Are the European Competition Authorities making a less anticompetitive market more anticompetitive? The Booking.com saga

P. Akman, here. 

Complaint Regarding Google’s Failure To Offer ‘Right To Be Forgotten’ In The U.S

Consumer Watchdog, here. 

Competitive neutrality and its application in selected developing countries

UNCTAD, here.

Activating Actavis in Europe – The Proposal of a “Structured Effects-based” Analysis for Pay for Delay Settlements

S. Gullasch, here. 

Adding a New Dimension to EU Pharmaceutical Antitrust - Pay for Delay Settlements as Part of a Unilateral Strategy such as Product Hopping

S. Gullasch, here. 

Neuer juristischer Ärger für Daimler-Tochter myTaxi wegen Rabatten

Heise.de, hier.

Bulgarian Competition Authority has fined the companies that provide Uber's services

Novinite.com, here.
Press Release of the Commission for Protection of Competition, here.

Google Translate: 

CPC penalize companies Hubert Dutch BV and Razier Opareyshans BV with 50 000 lev for violations under Art. 29 of the LPC (general prohibition of unfair competition) in connection with the provision of the service UberX in the city. Sofia on 12.09.2014 In its decision, the Commission states the termination of the infringements. , and immediate execution of the decision in that part .

The proceedings is initiated automatically by a Commission decision in relation to the received from the Municipality of Sofia information on the introduction of the service "UberX" in the city. Sofia and subsequently merged with other proceedings instituted at the request of "Okay Supertrans" against AD "Hubert Bulgaria" EOOD, again in connection with the service UberX .

During the study found that in providing the service UberX by Hubert BV and Razier Opareyshans BV offenses against the general prohibition of Art. 29 of the CPA. The service has the marks of taxi passengers as far as is done by car fee, requested by the passenger route through the mobile app Uber, which liaises between the passenger and the actual executor of carriage - the user-guide.A comparison between p redlaganite by Hubert BV and Razier Opareyshans BV services and services provided by other mobile applications (even the services of a typical taxi companies) reaches the conclusion that the services are interchangeable, since   lead to the same result - the implementation of a paid shuttle point to another. But in the case at UberX not require the contractor to transport meets specified in the Bulgarian legislation requirements to taxi drivers and their cars. In this sense, when providing service process Hubert BV and Razier Opareyshans BV violate fair trade practice being contrary to the statutory rules governing the conduct of public transport / taxi. Hubert BV and Razier Opareyshans BV create conditions for circumvention, saving users guides means of obtaining the necessary licenses and permits for taxis. Thus the defendants violated the rules of fair competition, procure unfair advantage over competitors and the economic benefit of this behavior.

The Commission also imposed a fine of two companies 50 000 Levs of default for assistance for lack of refined during the study information.

 Commission finds that by "Hubert Bulgaria" EOOD is not a violation of art. 29 of the CPA, as the company is not directly involved in providing the service UberX,   and perform ancillary to Hubert B. C.

Full text of the Decision in Bulgarian, here. 

Net Neutrality: Department of Telecom panel against Facebook's Internet.org, favours Airtel Zero

IndiaToday, here. 

Personal Data and Privacy

WIK-Consult for Ofcom, here.

Orphan works in the US: getting rid of “a frustration, a liability risk, and a major cause of gridlock”?

R.Meier, here. 

Discovering the Miracle of Large Numbers of Antitrust Investigations in Russia: The Role of Competition Authority Incentives

S. Advasheva, D. Tsytsulina, S. Golovanova,  Y. Sidorova, here. 

Promoting or restricting competition?: Regulation of the UK retail residential energy market since 2008

S. Littlechild, here. 

Product Redesign and the Abuse of Dominance: The apple IPod Itune Litigation

L. Popofsky, here. 

The Fine Line Between “Fortuitous Discovery” and “Fishing Expedition:" CoJ Finds Dawn Raids by the EC to be Illegal

Steptoe.com, here. 

Netzneutralität: Europa schafft ab

FAZ, hier. 

At last, Uber has found a friend in India

QZ.com, here. 

UK Energy market investigation

Summary of provisional findings report, here; Notice of possible remedies, here. 

Marktmachtmissbrauch der Deutsche Post AG im Bereich der Großkundentarife

Bundeskartellamt, hier. 

