President Obama Comes Out Strongly Against Patent Trolls; Here Are The Details

TechDirt.com, here. 

Library Copyright Alliance files amicus brief in HathiTrust case

Here. 

Avances en el programa de clemencia

Expansion.com, aquì. 

Protecting innovators from frivolous litigation and ensuring the highest-quality patents

White House Task Force On High-Tech Patent Issues, here. 

US v. Apple - DOJ Opening Statement

Here. 

What sort of disruption of broadcasters' distribution can be disrupted?

Taylorwessing.com, here. 

Device From Israeli Start-Up Gives the Visually Impaired a Way to Read

Nytimes.com, here. OrCam's promotional video here. 

Amid reports of new Apple streaming music service, antitrust violation may be obstacle

Washingtonpost.com, here. 

World Blind Union Response To The Business Lobby Against The Proposed Wipo Treaty For Visually Impaired People

Worldblindunion.org, here (Word file)

Rapport Lescure : du positif pour le livre numérique en bibliothèque

Bibliobsession.net, ici. 

The EU, safeguarding the open internet for all

N. Kroes, here. 

Request for an Advisory Opinion from the EFTA Court on PSI fee determination

Here. 

White House effort to take aim at 'patent trolls'

Politico.com, here. 

Innovative but influential: The OFT’s economic research programme

A. Fletcher, here (p. 6 f.).

Carrier: Classic Antitrust/IP Scholarship

Writtendescription.blogspot.com, here. 

Die Kommission sammelt sich in Sachen Sammelklagen – nicht nur im Kartellrecht

Kartellblog.de, hier. 

Using the Antitrust Laws to Police Patent Privateering

Patentlyo.com, here. 

Apple lawyers put judge in ebook antitrust case on defensive

TheVerge.com, here. 

Justice Department releases slides showing alleged Apple ebook conspiracy

PaidContent.com, here. 

Trial on E-Book Price-Fixing Puts Apple in Spotlight

Nytimes.com, here. 

Revised Presidency compromise proposal for the collective management Directive

Here. 

Oracle v. Google: Brief of Amici Curiae IP Professors in Support of Defendant-Cross Appellant and Affirmance

Here. 

Datenschutz: LobbyPlag meldet sich zurück

Gutjahr.biz, hier. 

Towards a Google Tax in Italy too?

The1709blog.blogspot.com, here. 

The Arithmetic of Fair Dealing at the Supreme Court of Canada

G. D'Agostino, here. 

La rete Telecom tra regole e controllo

Chicago-blog.it, qui. 

The NFB/MPAA statement on the coming VIP treaty negotiations

Keionline.org, here. 

2013 Internet Trends

KPCB, here. 

From Microsoft to Google: What Have We Learned about Antitrust in Technology Platform Markets?

R. Picker, here (lecture slides).

Smart Disclosure and Consumer Decision Making: Report of the Task Force on Smart Disclosure

US National Science and Technology Council, here. 

Apple and mobile networks: European Commission's Questionnaire

Guardian.co.uk, here. 

Modernising the European Copyright Framework

I. Hargreaves, B. Hugenholtz, here. 

Das Recht auf Datenübertragbarkeit in der Datenschutz-Grundverordnung

Telemedicus.info, hier. 

Reconciling Personal Information in the United States and European Union

P. Schwartz, D. Solove, here. 

Investing in America’s Future Through Innovation How the Debate Over the Smart Phone Patent Wars (Re)Raises Issues at the Foundation of Long-Term Incentive Systems

D. Kappos, here. 

MPAA, US Blind Federation Urge Narrow Focus In WIPO Treaty For Blind

IP-watch.org, here. 

Big Six Matrix for Ebook License Comparisons

Americanlibrariesmagazine.org, here. 

The Competitive Consequences of Most-Favored-Nation Provisions

J. Baker, J. Chevalier, here. 

The Value of Research Data

R. Costas, I. Meijer, Z. Zahedi and P. Wouters, here. 

RIAA: There's Been No Innovation Stifling Here!

Techdirt.com, here. 

Petition to issue joint enforcement guidelines on the patent policies of standard setting organizations

AAI, here. 

Ryanair may have to reduce its stake in Aer Lingus

UK Competition Commission, here. 

Brazil: Assessment Of The First Year Of The New Antitrust Law

B. De Luca Drago, here. 

'Neutral' Search as a Basis for Antitrust Action?

M. Lao, here. 

When the State Harms Competition ― The Role for Competition Law

E. Fox, D. Healey, here. 

Wellcome Trust extends open access policy to include scholarly monographs and book chapters

Wellcome.ac.uk, here. 

Comment effacer des informations me concernant sur un moteur de recherche ?

CNIL.fr, ici. 

Stakeholders representing the research sector, SMEs and open access publishers withdraw from Licences for Europe

Blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk, here. 

