To Give A.I. the Gift of Gab, Silicon Valley Needs to Offend You

NYTimes, here.

Les Agtech poussent les murs du Salon de l'agriculture

La Tribune, ici.

GOOGLE AND ANTITRUST

Discussion, Exponent Podcast here (from 04:30).

A Brief Sketch Of (Early Copyright) Privilegio In The Venetian Renaissance

IP-Watch, here.

AT&T fight: David beat Goliath for a reason

Cnbc, here.

BNP Paribas launches fintech investment fund

Finextra, here.

Google sagt den Kontostand – nicht nur bei der Sparkasse Stade-Altes Land

Handelsblatt, hier.

Concurrences conference on innovation economics 2018: two interviews

On excessive pricing, here; on Fintech ❤️ (the GDPR making data “more open” and “less proprietary”? An interesting view indeed!),  here.

Merger Policy and the Consumer Welfare Standard: Time for a Change?

George Mason Law Review 21st Annual Antitrust Symposium, Video here. 

Revisiting Vertical Antitrust Enforcement

George Mason Law Review 21st Annual Antitrust Symposium, Video here.

What are the Goals of Antitrust? What Should They Be?

v. 

George Mason Law Review 21st Annual Antitrust Symposium, Video here (discussion from 47:36).

The Court of Justice of the European Union has reached a decision on the collusive practices carried out in Italy by Roche and Novartis when marketing the medicinal products Avastin and Lucentis

Osborne Clarke, here. 

Anticompetitive Mergers in Labor Markets

I. Marinescu, H. Hovenkamp, here. 

Die Wettbewerbs- Erklärer

FAZ, hier.

La CNMC incoa expediente sancionador contra Atresmedia y Mediaset

CNMC, aquí.

Good Times, Bad Times, Trust Will Take Us Far: Competition Enforcement and the Relationship Between Washington and Brussels

M. Delrahim, here.

The Antitrust Logic of Biologics

S. Ghosh, here.

A Solution in Search of a Problem at the Biologics Frontier

E. Lietzan, here.

Progressive Antitrust

H. Hovenkamp, here.

Brief comment : “channeling” innovation is not an antitrust goal, but “protecting” innovation is. 

Les monopoles : un danger pour les États-Unis ?

Banque de France, ici.

Dead Reckoning: Navigating Content Moderation After “Fake News”

Data Society, here.

UK’s FCA Inks FinTech Collaboration With CFTC

Pymnts, here. 

How consumers Value Digital Privacy: New Survey Evidence

C. Fuller, here. 

Datenschutz als Dienstleistung

Adzine, hier. 

"Diese Marken sind für Edeka zu wichtig"

Zeit.de, hier. 

Should we treat data as labor? Let’s open up the discussion

Brookings, here. 

Free flow of non-personal data in the European Union

EPRS, here. 

Supreme Court declines to review pay-for-delay ruling

Reuters, here.

Disney Misused 'Star Wars,' 'Frozen' Copyrights, Says Judge

Hollywood Reporter, here. 

Driverless cars: mapping the trouble ahead

FT, here.

Data, Innovation, and Potential Competition in Digital Markets – Looking Beyond Short-Term Price Effects in Merger Analysis

T. McSWEENY; B. O’DEA, here.

Unusually strong words and some concrete proposals. 

Opinion by Former Senior Government Officials and Leading Antitrust Experts on the Significant Antitrust Risks Posed by Broadcom’s proposed takeover of Qualcomm

Here.

Nobody Wants to Let Google Win the War for Maps All Over Again

Bloomberg, here. 

Alibaba’s social credit rating is a risky game

 FT, here.

Is MyData a Force or Counter Force?

A. Jogi Poikola, here.

The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence: Forecasting, Prevention, and Mitigation

, here,

The Case Against Google

The NYTimes, here. 

Das Microsoft-Dilemma

Das Erste, Video hier. 

The Rise of Amazon, Facebook May Be Bad News for the Economy

Bloomberg, here.

Crunching Car Data for Cash: An Israeli Startup Takes on Google

Bloomberg, here.

PARLIAMENT CALLS FOR EU REGULATION FOR ACCESS TO CAR DATA

Fiaregion1, here. 

Tracking-Methoden werden brutaler, Browser-Hersteller schauen weg

Heise.de, hier. 

Nokia is re-evaluating its wearables division

TechCrunch, here. 

Ärztin klagt erfolgreich auf Löschung aus Bewertungsportal

Zeit.de, hier.

A further letter to Makan re IP and Antitrust

Here. 

EU Court ruling on how off-label use is to be analysed under competition law

White & Case, here. 

Goldrausch in der Schweiz

FAZ, hier. 

Amex loses its final appeal – it must cut its fees to retailers who accept BA, SPG and Nectar cards

Headforpoints.com, here. 

