E-Commerce Sector Inquiry: Second Batch of Results

EC press conference by Commissioner Margrethe Vestager, 15 September 16.30h, here (not live bc of satellite technical problems...).

"If it is agreements between companies that are restricting e-commerce across Europe’s national borders, then you can expect competition enforcement to follow", speech, 11.09.2015.

My personal "highlights" (from today's press conference):

- investigation into online video games and geo-blocking still ongoing;

- E-commerce sector inquiry and pay-tv case "very, very distant relatives": former much broader (more "generic"), considering also consumer goods where there are ("obviously") the same restrictions but many more (I´d add that, with regard to digital content, restrictions in the licensing agreements well beyond geo-blocking have been identified by the EC);

- E-commerce sector inquiry as a source of information for the legislator (possibly, copyright - and geo-blocking regulation).

Bookatable-Reaktion auf Kartellrechtsbeschwerde

Ahgz.de, hier.

"Role of publishers" and Panorama exception: Synopsis Reports and Contributions

Here.

Bayer and Monsanto to Create a Global Leader in Agriculture

Bayer, here.

"Bayer has committed to a USD 2 billion reverse antitrust break fee, reaffirming its confidence that it will obtain the necessary regulatory approvals".

DSM Copyright: Impact Assessment

Part I, Part II, Part III.

Marrakesh Treaty: EU Implementation Package

Regulation, here. Directive, here.

Proposal for a directive on copyright in the digital single market

Here.

Facebook Probe in Antitrust and Privacy Gray Zone, Vestager Says

Bloomberg, here.

GC Judgment in Case T-472/13, Lundbeck v Commission: on patents and Schrödinger’s cat

P. Ibanez Colomo, here.

DSM proposals (copyright)

14 September, at 15.15h, live here. 

TableDennis.de lässt Mitbewerber vom Bundeskartellamt überprüfen

Eturbonews.de, hier. 

Uber's antitrust win in Uruguay

Asunto n°4/2016, aquì.

FRAND Arbitration: The Determination of Fair, Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory Rates for SEPs by Arbitral Tribunals

D. Geradin, here

Bundeskartellamt verhängt Bußgelder gegen Fernsehstudiobetreiber

Fallbericht, hier.

How big business jammed the wheels of innovation

TheAtlantic, here. 

Lundbeck Loses Appeal Against ‘Pay-For-Delay’ Decision

Covington, here. 

How the Sugar Industry Shifted Blame to Fat

NYTimes, here.

Facebook muss vor den EuGH: OGH legt „Datenschutz-Sammelklage“ vor

M. Schrems, Hier. 

Pokémon Go, quel est ton algorithme ?

N. Devillier, Ici.

Making data work for us

M. Vestager, here.

Staying ahead in a digital marketplace

A. Coscelli, here.

The Veil

P. Gabriel, here.

GC: Lundbeck confirmed

T‑472/13, here.
"The ‘scope of the patent’ test is...based on a subjective assessment, by the applicants, of the scope of their patents and of their validity, whereas a national court or competent authority may have taken a different view" (491).

CJEU GS Media on hyperlinking

C 160/15, here.

AG Øe on art. 9 infoSoc

Case C‑275/15, here.

AG Wahl on EU competence re Marrakech Treaty

Opinion procedure 3/15, here.

Protection des données dès la conception : le cas de la géolocalisation des appareils

Linc, ici.

Allergan CEO disavows 'predatory pricing'

BioPharmaDive, here.

Why Uber Is an Economist’s Dream

Freakeconomics Podcast, here.

Geo-blocking in licence agreement: Whether to block access to digital content infringe EU competition rules

I. Gundem, here.

Comment l’impression 3D peut révolutionner le sport paralympique

Numerama, ici.

US tycoon John Malone is set to pay £6.4bn for Formula One

TheGuardian, here.

With Occupancy High, Hotels Seek to Avoid Online Booking Services

NYTimes, here. 