The Consensus Among Economists on Multisided Platforms and its Implications for Excluding Evidence that Ignores It

D. Evans, here. 

The Role of the ‘Equally Efficient Competitor’ in the Assessment of Abuse of Dominance

M. Mandorff, J. Sahl, here. 

Google says Java APIs lost copyrightability like Aspirin lost trademark protection over time

Fosspatents.com, here. 

Data Commons: From Beavers to Smart Cars to Ivory Coast

Privacyassociation.org, here. 

Online college courses: Outsourcing education

TheEconomist.com, here. 

Rijksmuseum: Masterworks for One and All

Nytimes.com, here. 

EFF Makes Formal Objection to DRM in HTML5

Eff.org, here. 

When You Let Incumbents Veto Innovation, You Get Less Innovation

M. Masnick, here. 

Debunking the "Stifling Innovation" Myth: The Music Business's Successful Transition to Digital

S. Marks, here. 

U.S. appeals court judge says FCC ignored antitrust law

Newsandinsight.thomsonreuters.com, here. 

VP8 cross-license draft compatible with FOSS licensing

Softwarefreedom.org, here. 

Antitrust a Governo e Parlamento, mettere all’ordine del giorno la tutela dei contenuti editoriali

AGCM, qui.

Google: On display

The Economist, here. 

Missing the Forest for the Trolls

M. Lemley, D. Melamed, here.

Parliament Members Call For Removal Of Conditions In WIPO Treaty For Blind

Ip-watch.org, here. 

What an IP Address Can Reveal About You

Privacy Commissioner of Canada, here.

DOJ Issues Rare Unfavorable Business Review Letter Regarding Patent Licensing Pools

Jdsupra.com, here. 

The Steve Jobs Emails That Show How to Win a Hard-Nosed Negotiation (E-Books)

TheAtlantic.com, here.

Why Italy Needs a Proper Freedom of Information Law

OpenSocietyFoundations.org, here. 

Abus de Google : le Conseil du numérique planchera sur des propositions

Zdnet.fr, ici.

Obama Stops Championing Treaty That Gives the Blind Better Access to E-Books

Wired.com, here. 

Federal judge bars holder of standard-essential patents from enforcing ITC exclusion order

Fosspatents.com, here. 

Copyright and Technology: Déjà-Vu All Over Again

R. Picker, here. 

The Pirate Cinema : quand le piratage devient oeuvre d'art

Numerama.com, ici. 

SIIA Tells the FTC What Patent Trolls Are Doing to the Software Industry

Groklaw.net, here. 

Will Professor Nimmer’s Change of Heart on File Sharing Matter?

R. Sanders, here. 

Competition regulation spreads through Africa: The Mozambique Competition Law

Nortonrose.com, here. 

Is Letter to Larry Page the First Step Towards Legislating Google Glass?

Thesecuretimes.wordpress.com, here. 

The New American Privacy

R. Peltz-Steele, here. 

Aggregates, cement and ready-mix concrete market investigation

UK Competition Commission, Summary of provisional findings here; Notice of possible remedies, here. 

Hemphill and Wu Respond to Blog Symposium (Parallel Exclusion)

Lawprofessors.typepad.com, here. 

Las petroleras aumentan en un 31% los márgenes sobre las gasolinas desde enero

ElPais.com, here. 

Privatheit im Internet. Chancen wahrnehmen, Risiken einschätzen, Vertrauen gestalten

acatech – Deutsche Akademie der Technikwissenschaften,  here.

Assessing Methods for the Quantification of Antitrust Damages. An Application to the Pasta Cartel in Italy

G. Notaro, here. 

My Insight Into The Blind Reading Revolution: Ron McCallum at TEDxSydney

Here. 

Revising copyright law: libraries, archives, museums and educational institutions

Statement of L. Gasaway, Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet Committee on the Judiciary, here. 

Class Certification Denial in Premier League v. Youtube

Project-disco.org, here. 

DOJ's Response to Apple's Pretrial Memorandum of Law (E-Books)

Here. 

A new goldmine

Economist.com, here. 

BGH: EuGH-Vorlage zur urheberrechtlichen Zulässigkeit von "Framing"

Hier.

Intellectual Property Rights and Access to Innovation: Evidence from TRIPS

M. Kyle, Y. Qian, H. Xie, here. 

Apple’s E-Book Argument: Deals With Publishers Improved Competition

Allthingsd.com, here. 

Rapport Lescure : "L'offre numérique en bibliothèque n'est pas à la hauteur"

Localtis.info, ici. 

Google Escalates the Competition in Map Services

Nytimes.com, here. 

A Case Study for Consensus Building: The Copyright Principles Project

US Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet, here. 

The Shakespeare review: what's the future of UK open data?

Guardian.co.uk, here. 

Google's (Motorola's) reply brief in the appeal of Judge Posner's Apple v. Motorola ruling

Fosspatents.com, here. 