Automated Experiments on Ad Privacy Settings: A Tale of Opacity, Choice, and Discrimination

Am.Datta, Michael C. Tschantz, and An. Datta, here.

Probing the Dark Side of Google’s Ad-Targeting System

Technologyreview.com, here. 

Openness/Open Access for Public Sector information and works — the Creative Commons licensing model

Epsiplatform.eu, here. 

Why Airbnb needs to be better at search than Google

Wired, here.

Google gets into the carpooling game with the launch of RideWith in Israel

VentureBeat, here. See also here. 

International cooperation in merger cases as a tool for effective enforcement of competition law

UNCTAD Secretariat, here. 

The role of competition in the pharmaceutical sector and its benefits for consumers

UNCTAD Secretariat, here.
See other contributions and presentations here. 

Writers Are Going Cuckoo For Kindle Unlimited

TechCrunch, here. 

The Internet of Things: Mapping the Value Beyond the Hype

McKinsey, here. 

Are National Courts the Addressees of the Infosoc Three-Step Test?

R. Arnold, E. Rosati, here. 

Après Uber, AirBnb dans le collimateur de Bercy ?

Deplacementspros.com, ici. 

Beach Reading: "Debt: The First 5,000 Years"

D. Graeber, here.

Vivil startet Pilotprozess gegen Südzucker

Handelsblatt, hier.

The French, Italian and Swedish Competition Authorities Accept the Commitments Offered by Booking.com

ECN Brief 2/2015, here.
No direct link, hence:

In their investigations of so-called "price parity" clauses (also called "best price" clauses) contained in agreements between online travel agencies (OTAs) and hotels, the French Competition Authority (FCA), the Italian Competition Authority (ICA) and the Swedish Competition Authority (SCA) coordinated their investigations and, on 21 April 2015, adopted parallel decisions accepting identical commitments [1] from the market-leading OTA Booking.com and making them binding in their respective jurisdictions. The European Commission assisted the authorities in coordinating their work.

OTAs such as Booking.com operate internet platforms, on which consumers can search for, compare and book hotel rooms free of charge. Hotels only pay commission to the OTA for its services when a booking is made. The price parity clauses essentially require the hotels to offer the same or a better room price on Booking.com's platform as they offer on their other sales channels, including the hotel's own direct sales channels, be it online or offline. This means that Booking.com can raise its commission rate without the risk that hotels will translate this cost increase by offering higher room prices on Booking.com’s platform than on competing OTA platforms. The price parity clause, combined with the fact that hotels generally tend to sign up with several competing platforms, implies that Booking.com has less incentive to compete with other OTAs by charging lower commission rates to hotels than would otherwise be the case. As a result, the price parity clauses may restrict competition between existing OTAs and may lead to higher commission rates, which in turn may translate into higher consumer prices for hotel rooms. Furthermore, the price parity clause may constitute a barrier to entry on the market, by making it more difficult for an OTA to enter or expand on the market by competing with low commission rates in exchange for hotels offering lower room prices on that OTA’s platform. The three national competition authorities (NCAs) launched investigations to ascertain whether the price parity clauses in Booking.com’s agreements with hotels infringed the prohibition of restrictive agreements in Article 101 TFEU and, in the case of France and Sweden, the equivalent national legislation. The FCA’s investigation was also initiated on the basis of a possible infringement of the prohibition against abuse of dominance of Article 102 TFEU and its national equivalent.

In the course of the investigations, Booking.com conducted a customer survey of 14 000 consumers in 9 Member States and produced economic papers to argue, essentially, that parity between room prices in hotels’ own sales channels and prices offered on Booking.com’s platform is important in preventing free-riding on Booking.com’s investments and ensuring the continued supply of search and comparison services free of charge to consumers.

To solve the identified competition concerns, Booking.com offered a first version of commitments that were market tested and subsequently improved. In essence, the adopted commitments prevent Booking.com from requiring hotels to offer better or equal room prices via Booking.com than they do via competing OTAs. In addition, Booking.com cannot prevent hotels from offering discounted room prices provided that these are not marketed or made available to the general public online. The discounted prices can be offered online to members of a hotel’s loyalty scheme and/or via offline channels (e g direct emails, telephone and walk-in bookings).

