tun kann”

 Europe Calling, hier und hier (später). 

FTC Chair Lina Khan’s Exit Interview: Challenging AI, Big Tech and More

 WSJ, of all places, here.

Free the Market: How We Can Save Capitalism from the Capitalists

 M. Lemley, here.

Cloud Policy: A History of Regulating Pipelines, Platforms, and Data

 J. Holt, here. 

Social Media: Content Dissemination and Moderation Practices

 CRS, here.

Navigating the new UK antitrust landscape 🍿

 White & Case, here.

Mapping Generative AI rules and liability scenarios in the AI Act, and in the proposed EU liability rules for AI liability

 T. Rodriguez, here.

Navigating China’s regulatory approach to generative artificial intelligence and large language models

 M. Zou, L. Zhang, here.

Brussels will be watching whether Musk breaks EU law in far-right livestream

 Politico.eu, here.

Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Kanter Delivers Farewell Address

 DOJ, here.

Bias baked in: How Big Tech sets its own AI standards

 CEO, here.

Lina Khan in conversation with Bill Baer

 Video here .

FTC Chair Khan hopes Amazon, Facebook won’t get ‘sweetheart deal’ from Trump in antitrust cases

 L. Khan's exit interview, CNBC, here. 

"What the reules are for speech online is an enormously important question, and a world and an economy in which those rules are being set by a single company - or even a single executive - is deeply at odds with why we have the antitrust laws and the antimonopoly laws. This is an economy that has thrived when we have fierce competition and I heard a lot of concerns, including on both sides of the aisle, about what happens when you concentrate control and have gatekeepers over who gets heard and who gets heard and who gets to speak...I think we should have an economy where the decisions of a single company or a single executive aren't having extrordinary impact on speech online...It will be intererint to see what happens. We have of course litigation ongoing, there's going to be a trial starting this spring,  FTC v. Facebook , alleging that their prior acquisition were illegal."

Amicus Machine: Commedia dell'arte gone wrong

 Google's AI nails it in this NotebookLM podcast .

Amicus brief here.