Shakespeare Review of PSI in the UK

Here.

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Page 66:
"Healthcare data is increasingly held across sectors – public NHS organisations as well as private individuals and providers. In that context, encouraging data to be shared to derive maximum value requires an intellectual property rights ownership model that aligns private interests (e.g. in privacy and commercial sensitivity) with social interest in generating collaborative uses of data."

P.33:

 "Data that is derived from the activity of citizens must be seen as being at least co-owned by them and returning value to them, though the investment of business in collecting and processing the data should also be respected. There are government initiatives such as Midata, a government led project that works with businesses to give consumers better access to the electronic personal data that companies hold about them. The project recognises that data about citizens belongs to them and that they should have a way of claiming and using their ownership. Midata is currently about empowering consumers – government itself should explicitly embrace the Midata initiative to empower citizens by returning key data it holds on citizens back to them."

Pierre Lescure propose de renforcer le domaine public

Numerama.com, ici. 

Implications of the European Commission’s proposal for a general data protection regulation for business

London Economics, here. 

Sanofi-Aventis sanctionnée pour dénigrement à l'encontre des génériques de Plavix

Autorité de la Concurrence, ici.

Avoiding the 'Robin Hood Syndrome' in Developing Antitrust Jurisdictions

A. Abbott, S. Sacher, here.

Viel Unterstützung für Bundestagsinitiative gegen Softwarepatente

Heise.de, hier. 

Exploring Data-Driven Innovation as a New Source of Growth

OECD Digital Economy Paper, here. 

Supreme Court rules in favor of Monsanto, says farmer violated seed patents

TheVerge.com, here. 

Recent Developments In Rail Transportation Services

OECD Issues Paper, here. 

Thoughts on the White House Executive Order on Open Data

Eaves.ca, here. 

Contribution aux politiques culturelles à l’ère numérique

P. Lescure, Tome 1, Tome 2. 

Telecom Italia ha abusato della sua posizione dominante nelle infrastrutture di rete

Provvedimento qui.

Scientific knowledge unchained: verso una policy dell’università italiana sull’Open Access

R. Caso, qui. 

Intellectual Property Rights Gone Wild

J. Stiglitz, here. 

A Battle For Open Public Data In South Africa

Ip-watch.org, here. 

Schlappe für BVerfG: RWP-Mandantin Lexxpress macht Vertrag mit Juris zunichte

Juve.de, hier.

New White House open data executive order: how does it compare to the British version?

Guardian.co.uk, here. 

Barriers to Competition on the Innovation Superhighway: How the Lack of Antitrust Scrutiny of Patent Pools Deters Competition

D. Balto, here. 

Review of Canadian University Fair Dealing Policies

L. Di Valentino, here

Guides to Open Data Licensing

Theodi.org, here. 

U.S. Court Issues First Analysis of Appropriate Royalty a Patentee Could Obtain after Promising to License its Patent on Reasonable and Nondiscriminatory (RAND) Terms (Microsoft v. Motorola)

M. Carrier, here.

Getting Requirements Right: Towards a nuanced approach on standardisation and IPRs

J. Friedrich, here.

"Openness" and the Pursuit of Knowledge

A. Updegrove, here.

Competition Law as a complement to Intellectual Property Law?

A. Fletcher, here. 

"The Goals of Antitrust" Symposium: Papers

Here. 

The Economics of Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: The Efficiency of a Balanced Approach to the First Sale Doctrine

G. Rub, here. 

Public and Universal Service Obligations and Competition

M. Harker, A. Kreutzmann, C. Waddams, here. 

Science Europe on EU Data Protection Reform Proposal

Position Statement, here. 

Case Study: Metrics for Measuring the Impact of Cultural Datasets

Europeana.eu, here. 

Craigslist Takes Upstart Competitors to Court

Reason.com, here.

The Beijing Treaty on Audiovisual Performances

S. von Lewinski, here. 

Google Wins Vertical Search Antitrust Case In Germany

Searchengineland.com, here. 

Online-Vertrieb von Sportartikeln

Kartellblog.de, hier. 

Libor-Scandal Antitrust Plaintiffs Allowed to Seek Leave to Amend Their Allegations

Dandodiary.com, here. 

FTC Warns Data Broker Operations of Possible Privacy Violations

Ftc.gov, here. 

The Competition and IP Interface: setting the scene

C. Maxwell, here. 

Google's Schmidt: The Internet needs a delete button

News.cnet.com, here. 

Händlerbefragung im Verfahren gegen die adidas AG

Bundeskartellamt, hier.

Datenklauseln von Apple rechtswidrig

Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband, hier. 

Open Data to fight Poverty

Openaid.de, here. 

Has Big Data Made Anonymity Impossible?

Technologyreview.com, here. 

Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) calls WIPO treaty for blind "dangerous precedent for other areas of IP Law"

Keionline.org, here. 

