Datenschützer kritisieren Facebook-Neuerungen

Computerbase.de, here. 

ECJ on AdWords

Case C‑323/09, Interflora Inc. v Marks & Spencer plc, here.

Competition Issues in Trade Associations

US Federal Trade Commission and the US Department of Justice, here, Spain's Comisión Nacional de la Competencia, here; OECD (Background Note), here.

A Keynote Speech at the Second BRICS International Competition Conference

Z. Bohua, here

French Court Orders French Competition Authority to Disclose Antitrust Investigation Documents

McDermott, here. 

Gartner Says Apple Will Have a Free Run in Tablet Market Holiday Season as Competitors Continue to Lag

Gartner, here. 

Opening up Europe: from Common Standards to Open Data

N.Kroes, here. 

Public enforcement and private damages actions in antitrust

J. Almunia, here

European MoU on Key Principles on the Digitisation and Making Available of Out-of-Commerce Works

J.Axhamn, here.

El software de segunda mano irrumpe como negocio en España

CincoDias.com, aquì.

Top 10 Antitrust Fallacies to Watch for at Today’s Google Antitrust Hearing

B.Szoka, G. Manne, here.

L'Autorité de la concurrence retire la décision d'autorisation de le la fusion entre CANAL PLUS etTPS

Ici.

THE PRIVATE AND SOCIAL COSTS OF PATENT TROLLS

J. Bessen, J.Ford, M.Meurer, http://bit.ly/r5gMdy

Things You Should Care About in the New Patent Statute

M. Lemley, SSRN http://bit.ly/npAlsG

INFORME SOBRE EL FUNCIONAMIENTO DEL MERCADO DE MANTENIMIENTO DE ASCENSORES EN ESPAÑA

CNC, http://bit.ly/reFPCZ 

The Power of Google: Serving Consumers or Threatening Competition?

Senate Judiciary Committee - Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Right,  September 21, 2011, 2 pm (8 pm Trento time), here  and webcast.

Scrutinizing Google's Reign

NYTimes.com,  http://nyti.ms/mXS4ez

USTR White Paper On Trade In Medicines Raises Questions

 Intellectual Property Watch http://bit.ly/oIytB8. 

Recidivism Eliminated: Cartel Enforcement in the United States Since 1999

G. Werden , S. Hammond, B. Barnett, http://bit.ly/pWK0WK.

HathiTrust Suspends Its Orphan Works Release

Publishersweekly.com, http://bit.ly/mWtoze.

Margin Squeeze - What Next?

P. Palmigiano, video and presentation.

National Library of the Netherlands makes contract with Google public following Dutch Access to public sector information Act (WOB) request

http://bit.ly/phWD6i

Google and IBM do it again: Google Acquires over 1,000 Patents from IBM in August

SEO by the Sea http://bit.ly/niVXM5. 

The Interaction of Leniency Programmes and Actions for Damages

C. Cauffman, http://bit.ly/pR6ZSR (p. 181).

Judge Sets Schedule in Case Over Google’s Digital Library

NYTimes.com http://nyti.ms/o1ZKI5

Universal / Deezer : le droit de la concurrence au dessus du droit d’auteur

Tribunal de grande instance de Paris, Ordonnance de référé 05 septembre 2011, ici (Legalis.net).

Privacy: From the Woods to the Weeds

J. Brill, here. 

Koninklijke Grolsch NV v Commission: failure to explain the reasons why the conduct of a subsidiary is attributed to the parent company

General Court of the European Union, Case T-234/07, here. 

Google - A big fish in the flight-search pond

The Economist, here. 

Seeking New Landscapes - A rights clearance study in the context of mass digitisation of 140 books published between 1870 and 2010

B. Stratton, here. 

The Right Thing - An authors’ rights handbook for journalists

International Federation of Journalists, here. 

Intel to Universities: No Patents, Please, Just Open Source

Innovationexcellence.com, here. 

RESOURCE PACKET ON ORPHAN WORKS: LEGAL AND POLICY ISSUES FOR RESEARCH LIBRARIES

Association of Research Libraries, here. 

Non-Per Se Treatment of Buyer Price-Fixing in Intellectual Property Settings

H. Greene, here. 

Urteil im Geschmacksmuster-Rechtsstreit zwischen den Firmen Apple und Samsung

Landgericht Düsseldorf, 09.09.2011, 14c O 194/11, hier. 

Hargreaves' Testimony Before the Business, Innovation and Skills Committee

Video (1:40), here. 

Les trois dimensions de l'économie de la publication

Le Monde. fr, ici. 

Authors, Copyright, and HathiTrust

K.Crews, here.