Wissenschaft hat ihren Preis

J. Haucap, hier.

Antitrust and Regulating Big Data

D. Sokol, R. Comerford, here. 

Competition in evolving communications markets: Issues Paper

ACCC, here.

“Big Data” Goes to the Movies: Revealing latent similarity among movies and its effect on box office performance

B. Barbosu, here.

Big Data and the Entertainment Industry

J. Gans, here.

Oettinger verteidigt Vorstoß für EU-Leistungsschutzrecht

FAZ, hier.

Android and Competition Law: Exploring and Assessing Google's Practices in Mobile

B. Edelman, D. Geradin, here.

Goodbye, Ivory Tower. Hello, Silicon Valley Candy Store.

NYTimes, here.

How Tech Giants Are Devising Real Ethics for Artificial Intelligence

NYTimes, here.

Popper en Moyo Island

M. Vargas Llosa, aquì.

Is Artificial Intelligence Permanently Inscrutable?

Nautilus, here.

Creative Commons Wants To Step Into Lawsuit Over Definition Of 'Noncommercial' In A CC License

TechDirt, here.

Is a big Google search update happening? Chatter thinks so

SearchEngineLand, here.

ICANN’s globalization creates peril and promise

TechCrunch, here.

CCI rejects ‘predatory pricing’ allegations against Ola

IndianExpress, here.

Nintendo’s DMCA-backed quest against online fan games

ArsTechnica, here.

Should You Become a Platform?

M. Van Alstyne and M. Jamison, here (p.30 ff.).

Chatbots are a creation channel for storytelling

VentureBeat, here.

Apple, Ireland and the Spanish connection

rte.ie, here.

EC on Pokémon Go and data protection

Here.

Ein "Reinheitsgebot für ehrliche und vertrauenswürdige Internetdienste".

Heise.de, hier.

EU-Kommission überprüft WhatsApp-Übernahme durch Facebook

Focus.de, hier.

One Step Forward, No Steps Back: National Ratification Needs to Respect the Objectives of the Treaty of Marrakesh

IFLA, here.

Sans données, le futur de l’IA restera artificiel

LINC, ici. 

Cheating In Gaming: Will Copyright Laws Level Up?

Forbes, here.

Expedia and Bookings.com now have to compete on hotel rates: ACCC

Smh.com, here.
See also here.

"The cheaper hotels can [now] put a billboard out the front saying 'rooms at this rate' "

The Simple Solution to Traffic

Grey, here. 

Hollywood studios, football leagues urge EU rethink on copyright

Reuters, here. See also here.

China’s anti-trust regulators are investigating the Didi-Uber deal

TechCrunch, here.

Niantic responds to Senate inquiry into Pokémon Go privacy

TechCrunch, here.
Letter here.

AI Wants to Be Your Bro, Not Your Foe

MIT Technology Review, here.
One Hundred Year Study 2016 here.

Development of the audiovisual markets and creation of original contents

Lear for Mediaset, here. 

Entgelt für Online-Übermittlung von Tickets ist unzulässig

Heise.de, hier. 

Elsevier’s New Patent for Online Peer Review Throws a Scare Into Open-Source Advocates

Chronicle, here. 

Visa seeks bank volunteers for blockchain-based payment trial

Finextra, here.

Maybe you don’t have as much choice as you think

TheGuardian, here. 

Online tool allows users to inspect banks’ privacy notices

iapp, here. 

Neue Regelungen im BuchPrG zur Preisbindung von E-Books und zur grenzüberschreitenden Preisbindung

Preisbindungsgesetz.de, hier. 

DoJ Sues to Block Deere’s Acquisition of Precision Planting

PR, here.

Companies are making money from our personal data – but at what cost?

TheGuardian, here. 

More EU copyright "leaks"

Draft Directive on copyright in the Digital Single Market, here.
Draft Communication: Promoting a fair and efficient European copyright-based economy in the Digital Single Market, here.

Still to come:
Directive and Regulation to ensure EU implementation of the Marrakech Treaty.

Big Data Is Nudging You

PsychologyToday, here.