Governing the Anti-commons: The Institutional Logic of Standard Setting Organizations

T. Simcoe, here. 

The Data Revolution and Economic Analysis

L. Einav, J. Levin, here. 

Pay-to-Delay Settlements: The Circuit-Splitting Headache Plaguing Big Pharma

S. Han, here. 

Preliminary EU assessment finds Google's Motorola guilty of abuse of standard-essential patents

Fosspatents.com, here. 

EU Commission sends Statement of Objections to Motorola Mobility on potential misuse of mobile phone standard-essential patents

Press Release, here.

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Apple's "willingness" specified:
"Apple had declared that it would be willing to be bound by a determination of the FRAND royalties by the German court". Further, from the Memo:
"By contrast, a potential licensee which remains passive and unresponsive to a request to enter into licensing negotiations or is found to employ clear delaying tactics cannot be generally considered as willing."
Moreover, specifically to the relevance of the so-called German "Orange Book" case-law on injunctions:
"The 2009 "Orange Book" ruling of the German Supreme Court established that a potential licensee can raise a competition law defence against an application for an injunction by showing that (i) it has made an unconditional offer to license under terms that cannot be rejected by the patent-holder without abusing its dominant position, and (ii) it actually acted as if had entered into a valid patent licence. The Supreme Court's ruling did not specifically relate to SEPs. The Commission's preliminary view is that an interpretation of that ruling whereby a willing licensee is essentially not entitled to challenge the validity and essentiality of the SEPs in question is potentially anti-competitive."

Commissions interbancaires de Mastercard et Visa: test de marché

Autorité de la concurrence, ici. 

Petition Fights Proposal For Digital Rights Management In Internet Core

Ip-watch.org, here. 

Copyright in the Digital Era: Building Evidence for Policy

US National Research Council of the National Academies, here. 

ReLIRE : Recours pour Excès de Pouvoir, Filippetti et Ayrault à la barre

ActuaLitte.com, ici. 

Educational Fair Use: Amici Curiae in Support of Georgia State University

Academic Authors and Legal Scholars, here. 

DOJ Issues Business Review Letter on a Proposed Innovative IP Exchange

Weil.com, here. 

The Derivative Right: Or Why Copyright Law Protects Foxes Better than Hedgehogs

D. Gervais, here. 

The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 –Your photos and you

IPO.gov.uk, here. 

UK allows use of orphan works for commercial purposes

Futureofcopyright.com, here. 

Analysis of UK/EU Law on Data Mining in Higher Education Institutions

A. Guadamuz, D. Cabell, here. 

Could the Web have been patented?

Npr.org, here. 

EU debates biopiracy law to protect indigenous people

Guardian.co.uk, here. 

Craigslist's Allegations Of "Copyright" Violations Thrown Out

Forbes.com, here. 

Facebook says battle for teen attention 'not a zero-sum game'

TheVerge.com, here. 

Bargaining over Loyalty

D. Crane, here. 

2013 Who Has Your Back: Which Companies Help Protect Your Data from the Government?

EFF.org, here. 

Senator Charles Schumer Targets Patent Trolls, Wants USPTO To Review Infringement Suits Before They Head To Court

TeleCrunch.com, here. 

How the Google Consent Order Alters the Process and Outcomes of Frand Bargaining

E. Dorsey, M. McGuire, here. 

Motorola Buy Delivers Google More Heartbreak Than Help

Businessweek.com, here. 

CERN celebrates 20 years of a free, open web

Press.web.cern.ch, here. 

Who Needs Guidance from Above? District Court Finds its Own Way in Viacom v. YouTube

Aaronsanderslaw.com, here. 

US District Court Issues First Decision Calculating a FRAND Royalty for Standard-Essential Patents

Skadden, here. 

Erasing History

Nytimes.com, here. 

Judge Robart’s Opinion in Motorola vs. Microsoft and the Future of FRAND

Consortiuminfo.org, here. 

Hargreaves Predicts: The Copyright Reform Round-up

Irelandip.com, here. 

Patents and Standard Setting

D. Neven, WIPO Seminar Series of the Economics of IP, Video here. 

WNET v. Aereo: The Second Circuit Persists in Poor (Cable)Vision

J. Ginsburg, here. 

Microsoft-Motorola follow-up: A look at Judge Robart’s modified Georgia-Pacific RAND methodology

Essentialpatentblog.com, here. 

European parliament starts discussing the proposed Directive on collective management of copyright

Communia-association.org, here. 

Mixed Reactions Among Participants In WIPO Talks On Treaty For The Blind

Ip-watch.org, here. 

How lobbying works, how our privacy is being lost

Lightbluetouchpaper.org, here. 

International Competition Network advances competition law enforcement cooperation

Accc.gov.au, here. 

Big Data Congressional Hearing

Cccblog.org, here. 