International Trade and Intellectual Property Rights

K. de Gucht, here. 

The Orphan Wars

J. Grimmelmann, here. 

Urheberrechtsnovelle Der „dritte Korb“ – ein „Korb“ ohne Boden?

G. Spindler, hier (S.4 f.)

Lawsuit Seeks the Removal of a Digital Book Collection

NYT, here. Complaint here. 

ICB’s recommendations on reforms to improve stability and competition in UK banking.

Here. 

Addressing Standards Creation: Divergence or Convergence Across the Atlantic?

T. Vinje, A. Van Rooijen and T.Cornell, here. 

A View from Austria: FAS Russia is one of the three best competition authorities in Europe

Here. 

Chinese Vitamin C Cartel: Illegal Conduct Not Compelled by Chinese Law

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT - EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK, here.

Australian Competition Authority appeals Metcash merger Judgment

Press Release, here. 

The books business: Great digital expectations

The Economist, here.

Policy Objectives in Merger Control

J. Almunia, here

Test de marché des engagements proposés par Carrefour par rapport au contrat de franchise Carrefour Market

Ici 

Optimal Cartel Deterrence: An Empirical Comparison of Sanctions to Overcharges

R. Lande, J. Connor, here. 

How Should Europe (and the World) Respond to Piracy ?

Interview with Francis Gurry, here.

The Washington Declaration on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest

Here. 

Russian Dominance Rules

Clifford Chance, Client Briefing, here. 

Cross-border extended collective licensing: a solution to online dissemination of Europe’s cultural heritage?

J. Axhamn , L. Guibault, here. 

Sprint's Complaint challeging AT&T / T-Mobile merger

Here. 

Les Archives de l'Internet

Bibliothèque nationale de France, ici

Self-Regulated Professions — Post-Study Assessment

Competition Bureau of Canada, here. 

UK IPO office consulting on the proposed international instrument on limitations and exceptions for persons with print disabilities

Here.

TERM EXTENSION FOR RELATED RIGHTS IN SOUND RECORDING

J. Hendrik, P. Otto, here.

China’s Anti-Monopoly Law: What is the Welfare Standard?

P. Shan, G. Tan; S. Wilkie, M. Williams, here.

AN ECONOMIC APPROACH TO PRICE FIXING

L. Kaplow, here.

The Complete Guide To Freemium Business Models

U. Shmilovici, Techcrunch, here.

Authorized Generic Drugs: Short-Term Effects and Long-Term Impact

FTC, here.

Libri, al via la norma anti-Amazon

La Stampa, qui.

PENALTIES, SELF-PREFERENCING, AND PANDA: Why Google’s Behaviour Makes Antitrust Sanctions Inevitable

FOUNDEM, here.

The OFT and the construction industry

SNR Denton,  here

US v. AT&T and T‑Mobile USA

Here

Orphan works at US universities

insidehighered.com, here.

Stellungnahmen zum Vorschlag der Europäischen Kommission über bestimmte zulässige Formen der Nutzung verwaister Werke

IUWIS, http://www.iuwis.de/orphan_works-richtlinienvorschlag_sammlung

Studie zur digitalen Content-Nutzung (DCN-Studie) 2011

Hier.

The Law and Economics of Network Neutrality

T.Hazlett, J. Wright, here.

Going It Alone: The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement as a Sole Executive Agreement

O. Hathaway and A. Kapczynski, here.

Leaked US cables on the Oracle/Sun merger

From KEI, here.

Patent Exclusions and Antitrust after Therasense

H. Hovenkamp, here.

On IFRRO and libraries

M. Vinent, here.

It's Clear Why Software Patents Need to Disappear

K. Noyes, here.

MOVIES ON PAY TV MARKET INVESTIGATION

UK Competition Commission, Provisional Findings Report  here and Possible Remedies here. 

On the Choice of Welfare Standards in Competition Law

L. Kaplow, here.

YouTube einigt sich mit US-Musikverlagen

Heise online, hier.

Use of photographs from social media in our output

BBC, here.

US-Berufungsgericht schränkt Softwarepatente ein

heise online, hier.

Google, GPL und der Mobilfunkmarkt

T. Jaeger, hier.

Distributive Justice and Consumer Welfare in Antitrust

H. Hovenkamp, here.

Generic Competition in Transgenic Soybeans

D. Moss, here.

Class of indirect purchasers of a generic certified

RE WELLBUTRIN XL ANTITRUST LITIGATION, NO. 08-2433  here.

Assessment of CETA IPR Chapter

Final Report for the EU‐Canada Sustainability Impact Assessment (SIA) on the EU‐Canada
Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, here, p. 319 ff.

