Sunday, November 11, 2018

Future proofing your bank? Digital transformation and regulatory reform in the financial sector

O. Rehn, here. See also here.

Artificial intelligence and intellectual property: an interview with Francis Gurry

WIPO, here.

Antitrust: Commission seeks feedback on commitments offered by Disney in pay-TV investigation

EC, here

La comisaria de Competencia alerta de que el IAJD crea "diferencias" en la competitividad de los bancos españoles respecto a los europeos

Expansión, aquì.

Privacy Group Asks European Regulators To Test GDPR Against Seven Tech Companies

AdExchanger, here

Competition Policy Reform in Europe and Germany – Institutional Change in the Light of Digitization

O. Budzinski, A. Stöhr, here

Amazon Is Kicking All Unauthorized Apple Refurbishers Off Amazon Marketplace

Motherboard, here

Opinions by European Copyright Society in CJEU Cordoba and Cofemel cases

ECS, here and here

Facebook quietly launches a TikTok competitor app called Lasso

The Verge, here

Changes coming to Google News to help publishers ‘find their sites’

Search Engine Land, here

Freigabe des Zusammenschlusses von Karstadt und Kaufhof

Bundeskartellamt, hier

The Economics behind Multi-Sided Markets

J. Crémer. here

Distributed Ledgers: what is so interesting about them?

G. Danezis, here.

Three Moral Economies of Data

American Interest, here

Wednesday, November 07, 2018

Urheberrecht: Ärger im EU-Parlament über verwässerten Schutz für Künstler

Netzpolitik, hier

China To Increase Regulation Of Financial Holding Companies

Pymts, here

Commission clears the creation of six joint ventures by Daimler and BMW, subject to conditions

EC, here

Frank Pasquale: How To Regulate Google, Facebook and Credit Scoring?

F. Pasquale, Video here

Tim Berners-Lee launches campaign to save the web from abuse

The Guardian, here

EU’s proposed link tax would [still] harm Creative Commons licensors

Creative Commons, here

Qualcomm Dealt Setback in FTC Case Alleging Monopoly Abuse

Bloomberg, here

On inferred data

Video, 94:40-98:00.

Building a fairer digital world

M. Vestager, here. Video here

Threat of Platform-Owner Entry and Complementor Responses: Evidence from the Mobile App Market

W. Wen, F. Zhu, here

Big Tech Sets Up a ‘Kill Zone’ for Industry Upstarts

Bloomberg, here

Flickr says it won’t delete Creative Commons photos

Flickr, here

Solutions for a responsible use of the blockchain in the context of personal data

CNIL, here

Europe’s AI ethics chief: No rules yet, please

Politico, here

Android developers can now force users to update their apps

TechCrunch, here

YouTube-Stars verbreiten gerade massenhaft Panik ums 'Ende von YouTube'

Motherboard, hier, 

Monday, November 05, 2018

Our Approach to Competition

FCA, here

Smartphone Privacy: How Your Smartphone Tracks Your Entire Life

ElcomSoft, here

Schwedischer ISP blockt Elsevier nach Blockieraufforderung

Golem.de, hier

Mastercard Protests Payments ‘Nationalism’ In India

Pymnts, here

COFECE investiga posibles barreras a la competencia y/o presencia de insumos esenciales en el sistema de pagos con tarjeta

COFEDE, aquì.

GitHub is now officially a part of Microsoft

ArsTechnica, here

Commission approves acquisition of sole control over EMI Music Publishing by Sony

EC, here

THE GENERAL DATA PROTECTION REGULATION FIVE MONTHS ON

K. Lenaerts, Video here (from 15:55:40).

Platforms and the Sharing Economy

K. Stanoevska-Slabeva, here.

Copyright Office introduces proposal to give consumers right to hack electronics for repairs

The Hill, here

Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?

The Atlantic, here

Who owns this AI-generated painting?

TechnoLlama, here

Richemont s'allie à Alibaba pour doper ses ventes en ligne en Chine

Les Echos, ici.

Financial Technology: Opportunities and Challenges to Law and Regulation

P. Hodge, here

Researchers complain to Brussels over ‘dominant position’ of RELX Group in scientific publishing

ScienceBusiness.net, here

Cryptoassets Taskforce: final report

HM Treasury, FCA, Bank of England, here

GM’s data mining is just the beginning of the in-car advertising blitz

The Verge, here

AI and the Global Economy

Bank of England, here.

Verbrauchergerechtes Scoring

Gutachten des Sachverständigenrats für Verbraucherfragen, hier

„Volkswagen hat betrogen und schuldet Schadenersatz“

FAZ, hier

Swedes grumbling about Apple Store in their park are lucky – in Toronto, Google eats all your data

The Register, here

Vestager on the intersection of data and competition

iapp, here

Recent Developments at DG Competition: 2017/2018

A. Amelio et al., here

Essential Principles for the Design of Antitrust Analysis for Multisided Platforms

D. Evans, here

Federal Circuit: Conference Distribution Still a Printed Publication even if No PHOSITA Attend

Patentlyo, here

Dish-HBO Standoff Shows How Trump's Justice Dept. Choked in the AT&T Merger Fight

The Hollywood Reporter, here

Competition, Market Power and Third-Party Tracking

A. Ezrachi, V. Robertson, here

WHY THE GOOGLE WALKOUT COULD BE A TURNING POINT FOR TECH

Vanity Fair, here.

In FTC Hearings, a Few Bright Spots Amid a Pro-Monopoly Status Quo

ILSR, here.

Goldman Sachs has asked one of its most prominent tech bankers to help infuse itself with that same tech

Recode, here

ComparetheMarket home insurance deals could deny people better prices

CMA, here

Apple Pay in Deutschland: Apple nennt Banken und Geschäfte

Heise.de, hier.

Our car-free future will be blocked by Comcast tactics

Transit, here

Soft ethics, the governance of the digital and the General Data Protection Regulation

L. Floridi, here

Google Chrome’s Users Take a Back Seat to Its Bottom Line

EFF, here

CMA’s new DaTA unit: exciting opportunities for data scientists

CMA, here