Personenbezogene Daten als neue Währung der Internetwirtschaft

T. Hoeren, hier.

Academic Authors and Legal Scholars’ Amicus Brief in the GSU Copyright Case

ArielKatz.org, here. 

Google's rivals set to reject compromises around EC antitrust investigation

TheGuardian.co.uk, here. 

Why students need the right to copy

TheHindu.com, here. 

Die neue digitale Planwirtschaft

FAZ.net, hier. 

Open Data Helping Meet The Developing World’s Social Challenges

Blog.opengovpartnership.org, here. 

Grand Prince, la BnF publie les accords de numérisation Proquest

Actualitte.com, ici. 

UK Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill receives Royal Assent

News.bis.gov.uk, here. 

Titans of innovation - What can business learn from Big Science?

The Economist, here. 

What Consensus? Ideology, Politics and Elections Still Matter (in Antitrust)

S. Salop, here.

Motorola Mobility Risks Complaint Amid Race for EU-Google Pact

BusinessWeek.com, here. 

EU Commission seeks feedback on commitments offered by Google to address competition concerns – Q&A

Here. Proposed commitments here. 

Negotiations on WIPO Treaty for the blind: IFLA's update

Here. 

Intellectual Property Rights and Innovation: Evidence from the Human Genome

H. Williams, here. 

Spiele und Urheberrechtsschutz

Positionspapier der Spiele-Autoren-Zunft e.V., hier. 

How to Prevent the ‘Do Not Track’ Arms Race

P. Swire, here. 

Canada: Privacy and Social Media in the Age of Big Data

Report of the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics, House of Commons, here. 

The MPAA, Disney and Blind People: Data Point for Campaign Finance Reform and the Weakness of Human Character

J. Love, here. 

ICN Unilateral Conduct Workbook: Exclusive Dealing

Chapter 5, here. 

ICN: Explaining the Benefits of Competition

Draft, here. 

ICN: Working with Courts and Judges Project

Summary of the responses collected, here. Executive Summary, here. 

Poste ha abusato della sua posizione dominante su esenzione IVA

Comunicato stampa qui, Provvedimento qui. 

The Empire Strikes Back: CISAC beats Commission in General Court

J. Quintais, here. 

Australia’s experience driving economic growth through competition policy reforms

Accc.gov.au, here. 

E-Books: „Die Leute wollen keine Anreicherungen"

Heise.de, hier.

Broadband Policy & Consumer Welfare: The Case for an Antitrust Approach to Net Neutrality Issues

J. Wright, here. 

The Failure of Corporate Governance Standards and Antitrust Compliance

J. Markham, here. 

Weiterverkauf von E-Books laut LG Bielefeld unzulässig

Urteil hier. 

PSI Licensing: A Conceptual Framework for EU Guidance to the Member States

M. Ricolfi, here. 

Vertical Agreements in Ireland 2013

Matheson.com, here. 

Patently Lincoln

Pepperlaw.com, here. 

Vers une redéfinition du « cercle de famille » en faveur du partage des oeuvres sur Internet ?

Scinfolex.wordpress.com, here. 

Patentability and Scope of Protection for DNA Sequence

R. Milkov, here.

The European Commission Policy on Open Access: the Importance of Text and Data Mining

J.-F. Dechamp, here (Presentation)

Eight Business Model Archetypes for PSI Re-Use

E. Ferro, M. Osella, here. 

The Economics of Competition (Law)

J. Paha, here. 

Brussels Court of Appeal: embedding illegal YouTube content is no copyright breach

Futureofcopyright.com, here. 

Finnish Sites Blacking Out Tomorrow In Support Of Copyright Petition

Arcticstartup.com, here. 

Google fined just $189,000 for 'one of the biggest' data protection violations in German history

TheVerge.com, here. 

Indian copyright organisation asks colleges to buy licence to photocopy book portions

Economictimes.indiatimes.com, here. 

EU Commission sends statement of objections to suspected participants in smart card chips cartel

Press Release, here. 

A closer look at the new PSI Directive

Open Knowledge Foundation Blog, here. 

WIPO Members Send Draft Treaty For The Blind To Marrakesh

Ip-watch.org, here. 

Federal judge has set FRAND rate for Microsoft's license to Google's standard-essential patents

Fosspatents.com, here. 

Diritti audiovisivi sportivi: segnalazione al Parlamento

Agcm.it, qui. 

Patent Trolls and ‘Royalties’: Distracting From the Real Issue Which is Software Patents

Techrights.org, here. 

Final text before Marrakesh, WIPO treaty for the blind

Keionline.org, here. 

Protecting brands on the Internet. A look at approaches taken by the EU, US and Italy

Iposgoode.ca, here. 

It’s time to update online privacy

Politico.com, here. 

