Cloud Giants And The War For Customer Data

TeleCrunch, here. 

The Washington Post built a social network for its freelancers to better match skills to stories

NiemanLab, here.

Getty Joins EU’s Google Complaint

WSJ, here. 

Verlagsgruppe Bonnier gibt hartes DRM in E-Books auf

Heise.de, hier.

Platfoms (of) Power

R. Mansell, here. 

How Taylor Swift revealed (and healed) Apple's rift with musicians

Wired.co.uk, here. 

Apple Says “We Hear You Taylor Swift”, Will Pay Artists During Free Trial

TechCrunch, here.

L'économie collaborative

France Culture, Podcast ici.

The Economist as Engineer

Freakeconomics, Podcast here.

Domaine Public, abus et Amazon

Framablog, ici.

Uber driver case poses questions for ‘sharing economy’

FT, here.

"The case highlighted a fundamental dilemma for internet companies built on the booming freelance sector. Establishing some level of control over the workers who use their platforms is often essential to ensuring a consistent level of service.

But the further they go — for instance, by laying down standards of training or conduct — the more they lay themselves open to one day being forced to accept the full responsibilities of employers. For the California labour commissioner, Uber’s control of pricing, tipping, driver ratings and the type of car made it look like an employer."

UK private copyright exception 'unlawful', rules High Court

Out-law.com, here. 

Data and trust in digital markets: what are the concerns for competition and for consumers?

Wallace Collection, London

A. Chrisholm, here. 

EU Competition Tender: Feasibility study on the microeconomic impact of enforcement of competition policies on innovation

Here.

(Eagerly waiting  for the results).

Les hôteliers se réjouissent, Booking.com fait grise mine

Challenges.fr, ici. 

Competition and politics: what does a healthy relationship look like?

A. Chrisholm, here. 

Online reviews and endorsements

CMA, Report here.

Ambition Numérique

Rapport, CNNum, ici.

Dealing with Losers: The Political Economy of Policy Transitions

M. Trebilcock, here. 

Google Is Its Own Secret Weapon in the Cloud

NYT, here. 

Google’s War Against Apps

Theinformation.com, here (paywall).
See also here, here and here.

CCP Annual Conference 2015 Live Blogging

Here.
Conference Programme here. 

Core data protection topics in the perspective of the trilogue between European institutions.

WP29, here. 

Vertikale Preisbindung im Lebensmitteleinzelhandel - Großteil der Bußgeldverfahren abgeschlossen

Bundeskartellamt.de, hier.
Fallberichte hier (Röstkaffee), hier (Haribo-Produkte) und hier (Ritter-Produkte).

Should Uber be Allowed to Compete in Europe? And if so How?

D. Geradin, here. 

«L'Internet est sorti du temps de l'innocence»

Libération, ici. 

US Supreme Court Leaves Standing Decisions on Foreign Antitrust Conduct

K. Bolan, S. Meisner, A. Smith, here. 

Online Copyright Enforcement, Consumer Behavior, and Market Structure

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

First new private bank opens in UK for 30 years

FT, here. 

Five for Five – Amazon Inks Deal With Random Penguin

The-digital-reader, here. 

Independence is non-negotiable

M. Vestager, here. 

Game of Thrones breaks piracy records once again

Futureofcopyright, here. 

Court of Human Rights holds news portal liable for user comments

@Technollama, here. 

Brief Amici Curiae on Behalf of 70 Law, Economics, and Business Professors and the American Antitrust Institute - Loestrin pay-for-delay case

Here. 

Ten years of commitment decisions under Article 9 of Regulation 1/2003: Too much of a good thing?

W. Wils, here. 

UK Record labels attack Apple deals that would leave them 'deeply unsatified'

Telegraph.co.uk, here. 

The Commercial Use of Consumer Data

DotEcon with Analysys Mason for the CMA, here.
See also the Report on the CMA’s call for information, here. 

Internet-Plattformen: Innovation siegt stets über Gerechtigkeit

E. Morozov, hier. 

Amazon Is Building An App To Let Normal People Deliver Packages For Pay

TechCrunch, here.

How big is the self-publishing market? Only Amazon knows

TheBookseller.com, here. 

Time to stick a fork in these Android competition complaints

Computer & Communications Industry Association, here. 

European Commission approves joint venture for cross-border licensing of online music between PRSfM, STIM and GEMA, subject to commitments

Press Release, here. 

Open Letter on the Digital Economy

 1995

Here. 

Julia Reda's Press Conference

Video here (from 0:30)

U.S. Court Upholds Antitrust Action Against Patent Troll

Dilbert.com

M. Carrier, here. 

Apple News: I Do Not Agree To Your Terms

MikeAsh.com, here. 

The General Court upholds the registration of the shape of Lego figures as a Community trade mark

Judgments in Cases T-395/14 and T-396/14 Best-Lock Europe (Ltd) v OHIM — Lego Juris, Press Release here. 

More data protection is better than less

V. Reding, here. 

New Kindle Unlimited Payout Structure

HughHowey, here. See also here. 

Where are Maps going?

Asymco, here. 

