Are US antitrust regulators giving Silicon Valley’s ‘free’ apps a free pass?

J. Newman, here.

Apple's EU tax dispute explained

FT, here.

BEREC publishes guidelines on net neutrality

PR, here. See also consultation report, here.

Big Data comes with all the biases of its creators

Time, here.

Your Garbage Data Is A Gold Mine

Fastcompany, here.

Spotify Reportedly Burying Artists Who Sign Competing Exclusives

Fortune, here. See also here.

Neue Leitlinien der EU-Regulierer zur Netzneutralität stehen

Heise.de, hier.

Why the Energy Sector Needs a Sharing Economy

SustainableBrands, here.

The NFL is putting tracking sensors inside its footballs for the first time

Recode, Here.

Big data, Google and the end of free will

FT, here. 

The AI inside your iPhone

BackChannel, here.

The Rise of Behavioural Discrimination

A. Ezrachi, M. Stucke, here.

Google snippet tax, geoblocking, other copyright reform shunned in EU plan

Arstechnica.co.uk, here. 

Any last requests?

2040infolawblog, here. 

La Audiencia Nacional anula 15 millones en multas a Mediapro y cuatro clubes de fútbol

ElMundo, aqui.

Libraries of the future are going to change in some unexpected ways

BusinessInsiderUK, here.

Why AI consolidation will create the worst monopoly in US history

TechCrunch, here.

Data Geeks Are Taking Over Economics

BloombergView, here. 

No time to think: How utilities are handling the deluge of grid data

UtilityDive, here.

Draft version of updated Media Merger Guidelines released

ACCC, here. 

Collusion and Online Platforms in Eturas

K. Havu & N. Zupančič, here. 

EU-Kommission will Leistungsschutz für Verleger einführen

WiWo, hier. 

Relaxing Privacy Vow, WhatsApp to Share Some Data With Facebook

NYTimes, here. 

Leak: Impact Assessment on the modernisation of EU copyright rules

StateWatch, here.

(Pity the annexes are missing).

"...stakeholders also underline a risk that introducing the COO (country of origin, WB) rule for online transmissions will weaken territorial licensing of rights (or even lead to mandatory pan-European licensing). They argue that the establishment of the COO rule in combination with the application of the free movement of services principle and competition law would have a detrimental effect on territorial licensing. As it is not possible to predict potential future effect that the application of the free movement of services principle and competition law may have on territorial licensing of rights, this IA does not assess impacts that the proposed intervention may have in combination with these rules".

WIPO, Design and Burkini: "Success Story to learn"

“Looking Good”: The Role of Design in Branding, here.
Read also the Guardian, here.

Did Microsoft buy LinkedIn for the contacts?

Constellation, here (full report: $2000).
. 

How censored is China’s first Tibetan-language search engine? It omits the Dalai Lama’s website

Qz.com, here.

New Rules for Online Selling Taking Place

Bryan Cave, here.

Seeking customer centricity: The omni business model

KPMG, here. 

Digitalisierung – Herausforderungen für die Wettbewerbspolitik

M. Blatter, hier. 

Authors, Attribution, And Integrity: Examining Moral Rights In The United States

Symposium Transcript, here. 

Protecting privacy in genomic databases

MIT News, here..

In copyright law, computers and robots don’t count

J. Grimmelmann, here. 

Tax incidence on competing two-sided platforms: Lucky break or double jeopardy

P. Belleflamme, E. Toulemonde, here. S. also ici.

Mozilla beteiligt sich an dem Privacy-by-Design Browser Cliqz

Soeren-hentzschel.at, hier

Happy 25th birthday to the World Wide Web

"On August 23, 1991, new users outside of CERN were invited to join the web, marking its official anniversary, or Internaut Day."

98 personal data points that Facebook uses to target ads to you

Washington Post, here.

How Digital Copyright Law Is Being Used to Run Roughshod Over Repairs

NBC, here.

Google keeps ex-Googlers close by investing in their startups

Recode, here.

Data-Driven Economy and Artificial Intelligence: Emerging Competition Law Issues

G. Surblyte, here.

European Commission Closes Pay-TV Antitrust Investigation of Paramount Following Acceptance of Commitments

Cooley, here.

Massachusetts to tax ride-hailing apps, give the money to taxis

Reuters, here.

Sharing Economy: Nutznießer oder Opfer institutioneller Inkonsistenzen?

T. Theurl, hier.

Distribution online - Vertriebsvorgaben im E-Commerce

Taylor Wessing, hier.

MySQL founder tries a new software licensing model

TechCrunch, here.

Forget Uber: Fly over traffic jams at the push of a button

The mythical Paperinik, gem of Italian creativity

AirBus, here.