On copyright and rights of persons with disabilities: WIPO treaty for the blind

T. Sinodinou, here. 

Information et discussions sur l’étude "Digital Music Comsumption on the Internet"

Hadopi, ici

Google and antitrust: Try it and see

The Economist, here. 

Competition Authority reminder to businesses: resale price maintenance is against the law

Competition Authority (Ireland), here.

OFT issues statement of objections to certain pharmaceutical companies

Oft.gov.uk, here.

Bußgeldbemessung bei Kartellverstößen wird an BGH-Rechtsprechung angepasst

Bundeskartellamt.de, hier. 

The Future of Interoperable E-books: What Libraries Need to Know

Slides from NISO’s Virtual Conference, here. 

Deutscher Bundestag über Softwarepatente

Ifross.org, hier. 

Revendre des fichiers musicaux de “seconde main” par l’entremise de ReDigi: licite ou pas?

A. Strowel, ici.

What Role Should Antitrust Play in Regulating the Activities of Patent Assertion Entities?

J. Wright, here. 

YouTube Again Beats Viacom's Massive Copyright Infringement Lawsuit

Hollywoodreporter.com, here. 

FTC Chair Stuns Advertisers regarding Do Not Track

Adweek.com, here. 

Bruno Lasserre on Competition Policy Attitudes in France

My quick take on the very interesting speech given today in Trento by the Chairman of the French Competition Authority.

-         Sort of schizophrenia between consumers (pro) and citizens (more skeptical) towards competition policy.

-         The glorious days of competition policy in France go back to at least 1791, when guilds (corporations) were suppressed by initiative of the revolutionaries.

-         Before WWII, the attitude in France was generally very positive, at a time in which, by contrast, Germany was much more in favor of cartelizing the economy.

-          After WWII: public intervention into the economy much welcomed by French citizens, competition policy experienced mostly as an external imposition.

-          Leftist reason to support competition during last political election: fight against privilege by birth; “equality of chances” (égalité) still very popular.

-         Governments in general less procompetition than members of Parliament because of economic pressures by big players.

-         French civil servants not believing in competition: 77%; French judges: even more (figure not disclosed).

-          Going ahead,  dramatically important in order to convince citizens of the benefits of competition policy: private/class actions!

-         Draft bill on class actions in France: too narrow.

- Average loss per mobile phone user due to 2005 telecoms’ cartel: 70 Euro per year (cartel’s duration: 2 ½ y.)

A New Test for Anticompetitive Litigation

L. Salgado, R. Pinho de Morais, here. 

Mozilla Will Debut Firefox Mobile OS in Five Countries in June

Allthingsd.com, here. 

CJEU on the Unitary Patent (Enhanced Cooperation)

Joined Cases C‑274/11 and C‑295/11, here. 

International Cooperation in Competition Policy

P. Collins, here. 

The Novartis Decision: A Tale Of Developing Countries, IP, And The Role Of The Judiciary

Ip-watch.org, here. 

Canadian universities square off against copyright group

Cbc.ca, here. 

Speech Engines

J. Grimmelmann, here. 

Exploring the Economics of Personal Data: A Survey of Methodologies for Measuring Monetary Value

OECD, here. 

Analysis of ‘Open Data’ survey commissioned to support the Shakespeare Review into Public Sector Information

Research.yougov.co.uk, here. 

What’s Your Agenda?

J. Wright, here. 

The Oligopoly Problem

T. Wu, here. 

Google and the European Commission: A flavour of utility

TheEconomist.com, here. 

Faculty members on software to detect student plagiarism

Insidehighered.com, here. 

Digital Kirtsaeng: Is the transfer of a file to someone else the real issue?

D. Gervais, here. 

The General Court partially annuls the Commission decision finding anti-competitive conduct on the part of copyright collecting societies

"CISAC", press release here.

« Droit à l’oubli » sur Internet : la fin de la généalogie et des archives ?

Rue89.com, ici. 

Copyright and Competition Policy

A. Katz, here. 

Ebooks made up 23 percent of US publisher sales in 2012, says the AAP

PaidContent.com, here. 

Antitrust complaint against Android is an attack on open source

ArsTechnica, here. 

Competition Issues in Broadcasting and Internet Content - Navigating the Unknown and the Unknowable

A. Fels, here. 

Imagine: Pro-poor(er) Competition Law

E. Fox, here. 

English High Court Dismisses Interim Injunction In Abuse Of Dominance Case Concerning Refusal To Supply In HIV Prescription Medicines Market

Van Bael Bellis, here. 

EBay Opens Up Its Data for Ad Targeting

Adweek.com, here. 

Kabinett verabschiedet Gesetzesentwurf zur Nutzung verwaister und vergriffener Werke (und zum Zweitverwertungsrecht für Wissenschaftler)

Urheberrecht.org, hier.

Apple wins invalidation of 3G 'standard-essential' Samsung patent in Germany

Fosspatents.com, here. 

