Internet Competition and E-books: Challenging the Competition Policy Acquis?

S. Vezzoso (this blog's author), Presentation here (ppt file). 

WIPO Special Session SCCR negotiations on treaty for blind, 20 February 2013 version of the text

KEIonline.org, here. 

Mercedes-Benz and three commercial vehicle dealers to pay £2.6 million for breaching competition law

OFT, here. 

Google declares open war on Europe’s privacy rights

Privacysurgeon.org, here. 

Europäisches Parlament: Industrie-Ausschuss stimmt gegen Datenschutz

Netzpolitik.org, hier. 

Twitter releases API for advertisers, enabling integration with cross-platform tools

TheVerge.com, here. 

Fresh Thinking on Potential Antitrust Responses to Abusive Patent Troll Enforcement Practices

R. Skitol, here. 

Amazon’s ‘price parity’ clause attracts attention of German antitrust regulator

Gigaom.com, here.  See also the Bundeskartellamt Press Release, here, and the Washington Post's first take, here. 

AGCM c. Bayer Cropscience

Cons. Stato Sez. VI, Sent., 29-01-2013, n. 548, qui.

The Transcript of Oral Argument in Bowman v. Monsanto: Where's Patent Exhaustion for Self-Replicating Patented Seeds?

Groklaw.net, here. 

Draft proposals for amending EU competition rules on technology transfer agreements

Public consultation, here. 

Bruxelles attaque Paris sur les e-books

Lesechos.fr, ici. 

How Parody Inspires Great Design

Blogs.hbr.org, here. 

Why it's time to stop using open source licences

G. Moody, here. 

Google privacy debacle merits fine: case is "test" of draft privacy rules

Reuters.com, here. 

Bund lässt Software gegen Urheberrechtsverletzungen entwickeln

Heise.de, hier. 

U.S. justices hostile to farmer's argument against Monsanto

Reuters.com, here. 

Closed Discussions At WIPO On Treaty For Blind, As New Text Emerges

Ip-watch.org, here. 

Federal Trade Commission v. Phoebe Putney Health System

No. 11–1160. Argued November 26, 2012—Decided February 19, 2013, here. 

WIPO Special Session negotiations on treaty for blind, Feb 18th version of text

KEIonline.org, here. 

Ebook Best-Seller Prices Plummet to Below $8.00 as Retailers Get Set to Start Discounting Macmillan Titles

Digitalbookworld.com, here. 

EU Commission decides not to prolong maritime transport antitrust guidelines

Press Release, here. 

Economics of Vertical Restraints for Multi-Sided Platforms

D. Evans, here. 

China: first ever national standard on personal data privacy

Mondaq.com, here. 

As 3-D Printing Become More Accessible, Copyright Questions Arise

Npr.org, here. 

Como añadir peso a la cadena alimentaria

Fedeablogs.net, aquì. 

Competition Law and Personal Data : Preliminary Thoughts on a Complex Issue

D. Geradin & M. Kuschewsky, here. 

Elusive big data: The thing, and not the thing

TheEconomist.com, here. 

Malleable malls: Shopping centres are proving well-suited to the digital age

TheEconomist.com, here. 

Intellectual Property: Exclusive Rights for a Purpose – The Case of Technology Protection by Patents and Copyright

H. Ullrich, here. 

Why the DOJ (Antitrust Division) should intervene in the GSU case

Arielkatz.org, here. 

European Economic and Social Committee on the Collective Management Draft Directive

Here. 

Four companies that are changing digital reading in Africa

PaidContent.com, here. 

Japan Probe Pops Car-Part Keiretsu

WSJ, here. 

CHART OF THE DAY: How Much Money Amazon Is Making From The Kindle Ecosystem

BusinessInsider.com, here. 

Règles de confidentialité de Google : vers une action répressive et coordonnée des autorités européennes

CNIL, ici. 

European Copyright Society on Hyperlinking (Svensson CJEU Reference)

Here (pdf file).

Facebook May Already Be Taking Away Searches From Google

Mashable.com, here. 

European publishers slam Google copyright deal in France

Managingip.com, here. 

BnF: sacrifier le domaine public pour numériser les indisponibles

Actualitte.com, ici. 

Licensing Controversy — Balancing Author Rights with Societal Good

Scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org, here. 

Reps. Zoe Lofgren, Mike Doyle and Kevin Yoder Introduce Bill Expanding Access to Federally Funded Research

Lofgren.house.gov, here. 

Critical Cloud Computing

A Critical Information Infrastructure Protection (CIIP) perspective on cloud computing, ENISA, here. 

Macmillan to Pay $20 Million to Settle State, Class Action Price-Fixing Claims

Publishersweekly.com, here. 

Attention Rivalry among Online Platforms and Its Implications for Antitrust Analysis

D. Evans, here. 

Drug development: Teaching old pills new tricks

TheEconomist.com, here. 

Proposed new EU General Data Protection Regulation: Article-by-article analysis paper

UK Information Commissioner's Office, here. 

