FCC Passes Strict Net Neutrality Regulations On 3-2 Vote

TechCrunch, here.

"Modern regulatory approach" "Legally sustainable rules".

Press Release, here. Chairman Wheeler Statement, here.

Dissenting Statements here and here.

ACCC v Pfizer Australia

Federal Court of Australia, here. 

Intellectual Property and Competition

H. Hovenkamp, here. 

Google's Quiet Dominance Over The 'Ad Tech' Industry

A. Grunes, here. 

Mehr Mobilitätsanbieter in Deutschland: Chancen für Verbraucher

J. Haucap, Präsentation hier. 

Google Starts Testing Mobile App Ads In The Google Play Store

TechCrunch, here. 

CMA seeks information on online reviews and endorsements

Here.

Google Play’s Rapid Rise in Germany

Appannie.com, here. 

La CNMC impone sanciones a varios operadores de productos petrolíferos

CNMC, aquì. 

Why the Print Catalog Is Back in Style

HBR, here.

"instead of sending every customer his brand’s largest book, he looks for frequent website visitors and asks, 'Can I only send her 50 pages, or 20, as a reminder of, ‘Oh, I’ve got to go to the website’?”

Producers of Power Rangers Fan Video Might Be In For Copyright Fight

Deadline.com, here. 

Vision for a digital single market

L. Neville-Rolfe, here. 

Net Neutrality Meets Regulatory Economics 101

J. Wright, here.

Tobacco Plain Packaging Discussion Lights Up Again At WTO

IP-watch, here.

Some thoughts on data-driven business models

R. Ehrenberg, Presentation here. 

The Invention of the Software Patent

R. Picker, here. 

Limitations and Exceptions as Key Elements of the Legal Framework for Copyright in the European Union – Opinion on the Judgment of the CJEU in Case C-201/13 Deckmyn

J. Griffiths et al., here. 

North Carolina State Board of Dental Examiners v. Federal Trade Commission

US Supreme Court, here.

Higher Regional Court dismisses appeal in German cement cartel case

Carteldamageclaims.com, here. 

Chip firms put security center stage for the internet of things

GigaOm, here. 

Holy See: Creative approach to intellectual property necessary for health care

Vatican Radio, here. 

The Patent Guide: A handbook for analysing and interpreting patent data

UK  Intellectual Property Office, here.

Sensory and Sensibility - Will Copyright Awake Your Senses?

E. Rosati, Presentation here. 

Removing Barriers to Literacy: How the Marrakesh VIP Treaty Can Change Lives

WIPO, here. 

Unentgeldliche TV-Mitschnitte im Schulunterricht und an Universitäten

Petitionsausschuss des deutschen Bundestages, hier. 

The Advisory Council to Google on the Right to be Forgotten

Here. 

Spotify exec: We collect an ‘enormous amount of data on what people are listening to, where, and in what context’

VentureBeat, here.

Why Apple would benefit from building electric car tech

GigaOm, here.

DOJ Is Right About Apple e-Books

WSJ, here (and below).

The Journal mischaracterizes the trial court’s ruling in the Justice Department’s antitrust case against Apple and five e-book publishers (“All Along the Apple Watchtower,” Review & Outlook, Feb. 17). Specifically, you say that the court found that “allowing consumers to read e-books on the iPad was an antitrust conspiracy.” Not so. The case was about agreements on a vital dimension of competition, namely price. It has long been a universally accepted proposition in both law and economics that agreements among competitors to set and regulate prices are anticompetitive. Thus, the court correctly found the agreements illegal. It is no justification that the agreements were intended to wrest control over the pricing of e-books from Amazon, the dominant player in e-book retailing.

Legitimate competition erodes a dominant firm’s position by offering consumers better prices or products. Here consumers received a worse deal. Indeed, the court found that the agreements led to an almost immediate 18% increase in the average price of e-books—hardly a boon to consumer welfare.

You are on more solid ground as regards the activities of the special master appointed to oversee Apple’s compliance with the verdict. (The publishers settled with DOJ before trial.) Even losing antitrust defendants deserve fairness and a reasonable post-verdict opportunity to show good faith efforts to comply with a court order. As you describe, there is ample evidence that this special master has overreached by placing burdens on Apple that are unnecessary to assuring adherence to the final judgment. As you urge, the Second Circuit should sack the special master or at least rein in his powers.

Theodore A. Gebhard

From social media service to advertising network

ICRI/CIR, in close cooperation with iMinds-SMIT, here. 

An annotated guide to Facebook's privacy settings (that you've never read)

The Star and D. Fraser, here. 

Google, Facebook und Co.: Kartellrechtler sorgen sich um Nutzerdaten

Heise.de, hier

Tobacco industry waged ‘David and Goliath’ campaign against EU

Independent.co.uk, here.
Report (The revision of the 2014 European tobacco products directive: an analysis of the tobacco industry’ s attempts to ‘break the health silo’) here.  

Competition and consumer protection in the cyberspace marketplace

J. Joseph, P. M. Rao, here. 

Accor a saisi l’Autorité de la concurrence contre Booking.com

LesEchos.fr, ici.

Kleine Apps, große Hoffnungen

FAZ, hier.
European App Economy 2015 here. 

Google To Comply with Privacy Measures Set Forth by Italy's DPA

Privacyassociation.org, here. 

"The subject of the film, Edward Snowden, could not be here tonight for some treason"

ArsTechnica, here. 