The three NCAs performed economic analyses of the commitments and concluded that the will meet their competition concerns. The commitments will put pressure on OTAs' commission rates and the quality of service, which will ultimately lead to lower room prices and better services for consumers. The commitments will also make it easier for new OTAs to enter the market and for innovative OTAs to expand.

Following the commitment decision, the Booking.com cases were closed in France, Italy and Sweden. However, the respective competition authorities continue their investigations concerning Expedia’s price parity clauses and in France also concerning HRS's parity clauses.

See further:

Decision of the Autorité de la concurrence:

Decision of the Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato:

Decision of the Konkurrensverket (translation):

[1] The French version of the commitments provides for a mid-term review.

OTA lobby report preceded US airline antitrust inquiry, House of Cards-style

Tnooz.com, here. 

Uber annonce la suspension d’UberPop en France

Le Monde, ici. 

OTAs see chaos when rate parity ends

HotelMarketing.com, here. 

Challenging assumptions about behavioral policy

Behavioral Science & Policy Association, here. 

Ubérisation : une course au moins disant social ?

Mechanical Turk

F. Marty, ici. 

Dutch universities start their Elsevier boycott plan

Vermeer, Brieflezende vrouw in het blauw

Universonline.nl, here. 

Expedia gleicht seine AGB an die von Booking.com an: Der nächste Bluff im Paritäten-Poker

Hotellerie.de, here.

Antitrust Economics 2.0

Lear Conference, all presentations available here. 

Booking.com mis en demeure par l'UFC-Que Choisir pour ses conditions générales d'utilisation

Numerama.com, ici. 

Expedia Amends Rate, Conditions and Availability Parity Clauses

Expediainc.com, here. 

"Predatory Privacy": The Limits of Economic Analysis

O. Lynskey, Presentation here. 

PCWs & other matching platforms - The frenemies of competition

T. Curzon Price, Presentation here. 

Best Price Clauses Set by Intermediation Platforms: Disentangling the Effects

K.-U. Kühn, Presentation here. 

Data Privacy, Data Sharing and the Internet of Things

J. Porter, Presentation here. 

Schleppende Zulassung von UberX-Fahrern

wiwo.de, hier.

Apple Music Is For People With No Clue What To Stream

TechCrunch, here.

(the first cats on @Wavesblog ever - début in 2007)

Uber Stages Protest At NYC City Hall Against Bill Throttling New Driver Signups

Techcrunch.com. here. 

Canada : des bibliothécaires dénoncent le racket des exemplaires numériques

Actualitte.com, here.

104-page Disconnect's Complaint against Google (Android)

Non-confidential copy, here.

(Plenty of fascinating tech details)

Appeals court says Apple is liable for e-book price fixing

ArsTechnica, here.

Il diritto di fotografare la grande bellezza che divide l'Europa

Genoa, "Bolla" by Renzo Piano
(and "Matitone" in the background)

 LaRepubblica.it, qui.

Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin: Privacy Needs to Be the Default, Not an Option

Wired, here. 

The Internet of Things Changes the Company-Customer Relationship

P. Weichselbaum, here. 

Apple expanding user privacy, will prevent iOS apps from seeing other installed apps

AppleInsider.com, here. 

When Regulation Protects Privilege Instead of People: Government Restraints of Trade – A Competition Enforcer’s Perspective

M. Ohlhausen, here. 

Supreme Court won’t weigh in on Oracle-Google API copyright battle

ArsTechnica, here. 

Tim Wu: "The main surprising and shocking realization is that Google is not presenting its best product"

Recode.net, here. Study here. 

Uber: more like eBay than like McDonald’s?

NewYorker.com, here. 

Deux dirigeants d'Uber en garde à vue

Numerama.com, ici.

L’innovation de rupture: de nouveaux défis pour le droit de la concurrence

T. Schrepel, ici. 

Oracle v. Google Android-Java copyright case goes back to San Fran: Supreme Court denies Google petition

Fosspatents.com, here. 

The German Pillow Fight Drags On: "Caution with new terms of Booking.com!"

German Hotel Association, here. 

Apparently, "everyone" knew of a leaked (online) copy of Google (Search) Statement of Objections - I didn't

With a little help from @wavesblog readers, perhaps?

ProSiebenSat.1 acquires German online price comparison business Verivox for up to €210 million

Tech.eu, here. 