Vertical restraints in soccer: Financial Fair Play and the English Premier League

T. Peeters, S. Szymanski, here (pdf file).

Max Planck comments on draft directive on collective rights management

Ipkitten.blogspot.com, here

The people versus the bankers

TheEconomist.com, here. 

Google faces new privacy concerns over Android app market

Rawstory.com, here. 

The Privacy Legal Implications of Big Data: A Primer

Infolawgroup.com, here.

Read Any Good Web Sites Lately? Book Lovers Talk Online

Nytimes.com, here. 

Which countries receive the most in royalty and license fees?

World Bank, here.

Pratiques anticoncurrentielles dans le secteur de l'abattage et de la commercialisation du porc charcutier sanctionnées

Autorité de la concurrence, ici. 

La farmacia en el supermercado

ElPais, aquì. 

Spanish Tribunal Supremo on "screen scraping"

RYANAIR LIMITED v  ATRAPALO, S.L, here (Spanish).

Dutch government will end protection of non-original works to modernise copyright law

Futureofcopyright.com, here. 

Oracle vs Google legal war begins a new chapter

Newsandinsight.thomsonreuters.com, here. 

Materials from the GCLC lunch talk on Google

ChillingCompetition.com, here. 

FRAND, RAND, and SEP: Why These Acronyms Are Important

Techpolicy.com, here. 

BGH legt EuGH Frage zum technischen Schutz von Schutzmaßnahmen für Videospiele vor

Institut für Urheber- und Medienrecht, hier. 

Mining the Digital Gold Rush: The Legal (L)ore around France’s Data-Mining Tax

Iposgoode.ca, here. 

Yelp Defeats Legal Challenge to Its User Review Filter

E. Goldman, here. 

Functional Claiming and Software Patents

C. Chien, A. Karkhanis, here.

Money from Music: Survey Evidence on Musicians’ Revenue and Lessons About Copyright Incentives

P. DiCola, here. 

Domain disputes rise again as new gTLDs loom

Managingip.com, here. 

SPARC Europe response to the UK BIS Committee Open Access Inquiry

Here. 

Why Japanese readers don't like e-books

Tech.fortune.cnn.com, here. 

Responses of Creative Commons to House of Lords comments concerning the CC BY license

Here. 

U.S. appeals judges quiz lawyers on rules for patenting software

Newsandinsight.thomsonreuters.com, here. 

Access and the Public Domain

R. Picker, here.

Of particular interest to me is how broad access issues are likely to shape the "scale and scope of competition in the provision of the public domain". 

Efectos del carácter restrictivo de la normativa comercial sobre la competitividad de la economía catalana

Autoritat Catalana de la Competència, aquí.

IP, Antitrust and Looking Back on the Last Four Years

R. Hesse, here. 

EU antitrust control and patent abuses

M. Mariniello, here (Video, 6:58).

Counting couch potatoes

TheEconomist, here. 

L'Open Data fragilisé par le droit sur les bases de données

Numerama.com, ici. 

LobbyPlag - Wie Konzerne Gesetze diktieren

Heute.de, hier. 

Antitrust Litigation: What’s Changed in Twenty-Five Years?

W. Kolasky, here. 

Innovation Nation at War (Posner and patents)

Nytimes.com, here. 

Un passo indietro per il software libero

A. Meo, qui. 

“Students are heavily dependent on studying from photocopies”

Thehindu.com, here. 

EU Personal Data Protection "Reform Package":Tracking Lobbyists' Influence

Europlag.eu, here. See also the background article to this project here (German).

IFLA Principles for Library eLending

Here. 

What Software Is Patentable? Federal Court To Consider In CLS Bank Rehearing

TechCrunch.com, here. 

Macmillan settles with DOJ, and Apple is last man standing in ebook pricing case

PaidContent.org, here.

Interesting to academia and beyond:
"Electronic versions of academic textbooks” are removed from the settlement’s “requirements and prohibitions” because the DOJ antitrust case focused only on trade books.

The Digital Economy

OECD, Competition Committee, DAF/COMP(2012)22, here.

Coup de coeur: the French contribution to the October 2011 hearing, p. 75 ff.

Google, the ACCC and the High Court

Core Economics, here. 

La BnF accusée de privatiser des oeuvres du domaine public

Lexpress.fr, ici. 

Charlottesville anti-drone resolution sparks similar action across US

Wired.co.uk, here. 

Protection of personal data

ECHR, Factsheet, here. 

Court of Appeal takes a punt on database rights

The1709blog.blogspot.com, here. 

Why Information Providers Need To Be Open To Sharing in Their Business Models

J. Gans, here. 

Comparative Analysis on National Approaches to ISP Liability for Copyright Infringement

I. Garrote Fernandéz-Diez, here.

AG Jääskinen on access to court files of public law competition proceedings

Case C‑536/11, here. 

Commission européenne : tentative scandaleuse d'éviter la réforme du droit d'auteur

Laquadrature.net, ici. 

Initial Comments on Orphan Works

Received by the US Copyright Office, here. 

Criticism Mounting Before German Data Portal Launch

Epsiplatform.eu, here. 

Cartel class actions and immunity programmes

E. Iacobucci, here. 

Is competition always good?

M. Stucke, here.