The Deeply Human Core of Roche's $2.1B Tech Acquisition - And Why They Did It

Forbes, here.

Big data and innovation: key themes for competition policy in Canada

Competition Bureau, here.

Tech investor Roger McNamee: 'I would like Google to be broken up into 8 or 10 different monopolies'

CNBC, video here.

Mes data sont à moi. Pour une patrimonialité des données personnelles.

Génération libre, ici.

A qui confier notre portefeuille de données personnelles ?

Du grain à moudre (France culture), Podcast ici. 

Is consumer 3D printing over before it begins?

ITNews, here.

Whatsapp Beta allows users to download the information it has collected and stored about them

Myce.com, here.

Dateneigentum – Eine gute Idee für die Datenökonomie?

Stiftung Neue Verantwortung, hier.

Hunting the Big Five: Twenty-first Century Antitrust in Historical Perspective

R. Langlois, here.

Innovation Policy Pluralism

D. Hemel, L. Larrimore Ouellette, here. 

Energy bills, switching, and a coconut roulade

The Chopping Board Economist, here. 

Google Shopping: beware of ‘selffavouring’ in a world of algorithmic nudging

N. Zingales, here. 

Canadian Regulator On Innovation’s Slow Roll

Pymnts, here.

EPRIVACY-VERORDNUNG: RÜCKBLICK UND AUSBLICK

Stiftung Datenschutz, hier. 

Antitrust Analysis Involving Intellectual Property and Standards: Implications from Economics

J. Padilla, D. Ginsburg, K. Wong-Ervin, here. 

Biologics: The New Antitrust Frontier

M. Carrier, C. Minniti, here. 

ACCC on dealing with algorithms

InnovationAus, here. 

EU to probe Apple’s $400m deal for Shazam

FT, here. 

Retail Banking Remedies

CMA Blog, here. 

To protect or collect? Germany’s big data divide

Politico.eu, here. 

The House That Spied on Me

Gizmodo, here. 

Competition Commission of India fines Google for abusing dominant position

Reuters, here.
Decision here.

Bank of Canada warns of threat from Big Data

The Globe and Mail, here. Remarks here.

Review into Open Banking – giving consumers choice

AUS Treasury, here. 

Angus Deaton on the Under-Discussed Driver of Inequality in America: “It’s Easier for Rent-Seekers to Affect Policy Here Than In Much of Europe”

ProMarket, here. 

The Copyright Permissions Culture in Software Preservation and Its Implications for the Cultural Record

Association of Research Libraries, here. 

Google-Nest merger raises privacy issues

BBC, here. 

Who blinked first in Waymo v. Uber?

The Verge, here. 

Feedback to the Commission's Proposal on a Framework for the Free Flow of Non-Personal Data

I. Graef, R. Gellert, N. Purtova, M. Husovec, here. 

Démanteler les GAFA ?

Le Monde, ici. 

Data Portability Under GDPR: Technical Challenges

Philips, here. 

Facebook’s German antitrust probe hinges on market power of network effects

mLex, here. 

Internal Compliance Mechanisms for Firms in the EU General Data Protection Regulation

G. Voss, here. 

Das erste Urteil zum Lkw-Kartell – Auftakt nach Maß?

R. Velte, hier. 

Algorithmic Trading Compliance in Wholesale Markets

FCA, here. 

Koalitionsvertrag und Kartellverfolgung

K. Ost, hier. 

Kartellrecht, Marktmacht und Facebook

S. Louven, hier.

France: Wikimedia loses constitutional challenge to law protecting images of national buildings

IrishLegal, here.

Vestager kicks off new chapter in Google Shopping probe

Politico, here. 

Es braucht kein Dateneigentum

iRights, hier. 

Devices, the weak link in achieving an open internet

Arcep, here. 

Victoire de la Commission vie privée dans la procédure Facebook

CPVP, ici et here.

FACEBOOK IN BREACH OF GERMAN DATA PROTECTION LAW

VZBV, hier. Ruling hier.

Access to car data – the new battleground that risks consumer choice

Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile, here.

Competition in changing times

M. Vestager, here. 

Terrible Copyright Ruling Over An Embedded Tweet Undermines Key Concept Of How The Internet Works

TechDirt, here. 

The Tyranny of Convenience

T. Wu, here. 

Artificial Intelligence and the Good Society

c. Cath, M. Zimmer, S. Lomborg, B. Zegenbergen, here. 

Third Circuit Says “Umbrella Damages” Bar Does Not Preclude Antitrust Standing Where Product Is Partly Comprised of Materials Not Subject to the Alleged Conspiracy

PBWT, here. 

Google removes ‘view image’ button from search results to make pics harder to steal

The Verge, here. 

Only the EU can break Facebook and Google's dominance

G. Soros, here. 

How to (Re)Use Big Data

S. Leonelli, Video here.