Warning: You are about to be nudged

G. Loewenstein, C. Bryce, D. Hagmann, & S. Rajpal, here.

Uber’s Biggest Rival In China Claims It Handles 3 Million Rides Per Day

Techcrunch.com, here. 

Booking.com alarmed by France’s new hotel rate parity plans

Hotelmarketing, here.
The original LesEchos article here. 

Uber, sharing and the compensation mechanism

J. Gans, here. 

Is Google Degrading Search? Consumer Harm from Universal Search

M. Luca, T. Wu and the Yelp Data Science Team, here. 

Two-Sided Platforms: Discussion

Here

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

Bundeskartellamt verhängt Bußgelder in Höhe von 75 Mio. Euro gegen Automobilzulieferer

Bundeskartellamt, hier.

Uber hits legal speed bumps

Politico.eu, here.

SCOTUS Reaffirms that in Antitrust Cases, It Gives Less Deference to Precedent

JDSupra.com, here.

Cloud Giants And The War For Customer Data

TeleCrunch, here. 

The Washington Post built a social network for its freelancers to better match skills to stories

NiemanLab, here.

Getty Joins EU’s Google Complaint

WSJ, here. 

Verlagsgruppe Bonnier gibt hartes DRM in E-Books auf

Heise.de, hier.

Platfoms (of) Power

R. Mansell, here. 

How Taylor Swift revealed (and healed) Apple's rift with musicians

Wired.co.uk, here. 

Apple Says “We Hear You Taylor Swift”, Will Pay Artists During Free Trial

TechCrunch, here.

L'économie collaborative

France Culture, Podcast ici.

The Economist as Engineer

Freakeconomics, Podcast here.

Domaine Public, abus et Amazon

Framablog, ici.

Uber driver case poses questions for ‘sharing economy’

FT, here.

"The case highlighted a fundamental dilemma for internet companies built on the booming freelance sector. Establishing some level of control over the workers who use their platforms is often essential to ensuring a consistent level of service.

But the further they go — for instance, by laying down standards of training or conduct — the more they lay themselves open to one day being forced to accept the full responsibilities of employers. For the California labour commissioner, Uber’s control of pricing, tipping, driver ratings and the type of car made it look like an employer."

UK private copyright exception 'unlawful', rules High Court

Out-law.com, here. 

Data and trust in digital markets: what are the concerns for competition and for consumers?

Wallace Collection, London

A. Chrisholm, here. 

EU Competition Tender: Feasibility study on the microeconomic impact of enforcement of competition policies on innovation

Here.

(Eagerly waiting  for the results).

Les hôteliers se réjouissent, Booking.com fait grise mine

Challenges.fr, ici. 

Competition and politics: what does a healthy relationship look like?

A. Chrisholm, here. 

Online reviews and endorsements

CMA, Report here.

Ambition Numérique

Rapport, CNNum, ici.

Dealing with Losers: The Political Economy of Policy Transitions

M. Trebilcock, here. 

Google Is Its Own Secret Weapon in the Cloud

NYT, here. 

Google’s War Against Apps

Theinformation.com, here (paywall).
See also here, here and here.

CCP Annual Conference 2015 Live Blogging

Here.
Conference Programme here. 

Core data protection topics in the perspective of the trilogue between European institutions.

WP29, here. 

Vertikale Preisbindung im Lebensmitteleinzelhandel - Großteil der Bußgeldverfahren abgeschlossen

Bundeskartellamt.de, hier.
Fallberichte hier (Röstkaffee), hier (Haribo-Produkte) und hier (Ritter-Produkte).

Should Uber be Allowed to Compete in Europe? And if so How?

D. Geradin, here. 

«L'Internet est sorti du temps de l'innocence»

Libération, ici. 

US Supreme Court Leaves Standing Decisions on Foreign Antitrust Conduct

K. Bolan, S. Meisner, A. Smith, here. 

Online Copyright Enforcement, Consumer Behavior, and Market Structure

L. Aguiar, J. Claussen, C. Peukert, here. 

First new private bank opens in UK for 30 years

FT, here. 

Five for Five – Amazon Inks Deal With Random Penguin

The-digital-reader, here. 

Independence is non-negotiable

M. Vestager, here. 

Game of Thrones breaks piracy records once again

Futureofcopyright, here. 