European Ministers Agree To Disagree On Data Protection Reform

TechCrunch, here. 

Report on the remote Ebook Lending Pilots

The Society of Chief Librarians and The Publishers Association, here. 

Here’s What Happens to Your $10 After You Pay for a Month of Apple Music

Recode.net, here. 

Google Says More Than Half Of Its UK Searches Are Performed On Mobile

SearchEngineLand, here. 

Discount Contact Lens Retailers Given OK to Lower Prices

NYT, here.

Background info here. 

La loi met fin à la parité tarifaire et instaure le contrat de mandat

TendenceHotelliere.fr, ici. 

Relationship Between Public and Private Antitrust Enforcement

OECD, Note by the Secretariat, here. 

Competition Enforcement in Oligopolistic Markets

OECD, Issues Paper, here. 

Disruptive Innovation

OECD, Issues Paper, here. 

Competition Neutrality

OECD, Issues Paper, here. 

At Art Basel, a Powerful Jury Controls the Market

NYT, here.

Who will win the streaming wars?

FT, here.

Study on Copyright Limitations and Exceptions for Libraries and Archives: Updated and Revised

K. Crews for WIPO, here.

WIPO Marrakesh Treaty For Blind Readers In Force In Early 2016? Now Part Of Bigger UN Process

IP-Watch, here.

The Antitrust Analysis of Rules and Standards for Software Platforms and Its Implications for China

D. Evans, V. Yanhua Zhang, here. 

La CNIL met en demeure Google de procéder aux déréférencements sur toutes les extensions du moteur de recherche

Communiqué de presse, ici. Décision, ici. 

Airbnb And The Problem Of Data

TechCrunch, here.

Les hôteliers retrouvent une totale liberté dans la fixation de leurs prix

Les Echos, ici.

A voir aussi UMIH, communiqué de presse, ici. 

The UK Booksellers Association leads way in Amazon competition inquiry

Thebookseller.com, here. 

What does the open sourcing of Swift mean for me?

EKreative, here. 

Amazon’s E-Books Business Investigated by European Antitrust Regulators

NYT, here.

Börsenverein's reaction here (D). See also here (D). 

Die FIFA-WM als Platform

J. Haucap, hier. 

Creating a better India – Musings on economic governance of India

N. Murthy, here. 

European Commission opens formal investigation into Amazon's e-book distribution arrangements

Press Release, here.

TDF sanctionnée pour avoir mis en place des pratiques tendant à évincer ses concurrents du site de la Tour Eiffel.

Autorité de la concurrence, ici. 

What Apple’s Tim Cook Overlooked in His Defense of Privacy

NYT, here.

Net neutrality takes effect Friday; ISPs scramble to avoid complaints

ArsTechnica, here. 

Google: "Jedes deutsche Auto wird von einem Computer gesteuert werden“

FAZ, hier. 

Competition Culture Project Report

ICN Advocacy Working Group, here. 

All of Germany just signed up to this micropayment app that people think is the future of news on the web

BusinessInsider, here. 

We aren’t the copyright cops, ICANN’s president says

WashingtonPost, here.

Analysing Google's Public Response to the EC's Statement of Objections

Foundem, here.

(Cool interactive presentation, possibly created with Visme - whose licence is a little expensive, though).

Ex-post economic evaluation of competition policy enforcement: A review of the literature

EC, DG Competition, here. 

Apple Music faces antitrust scrutiny in NY, Connecticut

Reuters.com, here. See also the NYT, here. 

Self-Regulation and Innovation in the Peer-to-Peer Sharing Economy

M.Cohen & A. Sundararajan, here.

Outsourcing Tasks Online: Matching Supply and Demand on Peer-to-Peer Internet Platform

Z. Cullen, C. Farronato, here. 

Corporate Alliances Matter Less Thanks to APIs

Hbr.org, here. 

First Principles for Regulating the Sharing Economy

S. Miller, here. 

Apple Announces News App for iPhone & iPad

Apple.com, here. 

Should Google be forced to offer privacy apps? EU fight offers test

Fortune, here. 

No Such Thing as a Free Search: Antitrust and the Pursuit of Privacy Goals

A. Burnside, here. 

Apple Stresses User Privacy At WWDC

TechCrunch, here. 

User Reputation: Building Trust and Addressing Privacy Issues in the Sharing Economy

Future of Privacy Forum, here. 

Europe’s innovation deficit isn’t disappearing any time soon

WashingtonPost, here.

Uber, Ola Drivers Protest Against Delhi Ban Amid Police Crackdown

WSJ.com, here. 

The “Sharing” Economy: Issues Facing Platforms, Participants, and Regulators

FTC, June 9, 2015.
Agenda here.
Video of Part 4 here.
Public submissions here. 

Avis concernant un projet de décret et un projet d’arrêté relatifs au transport public particulier de personnes

Autorité de la concurrence, ici.

The Interchange Fees Regulation

Competition policy brief, here. 

Cartel de l'acier: "L’Etat a perdu environ 500 millions d’euros dans cette affaire"

Challenges.fr, ici. 

Loi Macron : des députés ne veulent pas de l’amendement anti-Google

Nextinpact, ici.