USPTO roundtables on software-related patents: materials available

Recordings and presentations here.

Antitrust regulators ponder patent trolls—but they need to act

M. Carrier, here. 

Standards-Essential Patents and Injunctive Relief:

JonesDay, here. 

The Economic Impact of Digitization and the Internet on the Creative Sector in Europe

Booz&Co, here. 

India’s Patently Wise Decision

J. Stiglitz, A. Jayadev, here. 

40 Years of Music Industry Change, In 40 Seconds or Less...

Digitalmusicnews.com, here. 

Can you find me now? How carriers sell your location and get away with it

Theverge.com, here. 

Voyage au cœur des smartphones et des applications mobiles avec la CNIL et Inria

Cnil.fr, ici. 

E-Books to be available in UK libraries under Public Lending Right

Futureofcopyright.com, here. 

A Developmental Approach to the Patent-Antitrust Interface

T. Cheng, here. 

My thoughts on Mendeley/Elsevier & why I left to start PeerJ

Enjoythedisruption.com, here.

Abuse Of IP Rights Under China's Antitrust Rules: Recent Cases Have A Potentially Serious Impact

McDermott Will & Emery, here. 

Netherlands: The Tax Deductibility Of European Fines For Cartel Violations: On Borrowed Time

NautaDutilh, here. 

Colleen Chien on Patent Assertion Entities

Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog, here.

Microsoft and others file EU antitrust complaint over Android app bundling

TheVerge.com, here.
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Two central allegations, it seems:
I
- Android is the dominating mobile operating system (running in 70% of units shipped at the end of 2012)
-  Android phone makers wanting to include "must-have" Google apps such as Maps or YouTube are required "to pre-load an entire suite of Google mobile services and to give them prominent default placement on the phone"
- Other apps and services providers are disadvantaged
- Google’s Android is put in control of consumer data on a majority of smartphones shipped today.

II
- Google distributes Android open source operating system for free, i.e. below cost
- this makes it difficult for other providers of operating systems to recoup investments in competing with Google’s dominant mobile platform.

Fairsearch's 2011 White Paper indirectly provides some additional background information to the allegations, see e.g. p. 35: Google is also attempting to monopolize mobile search and search advertising through the Android operating system...According to some, Google is “not trying to make a profit on Android or [its web-browser] Chrome . . . .In essence [by giving Android away for free], they are not just building a moat; Google is also scorching the earth for 250 miles around the outside of the castle to ensure no one can approach it"(reference omitted).

An overview of the other competition complaints filed by Google's competitors (source: Fairsearcheurope.eu, here):

Read also Groklaw's take on the allegations, here. 

Content ownership and resale

Toc.oreilly.com, here. 

Conceptual Study on Innovation, Intellectual Property and the Informal Economy

WIPO Secretariat and J. de Beer, here. 

Access and the Public Domain (Fordham IP Talk)

R. Picker, Video (Slide Talk), here. 

One on One: Jason Merkoski and the View of E-Books From the Inside

Bits.blogs.nytimes.com, here. 

Robots, the DMCA, and Patents: Threats, Strategy, and Caselaw in the Aftermarket

C. Hicks, K. Liu, here. 

TPM systems to protect video games and illegal “mod chips” to circumvent them – in the light of a referral to the CJEU

M. Ficsor, Paper here, Presentation here. 

Mobile privacy. A better practice guide for mobile app developers.

Consultation draft, Australian Government, here.

The Single Market for financial services and competition policy

European Competition Forum 2013, Videos here. 

State of Play: Treaty for the Blind negotiations at the World Intellectual Property Organization

Keionline.org, here. 

Letting Down Our Guard With Web Privacy

Nytimes.com, here. 

The IP-Competition Wars: Why is There a Tug of War When We All Share the Same Goal?–An Inventive Competitive Economy

E. Fox, Presentation here. 

Recent Japanese Cases Regarding Standard Essential Patents and FRAND Licensing Declaration

S. Oda, Presentation here. 

Legal Assessment of Patent Settlement Agreements Containing “Reverse” Payments

R. Subiotto, Presentation here. 

The preparation of a WIPO instrument/treaty on exceptions or limitations for the visually impaired in the light of the WIPO-Unesco Model Provisions on the same adoped in the “guided development” period

M. Ficsor, here. 

The Oracle Speaks (UsedSoft)

P. Charleton, S. Kelly, here. 

Papers and Presentations from the Fordham IP Conference 2013

List here.

Comments of Google, Blackberry, Earthlink and Red Hat on Patent Assertion Entities

Here. 

Walking the Data Protection Tightrope: The Google Privacy Policy Investigations

Europeanlawblog.eu, here. 

Not (Necessarily) Narrower: Rethinking the Relative Scope of Copyright Protection for Designs

S. Burstein, here. 

L'Union européenne, colonie du monde numérique ?