Court of Human Rights holds news portal liable for user comments

@Technollama, here. 

Brief Amici Curiae on Behalf of 70 Law, Economics, and Business Professors and the American Antitrust Institute - Loestrin pay-for-delay case

Here. 

Ten years of commitment decisions under Article 9 of Regulation 1/2003: Too much of a good thing?

W. Wils, here. 

UK Record labels attack Apple deals that would leave them 'deeply unsatified'

Telegraph.co.uk, here. 

The Commercial Use of Consumer Data

DotEcon with Analysys Mason for the CMA, here.
See also the Report on the CMA’s call for information, here. 

Internet-Plattformen: Innovation siegt stets über Gerechtigkeit

E. Morozov, hier. 

Amazon Is Building An App To Let Normal People Deliver Packages For Pay

TechCrunch, here.

How big is the self-publishing market? Only Amazon knows

TheBookseller.com, here. 

Time to stick a fork in these Android competition complaints

Computer & Communications Industry Association, here. 

European Commission approves joint venture for cross-border licensing of online music between PRSfM, STIM and GEMA, subject to commitments

Press Release, here. 

Open Letter on the Digital Economy

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Julia Reda's Press Conference

Video here (from 0:30)

U.S. Court Upholds Antitrust Action Against Patent Troll

Dilbert.com

M. Carrier, here. 

Apple News: I Do Not Agree To Your Terms

MikeAsh.com, here. 

The General Court upholds the registration of the shape of Lego figures as a Community trade mark

Judgments in Cases T-395/14 and T-396/14 Best-Lock Europe (Ltd) v OHIM — Lego Juris, Press Release here. 

More data protection is better than less

V. Reding, here. 

New Kindle Unlimited Payout Structure

HughHowey, here. See also here. 

Where are Maps going?

Asymco, here. 

European Ministers Agree To Disagree On Data Protection Reform

TechCrunch, here. 

Report on the remote Ebook Lending Pilots

The Society of Chief Librarians and The Publishers Association, here. 

Here’s What Happens to Your $10 After You Pay for a Month of Apple Music

Recode.net, here. 

Google Says More Than Half Of Its UK Searches Are Performed On Mobile

SearchEngineLand, here. 

Discount Contact Lens Retailers Given OK to Lower Prices

NYT, here.

Background info here. 

La loi met fin à la parité tarifaire et instaure le contrat de mandat

TendenceHotelliere.fr, ici. 

Relationship Between Public and Private Antitrust Enforcement

OECD, Note by the Secretariat, here. 

Competition Enforcement in Oligopolistic Markets

OECD, Issues Paper, here. 

Disruptive Innovation

OECD, Issues Paper, here. 

Competition Neutrality

OECD, Issues Paper, here. 

At Art Basel, a Powerful Jury Controls the Market

NYT, here.

Who will win the streaming wars?

FT, here.

Study on Copyright Limitations and Exceptions for Libraries and Archives: Updated and Revised

K. Crews for WIPO, here.

WIPO Marrakesh Treaty For Blind Readers In Force In Early 2016? Now Part Of Bigger UN Process

IP-Watch, here.

The Antitrust Analysis of Rules and Standards for Software Platforms and Its Implications for China

D. Evans, V. Yanhua Zhang, here. 

La CNIL met en demeure Google de procéder aux déréférencements sur toutes les extensions du moteur de recherche

Communiqué de presse, ici. Décision, ici. 

Airbnb And The Problem Of Data

TechCrunch, here.

Les hôteliers retrouvent une totale liberté dans la fixation de leurs prix

Les Echos, ici.

A voir aussi UMIH, communiqué de presse, ici. 

The UK Booksellers Association leads way in Amazon competition inquiry

Thebookseller.com, here. 

What does the open sourcing of Swift mean for me?

EKreative, here. 

Amazon’s E-Books Business Investigated by European Antitrust Regulators

NYT, here.

Börsenverein's reaction here (D). See also here (D). 

Die FIFA-WM als Platform

J. Haucap, hier. 

Creating a better India – Musings on economic governance of India

N. Murthy, here. 

European Commission opens formal investigation into Amazon's e-book distribution arrangements

Press Release, here.

TDF sanctionnée pour avoir mis en place des pratiques tendant à évincer ses concurrents du site de la Tour Eiffel.

