Fürs Internet taugt das Kartellrecht nicht

FAZ.net, hier. 

Eurotunnel: when buying assets is a merger

Competition Bulletin, here. 

Antitrust, Privacy and Big Data

G.Buttarelli, here.

Microsoft to invest in Cyanogen, which hopes to take Android from Google

ArsTechnica, here. 

Wurstfabrikant Tönnies führt das Kartellamt vor

FAZ.net, hier.

Apple’s iOS tops Android to take first U.S. market share lead since 2012

Venturebeat.com, here. 

Warum Google und Uber sich gegenseitig Konkurrenz machen

FAZ.net, hier. 

Ansip:Copyright restricts Single Digital Market

Advanced-television.com, here. 

¿Qué nos han respondido a la consulta pública sobre Economía Colaborativa?

CNMC, aquí.

Projet Reda: une première analyse

Les autorités françaises, ici.

Facebook's got a new privacy policy, and it plans to share your data with partners

nakedsecurity.sophos, here.

Policy recommendations for open access to research data

Recodeproject.eu, here.

Patents Become A Literal 'Get Out Of Jail Early' Card For Chinese Prisoners

TechDirt, here.

Let the Right 'One' Win: Policy Lessons from the New Economics of Platforms

E. Weyl, A. White, here. 

Competition Policy and Intellectual Property: Insights from Developed Country Experience

F. M. Scherer, J. Watal, here. 

Evaluating Appropriability Defenses for the Exclusionary Conduct of Dominant Firms in Innovative Industries

J. Baker, here. 

Copyright policy and the right to science and culture

Human Rights Council, Report of the Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights, here (Word File).

UK IPO Copyright Notice: knitting and sewing patterns (seriously!)

Here. 

PSI Charging Policy: A Conceptual Framework For EU Guidance to the Member States

M. Ricolfi, here. 

Friedrich Hayek's Contribution to Antitrust Law and Its Modern Application

T. Schrepel, here. 

Google Now now SLURPS data from third party apps so YOU don't have to

The Register, here.

S. Korea's antitrust watchdog takes aim at global tech companies - again

koreaherald.com, here.

Booking.com: senza la rate parity per gli hotel sarebbero guai

Bookingblog.com, here. 

How, and Why, Apple overtook Microsoft

NYTimes, here. 

Google will change its privacy policy after signing an agreement with the UK’s data regulator

TheNextWeb, here.

One'd wish competition authorities were even half that proactive...

Empfehlung zum Internet der Dinge

Datenschutzstelle Liechtenstein, hier. 

Accolti gli impegni di iTunes, Google, Amazon e Gameloft in materia di diffusione di App apparentemente gratuite

AGCM, here. 

Google Revenue Falls Short as Competition on Mobile Intensifies

Finance.yahoo.com, here. 

US Scholars and Net Neutrality: Sometimes Antitrust Just Ain't Enough

Letter, here. 

Jeff Bezos: Raising the price of Amazon Prime was a great decision

GigaOm, here. 

Privacy and human behavior in the age of information

A. Acquisti, L. Brandimarte, G. Loewenstein, here. 

Frank Pasquale unravels the new machine age of algorithms and bots

Passcode.csmonitor.com/frankpasquale, here. 

Zoë Keating vs YouTube: The End of an Artist’s Right to Choose Where Their Music Appears on The Internet

Thetrichordist.com, here. 

Elektronische Etiketten: Preise werden beweglicher

Heise.de, hier.

Netflix’s Secret Special Algorithm Is a Human

T. Wu, here.

Internet of Things: Privacy and Security in a Connected World

FTC Staff Report, here. 

One bright day in the middle of the night…: Reactions to my copyright evaluation report

J. Reda, here. 

Permission to Link Making Available via Hyperlinks in the European Union after Svensson

M. Burri, here. 

A manifesto for an e-lending limitation in copyright

 S. Dusollier, here. 

"Google Play edition"-Smartphones und -Tablets sterben aus

Heise.de, hier. 

Privacy and Competition in the Digital Economy

G. Buttarelli, Speaking Points, here. 

Humanities Open Book: Unlocking Great Out-Of-Print Books

Neh.gov, here. 

Is the Shevill Doctrine Still Up to Date? Some Further Thoughts on CJEU’s Judgment in Hejduk (C-441/13)

Conflictoflaws.net, here. 

Google Updates Its Android Compatibility Definition Document For Lollipop

AndroidPolice, here.

Implikationen der Verhaltensökonomik für die Wettbewerbspolitik

J. Haucap, hier. 

It's Windows *10*, Because It's 10 Years Behind Open Source

G. Moody, here. 

Pinterest’s Problem: Getting Men on Board

WSJ, here.

Is Google Playing Fair with Android Developers?

Theinformation.com, here. 

Google Chairman Eric Schmidt: "The Internet Will Disappear"

Hollywood Reporter, here.

Google’s idiot-proof guide shows Firefox users how to dump Yahoo search

VentureBeat, here. 

FCC urges tech industry to reinvent textbooks, teaching

Eschoolnews.com, here. 

German parity ruling opens doors for hoteliers

Hotelnewsnow.com, here.