Abuse of Dominance in the residential real estate market in India

Competition Commission of India,  Belaire Owner's Association vs DLF Limited and HUDA, here.

First sale doctrine and copies manufactured outside the U.S.

John Wiley & Sons v. Kirtsaeng, UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT, Docket No. 09-4896-cv, here.

Earning Exclusivity: Generic Drug Incentives and the Hatch-Waxman Act

C. Hemphill, M. Lemley, here.

OFT's Aggregates Market Study

Here.

Arming Android

The Economist, here.

Market Definition and the Merger Guidelines

L. Kaplow, here.

Theories of Broadband Competition

J. Eisenach, here.

Bank Competition and Financial stability

OECD, Report, here.

Legal and Policy Challenges for Libraries in the Age of Digital Books

R.Okediji (video), here.

Unvollständige Weitergabe von Wechselkursvorteilen

Schweizerische Wettbewerbskommission, hier.

The FTC’s Proposal for Regulating IP through SSOs Would Replace Private Coordination with Government Hold-Up

R. Epstein, F. Kieff, D. Spulber, here. 

When patents attack Android

Google Blog, here.

On the meaning of research in fair dealing under the Canadian Copyright Act

THE FEDERATION OF LAW SOCIETIES OF CANADA and CANADIAN LEGAL
INFORMATION INSTITUTE/INSTITUT CANADIEN D’INFORMATION JURIDIQUE, Interveners, SOCAN v. Bell et al., here.

L’Oréal v. eBay: The Court of Justice of the European Union Tightens Liability of Online Marketplace Operators

I. Bhattacharya, G. Wunsch, M. Saarinen, L. Cohen, here.

Are there now so many patents in Silicon Valley that it's impossible to innovate?

The Independent, here.

International milk price controversy!

CoreEconomics, here.

Is Simon & Schuster cheating on agency ebook pricing?

A.Pressman (TeleRead), here.

Musikbranche drängt auf Einigung für YouTube-Lizenzen

Heise Online, here.

Leveraging Monopoly Power by Degrading Interoperability: Theory and Evidence from Computer Markets

C. Genakos, K. Kühn, J. Van Reenen, here.

Apple and publishers accused of illegally fixing prices of e-books

Complaint here.

Information Exchange: OFT fines certain supermarkets and processors almost £50 million in dairy decision

Here.

Dominant Firm Pricing and EU Competition Law

D.Geradin, here (presentation)

OECD on Standard Setting

Here.

Dutch press exception revisited!

L. Guibault, here.

Philippines: Anti-trust bill passes second reading

Here.

Antitrust Continuity in a Recession

A. Foer, here.

FTC Staff Says Proposed New York Legislation Would Reduce Competition and Likely Lead to Higher Prescription Drug Costs

Here.

MULTA DI OLTRE 5 MILIONI E MEZZO PER INTESA DISTORSIVA DELLA CONCORRENZA A 4 SOCIETÀ FORNITRICI DI APPARECCHIATURE PER LA RISONANZA MAGNETICA

Provvedimento qui.

NMa wil overname CAIW door KPN nader onderzoeken

Nieuwsbericht, hier

Price-Cost Tests in Unilateral Conduct Cases

ICN, presentation and recording.

Mögliche Gesetzesänderungen in der Schweiz aufgrund des starken Franken

R. Zäch, hier (Video).

NON-PER SE TREATMENT OF BUYER PRICEFIXING IN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY SETTINGS

H. Greene, here.

EU Commission investigates luxury watch manufacturers

Here.

Meccanismi di trasmissione dei prezzi lungo la catena agro-alimentare: un esercizio di analisi sulla filiera della pasta alimentare secca

D. Giangiulio, qui.

Italian Competition Authority Finds Abusive Conduct in Withholding Data and Internal Communications Praising Company Strategy

V. Pinotti, M. Sforza, here.

A New Approach to Resolving Refusal to License Intellectual Property Rights Disputes

K. Kwok, here.

Perfect 10 Legal Saga: Court of Appeals on the request for preliminary injunctive relief

PERFECT 10, INC., v. GOOGLE, INC., here (from SCRIBD)

The Global Innovation Index 2011

S. Dutta (ed.), here.

Modernes und zukunftsfähiges Urheberrecht – Stand „Dritter Korb“ Urheberrecht

Bundesjustizministerium, hier.

The UK’s International Strategy for Intellectual Property

IPO, here.

"Site Blocking" to reduce online copyright infringement

Ofcom, here.