Autorité de la concurrence, ici. 

What Apple’s Tim Cook Overlooked in His Defense of Privacy

NYT, here.

Net neutrality takes effect Friday; ISPs scramble to avoid complaints

ArsTechnica, here. 

Google: "Jedes deutsche Auto wird von einem Computer gesteuert werden“

FAZ, hier. 

Competition Culture Project Report

ICN Advocacy Working Group, here. 

All of Germany just signed up to this micropayment app that people think is the future of news on the web

BusinessInsider, here. 

We aren’t the copyright cops, ICANN’s president says

WashingtonPost, here.

Analysing Google's Public Response to the EC's Statement of Objections

Foundem, here.

(Cool interactive presentation, possibly created with Visme - whose licence is a little expensive, though).

Ex-post economic evaluation of competition policy enforcement: A review of the literature

EC, DG Competition, here. 

Apple Music faces antitrust scrutiny in NY, Connecticut

Reuters.com, here. See also the NYT, here. 

Self-Regulation and Innovation in the Peer-to-Peer Sharing Economy

M.Cohen & A. Sundararajan, here.

Outsourcing Tasks Online: Matching Supply and Demand on Peer-to-Peer Internet Platform

Z. Cullen, C. Farronato, here. 

Corporate Alliances Matter Less Thanks to APIs

Hbr.org, here. 

First Principles for Regulating the Sharing Economy

S. Miller, here. 

Apple Announces News App for iPhone & iPad

Apple.com, here. 

Should Google be forced to offer privacy apps? EU fight offers test

Fortune, here. 

No Such Thing as a Free Search: Antitrust and the Pursuit of Privacy Goals

A. Burnside, here. 

Apple Stresses User Privacy At WWDC

TechCrunch, here. 

User Reputation: Building Trust and Addressing Privacy Issues in the Sharing Economy

Future of Privacy Forum, here. 

Europe’s innovation deficit isn’t disappearing any time soon

WashingtonPost, here.

Uber, Ola Drivers Protest Against Delhi Ban Amid Police Crackdown

WSJ.com, here. 

The “Sharing” Economy: Issues Facing Platforms, Participants, and Regulators

FTC, June 9, 2015.
Agenda here.
Video of Part 4 here.
Public submissions here. 

Avis concernant un projet de décret et un projet d’arrêté relatifs au transport public particulier de personnes

Autorité de la concurrence, ici.

The Interchange Fees Regulation

Competition policy brief, here. 

Cartel de l'acier: "L’Etat a perdu environ 500 millions d’euros dans cette affaire"

Challenges.fr, ici. 

Loi Macron : des députés ne veulent pas de l’amendement anti-Google

Nextinpact, ici. 

Discussion of "On the Antitrust Economics of the Electronic Books Industry"

Paper here. Discussion here. 

Apple’s plan to rethink pricing formula is overdue

FT.com, here.

Google's European Mea Culpa

Politico.eu, here.

Apple Takes On a Market Full of Streaming Services

NYT, here.

App Maker Files EU Complaint Against Google, Alleging Abuse of Android Dominance

WSJ.com, here.

"Disconnect said Google abused its dominant position in Europe’s mobile market to unfairly discriminate against Disconnect and favor its own privacy and security software. The moves limited Europeans’ access to competing privacy and security software, while letting Google and others track and collect Android users’ information for advertising, Disconnect said...The app maker alleged Google pulled Disconnect because the software disrupted Google’s tracking and advertising efforts, the source of most of the Internet company’s revenue and profit. In an email included in the complaint, a Play store employee said the app was removed because it prevented other apps from delivering ads....A Google spokesman called Disconnect’s claims “baseless.” Google has allowed more than 200 other privacy apps in the Play store, but blocks any apps that alter other apps’ functionality or remove their way of making money, he added, saying Google applies this policy uniformly, with strong support from Android developers...Google abused its dominance in mobile operating systems and the app market by “tying” its own software and security to those platforms, Disconnect said in its complaint. That gave its services an unfair advantage over Disconnect’s rival software, reducing competition and consumer choice in the market for privacy and security software, the developer said. Google’s removal of the app also illegally discriminated against Disconnect because Google’s own privacy and security software, which it includes by default in its Android operating system, isn't held to the same standards, Disconnect argued."

More about Disconnect here. 