Quand Pokémon Go inquiète l’armée française

Numerama, ici.

Frank Ocean, Apple Music, And The Headache Of Streaming Exclusives

FastCompany, here.

Intellectual Property, Antitrust, and the Rule of Law: Between Private Power and State Power

A. Katz, here.

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

J. Newman, here.

Apple's EU tax dispute explained

FT, here.

BEREC publishes guidelines on net neutrality

PR, here. See also consultation report, here.

Big Data comes with all the biases of its creators

Time, here.

Your Garbage Data Is A Gold Mine

Fastcompany, here.

Spotify Reportedly Burying Artists Who Sign Competing Exclusives

Fortune, here. See also here.

Neue Leitlinien der EU-Regulierer zur Netzneutralität stehen

Heise.de, hier.

Why the Energy Sector Needs a Sharing Economy

SustainableBrands, here.

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

Recode, Here.

Big data, Google and the end of free will

FT, here. 

The AI inside your iPhone

BackChannel, here.

The Rise of Behavioural Discrimination

A. Ezrachi, M. Stucke, here.

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

Arstechnica.co.uk, here. 

Any last requests?

2040infolawblog, here. 

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

ElMundo, aqui.

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

BusinessInsiderUK, here.

Why AI consolidation will create the worst monopoly in US history

TechCrunch, here.

Data Geeks Are Taking Over Economics

BloombergView, here. 

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

UtilityDive, here.

Draft version of updated Media Merger Guidelines released

ACCC, here. 

Collusion and Online Platforms in Eturas

K. Havu & N. Zupančič, here. 

EU-Kommission will Leistungsschutz für Verleger einführen

WiWo, hier. 

Relaxing Privacy Vow, WhatsApp to Share Some Data With Facebook

NYTimes, here. 

Leak: Impact Assessment on the modernisation of EU copyright rules

StateWatch, here.

(Pity the annexes are missing).

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

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

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

Did Microsoft buy LinkedIn for the contacts?

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

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

Qz.com, here.

New Rules for Online Selling Taking Place

Bryan Cave, here.

Seeking customer centricity: The omni business model

KPMG, here. 

Digitalisierung – Herausforderungen für die Wettbewerbspolitik

M. Blatter, hier. 

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

Symposium Transcript, here. 

Protecting privacy in genomic databases

MIT News, here..

In copyright law, computers and robots don’t count

J. Grimmelmann, here. 

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

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

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

Soeren-hentzschel.at, hier

Happy 25th birthday to the World Wide Web

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

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

Washington Post, here.

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

NBC, here.

Google keeps ex-Googlers close by investing in their startups

Recode, here.

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

G. Surblyte, here.

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

Cooley, here.

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

Reuters, here.

Sharing Economy: Nutznießer oder Opfer institutioneller Inkonsistenzen?

T. Theurl, hier.

Distribution online - Vertriebsvorgaben im E-Commerce

Taylor Wessing, hier.

MySQL founder tries a new software licensing model

TechCrunch, here.

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

The mythical Paperinik, gem of Italian creativity

AirBus, here.

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

TheHill, here.
See also here.

Prison breakthrough

TheEconomist, here.

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

B. Bodó, here.

Proyecto para regular apps es "redundante" y anticompetitivo

ElObservador (Uruguay), aquí.

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

Morrison & Foerster, here.

The Olympics and IP

ManagingIP, here.

White House Kept Close Tabs on FTC Google Probe

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

A New Approach to Copyright Exceptions and Limitations

J. Band, here.

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

ACCC, here.

The Getty Museum's Lessons Learned From Opening Up Content

TecHDirt, here.

Banks v. Bots

Forbes, here.

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

Reuters, here.

Market definition and the sharing economy

C. Ortiz, here.

El modelo de Denominación de Origen y restricciones a la competencia

CNMC, aquí

What Matchmakers Always Get Wrong

PYMNTS, here. 

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

N. Dawar, here.

Blablacar mahnt Wettbewerber ab

Handelsblatt, hier.