Reda Report explained

J. Reda, here. 

Weil Obtains Final Approval of Favorable Nationwide Class Action Settlement for Local Television Industry in Antitrust Lawsuit Against the SESAC Performance Rights Organization

Weil.com, here. Order here. 

Análisis de la Contratación Pública en España: Oportunidades de mejora desde el punto de vista de la Competencia

CNMC, aquì. 

Managing Tensions In Online Marketplaces

J. Jordan, here. 

LIBER Argues For Pan-European TDM Exception

Libereurope.eu, here. 

Model contracts for licensing interoperability information

P. Laurent and B. Jean for the European Commission DG Communications Networks, Content & Technology, here (pdf download).

Urheberrechtsreform: Alle gegen Julia

FAZ, hier. 

C4C Supports the Balanced Approach Taken by MEP Reda and Explains Why

Copyright4creativity.eu, here. 

Axelle Lemaire veut donner un statut aux données d'intérêt général

Nextinpact.com, ici.

The Wealth of Nations

In Our Time, Podcast  here.

Haucap: "Facebook ist viel gefährlicher als Google"

Rp-online.de, hier.

Google wins dismissal of U.S. lawsuit over Android app limits

Reuters.com, here. Order here.

Footnote 9:  "At a higher level of abstraction, this means that those competitors who cannot access users are unable to improve their search algorithms, thereby impairing their ability to compete with Defendant on the merits of their respective search products... This is akin to the theory of Sherman Act § 2 monopoly maintenance described in Microsoft, 253 F.3d at 60-62, wherein Microsoft’s exclusive licensing terms prevented OEMs from promoting rival Internet browsers, thereby reducing rival browser usage and developer interest in those browsers, with the effect of maintaining developer focus on developing for Microsoft’s Windows operating system, which contributed to maintaining Microsoft’s monopoly over the market for operating systems" (emphasis added).

Yandex and Google: No Smoke Without Fire

I-Comp.org, here.

Why the European Commission will not star in the Spanish TV rights Telenovela

B. Van Rompuy and O. van Maren, here.

Les hôteliers rejettent les propositions de Booking

LesEchos.fr, ici.

Intel, Leveraging Rebates and the Goals of Article 102 TFEU

N. Petit, here. 

Market Opening: Regulation vs Competition?

A. Italiener, here. 

Russian competition watchdog opens case against Google

Reuters.com, here.

Cмотрите также ФАС возбудила дело против компании Google по иску "Яндекса", вот

Microsoft Is The New Google, Google Is The Old Microsoft

Forbes.com, here.

Cerf Warns Of A 'Lost Century' Caused By Bit Rot; Patents And Copyright Largely To Blame

TechDirt, here.

Expedia Acquisitions Signal Tougher Times Ahead for Hotels

Hotel-online.com, here.

Copia privata, la conferma del Consiglio di Stato

Punto-informatico.it, here.

Google tax, si punta a un accordo. Ma non "alla francese"

Corrierecomunicazioni.it, here.

Does Patent Licensing Mean Innovation?

R. Feldman, M. Lemley, here.

American Express Violated Antitrust Laws, Judge Rules

NYT, here.

Interest group success in the European Union: When (and why) does business lose?

A. Dür, P. Bernhagen, D. Marshall, here.

Open Data als Treibstoff für die digitale Wirtschaft

BMWI.de, hier.

Uber se reinventa frente a su prohibición con un servicio de comida a domicilio

ElMundo.es, aquí.

Used eBook Marketplace Tom Kabinet Launches eBookstore

The-digital-reader.com, here. 

Global Regulation of Data Flows in a Post-Snowden World

J. Brill, here. 

Never trust a corporation to do a library’s job

Medium.com, here. 

Authors’ Rights Under the ‘Next Great Copyright Act’

J. Ginsburg, here. 

The Internet isn't broken. Obama doesn't need to 'fix' it.

A. Pai, J. Wright, here. 

La tong de la discorde entre Havaianas et des chefs tribaux

Courrierinternational.com, ici. 

Le livre numérique en illimité déclaré hors la loi

LesEchos.fr, ici.

The Challenges of Big Data for the Social Sciences

K. Benoit, Podcast here. 

“Ok al decreto legge sulle Banche popolari”

AGCM, Comunicato Stampa, qui.

Antitrust as a multidisciplinary field: Introduction and overview of the symposium

A. Gundlach, here. 

In Russia, Yandex Files Antitrust Complaint Against Google Over Search On Android Devices

TechCrunch, here.

Cмотрите также "Яндекс" попросил ФАС проверить Google, вот.

Copyright and Inequality

L. Shaver, here.

David gegen Goliath: Wie der lokale Handel gegen Amazon kämpft

Heise.de, hier.

Tobacco giant issues legal threat over plain packaging

IrishTimes, here.

Energy market investigation – updated issues statement

CMA, here.
BBC Radio4, Podcast here (from 03:52)

Swedish songwriters seek fair compensation from Spotify and others

VentureBeat, here.

Apple tested (and cut) more advanced fitness sensors from the Apple Watch

ArsTechnica, here

Beginnings of the "more technological approach"

1998: "To meet Microsoft’s arguments about the integration of the operating system and the browser, Justice Department lawyers needed to understand how software programs were written...They needed to appreciate the technical characteristics of software code and design, something that Microsoft and its software engineers already understood", in  A. Gavil, H. First, The Microsoft Antitrust Cases: Competition Policy for the Twenty-first Century, MIT Press, 2014. A terrific read, see here for a book review - with which I only partially agree, though. Contrary to the reviewer's opinion, I didn't miss the "drama" at all (read the footnotes!). Moreover, there are plenty of references to the economic underpinnings of the Microsoft cases (basically, network economics and the then nascent theory of two-sided markets). However, what I'd have liked to find in the book is also an in-depth discussion of the suitability of the economic theories that played a decisive role in the Microsoft cases for competition policy going forward (legal theories are already depicted by the authors as sufficiently flexible to cope with new challenges). For instance, how solid is the application barrier to entry argument  likely to be in other high-tech markets such as mobile?

