Friday, April 30, 2010
Economic value and fair use
Die Monopolkommission über Entflechtungsmassnahmen
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
EU consultation on cultural and creative industries
Live from the ICN Conference 2010 (a very personal perspective) - Day One
- Turkey a fantastic country (I totally agree, sadly not part of the EU)
- Crisis, we have to be even more determined
- competition on the merits
- less efficient firms should leave the market, even more so given the current times
- markets should remain open, mergers not to be used as a protectionist tool
- convergency important (stressed as a key message)
- Commission's role (also) of bringing cases useful for many countries
- cross border trade important
- specificities still exist but common principles should be established
- unilateral conduct, role of the ICN
-- share experiences
-- Announcement: ICN discussing this topic in Brussels soon
- each legal system can deliver good results
- merger control has been facilitated
- transparency of decisions important
- reasoned decisions - consistency, predicatbility
- ICN a success story (105 agencies)
- Almunia's ideas:
-- advocacy worldwide, especially in crisis
-- projects important, if focused
-- convergence worldwide: Best Practices should be developed further
-- help to new agencies
-- full representation of competition authorities should be achieved (some not ICN's members)
Applause
Olavo Chinaglia, Commissioner, Brazil Council for Economic Defense
-- manage human resources, etc.
- now: extract general, abstract guidelines (second phase)
- handbook prepared
-- tool to help agencies in their internal work
-next: guidelines have been put into effect?
- but the two phases (collect/assess) connected
-- not stopping gathering info
- next year
-- work on second chapter (presented today)
-- third chapter's draft (on knowledge management)
Advocacy Working Group:
Ed Smith, Director of International, U.K. Office of Fair Trading
- two projects
-- sharing experience (5 seminars, reports available on ICN website)
-- market studies
--- select
--- stakeholders' role
--- manage projects
- feedback
- teleseminars should go on
- update of available toolkits
- across the board (?)
- need to change something? Later we'll know more...
- essential conclusions
-- criminal sanctions the most effective tool
--- incentive for leniency
Merger Working Group:
J. Robert Kramer II, Director of Operations and Civil Enforcement, U.S.
Department of Justice, Antitrust Division
- working on recommended practices going on
-- East-West: inspiration for the working groups
--- new way of working developed
-- market definition and comments accompanying them
--- only a tool (referred to market definition), possibly not decisive
- hypothetical monopolist test incomporated
- ways to implement RP
- supply side substitution (where to put it?)
- Failing Firm
-- carefully assess counterfactual (what would happen if?)
-- links to/role of the parent company?
Unilateral Conduct Working Group:
Markus Lange, Head, International Section, German Bundeskartellamt
- understand/promote convergence
- analysis of refusal to deal
-- questionnaire distributed
-- good cooperation
-- rtd: not specifically defined
-- not only outright, also constructive (unreasonable terms)
-- margin squeeze: topical subject
-- 150 cases about it
--- 300 ms not assessed
-- general rule: freedom to contract
--then, when to intervene (answer tomorrow)?
- need of exchange among agencies felt
- divergencies, but those can still be discussed on substantial terms (ICN's plus point)
- future work
-- new workgroup on unilateral conduct
-- remedies
-- divergencies not to be underestimated
- implementation of past work
- NGA's involvement
Implementation
- report of last year's very intensive work
-- needs assessment
Mexican Federal Competition Commission
- technical assistance
-- template package
-- regulatory barriers (World Bank)
- UNCTAD: translations, participation
- APEC (?)
- technology
-- blog
--- coverage of activities
--- visitorship increased
---- more intensive use
--- more than 70 countries
--- use should be intensified!
- Outreach toolkit
-- slides on ICN's mission and objectives
-- more detailed revue of workgroups' outcome
--- academics about other networks' experiences (learning)
- Ahead
-- narrative
-- more NGAs' involvement (research centres involved)
-- convergence on good practices
-- dissemination
-- webbased approach
-- common vocabulary
---- not homogeneity
-- demonstration (movie: audio not working)
--- very funny remarks
- presentation on their activities in the field of competition
- more "discipline" in choosing projects
- OECD's strength
-- members' experience
--- regional centres' involvement
-- policies in perspective: material already collected the org. can refer to
-- interdisciplinarity (studies on innovation etc.)
--- complementarities with other policies
ICN's strength vis à vis OECD
- complementarities
-- but: how to invest?
- content, peer reviews
- ICN
-- more practically oriented,
-- different audiences (case level for the ICN)
-- org output's assessment
- possible tensions
-- how to allocate limited resources
- ICN: possibly more "bounding" of its members
- ICN's technical assistance good, possibly even better if coordinated with different orgs (such as OECD)
- better transmission of info
-- liason "slightly more formal"
--- what's going on?