2. Biopatentbericht

Deutsche Bundesregierung, hier. S. auch hier. 

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

Forbes, here.

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

B. Van Alsenoy, here.

It takes a village to finish a PhD

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

Numerama, ici.

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

S.  Jeong, here.

The Moral Psychology of Copyright Infringement

C. Buccafusco & D.Fagundes, here.

Uber Sues Over TfL Rules Making Drivers Take English Exams

Bloomberg, here.

Russian court rejects Google’s latest Android antitrust appeal

TechCrunch, here. 

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

N. Duch-Brown, B. Martens, here.

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

S. Paul, here.

The Best Platforms Are More than Matchmakers

M. Van Alstyne, M. Schrage, here.

Wettbewerbsregeln für das digitale Zeitalter

A. Wambach, here. 

Attention Brokers

T. Wu, here. 

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

NYTimes, here. 

Intel Cuts the Cord With New VR Headset Called Project Alloy

Bloomberg, here.

Intel creates quasi Hollywood studio for sports and entertainment VR

VentureBeat, here. 

Price Discrimination Markets Lead Antitrust Enforcers to Increased Success

McDermott Will & Emery, here. 

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

TechCrunch, here.

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

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

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

TheGuardian, here.

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

Numérama, ici.

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

LINC, ici.

The Internet Value Chain

A.T. Kearney for the GSMA, here.

Researchers track the trackers through 20 years of the archived web

TechCrunch, here.

Audi vernetzt seine Autos in den USA mit Ampel-Infrastruktur

Heise.de, hier.

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

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

XS4ALL and KPN end privacy violations digital TV

Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens, here. 

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

SearchEngineLand, here.

Supermärkte sollen ihre Einkaufspreise offenlegen

FAZ, hier.

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

Recode, here.

Der Adblocker und die Pressefreiheit

Handelsblatt, hier.

Werner Herzog’s meditations on a connected world

TechCrunch, Videos (trailer and interview) here.

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

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

Moore’s Law gilt nicht mehr. Na und?

FAZ, hier.

South Korea says investigating whether Google broke antitrust laws

Reuters, here.

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

TheGuardian, here.

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

Bundeskartellamt, hier.

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

TheVerge, here.

Google Fined for Breaking Russian Antitrust Rules With Android

NYTimes, here.

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Ökonomische Auswirkungen einer Bildungs- und Wissenschaftsschranke im Urheberrecht

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

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

S. Mitchell, here.

Boundedly rational entrepreneurs and antitrust

A. Tor, here.

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

NYTimes, here.

Curbing the New Corporate Power

Forum, Boston Review, here.

Will Uber Rouse the Trustbusters?

Slate, here.

FTC Sues 1-800 Contacts For Restricting Competitive Keyword Advertising

E. Goldman, here.

Decentralizing the Web: Two Technological Approaches

Digitaltrends, here.

Copyright and Distributive Justice

J. Hughes, R. Merges, here.

Data-Generating Patents

B. Simon, T. Sichelman, here.

Privacy scandal haunts Pokemon GO's CEO

The Intercept, here.

Protecting the Olympic Properties

M. Wüthrich, here.

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

FTC, here.

US Government Now Has An Official Open Source Software Policy

TechDirt, here.

GPL-Klage gegen VMware abgewiesen

Heise.de, hier.

HEIST is a big DEAL

D. Carroll, here.

Apple versus the banks

Australiancompetitionlaw.org, here.

How Uber Manages Drivers Without Technically Managing Drivers

FastCompany, here.

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

SearchEngineLand, here.

Instagram castrated Snapchat like Facebook neutered Twitter

TechCrunch, here.

CMA: swipe right to disrupt banks

FT, here.

CMA's Final Report here.
Appendices here.

Amazon Japan offices raided by Fair Trade Commission

Asahi.com, here.

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

Digitalsme, here.

Jeux sur votre smartphone : quand c’est gratuit …

CNIL, ici,

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

Take Eat Easy, here.