Why Xiaomi Worries Google

TheInformant, here (only partially accessible without subscription, but already very interesting).

Capturing the Transplant: U.S. Antitrust Law in the EU

S. Beltrametti, here. 

Copyright and the Value of the Public Domain

K. Erickson, P. Heald, F. Homberg, M. Kretschmer and D. Mendis, here.

Die Welt braucht ein sicheres Betriebssystem

FAZ, hier.

John Oliver on plain-packaging

Video here. 

Competition Policy and Regulation in Credit Card Markets: Insights from Single-Sided Market Analysis

D. Carlton, R. Winter, here. 

Council of the European Union agrees draft on financial benchmark controls

Out-Law.com, here. 

Le statut d'hébergeur de YouTube encore conforté en justice

Nextinpact.com, ici.

Jugement TGI Paris, Kare et Delante / YouTube, 29 janvier 2015, ici. 

Cloud Computing: Microsoft integriert Standards zum Datenschutz für Unternehmen

Heise.de, hier. 

Fostering Freedom Online: the Role of Internet Intermediaries

UNESCO, here. 

Price-match guarantees prevent rather than provoke price wars

The Economist, here. 

Négociations fournisseurs-distributeurs : sans accord, les amendes vont pleuvoir

LaTribune.fr, ici. 

Consideration of Options for Open Data Licences

Irish Government Reform Unit, Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, here (Word file).

IPO’s Comments on the Consultation to the European Commission Report on Patents and Standards

Here. 

"Être un laboratoire d'idées sur des sujets que demain structureront notre économie"

L'excellent B. Lasserre, Vidéo ici.

Traité de Marrakech : 3 à 6 ans supplémentaires pour l'Union européenne ?

ActuaLitté, ici. 

White House. Red Chair. Obama Meets Swisher

Recode.net, here.

The Obamization of Uber

Politico.com, here.

Promoting Economic Competitiveness While Safeguarding Privacy, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties in Domestic Use of Unmanned Aircraft Systems

US White House, here.

Industrie 4.0: Bosch will Standards vorantreiben

Heise.de, hier.

Expedia Will Pay Orbitz $115 Million if Antitrust Complications Scuttle Acquisition

Skift, here.

Stiftung Warentest: Reiseportale tricksen immer noch bei Onlinebuchungen

Spiegel.de, hier.

Fall Viagra und Co.: Bei Potenzmitteln spielt der Wettbewerb

NZZ, hier.

Google following Facebook down the zero-rate rabbit hole

GigaOm, here.

Konkurrenz für Tesla: Apple entwickelt offenbar eigenes Auto

FAZ.net, hier.

Google boss warns of 'forgotten century' with email and photos at risk

The Guardian, here.

Les bibliothécaires européens 'soutiennent le rapport Reda'

Actualitte.com, ici.

Why the high street is overdosing on caffeine

Tim Harford, here.

Data reveals a surge in the success rate of motions to dismiss after Alice

Iam-magazine.com/blog, here.

Competition, Consumer Protection, and The Right [Approach] to Privacy

M. Ohlhausen, A. Okuliar, here.

CMA appoints researchers to explore the commercial use of consumer data in three sectors

CMA, here.

Authorpreneurship

The Economist, here.

How 21 big tech companies got their names

TheNextWeb, here.

Droit d'auteur : rien n'empêche une loi d'être "inadaptée au contexte"

ActuaLitté, ici. 

La CNMC debate con expertos internacionales el diseño institucional de las autoridades de competencia y regulación

CNMC, Nota de Prensa, aquì. 

Antitrust, Privacy & Big Data: Setting the Scene

A. Burnside, here. 

La indemnización de los daños por el cártel de los rodamientos ferroviarios: ¿algunos millones de euros más para el Plan +Renfe?

F. Marcos, aquì. 

Regulation, antitrust and promotion of innovation? Challenges and experiences from communications to payment systems

Thursday 12 March 2015, 18:00 - 19:30 (registration from 17:30)
UCL Laws Graduate Wing, 1-2 Endsleigh Street, London WC1H 0EG


Speakers:
David Evans (Global Economics Group / UCL)
Steve Unger (Ofcom)
Andrea Coscelli (CMA)
Hannah Nixon (Payment Systems Regulator)
John Fingleton (Fingleton Associates)

Chair:
Antonio Bavasso (UCL / Allen & Overy LLP)

Website here.

EU Council backs European Commission proposal to fight against the manipulation of financial benchmarks

EC Press Release, here. 

New agency to sniff out threats in cyberspace

WashingtonPost, here.

Expedia's $1.6 Billion Purchase Of Orbitz Not Likely An Antitrust Concern

Forbes, here.

Sometimes one wonders...Is this still journalism or should we better find another name for it? Competition  policy propaganda campaign (CPPC) perhaps? It is worth $115 million, apparently, here.

Most Big Data is Social Data

Blogs.lse.ac.uk, here.