Scholar behind 'net neutrality' joins White House as competition policy adviser

TheHill, here.
See also here.

Prison breakthrough

TheEconomist, here.

Pirates in the Library – An Inquiry into the Guerilla Open Access Movement

B. Bodó, here.

Proyecto para regular apps es "redundante" y anticompetitivo

ElObservador (Uruguay), aquí.

Digital Single Market Update: The European Commission’s Proposal to Revise the Audiovisual Media Services Directive

Morrison & Foerster, here.

The Olympics and IP

ManagingIP, here.

White House Kept Close Tabs on FTC Google Probe

Google Transparency Project, here.
(Mails have some interesting attachments)

A New Approach to Copyright Exceptions and Limitations

J. Band, here.

ACCC continues its review of banks’ application for authorisation to collectively bargain with Apple

ACCC, here.

The Getty Museum's Lessons Learned From Opening Up Content

TecHDirt, here.

Banks v. Bots

Forbes, here.

Fitch: CMA Remedies Could Mean Slow Profit Erosion at UK Banks

Reuters, here.

Market definition and the sharing economy

C. Ortiz, here.

El modelo de Denominación de Origen y restricciones a la competencia

CNMC, aquí

What Matchmakers Always Get Wrong

PYMNTS, here. 

Use Big Data to Create Value for Customers, Not Just Target Them

N. Dawar, here.

Blablacar mahnt Wettbewerber ab

Handelsblatt, hier.

2. Biopatentbericht

Deutsche Bundesregierung, hier. S. auch hier. 

What Airbnb And The Uber-Didi Deal Tell Us About Marketplaces And Monopolies

Forbes, here.

The allocation of responsibility and risk among actors involved in personal data processing

B. Van Alsenoy, here.

It takes a village to finish a PhD

Les bots de Messenger s’apprêtent à faire de la publicité

Numerama, ici.

Oracle Says Google Didn’t Play Fair, Wants Third Trial (Oh God)

S.  Jeong, here.

The Moral Psychology of Copyright Infringement

C. Buccafusco & D.Fagundes, here.

Uber Sues Over TfL Rules Making Drivers Take English Exams

Bloomberg, here.

Russian court rejects Google’s latest Android antitrust appeal

TechCrunch, here. 

The Economic Impact of Removing GEO-Blocking Restrictions in the EU Digital Single Market

N. Duch-Brown, B. Martens, here.

Uber as For-Profit Hiring Hall: A Price-Fixing Paradox and its Implications

S. Paul, here.

The Best Platforms Are More than Matchmakers

M. Van Alstyne, M. Schrage, here.

Wettbewerbsregeln für das digitale Zeitalter

A. Wambach, here. 

Attention Brokers

T. Wu, here. 

Expect Little Antitrust Challenge to Walmart’s Bid for Jet.com

NYTimes, here. 

Intel Cuts the Cord With New VR Headset Called Project Alloy

Bloomberg, here.

Intel creates quasi Hollywood studio for sports and entertainment VR

VentureBeat, here. 

Price Discrimination Markets Lead Antitrust Enforcers to Increased Success

McDermott Will & Emery, here. 

MIT Media Lab Launched Disobedience Award, Funded By Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn)

TechCrunch, here.

Media, sports companies rattled by planned EU copyright shake-up

Euractiv, here and Reuters here (spot the differences). 

EU to crack down on online services such as WhatsApp over privacy

TheGuardian, here.

La fin de la prise jack sur l’iPhone 7 ouvrirait une nouvelle ère pour l’écosystème Apple

Numérama, ici.

La confiance est-elle une donnée personnelle comme les autres ?

LINC, ici.

The Internet Value Chain

A.T. Kearney for the GSMA, here.

Researchers track the trackers through 20 years of the archived web

TechCrunch, here.

Audi vernetzt seine Autos in den USA mit Ampel-Infrastruktur

Heise.de, hier.

Internet Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Trackers: An Archaeological Study of Web Tracking from 1996 to 2016

A. Lerner, A. Kornfeld Simpson, T. Kohno, and F. Roesner, here.

XS4ALL and KPN end privacy violations digital TV

Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens, here. 

Google lets any publisher apply to have “Critic Reviews” of local businesses

SearchEngineLand, here.

Supermärkte sollen ihre Einkaufspreise offenlegen

FAZ, hier.

Internet of Things strategies are going from general to specialized and vertical

Recode, here.

Der Adblocker und die Pressefreiheit

Handelsblatt, hier.

Werner Herzog’s meditations on a connected world

TechCrunch, Videos (trailer and interview) here.

Clausewitz: "Der Krieg ist mit seinem Resultat nie etwas Absolutes

Endlich ist selbst die Totalentscheidung eines ganzen Krieges nicht immer für eine absolute anzusehen...
10. Die Wahrscheinlichkeiten des wirklichen Lebens treten an die Stelle des Äußersten und Absoluten der Begriffe"

Moore’s Law gilt nicht mehr. Na und?