What Is the Decentralized Web? 24 Experts Break it Down

iSchool@Syracuse, here.

Credit card market study: Final findings report

FCA, here.

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

EC, here.

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

EC, here.

Can you own digital data?

Datalandscape, here.

Big data company Teradata acquires UK’s Big Data Partnership

TechCrunch, here.

Platform Wars: The Final Score

B. Evans, here.

Hotels vs. Airbnb: Let the Battle Begin

NYTimes, here.

The joy of data

BBC documentary, here.

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

Big Data first mentioned at 46:33.

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

Coffee and donuts in first US commercial drone delivery

Theeit.org, here.

The Economist asks: Richard Thaler

The Economist, Podcast here.

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

Heise.de, hier.

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

SearchEngineLand, here.

Chatbots: Fad Or The Future?

TechDirt, Beach Podcast, here.

Big Data: How Computers Are Collecting Our Personal Details

BigIssue, here.

Apple lays the groundwork to kill online advertising

TechCruch, here.

(Un)Fairness of Risk Scores in Criminal Sentencing

Forbes, here.

Metal 3D printing takes flight

TechCrunch, here.

Pokemon Gone

Bloomberg, here.

Understanding Online Markets and Antitrust Analysis

D. Sokol, here.

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

TechRadar, here.

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

Concurrences, ici.

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

VanityFair, here. 

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

ArsTechnica, here. 

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

Truckinginfo.com, here. 

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

G. Manne, here.

Personality, privacy and our digital selves

TheGuardian, here.

What's So Special about Two-Sided Markets?

B. Hermalin, M. Katz, here. 

Antitrust Balancing

H. Hovenkamp, here

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

D. Geradin, ici.

Reverse Payments: An EU and US Perspective

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

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

P. Akman, here.

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

Bird&Bird, here.

Trade and Privacy: Complicated Bedfellows

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

How the internet was invented

TheGuardian, here.

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

CNMC, aquì.

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

Concurrences.com, here.

vzbv mahnt Entwickler von Pokémon Go ab

vzbv, hier. 

Pokémon Go has revealed a new battleground for virtual privacy

Inforrm's Blog, here.

Les compagnies aériennes face au défi du Big Data

LaTribune, ici. 

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

Numerama.com, ici.

When will AI bots replace virtual assistants?

Information-age, here.

"It is a paid world"

Skift, here.

EU Data Protection Law May End The Unknowable Algorithm

Popyard.com, here.

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

VentureBeat, here. 

GAO's Patent Reports

Managingip, here. 

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

NiemanLab, here. 

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

Atlantico.fr, ici.

Online seller admits breaking competition law

CMA, here. 

Pokémon Go: Kritik von deutschen Datenschützern

Heise.de, hier. 

What Google Can Learn From Microsoft’s Antitrust Problems

N. Economides, here. 

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

TechCrunch, here. 

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

Bundeskartellamt, hier. 

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

TheEconomist, here. 

There is now freedom of panorama in Belgium

Blog.wikimedia.org, here. 

Australia’s first criminal cartel charge laid against NYK

ACCC, here. 

Is it time for authors to leave SSRN?

AuthorsAlliance, here. 

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

A. Marhold, here. 

Macht der Online-Buchungsportale nimmt weiter zu

Hotrec, hier. 

Übernahme von Kaiser´s Tengelmann durch EDEKA: Ministererlaubnis gestoppt

OLG Düsseldorf, hier.

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

Autorité de la concurrence, ici.

Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Antitrust

AAI, here.

More hotels offer discounts for booking

USAToday, here.

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

TechCrunch, here.

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

Blogs.lse.ac.uk, here.

Did this Public API AntiTrust Case Set Precedent for Uber?

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

L'impression 3D et le droit d'auteur

CSPLA, Rapport ici.

IP Tracking : de nouvelles investigations de la répression des fraudes

NextImpact, here.

Facebook Challenges Apple For Control Of The Next Major Battleground

Forbes, here.