-- channels of distribution
- OECD's competition commission
-- somebody in charge of summing up what ICN does
-- outreach/technical assistance, difficult to be more informed (also because ICN doesn't have a Secretariat)
-- more joint events
--- at the content's level
-- pedagogical material
--- repackaging of OECD's material
--- cooperation with the coming ICN's university
Planning for the ICN’s Second Decade: Setting the Stage for Breakout Sessions, Plenary Difficul things ahead? Future
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Saturday, April 24, 2010
Zusammenschluss der Telekommunikationsunternehmen France Télécom SA (Orange) und Sunrise Communications AG: Untersagt
Thursday, April 22, 2010
9th Annual ICN Conference: Live broadcast over internet
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Business models for online sports contents
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Monday, April 19, 2010
UK Ofcom closes its consultations on pay TV market
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Friday, April 16, 2010
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Google Books Settlement, an Antitrust Perspective
Friday, March 19, 2010
How Innovative is Europe?
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
US FCC's National Broadband Plan and Education
The UK Digital Economy Bill goes to the Commons
Sports Leagues and Antitrust in the US
Ein nutzerorientiertes Urheberrecht
Tuesday, March 09, 2010
Internet Access as a Fundamental Right?
Friday, March 05, 2010
Thursday, March 04, 2010
Wednesday, March 03, 2010
France: La Cour de cassation au sujet de l'exclusivité Orange/Apple
Tuesday, March 02, 2010
Library and higher education-related institutions and organizations on net neutrality
Monday, March 01, 2010
Thursday, February 25, 2010
IBM on Chin
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Friday, February 19, 2010
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Friday, February 12, 2010
Thursday, February 11, 2010
At the Intersection of Competition and Regulation
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
Monday, February 08, 2010
Thursday, February 04, 2010
Competition in the Italian gas market:
Competition Policy in India
India's New Competition Regime: The Elephant Who Became a Tiger, by Mark Sansom and Priya Christian
Wednesday, February 03, 2010
"Vorsprung durch Technik"
Tuesday, February 02, 2010
Monday, December 21, 2009
Motor vehicle sales and repair agreements in the EU
Friday, December 18, 2009
Originality in Copyright Law
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
US Statement at the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) Nineteenth Session
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Tuesday, December 08, 2009
Google Books Revised Settlement and Open Access
ARL, ALA, ACRL on Facilitating Access to Copyrighted Works for the Blind or Persons with Other Disabilities
Saturday, December 05, 2009
Eben Moglen on the Oracle/Sun Acquisition
Friday, December 04, 2009
Elektronische Leseplätze in Bibliotheken
OBERLANDESGERICHT FRANKFURT, Aktenzeichen: 11 U 40/09 (verkündet 24.11.2009).
Aus der Begründung (meine Hervorhebungen):
"Mit Recht wird jedoch darauf hingewiesen, dass es umgekehrt zu erheblichen praktischen Schwierigkeiten führen dürfte, wollte man ein angemessenes Lizenzangebot ausreichen lassen (Dreyer in HK-UrhR, 2. Auflage, 2009, § 52b Rn. 12). Die Anwendung der Schrankenregelung des § 52b UrhG hinge dann nämlich jeweils davon ab, ob die (gerichtliche) Prüfung des Angebotes ergibt, dass es als angemessen einzustufen ist. Die damit verbundene Rechtsunsicherheit könnte dazu führen, dass die Bibliotheken von der im öffentlichen lnteresse liegenden Schrankenregelung des § 52b UrhG keinen Gebrauch machen (...)
Dass der Absatzmarkt für Fachbücher durch die Schrankenregelung über Gebühr beeinträchtigt wird, erscheint nicht ausreichend belegt. Gerade im Universitätsbereich dürften die finanziellen Möglichkeiten der Studierenden in der Mehrzahl der Fälle ohnedies nicht ausreichen, um Fachliteratur käuflich zu erwerben (...)
Nach ganz überwiegender Auffassung in der Literatur, die der Senat teilt, begründet § 52b UrhG eine Annex-Berechtigung zur Digitalisierung des Werkes, weil die Bestimmung anderenfalls weitgehend leer liefe, denn um die Zugänglichmachung zu ermöglichen, müssen die privilegierten Einrichtungen in aller Regel ein dazu erforderliches digitales Vervielfältigungsstück herstellen (...)
Dass dem Nutzer über den Lesezugriff hinaus auch Vervielfältigungen in gleicher Weise wie bei einer analogen Nutzung ermöglicht werden sollen, ergibt sich aus der Gesetzesbegründung jedoch nicht. Das im Urteil des Landgerichts beschriebene berechtigte Bedürfnis des Nutzers, Ausdrucke für eine sinnvolle Arbeit mit längeren Texten zu nutzen, wird in ausreichenden Maß durch die weiterhin bestehende Möglichkeit gewahrt, Kopien aus den in der Bibliothek vorhandenen Printexemplare zu fertigen. Schrankenbestimmungen sind grundsätzlich eng auszulegen (...)