FAZ, hier.

South Korea says investigating whether Google broke antitrust laws

Reuters, here.

Creator of chatbot that beat 160,000 parking fines now tackling homelessness

TheGuardian, here.

Stellungnahme zur 9. GWB-Novelle vom 25. Juli 2016

Bundeskartellamt, hier.

Adblock Plus has already defeated Facebook's new ad blocking restrictions

TheVerge, here.

Google Fined for Breaking Russian Antitrust Rules With Android

NYTimes, here.

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Ökonomische Auswirkungen einer Bildungs- und Wissenschaftsschranke im Urheberrecht

J. Haucap, I. Loebert, G. Spindler, S. Thorwarth, hier.

The View from the Shop— Antitrust and the Decline of America’s Independent Businesses

S. Mitchell, here.

Boundedly rational entrepreneurs and antitrust

A. Tor, here.

Facebook Blocks Ad Blockers, but It Strives to Make Ads More Relevant

NYTimes, here.

Curbing the New Corporate Power

Forum, Boston Review, here.

Will Uber Rouse the Trustbusters?

Slate, here.

FTC Sues 1-800 Contacts For Restricting Competitive Keyword Advertising

E. Goldman, here.

Decentralizing the Web: Two Technological Approaches

Digitaltrends, here.

Copyright and Distributive Justice

J. Hughes, R. Merges, here.

Data-Generating Patents

B. Simon, T. Sichelman, here.

Privacy scandal haunts Pokemon GO's CEO

The Intercept, here.

Protecting the Olympic Properties

M. Wüthrich, here.

FTC Sues 1-800 Contacts, Charging that It Harms Competition in Online Search Advertising Auctions and Restricts Truthful Advertising to Consumers

FTC, here.

US Government Now Has An Official Open Source Software Policy

TechDirt, here.

GPL-Klage gegen VMware abgewiesen

Heise.de, hier.

HEIST is a big DEAL

D. Carroll, here.

Apple versus the banks

Australiancompetitionlaw.org, here.

How Uber Manages Drivers Without Technically Managing Drivers

FastCompany, here.

Yelp, TripAdvisor: Google’s mobile ‘best-of lists’ hide our content

SearchEngineLand, here.

Instagram castrated Snapchat like Facebook neutered Twitter

TechCrunch, here.

CMA: swipe right to disrupt banks

FT, here.

CMA's Final Report here.
Appendices here.

Amazon Japan offices raided by Fair Trade Commission

Asahi.com, here.

Digital SMEs intervene in the EU antitrust case against Google practices with respect to Android

Digitalsme, here.

Jeux sur votre smartphone : quand c’est gratuit …

CNIL, ici,

"Our job is to align supply and demand in time and space"

Take Eat Easy, here.

What Is the Decentralized Web? 24 Experts Break it Down

iSchool@Syracuse, here.

Credit card market study: Final findings report

FCA, here.

Commission accepts commitments by Paramount on cross-border pay-TV services

EC, here.

Successful opening of German gas markets allows early termination of E.ON commitments

EC, here.

Can you own digital data?

Datalandscape, here.

Big data company Teradata acquires UK’s Big Data Partnership

TechCrunch, here.

Platform Wars: The Final Score

B. Evans, here.

Hotels vs. Airbnb: Let the Battle Begin

NYTimes, here.

The joy of data

BBC documentary, here.

A must-watch for my students - and almost everybody else!

Big Data first mentioned at 46:33.

Possible "concerns" get 4 seconds (hours in my course).

Coffee and donuts in first US commercial drone delivery

Theeit.org, here.

The Economist asks: Richard Thaler

The Economist, Podcast here.

Indien: Ringing Bells hat erste 3-Euro-Smartphones ausgeliefert

Heise.de, hier.

After buying Yahoo for nearly $5 billion, Verizon is now in the search business

SearchEngineLand, here.

Chatbots: Fad Or The Future?

TechDirt, Beach Podcast, here.

Big Data: How Computers Are Collecting Our Personal Details

BigIssue, here.

Apple lays the groundwork to kill online advertising

TechCruch, here.

(Un)Fairness of Risk Scores in Criminal Sentencing

Forbes, here.

Metal 3D printing takes flight

TechCrunch, here.

Pokemon Gone

Bloomberg, here.

Understanding Online Markets and Antitrust Analysis

D. Sokol, here.

Spotify joins basically every other app maker in selling your data to advertisers

TechRadar, here.

Standard de la preuve et abus de position dominante : Le test du concurrent aussi efficace

Concurrences, ici.