Reconsidering Antitrust's Goals

M. Stucke, here.
.

Spain Investigates “Anticompetitive” Oracle

eweekeurope.co.uk, here.

Eckpunkte einer 8. GWB-Novelle

Philipp Rösler, hier.

The Government Response to the Hargreaves Review of Intellectual Property and Growth

Here.

Ökonomische Grundlagen des Wettbewerbs im Internet

J. Kruse, hier.

A Competition Policy Perspective on Patent Law: The Federal Trade Commission’s Report on the Evolving IP Marketplace

E. Ramirez, L. Kimmel, here.

THE ANTI-COUNTERFEITING TRADE AGREEMENT ( ACTA): AN ASSESSMENT

Study requested by the European Parliament's Committee on International Trade, here.

Wettbewerb im Internet: Was ist online anders als offline?

J. Haucap, T. Wenzel, hier.

Das Leistungsschutzrecht für Presseverleger: Eine ordnungspolitische Analyse

T. Stühmeier, hier.

Interoperability: With what? For whom? And when?

A. Gawer, here.

UK move to back private digital copying

ft.com, here.

Flash Cookies and Privacy II: Now with HTML5 and ETag Respawning

M. Ayenson, D. Wambach, A. Soltani, N. Good, C. Hoofnagle, here.

Banks see red on signalling

theage.com.au, here.

Prodotti fitosanitari: Antitrust sanziona Bayer Cropscience srl per abuso di posizione dominante

AGCM, qui.

Australian Convergence Review: Emerging Issues

Australian Government, here.

Differentiated Intellectual Property Regimes for Environmental and Climate Technologies

K. Marcus, here

Concurrence et distribution

Étude thématique, Autorité de la Concurrence, ici 

When the e-Reader Suppresses the Right to Read

IPKat, here. 

Australia’s approach to expert evidence in competition law cases

The Hot Tub, Video released by the University of Melbourne Competition Law & Economics Network (CLEN), here. 

Mario Monti on GE, Honeywell, Microsoft, and the Pressures Of Antitrust Enforcement

Corporate Crime Reporter, here.

L'Autorité de la concurrence lance une enquête dans le secteur de la réparation et de l'entretien des véhicules

Ici.
Annotations personnelles:

Informe sobre el Anteproyecto de Ley de Contratos de Distribución

Comisión Nacional de la Competencia, aquí.

Notas personales:

Standard für kartellrechtskonforme Gestaltung von Marktinformationssystemen im Bereich der Beschaffung von Rohmilch

Bundeskartellamt, Fallbericht, Aktenzeichen: B2 - 118/10, hier. 

Eigene Notizen:

Disqualification Orders for Directors Involved in Cartels

A. Stephan, here.
Some personal notes:

ECJ on public lending and the amount of remuneration

Vereniging van Educatieve en Wetenschappelijke Auteurs (VEWA) v Belgische Staat, Case C‑271/10, 30 June 2011, here. 

THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF COMPETITION LAW REFORM IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

M. Chowdhury, here. 

Does Implementation of Merger Regulation Impede Inbound CrossBorder Mergers? Analysis of Developed versus Developing Countries

M. Agarwal, here.

Bestandsaufnahme aktueller Probleme des Urheberrechts und erste Handlungsempfehlungen

 Enquête-Kommission »Internet und digitale Gesellschaft, here und here.

One year post-Bilski: How the decision is being interpreted by the BPAI, District Courts, and Federal Circuit

R. Greene Sterne and M. Holoubek, here.

Office 365: The New Microsoft “Cloud” Likely Comes with Spying Inside

Software Freedom Law Center, here.

Debunking the Purchaser Welfare Account of Section 2 of the Sherman Act: How Harvard Brought Us a Total Welfare Standard and Why We Should Keep it

A. Meese, here.

A GENERATION OF SOFTWARE PATENTS

J. Bessen, here. 

Competition Law: Sanctions, Redress and Compliance

P. Collins, here. 

BGH: Kartellteilnehmer haften auch mittelbar Geschädigten auf Schadensersatz

  Urteil des Kartellsenats vom 28.6.2011 - KZR 75/10, Pressemitteilung. 

Posición de la CNC sobre el acceso a las profesiones de abogado y procurador de los tribunales

Aquì.

FCC: On the state of competition in the mobile wireless ecosystem

Here, from Scribd

SCCR 22: Conclusions

Here. On Limitations and Exceptions, Persons with print and other reading disabilities:

"(....)