Samsung: Tizen-Apps bis 2016 provisionsfrei

Heise.de, hier.

Blackberry-Chef: Apples iMessage verstößt gegen Netzneutralität

Heise.de, hier. 

CJEU says exhaustion only applies to the tangible medium of a work (so no such thing as a digital exhaustion?)

IPKat, here. 

Why Apple just spent up to $50 million for a music data company

GigaOm, here.

Tencent’s long-awaited Android ROM enters beta

TechinAsia, here.

Will e-commerce make prices more flexible?

Voxeu.org, here. 

Google Invests In SpaceX To Further Its Goal Of Bringing Internet Access To Everyone

AndroidPolice.com, here.

Omega v. Costco Decision Makes Clear That Copyright Neither Condones Nor Protects Anticompetitive Actions

Project-disco.org, here.

Dutch Court of Appeal rules on second-hand sale of e-books

FutureofCopyright,com, here.

The Value of Hashtag Trade Marks - A Matter of Strategy?

PrimaryOpinion.com, here.

Draft Report on the implementation of Directive 2001/29/EC

Rapporteuse J. Reda, here. 

Google searches for a way to avoid Microsoft’s fate

TheGuardian.com, here. 

The Cathedral of Computation

The Atlantic, here. 

Mass Surveilance, Part 2: Technology foresight, options for longer term security and privacy improvements

European Parliamentary Research Service, Study here. 

Sportverband als Marktbeherrscher; ordre public

Kartellblog, hier.

Be My Eyes lets you lend your eyes to help the blind

TheNextWeb.com, here.

Patent reform advocates are launching a ‘super-coalition’ to whack patent trolls

WashingtonPost.com, here.

CJEU says that owner of an online database not protected by copyright or sui generis right may restrict its use by contract

IPKat, here. 

Mergers: EC opens in-depth investigation into a joint venture for online music licensing between collecting societies PRSfM, STIM and GEMA

Press Release, here. 

Google’s data supremacy: should we be worried?

Andrewwhitby.com, here. 

Amazon exec: Here’s why it pays to make your ebooks exclusive to us

GigaOm, here. 

Top 3 Tech Trends in 2015

Think with Google, here.

Avis relatif aux questions de concurrence concernant certaines professions juridiques réglementées

Autorité de la concurrence, Avis n° 15-A-02 du 9 janvier 2015, ici. 

Something is wrong with Apple’s international app pricing

J. Gans, here. 

The Damages Directive – Towards more effective enforcement of the EU competition rules

European Commission, here. 

Osservazioni sulla “Dichiarazione dei diritti in Internet”

G. Pitruzzella, qui. 

Supreme Court seek Obama administration views on Google-Oracle dispute

Reuters.com, here. 

Le TGI de Paris ordonne le déréférencement d’un lien à Google Inc.

Legalis.net, ici. 

Off-topic: la légèreté c'est très dur à faire

Cabu interviewé par Charles Sigel,  Podcast ici.

Digital vs. Print: Reading Comprehension and the Future of the Book

J. Tanner, here.

(missing from the analysis, though: tablets powered by great apps like GoodReader, used indoor and positioned at a convenient angle - moreover, not clearly stated that reading and taking notes with whatever medium are two distinct processes)

Google Results For “Car Insurance” Could Look Different Very Soon

SearchEngineLand, here.

Silicon Valley economists

TheEconomist, here.

Today: Supreme Court reviews Google v. Oracle Petition; Interoperability Ruling Under Scrutiny

J. Band, here. 

Google Compare auto insurance comparison shopping site to be launched soon?

Reuters.com, here. 

Le blocage administratif des sites terroristes est sur la rampe

Nextinpact.com, ici. 

CAT on the Eurotunnel/SeaFrance merger

Here.

The "very unusual difference in outcome between the application of the UK and French domestic merger regimes to the same transaction gave rise to some comment."

OLG Düsseldorf erklärt Paritätsklauseln von HRS für klar wettbewerbswidrig

Hotellerie.de, hier.

Mitteilung des OLG Düsseldorf hier.

Bundeskartellamt dazu hier.

The Sharing Economy and Consumer Protection Regulation: The Case for Policy Change

Mercatus Research, here. 

End of the Authors Guild v. HathiTrust Saga

ARL Policy Notes, here. 

Marrakesh Treaty: Mali takes the plunge for Africa

Afro-ip.blogspot, here. 

Switzerland: The library’s document delivery service (scanning and sending journal articles by email to users) complies with copyright law

Kluwer Copyright Blog, here. 

PMI: Draft final order published for formal public consultation

CMA, draft order here; Draft Explanatory Note here.

(a whole two pages required to explain the prohibition on equivalent behaviour, 14-16)

Googles Dominanz in Amerika bröckelt

FAZ, hier. 

EU negotiating texts in TTIP

EC, here.

Troll fatigue: Earnest debate on patent abuse at CES

ArsTechnica, here.

Take note Republicans and Democrats, this is what a pro-innovation platform looks like

Washington Post, here. 

Privacy and the IoT: Navigating Policy Issues

E. Ramirez, here.

European Copyright Society calls for single EU copyright law

Out-law, here.