Discussion of "On the Antitrust Economics of the Electronic Books Industry"

Paper here. Discussion here. 

Apple’s plan to rethink pricing formula is overdue

FT.com, here.

Google's European Mea Culpa

Politico.eu, here.

Apple Takes On a Market Full of Streaming Services

NYT, here.

App Maker Files EU Complaint Against Google, Alleging Abuse of Android Dominance

WSJ.com, here.

"Disconnect said Google abused its dominant position in Europe’s mobile market to unfairly discriminate against Disconnect and favor its own privacy and security software. The moves limited Europeans’ access to competing privacy and security software, while letting Google and others track and collect Android users’ information for advertising, Disconnect said...The app maker alleged Google pulled Disconnect because the software disrupted Google’s tracking and advertising efforts, the source of most of the Internet company’s revenue and profit. In an email included in the complaint, a Play store employee said the app was removed because it prevented other apps from delivering ads....A Google spokesman called Disconnect’s claims “baseless.” Google has allowed more than 200 other privacy apps in the Play store, but blocks any apps that alter other apps’ functionality or remove their way of making money, he added, saying Google applies this policy uniformly, with strong support from Android developers...Google abused its dominance in mobile operating systems and the app market by “tying” its own software and security to those platforms, Disconnect said in its complaint. That gave its services an unfair advantage over Disconnect’s rival software, reducing competition and consumer choice in the market for privacy and security software, the developer said. Google’s removal of the app also illegally discriminated against Disconnect because Google’s own privacy and security software, which it includes by default in its Android operating system, isn't held to the same standards, Disconnect argued."

More about Disconnect here. 

Google добавили статью

Ведомости, вот.

App Developers Alliance Respectfully Disagrees with the Solicitor General in Google v. Oracle

Press Release, here. 

Apple, Feeling Heat From Spotify, to Offer Streaming Music Service

WSJ.com, here.

Patents & Standards - FRAND: the story so far

E. Bietti, here. 

The Solicitor General's Peculiar Brief in Google v. Oracle

J. Band, here. 

Auto nur noch ein Smartphone-Zubehör? Branche macht sich Sorgen

Heise.de, hier. 

Wettbewerbspolitik: Herausforderung digitale Märkte

Sondergutachten der Monopolkommission, hier.
Bundespressekonferenz mit Sigmar Gabriel hier.

Google renoviert die Kontrolle der Privatsphäre

FAZ, hier. 

Government Surveillance

J. Oliver, Video here.

"Google is separating the OS from the cloud"

Soundcloud, Podcast, here.

Vernetzte Maschinen: Die Daten der Industrie werden zum Milliardengeschäft

FAZ, hier.

Competition Law in High Technology Industries - Insights from Australia

M. Taylor, here. Slides here. 

Google's ingenious plan to make apps obsolete

Wired, here.

The Institutions of Roman Markets

B. Arruñada, here.

Draft Council conclusions on open, data-intensive and networked research as a driver for faster and wider innovation

EU Council, here. 

Uber se desmarca de la economía colaborativa en su primer juicio

ElPais, aquì.

Amazon and Penguin Random House said to be in dispute

TheGuardian.com, here. 

The Matching Economy

Conversableeconomist, here. 

What Google Just Announced Is a Bombshell

Bloomberg, here. See also here. Here on the Assist API.

FTC Settlement of Cephalon Pay for Delay Case

Press release here. Proposed stipulated order here.

How the Internet, the Sharing Economy, and Reputational Feedback Mechanisms Solve the “Lemons Problem”

A. Hobson, C. Koopman, C. Kuiper and A. Thierer, here. 

May 2015 Author Earnings Report: Amazon's ebook sales

Authorearnings.com, here. 

Margin Squeeze: An Above-Cost Predatory Pricing Approach

G. Gaudin, D. Mantzari, here. 

Informe sobre la reutilización de la información del sector público.

CNMC.es, aquí.

How Reasonable Royalties Suppress Patent Licensing

E. Hovenkamp, here.

Informe sobre el reparto de los derechos audiovisuales del fútbol

CNMC, aquí.

Datenschutz-Facebookexperiment

FAZ, here.

Platform Shift

M. Van Alstyne, Video here.

Android and Antitrust: Attempts at a “More Technological Approach”

S. Vezzoso (this blog's author), Working Paper here (Wavesblog's readers comments more than welcome).

White House sides with Oracle, tells Supreme Court APIs are copyrightable

ArsTechnica, here. 

UK businesses' miserable understanding of Competition Law

Prepared for CMA by IFF Research, here. 

Supreme Court says "patent troll" for first time in Cisco ruling

Fortune, here. 

Publishers win High Court support in fight against infringement

Societyofauthors.org, here. See also TorrentFreak, here. 

Wiko, le petit poucet du mobile qui veut croquer Samsung et Apple

LaTribune, ici.

Obama administration asks U.S. top court to decline Google copyright appeal

Reuters.com, here. 

Economic Authority and the Limits of Expertise in Antitrust Cases

J. Lopatka, W. Page, here.

Periscope and what you need to know about the new era of self-broadcasting

IPOblog, here.

Pan-EU digital economy: recent policy initiatives

Herbertsmithfreehills, here. 

Uber : les Sages valident la loi protégeant les taxis contre les VTC

Numerama, ici.

Price Coherence and Excessive Intermediation

E. Benjamin, J. Wright, here.

Frenemies in Platform Markets: The Case of Apple's iPad vs. Amazon's Kindle

R. Adner, J. Chen, F. Zhu, here. 

Showing films and other audiovisual content in European Schools:Obstacles and best practices

Study prepared for the European Commission, here.

Report: EU member states seek to dump net neutrality completely

ArsTechnica, here. 

