Challenging assumptions about behavioral policy

Behavioral Science & Policy Association, here. 

Ubérisation : une course au moins disant social ?

Mechanical Turk

F. Marty, ici. 

Dutch universities start their Elsevier boycott plan

Vermeer, Brieflezende vrouw in het blauw

Universonline.nl, here. 

Expedia gleicht seine AGB an die von Booking.com an: Der nächste Bluff im Paritäten-Poker

Hotellerie.de, here.

Antitrust Economics 2.0

Lear Conference, all presentations available here. 

Booking.com mis en demeure par l'UFC-Que Choisir pour ses conditions générales d'utilisation

Numerama.com, ici. 

Expedia Amends Rate, Conditions and Availability Parity Clauses

Expediainc.com, here. 

"Predatory Privacy": The Limits of Economic Analysis

O. Lynskey, Presentation here. 

PCWs & other matching platforms - The frenemies of competition

T. Curzon Price, Presentation here. 

Best Price Clauses Set by Intermediation Platforms: Disentangling the Effects

K.-U. Kühn, Presentation here. 

Data Privacy, Data Sharing and the Internet of Things

J. Porter, Presentation here. 

Schleppende Zulassung von UberX-Fahrern

wiwo.de, hier.

Apple Music Is For People With No Clue What To Stream

TechCrunch, here.

(the first cats on @Wavesblog ever - début in 2007)

Uber Stages Protest At NYC City Hall Against Bill Throttling New Driver Signups

Techcrunch.com. here. 

Canada : des bibliothécaires dénoncent le racket des exemplaires numériques

Actualitte.com, here.

104-page Disconnect's Complaint against Google (Android)

Non-confidential copy, here.

(Plenty of fascinating tech details)

Appeals court says Apple is liable for e-book price fixing

ArsTechnica, here.

Il diritto di fotografare la grande bellezza che divide l'Europa

Genoa, "Bolla" by Renzo Piano
(and "Matitone" in the background)

 LaRepubblica.it, qui.

Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin: Privacy Needs to Be the Default, Not an Option

Wired, here. 

The Internet of Things Changes the Company-Customer Relationship

P. Weichselbaum, here. 

Apple expanding user privacy, will prevent iOS apps from seeing other installed apps

AppleInsider.com, here. 

When Regulation Protects Privilege Instead of People: Government Restraints of Trade – A Competition Enforcer’s Perspective

M. Ohlhausen, here. 

Supreme Court won’t weigh in on Oracle-Google API copyright battle

ArsTechnica, here. 

Tim Wu: "The main surprising and shocking realization is that Google is not presenting its best product"

Recode.net, here. Study here. 

Uber: more like eBay than like McDonald’s?

NewYorker.com, here. 

Deux dirigeants d'Uber en garde à vue

Numerama.com, ici.

L’innovation de rupture: de nouveaux défis pour le droit de la concurrence

T. Schrepel, ici. 

Oracle v. Google Android-Java copyright case goes back to San Fran: Supreme Court denies Google petition

Fosspatents.com, here. 

The German Pillow Fight Drags On: "Caution with new terms of Booking.com!"

German Hotel Association, here. 

Apparently, "everyone" knew of a leaked (online) copy of Google (Search) Statement of Objections - I didn't

With a little help from @wavesblog readers, perhaps?

ProSiebenSat.1 acquires German online price comparison business Verivox for up to €210 million

Tech.eu, here. 

Warning: You are about to be nudged

G. Loewenstein, C. Bryce, D. Hagmann, & S. Rajpal, here.

Uber’s Biggest Rival In China Claims It Handles 3 Million Rides Per Day

Techcrunch.com, here. 

Booking.com alarmed by France’s new hotel rate parity plans

Hotelmarketing, here.
The original LesEchos article here. 

Uber, sharing and the compensation mechanism

J. Gans, here. 

Is Google Degrading Search? Consumer Harm from Universal Search

M. Luca, T. Wu and the Yelp Data Science Team, here. 

Two-Sided Platforms: Discussion

Here

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

Bundeskartellamt verhängt Bußgelder in Höhe von 75 Mio. Euro gegen Automobilzulieferer

Bundeskartellamt, hier.

Uber hits legal speed bumps

Politico.eu, here.

SCOTUS Reaffirms that in Antitrust Cases, It Gives Less Deference to Precedent

JDSupra.com, here.

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.