Businesses will be able to pay Niantic money to lure in Pokémon Go users

VanityFair, here. 

Snowden designs device to warn when an iPhone is ratting out users

ArsTechnica, here. 

Truck Makers Hit With Record EU Fines for Price-Fixing in Europe

Truckinginfo.com, here. 

Everything is amazing — and no one at the European Commission is happy

G. Manne, here.

Personality, privacy and our digital selves

TheGuardian, here.

What's So Special about Two-Sided Markets?

B. Hermalin, M. Katz, here. 

Antitrust Balancing

H. Hovenkamp, here

Public Policy and Breach of Competition Law in International Arbitration: A Competition Law Practitioner's Viewpoint

D. Geradin, ici.

Reverse Payments: An EU and US Perspective

F. Maier-Rigaud, N. Bialock, O. Gannon, here.

The Theory of Abuse in Google Search: A Positive and Normative Assessment Under EU Competition Law

P. Akman, here.

Big data, small problem. Is the antitrust toolkit compatible for data?

Bird&Bird, here.

Trade and Privacy: Complicated Bedfellows

K. Irion, s. Yakovleva, M. Bartl, here.

How the internet was invented

TheGuardian, here.

La CNMC impugna el Acuerdo del Gobierno de Aragón sobre enseñanzas universitarias, que restringe la competencia en el sector universitario

CNMC, aquì.

Online booking platforms, MFN clauses: To regulate or not to regulate?

Concurrences.com, here.

vzbv mahnt Entwickler von Pokémon Go ab

vzbv, hier. 

Pokémon Go has revealed a new battleground for virtual privacy

Inforrm's Blog, here.

Les compagnies aériennes face au défi du Big Data

LaTribune, ici. 

Windows 10 : la Cnil donne 3 mois à Microsoft pour être moins intrusif

Numerama.com, ici.

When will AI bots replace virtual assistants?

Information-age, here.

"It is a paid world"

Skift, here.

EU Data Protection Law May End The Unknowable Algorithm

Popyard.com, here.

Airbnb hires ex-U.S. Attorney General to help shape anti-discrimination policy

VentureBeat, here. 

GAO's Patent Reports

Managingip, here. 

The Financial Times is testing blocking the adblockers by blocking actual words from its stories

NiemanLab, here. 

Tout comprendre à l’économie du XXIe siècle avec Pokemon Go

Atlantico.fr, ici.

Online seller admits breaking competition law

CMA, here. 

Pokémon Go: Kritik von deutschen Datenschützern

Heise.de, hier. 

What Google Can Learn From Microsoft’s Antitrust Problems

N. Economides, here. 

The email, data and privacy implications of Microsoft’s acquisition of LinkedIn

TechCrunch, here. 

LEGO passt Rabattsystem an. Künftig fairere Bedingungen für den Online-Handel

Bundeskartellamt, hier. 

What history tells us about the future of artificial intelligence—and how society should respond

TheEconomist, here. 

There is now freedom of panorama in Belgium

Blog.wikimedia.org, here. 

Australia’s first criminal cartel charge laid against NYK

ACCC, here. 

Is it time for authors to leave SSRN?

AuthorsAlliance, here. 

WTO Law and Economics and Restrictive Practices in Energy Trade: The Case of the OPEC Cartel

A. Marhold, here. 

Macht der Online-Buchungsportale nimmt weiter zu

Hotrec, hier. 

Übernahme von Kaiser´s Tengelmann durch EDEKA: Ministererlaubnis gestoppt

OLG Düsseldorf, hier.

Sondage auprès des hôteliers pour évaluer les effets des remèdes adoptés en Europe

Autorité de la concurrence, ici.

Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Antitrust

AAI, here.

More hotels offer discounts for booking

USAToday, here.

Pokémon GO shouldn’t have full access to your Gmail, Docs, and Google account – but it does

TechCrunch, here.

Developing SocArXiv — a new open archive of the social sciences to challenge the outdated journal system.

Blogs.lse.ac.uk, here.

Did this Public API AntiTrust Case Set Precedent for Uber?

ProgrammableWeb, here.
SiteLink Software, LLC v. Red Nova Labs, Inc., here. 

L'impression 3D et le droit d'auteur

CSPLA, Rapport ici.

IP Tracking : de nouvelles investigations de la répression des fraudes

NextImpact, here.

Facebook Challenges Apple For Control Of The Next Major Battleground

Forbes, here.

Leistungsschutzrecht kostet Verleger Geld

Heise, hier.

Will much change in Antitrust post Brexit?

A. Stephan, here.

Facebook is the social network for news

Recode, here.

Why Microsoft is betting its future on AI

TheVerge, Here.

The CMA Uses Hacking Powers to Catch Price-Fixing Cartels

Motherboard, here.