Now It’s Expedia Vs. Priceline As Orbtiz Swallowed For $1.6 Billion

SearchEngineLand, here.

Antitrust in China: NDRC v. Qualcomm – One All

AllenOvery, here.

Google Play Services v6.7 Is Rolling Out [APK Download]

AndroidPolice, here.

Text and Data Mining

J.-F. Dechamp, here.

YouTube Networks Sue Music Service For "Copyright Trolling"

HollywoodReporter, here.

TTIP negotiations: CEATL sounds the alarm on literature and publishing not being covered by the so-called ‘cultural exception’

Ceatl.eu, here.

CJEU: Mere Accessibility of Websites Enough for Jurisdiction

M. Husovec, here.

Inventors choose to reveal their secret sauce before patent approval

Science Daily, here.

International Comparison of Approaches to Online Copyright Infringement:

IPO, here.

Ökonomie des Teilens - nachhaltig und innovativ?

T. Theurl, J. Haucap, V.Demary, B. Priddat, N. Paech, hier.

After Android: Ubuntu, Xiaomi, Meizu or Tencent?

G. Moody, here.

Qualcomm to pay $975 million to resolve China antitrust dispute

Reuters, here.

Android and Antitrust: Attempts at a "More Technological Approach"

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

Google is serious about taking on telecom. Here’s why it’ll win

WashingtonPost, here.

Pro-competitive benefits of real net neutrality rules: The Dutch case

Dfmonitor.eu, here. 

The first Tizen smartphone isn't an "Android killer"—it's a bad Android clone

ArsTechnica, here. 

Copyright and the Music Marketplace

US Copyright Office, here. 

As Apple-Google Deal Expires, Who Will Win The Safari Default Search Business?

Searchengineland.com, here. 

Bilan 2014 du marché de la musique enregistrée

Syndicat National de l'édition Phonographique (SNEP), ici.

The Valuation of Unprotected Works: A Case Study of Public Domain Photographs on Wikipedia

P. Heald, M. Kretschmer, K. Erickson, here. 

Weiteres Bußgeld wegen vertikaler Preisbindung im Matratzenfall verhängt

Bundeskartellamt, hier. 

Learning from each other's experiences' - a review of the ICN Merger Workshop on cross-border cooperation

A.Baker, here.

The Advisory Council to Google on the Right To Be Forgotten

Here.

Google’s slippery slope: If search giant pays Twitter for content, should it pay all publishers?

VentureBeat, here.

Apple développe sa première application Android

Numerama, ici. 

EU taskforce to fight new Facebook privacy policy

ITpro.co.uk, here. 

Open Government Licenses Interoperability

LAPSI Report, here. 

Big Data and Differential Pricing

US White House, here.

(FTC "under pressure"?).

Dept. of Justice Blesses IEEE Rules on Injunctions and Reasonability

Consortiuminfo.org, here. 

Obama finds bipartisan support for first 'Big Data' privacy plan

Reuters, here.

How White House Thwarted FCC Chief on Internet Rules

WSJ, here.

FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler: This Is How We Will Ensure Net Neutrality

Wired, here.

Fürs Internet taugt das Kartellrecht nicht

FAZ.net, hier. 

Eurotunnel: when buying assets is a merger

Competition Bulletin, here. 

Antitrust, Privacy and Big Data

G.Buttarelli, here.

Microsoft to invest in Cyanogen, which hopes to take Android from Google

ArsTechnica, here. 

Wurstfabrikant Tönnies führt das Kartellamt vor

FAZ.net, hier.

Apple’s iOS tops Android to take first U.S. market share lead since 2012

Venturebeat.com, here. 

Warum Google und Uber sich gegenseitig Konkurrenz machen

FAZ.net, hier. 

Ansip:Copyright restricts Single Digital Market

Advanced-television.com, here. 

¿Qué nos han respondido a la consulta pública sobre Economía Colaborativa?

CNMC, aquí.

Projet Reda: une première analyse

Les autorités françaises, ici.

Facebook's got a new privacy policy, and it plans to share your data with partners

nakedsecurity.sophos, here.

Policy recommendations for open access to research data

Recodeproject.eu, here.

Patents Become A Literal 'Get Out Of Jail Early' Card For Chinese Prisoners

TechDirt, here.

Let the Right 'One' Win: Policy Lessons from the New Economics of Platforms

E. Weyl, A. White, here. 

Competition Policy and Intellectual Property: Insights from Developed Country Experience

F. M. Scherer, J. Watal, here. 

Evaluating Appropriability Defenses for the Exclusionary Conduct of Dominant Firms in Innovative Industries

J. Baker, here. 

Copyright policy and the right to science and culture

Human Rights Council, Report of the Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights, here (Word File).

UK IPO Copyright Notice: knitting and sewing patterns (seriously!)

Here. 

PSI Charging Policy: A Conceptual Framework For EU Guidance to the Member States

M. Ricolfi, here. 

Friedrich Hayek's Contribution to Antitrust Law and Its Modern Application

T. Schrepel, here. 

Google Now now SLURPS data from third party apps so YOU don't have to

The Register, here.

S. Korea's antitrust watchdog takes aim at global tech companies - again

koreaherald.com, here.

Booking.com: senza la rate parity per gli hotel sarebbero guai

Bookingblog.com, here. 

How, and Why, Apple overtook Microsoft

NYTimes, here. 

Google will change its privacy policy after signing an agreement with the UK’s data regulator

TheNextWeb, here.

One'd wish competition authorities were even half that proactive...