C. Morin-Desailly, ici. 

Smokescreen: How Managers Behave When They Have Something to Hide

T. Artiga Gonzalez, M. Schmid, D. Yermack, here.

ReDigi, Digital First Sale...and Star Trek

J. Grimmelmann, here.

The Use of Standard Essential Patents: Competition Policy Issues

S. Vezzoso (this blog's author), Presentation here. 

FOSS in the Italian public administration: fundamental law principles

S. Aliprandi, C. Piana, here. 

Copyleft, -right and the case law on APIs on both sides of the Atlantic

W.van Horst, here. 

MySQL and the forks in the road

H-online.com, here.

FRAND and compulsory license defense – District Court Düsseldorf refers questions on the available remedies for owners of standard essential patents to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU)

Kluwerpatentblog.com, here.

Mark Lemley on FTC V. Actavis Oral Argument

Blogs.law.stanford.edu, here.

The Actavis case before SCOTUS shows that the weak patent issue is system-wide:

Patentprogress.com, here.

ReDigi US District Court Ruling

Here. Capitol Records' Complaint here; ReDigi's answer here. 

Authors Guild warns of monopoly in Amazon’s purchase of Goodreads

PaidContent.org, here.

A Kat's perspective on Kirtsaeng: why is digital different from analogue?

The IPKat, here.

LG Düsseldorf legt dem EuGH vor – SEPs, FRAND und “Orange Book”

Kartellblog.de, hier.

Google pledges not to sue open-source users or developers over specified patents

Computerworld.com, here.

Open software group files complaint against Microsoft to EU

Globalpost.com, here.

Wann ist ein Lizenzangebot FRAND?

Lto.de, hier. 

The Hidden Value of Dell: 3,449 Patents and Other Intellectual Property

Businessweek.com, here. 

Federal Court of Appeal Reminds Government There is No Copyright in Data

Teresascassa.ca, here. 

No Easy Rule on Drug "Pay for Delay"?

Scotusblog.com,here.

The Economic Impact of the Data Protection Regulation in the E.U

L. Christensen, A. Colciago, F. Etro and G. Rafert, here. 

Will the Internet Destroy the News Media?

J. Gans, Video here. 

Dairy Farmers of America to pay $46 million settlement in antitrust lawsuit

Capitalpress.com, here. 

Seconds to go: Reselling media content

The Economist, here. 

The Supreme Court’s Small (But Helpful) Step Towards Copyright Sanity

The Volokh Conspiracy, here. 

Electronic lending and public libraries

The Economist, here. 

Bundesrat winkt Leistungsschutzrecht durch

Heise.de, hier. 

Big Data Strategy – Issues Paper

Australian Government, here. 

La BNF explique la gestion collective des livres indisponibles

Relire.bnf.fr, ici. 

AP v. Meltwater: Disappointing Ruling for News Search

Eff.org, here. 

Microsoft bans used games

News.techeye.net, here. 

CJEU Referral in Huawei v. ZTE Concerning FRAND

Here (German).
Ehoganlovells.com, here.
See also Fosspatents.com, here and Juve.de, here (German).
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My quick reading of the CJEU referral, based on the translation of the Court's order as kindly made available by Fosspatents.
The questions essentially revolve around the concept of “willing licensee” against which the SEP (standard essential patent) owner has been seeking an injunction. The concept at issue can obviously have even dramatically different shades and meanings. In fact, it can range from a mere “(oral) declaration in broad and general terms indicating the [the potential licensee’s] willingness to enter into negotiations” to “a binding offer to the SEP owner on terms that the SEP owner cannot refuse without treating the infringer unfairly or discriminatorily”, furthermore requiring that “the infringer, in anticipation of the license he is seeking, already complies with his contractual obligations with respect to past acts of infringement.” 

A middle ground could be the requirement that “the infringer has indeed entered into negotiations, such as by, for example, communicating terms and conditions under which he is prepared to conclude a license agreement.”

In the event that “the [infringer's] submission of a binding offer to conclude a license agreement is a requirement” it would then be necessary to clarify whether that offer should “involve specific substantive and/or chronological requirements”, whether it would “have to set forth all of the commercial terms that in accordance with relevant industry practice are usually set forth in such license agreements,” and whether it could “be conditioned upon actual use and/or validity of the SEP-in-suit”. Moreover, “in the event that the infringer's [precontractual] fulfillment of obligations arising from the requested license is a requirement” for the finding of a “willing licensee,” the Court asks whether the infringer could be “required, in particular, to make disclosures relating to past acts of infringement and/or to pay [precontractual] royalties”, and, finally, whether the “obligation to pay [precontractual] royalties” could also “be fulfilled by giving security.”

Text-mining spat heats up

Nature.com, here. 

Open Letter to Vice-President Almunia from 11 Complainants (Foundem/Google)

Searchneutrality.org, here.