4. Following further discussion, the Committee asked the Chair to prepare a Chair’s text for an international instrument on limitations and exceptions for persons with print disabilities (document SCCR/22/16), which would constitute the basis for the future text-based work to be undertaken by the Committee in its 23rd session.
5. The Committee agreed to recommend to the WIPO General Assembly that Members of the Committee continue discussions regarding the Chair’s document SCCR/22/16 with the aim to agree and finalize a proposal on an international instrument on limitations and exceptions for persons with print disabilities in the 23rd session of the SCCR, in accordance with the timetable adopted at the 21st session of the SCCR.
6. The Committee encouraged the stakeholders to continue the work of the
Stakeholders’ Platform."

Optimierte Verantwortung/slosigkeit - Wer verantwortet eigentlich was in unserer „smarten Welt?“

T. Weichert, Hintergrundtext für die Sommerakademie des Unabhängigen Landeszentrums für Datenschutz Schleswig-Holstein, hier. 

Internet Search Competition: Where’s the Beef?

D. Balto, here. 

United States Response to Questionnaire Concerning Boundaries and Interfaces With Respect to Copyright and Related Rights

ALAI 2011 Dublin. By J. Besek, J. Ginsburg, L. Helman, P. Loengard, E. Subotnik and E. Bensoul, here. Read also the answers provided in relation to the situation in the United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, and Finland. 

E-Book DRM – It’s all about lock-in

Teleread, here. 

The 'Best Practices for Expert Economic Opinions' by the Bundeskartellamt in international Context

A. Christiansen, hier.

Federal appellate court on the "hot news" doctrine

BARCLAYS CAPITAL INC. et al. v THEFLYONTHEWALL.COM, INC., Docket No. 10-1372-cv, here. 

Relationship between Public and Private Enforcement: Quod Dei Deo, Quod Caesaris Caesari

A. Komninos, here. 

Rechtsstreit um Veränderbarkeit von GPL-Software in der FritzBox

A. Metzger, hier. 

OFT: Competition compliance - Understanding competition law

Film, here. 

Telecoms Regulation, Antitrust and Margin Squeeze: Widening the Already Wide Gap between US and EU Competition Policy?

F. Diez, here. 

University of Michigan Library to share HathiTrust orphan works

Here. 

Mexican Senate against ACTA

Here.

Inquiry into the Competition and Consumer (Price Signalling) Amendment Bill 2010 and Competition and Consumer Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2011

Australian House Standing Committee on Economics, here. 

After Google Book Search: Rebooting the Digital Library

R. Picker, here. 

EFF Urges Supreme Court to Hear Vernor v. AutoDesk First Sale Case

Here.

Draft WIPO Treaty on Exceptions and Limitations for the Persons with Disabilities, Educational and Research Institutions, Libraries and Archives

SCCR/22/12, Proposal by the African Group, here.

Proposed Rules for China’s Anti- Monopoly Law Private Litigation

ABA, presentations here. 

Making Coasean Property More Coasean

T. Merrill, H. Smith, here. 

Overcoming Copyright Obstacles in a Post-Google Book Settlement World

P. Samuelson, here. 

Sound recordings and copyright: The sound of silence

The Economist, here. 

AGCM: Relazione sull'attività svolta nel 2010

Qui.

Intellectual Property Strategies

K. Zerby, The Procter Gamble Company, paper here, presentation here

Potential Threats to Patent Rights in Green Technologies

D. Pearson, here. 

Copyright as a Tool for Protecting Technology

S. Milbrath, here. 

“Copying” and “Piracy” in the Digital Age

D. Karjala, here. 

Intellectual Property and Legal Issues Surrounding Cloud Computing

P. Kang, here. 

What is Cloud Computing? An Overview

J. Clessuras and D. Wang, here. 

Providing an Incidental Copies Exemption for Service Providers and End-Users

D. Chen, M. Durkee, J. Friend, and J. Urban, here. 

FTC WORKSHOP ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS IN STANDARD SETTING: TOOLS TO PREVENT PATENT HOLD-UP

June 21, 2011, Agenda, Archived Webcast here, Transcript here, Public Comments here. 

eBook : L'ouverture est possible pour la rémunération des auteurs

ActuaLitte.com, ici

Confronting the Future Strategic Visions for the 21st-Century Public Library

ALA, here.

Bundesrat für verbesserten Datenschutz in Social Networks

Gesetzentwurf zur Änderung des Telemediengesetzes, hier 

EU Draft Guidance Paper − Quantifying harm in actions for damages based on breaches of Article 101 or 102 of the Treaty

Here. 

British Library makes Google search deal on out-of-copyright works

Here. 

What Antitrust Law Can (and Cannot) Teach About the First Sale Doctrine

A. Katz, here.