Empfehlung zum Internet der Dinge

Datenschutzstelle Liechtenstein, hier. 

Accolti gli impegni di iTunes, Google, Amazon e Gameloft in materia di diffusione di App apparentemente gratuite

AGCM, here. 

Google Revenue Falls Short as Competition on Mobile Intensifies

Finance.yahoo.com, here. 

US Scholars and Net Neutrality: Sometimes Antitrust Just Ain't Enough

Letter, here. 

Jeff Bezos: Raising the price of Amazon Prime was a great decision

GigaOm, here. 

Privacy and human behavior in the age of information

A. Acquisti, L. Brandimarte, G. Loewenstein, here. 

Frank Pasquale unravels the new machine age of algorithms and bots

Passcode.csmonitor.com/frankpasquale, here. 

Zoë Keating vs YouTube: The End of an Artist’s Right to Choose Where Their Music Appears on The Internet

Thetrichordist.com, here. 

Elektronische Etiketten: Preise werden beweglicher

Heise.de, hier.

Netflix’s Secret Special Algorithm Is a Human

T. Wu, here.

Internet of Things: Privacy and Security in a Connected World

FTC Staff Report, here. 

One bright day in the middle of the night…: Reactions to my copyright evaluation report

J. Reda, here. 

Permission to Link Making Available via Hyperlinks in the European Union after Svensson

M. Burri, here. 

A manifesto for an e-lending limitation in copyright

 S. Dusollier, here. 

"Google Play edition"-Smartphones und -Tablets sterben aus

Heise.de, hier. 

Privacy and Competition in the Digital Economy

G. Buttarelli, Speaking Points, here. 

Humanities Open Book: Unlocking Great Out-Of-Print Books

Neh.gov, here. 

Is the Shevill Doctrine Still Up to Date? Some Further Thoughts on CJEU’s Judgment in Hejduk (C-441/13)

Conflictoflaws.net, here. 

Google Updates Its Android Compatibility Definition Document For Lollipop

AndroidPolice, here.

Implikationen der Verhaltensökonomik für die Wettbewerbspolitik

J. Haucap, hier. 

It's Windows *10*, Because It's 10 Years Behind Open Source

G. Moody, here. 

Pinterest’s Problem: Getting Men on Board

WSJ, here.

Is Google Playing Fair with Android Developers?

Theinformation.com, here. 

Google Chairman Eric Schmidt: "The Internet Will Disappear"

Hollywood Reporter, here.

Google’s idiot-proof guide shows Firefox users how to dump Yahoo search

VentureBeat, here. 

FCC urges tech industry to reinvent textbooks, teaching

Eschoolnews.com, here. 

German parity ruling opens doors for hoteliers

Hotelnewsnow.com, here.

Samsung: Tizen-Apps bis 2016 provisionsfrei

Heise.de, hier.

Blackberry-Chef: Apples iMessage verstößt gegen Netzneutralität

Heise.de, hier. 

CJEU says exhaustion only applies to the tangible medium of a work (so no such thing as a digital exhaustion?)

IPKat, here. 

Why Apple just spent up to $50 million for a music data company

GigaOm, here.

Tencent’s long-awaited Android ROM enters beta

TechinAsia, here.

Will e-commerce make prices more flexible?

Voxeu.org, here. 

Google Invests In SpaceX To Further Its Goal Of Bringing Internet Access To Everyone

AndroidPolice.com, here.

Omega v. Costco Decision Makes Clear That Copyright Neither Condones Nor Protects Anticompetitive Actions

Project-disco.org, here.

Dutch Court of Appeal rules on second-hand sale of e-books

FutureofCopyright,com, here.

The Value of Hashtag Trade Marks - A Matter of Strategy?

PrimaryOpinion.com, here.

Draft Report on the implementation of Directive 2001/29/EC

Rapporteuse J. Reda, here. 

Google searches for a way to avoid Microsoft’s fate

TheGuardian.com, here. 

The Cathedral of Computation

The Atlantic, here. 

Mass Surveilance, Part 2: Technology foresight, options for longer term security and privacy improvements

European Parliamentary Research Service, Study here. 

Sportverband als Marktbeherrscher; ordre public

Kartellblog, hier.

Be My Eyes lets you lend your eyes to help the blind

TheNextWeb.com, here.

Patent reform advocates are launching a ‘super-coalition’ to whack patent trolls

WashingtonPost.com, here.

CJEU says that owner of an online database not protected by copyright or sui generis right may restrict its use by contract

IPKat, here. 

Mergers: EC opens in-depth investigation into a joint venture for online music licensing between collecting societies PRSfM, STIM and GEMA

Press Release, here. 

Google’s data supremacy: should we be worried?

Andrewwhitby.com, here. 

Amazon exec: Here’s why it pays to make your ebooks exclusive to us

GigaOm, here. 

Top 3 Tech Trends in 2015

Think with Google, here.

Avis relatif aux questions de concurrence concernant certaines professions juridiques réglementées

Autorité de la concurrence, Avis n° 15-A-02 du 9 janvier 2015, ici. 

Something is wrong with Apple’s international app pricing

J. Gans, here. 

The Damages Directive – Towards more effective enforcement of the EU competition rules

European Commission, here. 

Osservazioni sulla “Dichiarazione dei diritti in Internet”

G. Pitruzzella, qui. 

Supreme Court seek Obama administration views on Google-Oracle dispute

Reuters.com, here. 

Le TGI de Paris ordonne le déréférencement d’un lien à Google Inc.