Leistungsschutzrecht kostet Verleger Geld

Heise, hier.

Will much change in Antitrust post Brexit?

A. Stephan, here.

Facebook is the social network for news

Recode, here.

Why Microsoft is betting its future on AI

TheVerge, Here.

The CMA Uses Hacking Powers to Catch Price-Fixing Cartels

Motherboard, here.

Legal Services Market Study

CMA, Interim Report, here.

Microsoft to Acquire LinkedIn: Overview for Investors

Microsoft, here. 

Assessing Mergers on Innovative Markets: Do we Need Innovation-Specific Methods of Analysis?

W. Kerber, Presentation here. 

Why is Apple so stingy about opening up the NFC API?

Reddit.com, here.

EC Commission accepts commitments by container liner shipping companies on price transparency

Pree Release, here. 

ReLIRE : la numérisation des livres indisponibles considérée illégale par l'Europe

ActuaLitté, ici.
Conclusions de l'AG ici.

4 Important Lessons You Can Learn Now That 3-D Printing Is Dying

Inc., here. 

Oracle says it is 'committed' to Java EE 8 – amid claims it quietly axed future development

TheRegister, here. 

Une plainte est déposée en Suisse contre Apple Pay pour abus de position dominante

LeTemps, ici.
Stiftung für Konsumentenschutz SKS hier.
NZZ, hier.
CapGemini Presentation here.
"Der Verzicht auf die Erhebung von Kundendaten werde durch höhere Umsätze ausgeglichen. Eine repräsentative Studie gibt es dazu allerdings nicht"

"Fürs Bezahlen in Anwendungen kann man auch ein iPad Pro, Air 2, mini 3 oder 4 benutzen. Wie viele davon in der Schweiz im Umlauf sind, das hätten auch Apples Partner vor dem Start gern erfahren. Doch das Unternehmen hat es ihnen nicht verraten."

"Near Field Communication (NFC) is an international standard (ISO/IEC 18092) that specifies an interface and protocol for simple wireless interconnection of closely coupled devices operating at 13.56 MHz (see http://members.nfc-forum.org/specs/spec_list/).

"Apple-Pay-Chefin Jennifer Bailey machte Twint und Co im Gespräch auch wenig Hoffnung: «Wir werden NFC nicht für Drittanbieter von Bezahldiensten öffnen – aus Sicherheits- und Bedienkomfortgründen.»Finews Kfür Konsumentenschutzonsumentenschutz

Researchers build a smart privacy app to keep you safe

TechCrunch, here. 

Scientific Proof That Buying Things Can Actually Lead To Happiness (Sometimes)

FastCompany, here.

Rebate for IoT thermostat requires that you give permission to your utility to read "all data"

BoingBoing, here.

UK Competition Law after Brexit

B. McGrath, here.

Federal Trade Commission Privacy Law and Policy - Chapter 6 Online Privacy

C. Hoofnagle, here.

How “consumer choice” can unify the fields of competition and consumer protection law

N. Averitt, here.

“Freedom of choice”: the emergence of a powerful concept in European competition law

P. Nihoul, here.

Motion pictures, markets, and copylocks

J. Hughes. here.

The 'Frightful Five' in the Market for Digital Assistants

CheatSheet, here.

EU citizens might get a ‘right to explanation’ about the decisions algorithms make

Fusion.net, here.

The Data Spectrum

ODI, here.

Comment la vente en ligne rebat les cartes de la concurrence traditionnelle

LesEchos, ici.

Online Tracking

FTC, here.

Can I block online tracking?

Consumers can learn about tracker-blocking browser plugins which block the flow of information from a computer to tracking companies and allow consumers to block ads. They prevent companies from using cookies or fingerprinting to track your internet behavior.

To find tracker-blocking plugins, type “tracker blocker” in your search engine. Then, compare features to decide which tracker blocker is best for you. For example, some of them block tracking by default, while others require you to customize when you’ll block tracking.