Aperta un'istruttoria sui diritti televisivi della serie A

AGCM, Provvedimento qui.

"Le notizie di stampa in atti sembrano indicare che l’assetto finale per l’assegnazione dei diritti audiovisivi per il triennio 2015/2018 come sopra descritto non discenda da un confronto competitivo fra gli operatori interessati, ma sia stato il frutto di un accordo, realizzato successivamente all’espletamento della gara che ha determinato un esito delle assegnazioni diverso da quello inizialmente risultante dalla stessa procedura di gara".

Audible richtet neuen Abo-Pool ein

Boersenblatt.net, hier. 

Uber Tests Taking Even More From Its Drivers With 30% Commission

Forbes.com, here.

"Because we can".

EC clears acquisition of Jazztel by Orange, subject to conditions

Press Release, here. 

Collective Redress for Antitrust Damages in the European Union: Is This a Reality Now?

D. Geradin, here. 

Diritti tv: perquisizioni della Guardia di Finanza in Lega, Sky e Mediaset

Repubblica.it, qui.

Microsoft is interesting again — very

Medium.com, here. 

Booking.com Implements New Parity Provisions in Germany

Marketwatch.com, here. 

Twitter met lui aussi votre vie privée en Irlande

Numerama, ici. 

Who owns your agricultural data?

Datasciencecentral, here. 

Google “Buy Buttons” Could Start Showing On Mobile Shopping Ads In A Matter Of Weeks

SearchEngineLand, here. 

Bd4travel Raises $4.2M To Let Online Travel Industry Use Big Data To Personally Target Visitors

TechCrunch, here. 

Fossil fuels subsidised by $10m every minute, says IMF

TheGuardian, here. 

CMU professor to study where data and discrimination intersect

Post-gazette.com, here. 

SPOTIFY: 'The model is working'

Businessinsider.com, here.

Gunter Oettinger défend le marché numérique face aux géants du net

Euractiv.fr, ici. 

Russia Plans to Develop Mobile OS to Rival Android & iOS

Russia-insider, here.
See also ArsTechnica, here.

Copyright for Literate Robots

J.Grimmelmann, here.

Amazon-Tochter: Hörbuch-Verlage prüfen Kartellbeschwerde gegen Audible

Spiegel.de, hier. 

Le droit d'auteur est-il un frein au marché européen du numérique ?

FranceCulture, Podcast ici. 

Recommendation re Facebook

Belgium's Privacy Commission, here. 

Stuttgarter Taxi-Zentrale geht gegen "myTaxi"-App vor

Heise.de, hier.

"Daimler ist außerordentliches Mitglied im Deutschen Taxi- und Mietwagenverband (BZP) und liefert nach Verbandsangaben rund 60 Prozent der Fahrzeuge."

Airbnb rentals cut deep into SF housing stock, report says

SFExaminer, here. 

Email Shows How Google Gets Things Done In Washington

Buzzfeed.com, here. 

Google als kartellrechtliches Problem?

A. Heinemann, hier. 

Online Copyright Enforcement, Consumer Behavior, and Market Structure

L. Aguiar, J. Claussen, C. Peukert, here.

The Amazing Ways Uber Is Using Big Data

Datasciencecentral.com, here. 

Apple, Spotify, and the Battle over Freemium

J. Zhang, here. 

What an OTT Future Means for Brands

Hbr.org, here. 

Teile und leide

ZDFzoom, Video hier. 

Google must be more open on 'right to be forgotten', academics warn in letter

TheGuardian, here.

U.S. steps up scrutiny of movie distribution

LATimes, here.

10 years of brand protection on YouTube – and a glimpse into the future

WorldTrademarkReview, here. 

iPhone, killer

Asymco.com, here. 

Le régime des livres indisponibles soumis à la CJUE : l’arrêt du Conseil d’État

NextInpact, ici. 

Sanzioni per 13 milioni a due società di servizio ristoro su rete autostradale

I775, Provvedimento qui. 

For the Net by the Net: Initial thoughts on India’s Save the Internet Campaign

A. Singh and N. George, here. 

Facebook Starts Hosting Publishers’ “Instant Articles”

TechCrunch, here. 

The 2015 International Competition Network’s (ICN) Unilateral Conduct Workbook Chapter on Tying and Bundling

TruthOnTheMarket, here.

Le GNI devant l’Autorité de la concurrence et devant le Tribunal de commerce de Paris : deux décisions en miroir

Synhorcat, ici.

GC: documents exchanged between the Commission and a national competition authority in proceedings concerning an infringement of the competition rules are not, in principle, accessible to the public

Case T-623/13, Unión de Almacenistas de Hierros de España v Commission, here.

As Rival Yelp Mulls Sale, Google Steps Up Local-Search Competition

WSJ, here.

Internet firms: Eat or be eaten

TheEconomist, here.
 “The advantage you have with the internet is that the regulatory regimes are not as aware about the dominance you can create in platforms, and therefore you can create monopolies,” says a big investor in internet stocks."

Game of Platforms: Strategic Expansion into Rival (Online) Territory

S. Bar-Gill, here.

Enhancing Patent Quality: Comments of the United States Federal Trade Commission and the United States Department of Justice

Here.

Débat relancé sur la réservation d’hôtels en ligne

LesEchos, ici.

Stellungnahme zum XX. Bericht der Monopolkommission

Bundesregierung, hier.

Facebook launches Internet.org as a platform for developers in response to net neutrality criticism

VentureBeat, here.

Apple’s New Music Service Will Push Paid Subscriptions, With Free Samples

Recode, here.

Thank you for sharing

Nature.com, here.

Beware – Price Fixing by Algorithms

Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, here. 

Multi-Sided Platforms [versus vertical integration]

A. Hagiu, J. Wright, here.