Legalis.net, ici. 

Off-topic: la légèreté c'est très dur à faire

Cabu interviewé par Charles Sigel,  Podcast ici.

Digital vs. Print: Reading Comprehension and the Future of the Book

J. Tanner, here.

(missing from the analysis, though: tablets powered by great apps like GoodReader, used indoor and positioned at a convenient angle - moreover, not clearly stated that reading and taking notes with whatever medium are two distinct processes)

Google Results For “Car Insurance” Could Look Different Very Soon

SearchEngineLand, here.

Silicon Valley economists

TheEconomist, here.

Today: Supreme Court reviews Google v. Oracle Petition; Interoperability Ruling Under Scrutiny

J. Band, here. 

Google Compare auto insurance comparison shopping site to be launched soon?

Reuters.com, here. 

Le blocage administratif des sites terroristes est sur la rampe

Nextinpact.com, ici. 

CAT on the Eurotunnel/SeaFrance merger

Here.

The "very unusual difference in outcome between the application of the UK and French domestic merger regimes to the same transaction gave rise to some comment."

OLG Düsseldorf erklärt Paritätsklauseln von HRS für klar wettbewerbswidrig

Hotellerie.de, hier.

Mitteilung des OLG Düsseldorf hier.

Bundeskartellamt dazu hier.

The Sharing Economy and Consumer Protection Regulation: The Case for Policy Change

Mercatus Research, here. 

End of the Authors Guild v. HathiTrust Saga

ARL Policy Notes, here. 

Marrakesh Treaty: Mali takes the plunge for Africa

Afro-ip.blogspot, here. 

Switzerland: The library’s document delivery service (scanning and sending journal articles by email to users) complies with copyright law

Kluwer Copyright Blog, here. 

PMI: Draft final order published for formal public consultation

CMA, draft order here; Draft Explanatory Note here.

(a whole two pages required to explain the prohibition on equivalent behaviour, 14-16)

Googles Dominanz in Amerika bröckelt

FAZ, hier. 

EU negotiating texts in TTIP

EC, here.

Troll fatigue: Earnest debate on patent abuse at CES

ArsTechnica, here.

Take note Republicans and Democrats, this is what a pro-innovation platform looks like

Washington Post, here. 

Privacy and the IoT: Navigating Policy Issues

E. Ramirez, here.

European Copyright Society calls for single EU copyright law

Out-law, here. 

Avis sur le décret encadrant l'activité des VTC et des taxis

Autorité de la concurrence, ici. Décret ici. 

A fully-functioning administrative competition authority: the French example

B. Lasserre, here. 

The Principle of Transparency and its Limits in the context of Competition Investigations

K. Lenaerts, here. 

Open standards and industry collaboration needed for 'internet of things' to succeed, says Samsung head

Out-law.com, here.

Bad News for Users – Google News withdrawn from Spain after newspapers forced to charge for traffic

Kluwercompetitionlawblog.com, here. 

Correcting copywrongs: European copyright reform is finally on the horizon

J. Reda, Video here. 

Letters from the War of Ecosystems

S. Hyrynsalmi, here. 

„Privatheit wird zu einer Ware“

Berliner-zeitung.de, hier. 

Nouvel accord sur l’exception pédagogique : quelques avancées, mais un dispositif toujours inadapté

Scinfolex.com, ici. 

Apple Watch Will Deliver ‘Hyper-Local’ Ads On Your Wrist

BusinessInsider, here. 

Building the Entrepreneurial State: A New Framework for Envisioning and Evaluating a Mission-oriented Public Sector

M. Mazzucato, here. 

The Enormous Implications Of Facebook Indexing 1 Trillion Of Our Posts

TechCrunch, here. 

Injunctive Relief in Disputes Related to Standard-Essential Patents: Time for the CJEU to Set Fair and Reasonable Presumptions

P. Larouche, N. Zingales, here. 

Abuso del diritto al brevetto e abuso di posizione dominante: il caso Pfizer

G. Ghidini, G. Cavani, P. F. Piserà, qui. 

Big Data, Machine Learning, and the Social Sciences: Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency

Medium.com, here. 

Les prix personnalisés, un défi pour l'autorité de la concurrence

LesEchos, ici. 

Study on the making available right and its relationship with the reproduction right in cross-border digital transmissions

Prepared by De Wolf & Partners for the European Commission, here. 

U.S. judge concerned Android antitrust lawsuit too vague

Reuters, here. 

The Future of Privacy: Digital Life in 2025

Pew Research Center, here. 

Prêt numérique en bibliothèque: à peine acté, déjà critiqué

Lexpress.fr, ici. 

After Intel: Effects-Based Approach, Price-Cost Test, and Administrability

M. Motta, Presentation, here. 

How much traffic did Facebook deliver to Bing? Very little

Insidefacebook, here. 

Apple 'failing to protect Chinese factory workers'

BBC.com, here.

Apple's reaction here (from The Verge)

IP and Standard Setting

OECD Competition Committee, Note by Germany, here. 

Opinion 2/13 on EU Accession to the ECHR: The CJEU as Humpty Dumpty

Eutopialaw.com, here. 

Google aiming to go straight into car with next Android

Reuters, here.

Monopolkommission: Die Zähmung der Internet-Giganten

FAZ.net, hier.

Microsoft stops offering alternative browsers to Windows users in Europe

PCWorld, here. 

ETH-Bibliothek document delivery service is admissible

Ethz.ch, here.

Federal Court's press release ici; Judgment 4A_295/2014 hier. 