Remember that websites that rely on third party tracking companies for measurement or advertising revenue may prevent you from using their site if you have blocking software installed. However, you can still open those sites in a separate browser that doesn’t have blocking enabled, or you can disable blocking on those sites.

Brexit: Stay Calm - Effects on Antitrust Expected to be Limited

K & L Gates, here.

MasterCard facing £19bn damages claim over inflated card charges

TheGuardian, here.

Comcast will let customers get Netflix on its set-top box (which is a very big deal)

Recode, here.

Why Bigness Became a Bipartisan Cause on Capitol Hill

Time, here.

National privacy research strategy

The White House, here.

Smart Contracts, Bitcoin, and Blockchain Technology

Legaltalknetwork, Beach Podcast here.

How eBay Survived While Other Disruptive Markets Disappeared

Fortune, here.

'Learning platforms': vendors learning how to effectively collude?

Online freedom is a 'human right' that must be protected, says UN

Wired, here.

Still in celebration mood, despite the EU: my 2014 musings on the WIPO Marrakesh Treaty and the three-step test

Here.

The Quiet Old Lady Who Whispers "Fair Use"

Planet Money, Beach Podcast here.

Beschränkung von Online-Bezahldiensten durch die deutsche Kreditwirtschaft verstößt gegen das Kartellrecht

Bundeskartellamt, hier.

Car hire comparison websites issued transparency warning

TravelWeekly, here.

Kartellamt ermittelt gegen mehrere Autobauer

FAZ, hier.
"An average car contains around 900kg of steel" FT.

Call for £2 a pint cartel in town centre

.scunthorpetelegraph.co.uk, here.

South Africa: Competition complaint against Uber 'unlikely to succeed' says expert

ITWebAfrica, here.

The world’s most popular computer programs are becoming less boring

The Economist, here.

Google and Facebook also looked at buying LinkedIn

Recode, here.

EU regulations on algorithmic decision-making and a "right to explanation"

B. Goodman, S. Flaxman, here.

Visa, MasterCard $7.25 billion settlement with retailers is thrown out

Reuters, here.

The Fourth Industrial Revolution: Challenges for Enterprises and their Stakeholders

IndustryWeek, here.

Tirole's Industrial Regulation and Organization Legacy in Economics

D. Fudenberg, here.

Digital voice assistants: Apps-Be-Gone!

DailyTrust, here.

Partage !

LINC, Ici.

EU competition policy in action

EC, here.

Market Power and Media Revenue Allocation in Professional Sports: The Case of Formula One

O. Budzinski, A. Müller, here. 

Licensed to Fail

EIFL, here.

Neue Waffen gegen Google, Facebook und Co

FAZ, hier.
Referentenentwurf hier.

Two Really Great News Lately, Despite Brexit

HathiTrust at U-M, NFB to make 14M+ books accessible to blind and print-disabled users.

Canada’s Accession to Marrakesh Treaty Brings Treaty into Force

And the EU should do the only possible decent thing, also not bad for its image in these troubled times: 

RATIFY THE TREATY IMMEDIATELY!

‘Big data is people!’

Aeon, here.

How Oracle’s business as usual is threatening to kill Java

ArsTechnica, here.

Spotify accuses Apple of blocking app and using store as 'weapon to harm competitors'

BBC, here.
Apple's response here.

The big data explosion sets us profound challenges - how can we keep up?

TheGuardian, here.

My rather messy ASCOLA presentation

Here.
As correctly pointed out by @mclucey, my handwriting is just appalling, sorry!

Market Definition and Market Power in Data: The Case of Online Platforms

I. Graef, here.

Access barriers to BIG data

M. Gal, D. Rubinfeld, Presentation here.

Regulation for Innovativeness or Regulation of Innovation?

A.Butenko, P. Larouche, here.

A vocabulary for conversing about entrepreneurship, innovation, and antitrust

A. Foer, here.

First Draft! Online Platforms, Rate Parity, and the Free Riding Defence

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

Abstract: A two-sided platform business is a new type of intermediary to be found in a growing number of economic sectors. As to the hospitability industry in particular, recent innovations in the field of digital technologies prompted the rise of so called Online Travel Agents (OTAs) and the demise of the traditional merchant model.