Google добавили статью

Ведомости, вот.

App Developers Alliance Respectfully Disagrees with the Solicitor General in Google v. Oracle

Press Release, here. 

Apple, Feeling Heat From Spotify, to Offer Streaming Music Service

WSJ.com, here.

Patents & Standards - FRAND: the story so far

E. Bietti, here. 

The Solicitor General's Peculiar Brief in Google v. Oracle

J. Band, here. 

Auto nur noch ein Smartphone-Zubehör? Branche macht sich Sorgen

Heise.de, hier. 

Wettbewerbspolitik: Herausforderung digitale Märkte

Sondergutachten der Monopolkommission, hier.
Bundespressekonferenz mit Sigmar Gabriel hier.

Google renoviert die Kontrolle der Privatsphäre

FAZ, hier. 

Government Surveillance

J. Oliver, Video here.

"Google is separating the OS from the cloud"

Soundcloud, Podcast, here.

Vernetzte Maschinen: Die Daten der Industrie werden zum Milliardengeschäft

FAZ, hier.

Competition Law in High Technology Industries - Insights from Australia

M. Taylor, here. Slides here. 

Google's ingenious plan to make apps obsolete

Wired, here.

The Institutions of Roman Markets

B. Arruñada, here.

Draft Council conclusions on open, data-intensive and networked research as a driver for faster and wider innovation

EU Council, here. 

Uber se desmarca de la economía colaborativa en su primer juicio

ElPais, aquì.

Amazon and Penguin Random House said to be in dispute

TheGuardian.com, here. 

The Matching Economy

Conversableeconomist, here. 

What Google Just Announced Is a Bombshell

Bloomberg, here. See also here. Here on the Assist API.

FTC Settlement of Cephalon Pay for Delay Case

Press release here. Proposed stipulated order here.

How the Internet, the Sharing Economy, and Reputational Feedback Mechanisms Solve the “Lemons Problem”

A. Hobson, C. Koopman, C. Kuiper and A. Thierer, here. 

May 2015 Author Earnings Report: Amazon's ebook sales

Authorearnings.com, here. 

Margin Squeeze: An Above-Cost Predatory Pricing Approach

G. Gaudin, D. Mantzari, here. 

Informe sobre la reutilización de la información del sector público.

CNMC.es, aquí.

How Reasonable Royalties Suppress Patent Licensing

E. Hovenkamp, here.

Informe sobre el reparto de los derechos audiovisuales del fútbol

CNMC, aquí.

Datenschutz-Facebookexperiment

FAZ, here.

Platform Shift

M. Van Alstyne, Video here.

Android and Antitrust: Attempts at a “More Technological Approach”

S. Vezzoso (this blog's author), Working Paper here (Wavesblog's readers comments more than welcome).

White House sides with Oracle, tells Supreme Court APIs are copyrightable

ArsTechnica, here. 

UK businesses' miserable understanding of Competition Law

Prepared for CMA by IFF Research, here. 

Supreme Court says "patent troll" for first time in Cisco ruling

Fortune, here. 

Publishers win High Court support in fight against infringement

Societyofauthors.org, here. See also TorrentFreak, here. 

Wiko, le petit poucet du mobile qui veut croquer Samsung et Apple

LaTribune, ici.

Obama administration asks U.S. top court to decline Google copyright appeal

Reuters.com, here. 

Economic Authority and the Limits of Expertise in Antitrust Cases

J. Lopatka, W. Page, here.

Periscope and what you need to know about the new era of self-broadcasting

IPOblog, here.

Pan-EU digital economy: recent policy initiatives

Herbertsmithfreehills, here. 

Uber : les Sages valident la loi protégeant les taxis contre les VTC

Numerama, ici.

Price Coherence and Excessive Intermediation

E. Benjamin, J. Wright, here.

Frenemies in Platform Markets: The Case of Apple's iPad vs. Amazon's Kindle

R. Adner, J. Chen, F. Zhu, here. 

Showing films and other audiovisual content in European Schools:Obstacles and best practices

Study prepared for the European Commission, here.

Report: EU member states seek to dump net neutrality completely

ArsTechnica, here. 

Aperta un'istruttoria sui diritti televisivi della serie A

AGCM, Provvedimento qui.