Governments Should Make Markets, Not Just Fix Them

M. Mazzucato, here. 

Canada court to order Apple to turn over records in iPhone probe

Reuters.com, here. 

EU court ruling could make it easier to get patents for cell therapies

Out-law.com, here. 

How to crack the Booking.com algorithm

Tnooz, here. 

WIPO: Study On Copyright Exceptions Stimulates Broad Discussion With Author

IP-Watch, here. 

Deux ententes entre fabricants de produits d'hygiène et d'entretien sanctionnées

Autorité de la concurrence, magnifique Communiqué de presse ici, Décision ici. 

IP, Standard Setting, and Injunctions

M. Dolmans, OECD Competition Committee, here. 

Intellectual Property and Standard Setting

OECD Competition Committee, Note by the United States, here. 

Global internet authority ICANN has been hacked

TheVerge, here. 

Independent Library Report for England

Presented to Government by William Sieghart and an expert panel, here. 

Google looks to head off U.S. antitrust lawsuit over Android

Yahoo.finance, here.

An organism which is incapable of developing into a human being does not constitute a human embryo within the meaning of the Biotech Directive

CJEU Case C-364/13,  here.

The art – and science – of scaling in the two-sided marketplace

TheNextWeb, here. 

The Everything Book: reading in the age of Amazon

TheVerge, here. 

Leak shows: Trade treaty TiSA could undermine national data protection regulations

Netzpolitik.org, here. 

Apple Wins Decade-Old Suit Over iTunes Updates

NYTimes, here.

Consultation on proposed changes to proceedings in order to align with Directive on antitrust damages actions

EC, here.

Open Content – A practical guide to using Creative Commons Licences

T. Kreutzer for UNESCO, here. 

Jury finds Apple not guilty of harming consumers in iTunes DRM case

TheVerge, here. 

The economics of open and closed systems

Autorité de la concurrence and CMA, here (French version here).

The sharing economy: Will self-regulation by startups suffice to protect consumers?

TechRepublic, here.

Scrutinizing Patent Assertion Entities: What Competition Enforcers are Doing

AAI and CCIA, Video here.

Parity clauses from hotel distribution contracts to be banned once for all

HotRec.eu, here.

CBP onderzoekt nieuwe privacyvoorwaarden Facebook

CBPweb.nl, hier. 

Boycott Called Against Spanish Newspaper Publishers' Association Titles In Protest Of New Copyright Law

TechDirt, here. 

Uber responds to Sen. Al Franken: ‘We care deeply’ about privacy

VentureBeat, here. 

E-Book Legal Restrictions Are Screwing Over Blind People

Wired, here. 

Monday's e-book antitrust appeal hearing went well for Apple

Fortune.com, here. 

Mobilitics, saison 2 : Les smartphones et leurs apps sous le microscope de la CNIL et d'Inria

CNIL, ici. 

Datenschutz: Justizministerium drängt auf klaren Rechtsrahmen für Scoring

Heise.de, hier. 

CBP issues sanction to Google for infringements privacy policy

CBPweb.nl, here. 

ACCC authorises resale price maintenance for the first time

Clifford Chance, here. 

UberPop sera interdit dès le 1er janvier

LeMonde, ici.

Warum all die Pakete?

FAZ.net, hier. 

Commission announces the launch of market tests in investigations in the online hotel booking sector by the French, Swedish and Italian competition authorities

EC, here.

Italian Competition Authority, here.
Swedish Competition Authority, here.
French Competition Authority, here.

Text of the proposed commitments (in French), here. 

Che cosa indica e come si traduce la parola inglese whistleblower?

Accademia della Crusca, qui.

Facebook dumps Microsoft Web search results

Reuters.com, here. 

Glitch Causes Items To Be Sold On Amazon For 1p

News.Sky.com, here. 

The economics of P2P lending

Bruegel.org, here. 

The Rise of a New Smartphone Giant: China's Xiaomi

NYTimes.com, here. 

Former iTunes Engineer Tells Court He Worked to Block Competitors

WSJ, here.

Kenneth Crews Presenting the Update of His Report to WIPO SCCR

Archived Webcast here (Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights: Twenty-Ninth Session - December 8 to December 12, 2014, Wed 10, Afternoon, from 4:47). 

The Independence of National Competition Authorities

A. Italiener, here. 

Obama's DOJ is bringing its big guns to the Apple e-book appeal

Fortune.com, here. 

Efficiencies and Antitrust Reconsidered: An Evolutionary Perspective

T. Horton, here. 

Consolidation of Proposed Texts Contained In Document SCCR/26/3

Prepared by African Group, Brazil, Ecuador, India and Uruguay, here. 

COMESA's merger assessment guidelines: What you need to know

Werksmans.com, here.

Urheberrecht: Razzia bei Betreibern und Nutzern zweier E-Book-Plattformen

Heise.de, hier. 

Canada competition watchdog probing Apple over iPhone contracts

PcWorld, here.

Google Forced Amazon To Remove Its Main Shopping App From The Play Store Because Of Its Appstore Integration

Android Police, here.

Dear Günther, we need to talk about ancillary copyright

Some European Publishers, Letter here.

EU Quizzes Google Rivals on Search and Ads

Businessweek.com, here. 

Google's Schmidt: You have nothing to fear from AI

Cnet.com, here. 

Barclays and Deutsche Bank to be investigated over forex algorithm

EuropeanCeo.com, here

The Internet of Things

OECD Technology Foresight Forum 2014, here. 