Der Senat sieht indes keine überzeugende Möglichkeit, zwischen digitalen und analogen Vervielfältigungen zu unterscheiden (vgl. auch Schöwerling, ZUM 2009, 665; Heinz in juris-PR-lTR 14/2009).
Es ist danach auch nicht maßgeblich, ob die Möglichkeit, die an den Leseplätzen zugänglichen Dateien auszudrucken, die lnteressen der Rechtsinhaber nicht stärker beeinträchtigen würde, als dies bei der Nutzung von Kopiergeräten der Fall ist."
Thursday, December 03, 2009
Tuesday, December 01, 2009
European Treaty's Renumbering
Deutscher Bundesrat zur Mitteilung der EU-Kommission zur Verbesserung der Durchsetzung geistiger Eigentumsrechte
Monday, November 30, 2009
Friday, November 27, 2009
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Monday, November 23, 2009
ARL and Others on the Google Books Settlement (Part III)
Zur Geltendmachung von Rechten aus einem Patent-Pool
Zur Haftung des Internetanschlussinhabers bei Filesharing-Konstellationen nach den Grundsätzen der Störerhaftung
Un titulo de Copyright europeo
UK Digital Economy Bill
Friday, November 20, 2009
IT-Branchenverband BIKT zum "dritten Korb" der Urheberrechtsreform
Thursday, November 19, 2009
The European Ombudsman on Intel's complaint
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
More on competition policy in difficult economic times
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Saturday, November 14, 2009
E-Learning and Copyright Exceptions
Friday, November 13, 2009
The Federal Trade Commission to review the Intel/AMD settlement
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
US-Russia Antitrust Cooperation
Open Access: Petitionen an die Legislative
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Oracle/Sun Acquisition: Statement of Objections Issued
Oral argument in In Re Bilski before the US Supreme Court
(Laughter.)
JUSTICE BREYER: It was fabulous. And I could probably have reduced it to a set of steps and other teachers could have followed it. That you are going to say is patentable, too?
MR. JAKES: Potentially".
Monday, November 09, 2009
Carlo Piana in Trento
Sunday, November 08, 2009
Competition Policy and Economic Crisis
Friday, November 06, 2009
Thursday, November 05, 2009
US Intel Case
Football rights in Italy
Wednesday, November 04, 2009
Remedies in the EU and US Microsoft Cases
Electronic dissertations at Stanford
Gestion et commercialisation des droits sportifs de la Fédération française de football: Entente verticale sanctionnée
Tuesday, November 03, 2009
Monday, November 02, 2009
US Developments after Leegin
Friday, October 30, 2009
Price competition in the distribution of books
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Die Privatkopie und die deutsche Verfassung
A New Structured Rule of Reason Approach for RPM?
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Monday, October 26, 2009
Economic evidence in competition cases
Saturday, October 24, 2009
India: Competition Appellate Tribunal Formed
US Health Insurance Industry Antitrust Enforcement Act of 2009
Ausschaltung eines preisaktiven Internetanbieters
Das Bundeskartellamt misst dem beschriebenen Vorgehen hier eine über den Einzelfall hinausgehende wettbewerbliche Bedeutung zu. Die Ausschaltung des einen preisaktiven Internetanbieters war dazu geeignet und bestimmt, die auf dem deutschen Markt für den Handel mit Hörgeräten insgesamt herrschende Preisstabilität aufrechtzuerhalten bzw. wiederherzustellen. Ist aber der Preiswettbewerb auf Einzelhandelsebene ohnehin eingeschränkt, so wiegt jede weitere Verhinderung vorstoßenden Wettbewerbs umso schwerer"
Online distribution of music: joint statement
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Oracle-Sun Deal: Reasons to Support it?
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Google Book Settlement and Antitrust Issues
Randal C. Picker, The Google Book Search Settlement: A New Orphan-Works Monopoly?
5 Journal of Competition Law and Economics 383 (2009)
Jerry A. Hausman and J. Gregory Sidak, Google and the Proper Antitrust Scrutiny of Orphan Books, 5 Journal of Competition Law and Economics 411 (2009)
New, "consumer friendly" EU competition website
Antitrust and Innovative Markets
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Monday, October 19, 2009
Advice to the Obama Administration on Antitrust Policy: Two Perspectives Compared
Spencer Waller and Jennifer Woods, "Antitrust Transitions".
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Centre for a Digital Society , Video here . These are my very rough talking points on pay or okay in full length (more than I actually had...
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LG Frankfurt am Main, 2-06 O 172/09 (verkündet am 13.05.2009). Lesenswertes aus der Begründung (meine Hervorhebungen): "Vorstellbare ...
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Stratechery, here .
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Here (thanks to Netzpolitik).
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G. Kallfass, presentation here .
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Public Knowledge, here .
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S. Ranchordas, here .