"Le notizie di stampa in atti sembrano indicare che l’assetto finale per l’assegnazione dei diritti audiovisivi per il triennio 2015/2018 come sopra descritto non discenda da un confronto competitivo fra gli operatori interessati, ma sia stato il frutto di un accordo, realizzato successivamente all’espletamento della gara che ha determinato un esito delle assegnazioni diverso da quello inizialmente risultante dalla stessa procedura di gara".

Audible richtet neuen Abo-Pool ein

Boersenblatt.net, hier. 

Uber Tests Taking Even More From Its Drivers With 30% Commission

Forbes.com, here.

"Because we can".

EC clears acquisition of Jazztel by Orange, subject to conditions

Press Release, here. 

Collective Redress for Antitrust Damages in the European Union: Is This a Reality Now?

D. Geradin, here. 

Diritti tv: perquisizioni della Guardia di Finanza in Lega, Sky e Mediaset

Repubblica.it, qui.

Microsoft is interesting again — very

Medium.com, here. 

Booking.com Implements New Parity Provisions in Germany

Marketwatch.com, here. 

Twitter met lui aussi votre vie privée en Irlande

Numerama, ici. 

Who owns your agricultural data?

Datasciencecentral, here. 

Google “Buy Buttons” Could Start Showing On Mobile Shopping Ads In A Matter Of Weeks

SearchEngineLand, here. 

Bd4travel Raises $4.2M To Let Online Travel Industry Use Big Data To Personally Target Visitors

TechCrunch, here. 

Fossil fuels subsidised by $10m every minute, says IMF

TheGuardian, here. 

CMU professor to study where data and discrimination intersect

Post-gazette.com, here. 

SPOTIFY: 'The model is working'

Businessinsider.com, here.

Gunter Oettinger défend le marché numérique face aux géants du net

Euractiv.fr, ici. 

Russia Plans to Develop Mobile OS to Rival Android & iOS

Russia-insider, here.
See also ArsTechnica, here.

Copyright for Literate Robots

J.Grimmelmann, here.

Amazon-Tochter: Hörbuch-Verlage prüfen Kartellbeschwerde gegen Audible

Spiegel.de, hier. 

Le droit d'auteur est-il un frein au marché européen du numérique ?

FranceCulture, Podcast ici. 

Recommendation re Facebook

Belgium's Privacy Commission, here. 

Stuttgarter Taxi-Zentrale geht gegen "myTaxi"-App vor

Heise.de, hier.

"Daimler ist außerordentliches Mitglied im Deutschen Taxi- und Mietwagenverband (BZP) und liefert nach Verbandsangaben rund 60 Prozent der Fahrzeuge."

Airbnb rentals cut deep into SF housing stock, report says

SFExaminer, here. 

Email Shows How Google Gets Things Done In Washington

Buzzfeed.com, here. 

Google als kartellrechtliches Problem?

A. Heinemann, hier. 

Online Copyright Enforcement, Consumer Behavior, and Market Structure

L. Aguiar, J. Claussen, C. Peukert, here.

The Amazing Ways Uber Is Using Big Data

Datasciencecentral.com, here. 

Apple, Spotify, and the Battle over Freemium

J. Zhang, here. 

What an OTT Future Means for Brands

Hbr.org, here. 

Teile und leide

ZDFzoom, Video hier. 

Google must be more open on 'right to be forgotten', academics warn in letter

TheGuardian, here.

U.S. steps up scrutiny of movie distribution

LATimes, here.

10 years of brand protection on YouTube – and a glimpse into the future

WorldTrademarkReview, here. 

iPhone, killer

Asymco.com, here. 

Le régime des livres indisponibles soumis à la CJUE : l’arrêt du Conseil d’État

NextInpact, ici. 

Sanzioni per 13 milioni a due società di servizio ristoro su rete autostradale

I775, Provvedimento qui. 

For the Net by the Net: Initial thoughts on India’s Save the Internet Campaign

A. Singh and N. George, here. 

Facebook Starts Hosting Publishers’ “Instant Articles”

TechCrunch, here. 

The 2015 International Competition Network’s (ICN) Unilateral Conduct Workbook Chapter on Tying and Bundling

TruthOnTheMarket, here.

Le GNI devant l’Autorité de la concurrence et devant le Tribunal de commerce de Paris : deux décisions en miroir

Synhorcat, ici.