Shaping Up to the Future

Raconteur.net, here. 

The Data Protection Directive applies to a video recording made with a surveillance camera installed by a person on his family home and directed towards the public footpath

Case C-212/13, František Ryneš v Úřad pro ochranu osobních údajů, here. 

Google News Shuttered in Spain Thanks to “Ancillary Copyright” Law

EFF.org, here.

See also  here (ElMundo) and here (FAZ). 

Dancing around data

M. Stucke and A. Grunes, here. 

Google Cultural Institute opens up as a platform for museums to build their own mobile apps

VentureBeat, here. 

Canada: Tories target cross-border price gap with Competition Bureau bill

Theglobeandmail.com, here. 

Giants of digital: separating the signal from the noise and the sound from the fury

A. Chisholm, here. 

Nokia's map app for Android is no longer a Samsung exclusive

Theverge.com, here. More background info here.

Android Wear gets Lollipop update, adds watch face API, new features

Arstechnica.com, here. 

Open Letter to App Marketplaces from 23 Privacy Authorities

Priv.gc.ca, here. 

The Object of Effects

A. Italiener, here.

The General Court confirms that the French Ordre national des pharmaciens restricted competition on the clinical biology analysis market

Case T-90/11, here.

La CNMC y la economía colaborativa

CNMCblog, aquí

Intel and Article 102 TFEU Case Law: Making Sense of a Perpetual Controversy

P. Ibáñez Colomo, here.

Android's winning mobile strategy: Sell to the poor

TechRepublic, here.

How much of your news site’s search traffic comes from Google News? Probably 5 to 25 percent

Nieman.lab, here.

Foreign Antitrust Defendants Feel Some Relief from the Reach of the Sherman Act in Civil Matters

Shearman.com, here.

The Sharing Economy and Consumer Protection Regulation: The Case for Policy Change

Mercatus Research, here. 

YouTube Now Tells You How Copyrighted Music Will Affect Your Video Before You Upload It

TechCrunch, here. 

A privacy policy for cars: What automakers know about you (and what they’re doing with it)

Washingtonpost, here. 

Amazon Debuts New 'Make an Offer' Feature for Price Negotiations

Streetinsider.com, here. 

Google Fights to Stop Lawsuit Over ‘Clandestine’ Cookies

Bloomberg.com, here. 

Uber’s “ruthless execution” and “swagger” are key to its success

VentureBeat, here. 

Exclusion and sources of technological competition in mobile networks

K. Stylianou, here. 

Oracle asks Supreme Court to reject Android copyright case

ComputerWorld, here. 

Future of AI and the Law

R. Susskind, Video here. 

Signé protocole sur la diffusion du livre numérique par les bibliothèques publiques

Livreshebdo.fr, ici.  

The rule of law on the Internet and in the wider digital world

 Council of Europe, Commissioner for Human Rights, here. 

Hachette will start selling books straight from Twitter

GigaOm, here.

Das sind Amazons wahre Probleme

FAZ.net, hier.

Per Se Versus Rule of Reason Analysis for Paid Priority on the Internet

ICLE, here.

AstraZeneca and Ranbaxy Win a Closely Watched Pay-to-Delay Case

Blogs.wsj.com, here. 

Herr Mundt bei der Studienvereinigung

KartellBlog, hier.

Les idées de Manuel Valls pour la protection des données personnelles

Numerama.com, ici.

We Can’t Trust Uber

NYTimes,here.

Standardised APIs to be used to facilitate data portability in banking

Out-law.com, here.

When G.M. was Google

NewYorker, here.

Google admits that advertisers wasted their money on more than half of internet ads

QZ.com, here.

Zuckerberg is on shaky ground criticizing Apple’s business model

VentureBeat, here.

Modifying devices - Wanted: a tinkerer’s charter

TheEconomist, here.

Apple on trial: company execs say DRM was forced on them by record labels

ArsTechnica, here.

5th Report on the Monitoring of Patent Settlements

EC, here.

How to regulate data protection across EU borders remains main sticking point to reform

Out-law.com, here. 

Jean Tirole: Ökonomie-Nobelpreisträger 2014

J. Haucap, H.-T. Normann, hier. 

Data sharing and open data for banks

Fingleton Associates and Open Data Institute, here.

Google faces antitrust allegations over its ad-buying network

Finance.yahoo.com, here.

The role of competition in banking markets

A. Chrisholm, here. 

In Google Books Appeal, judges focus on profit and security

Gigaom.com, here.

Intel v Commission: Keep Calm and Carry on!

R. Whish, here (via ChillingCompetition).

Strumenti di Better Regulation e test PMI

G. Pitruzzella, qui.

Sinking of South Stream gives Brussels a headache

Euractiv.com, here.

IP and Standard Setting

European Union, Note, OECD Competition Committee, here.

Hawking’s speech software goes online as open source

Iol.co.za, here.

Second Bite: Can Apple clear its name in the ebooks drama?

Fortune.com, here.

Flickr Plans To Sell Creative Commons Photos And That's Okay...

TechDirt, here. 

Technology is Culture

Ccianet.org, here. 

Why Eric Schmidt doesn’t know how Google works

Venturebeat.com, here. 

No abuse of a dominant position by AstraZeneca

ACM.nl, here. 

EU Asks Russia's Yandex for Evidence in Potential Google Antitrust Case

Sputniknews.com, here.

GigaOm's original news here.

Google's search deal with Apple expires in early 2015, could bring new default to Safari

AppleInsider, here.