Recently national competition authorities (NCAs) in the EU investigated so called rate parity clauses in the contracts between the three largest OTAs and their hotel partners. These are contract clauses laying down the hotelier’s obligation to display the same room prices across sales channels. The parallel investigations conducted by the NCAs revealed an array of serious anticompetitive effects stemming from rate parity obligations. While the German NCA concluded that there was insufficient evidence of the efficiency gains of these clauses, and therefore decided to prohibit them, the French, Italian and Swedish NCAs implicitly recognised that some level of protection against free-riding was necessary, and accepted commitments to reduce the scope of the rate parity obligation.
The hotel online booking cases were closely followed in the EU and beyond, since they could help clarify a number of key assessment issues concerning a category of commercial practices already widely spread in online markets. In-depth analyses of the NCAs’ findings are now needed, especially in view of the promotion of an effective antitrust-based platform regulation. In particular, this article explores some of the challenges related to the application of the traditional free-riding defence to rate parity obligations.

Yandex vs Google: Decision on Fines

FAS, here. 

L’Open Internet Project veut canaliser Google via la loi numérique

ITEspresso, ici.

The Gig Economy

OECD Development Centre, here. 

Net Neutrality Rules Will Make Winners and Losers Out of Businesses

S. Greenstein, M. Peitz, T. Valletti, here.

Hillary Clinton’s Initiative on Technology & Innovation

HillaryClinton.com, here. 

Google bittet Sie um mehr persönliche Daten

Heise.de, hier.

Supreme Court agrees to review ATM fee antitrust lawsuit

Bloomberg, Here.

Digital Markets, Data, and Privacy: Competition Law, Consumer Law, and Data Protection

W. Kerber, Here.

The Economics of Mergers and Innovation: The Challenge for Competition Policy with Application to Pharmaceuticals

J. Kwoka, here. 

Innovation as a Parameter of Competition and its Implications for Competition Law Application

J. Drexl, here. 

Brexit Leads U.K. Lawyers to Seek Solace in Irish Bar

Bloomberg, here. 

South Korea antitrust regulator says investigating Apple on 'some matters'

Reuters, here. 

The ultimate Brexit Song

"It Doesn't Have To Be", Erasure, Video here.

You are one side
And I am on the other
Are we divided?

You are one side
I am on the other
Are we divided?
Why can't we live together
There are no rights
This isn't your decision
We need to talk of changing things
But no one wants to listen
It doesn't have to be like that
It doesn't have to be like that
It doesn't have to be like that

A heart on the inside
The same as any other
Are we divided?
Someone always has to suffer
We are broken
There's no one left to change it
Is that the way it has to be?
Why can't we rearrange it?
It doesn't have to be like that (One against one)
It doesn't have to be like that (One against one)
It doesn't have to be like that

Alava mo ja na me me limbaniango limbaniago
Zimbabwe abo naga na me me limbaniango limbaniago
Alava mo ja na me me limbaniango limbaniago
Zimbabwe abo naga na me me limbaniango limbaniago

What is the secret
In calling me a brother?
Are we divided?
Always one against the other
We are strong now
Put down the ammunition
For what we know is right
Is gonna breakdown this division
It doesn't have to be like that (One against one)
It doesn't have to be like that (One against one)
It doesn't have to be like that (One against one)
(One against one)
It doesn't have to be like that (One against one)
(One against one)
It doesn't have to be like that

You are one side
And I am on the other
Are we divided?

OECD Ministerial Declaration on the Digital Economy (”Cancún Declaration”)

Here. 

#NotMyBrexit and Competition Law

Whoscompeting, Here.

Snippet-Streit: Verleger gehen gegen Kartellurteil zur Marktmacht von Google vor

Heise.de, hier.

AI, Apple and Google

B. Evans, here.

Opération transparence pour les comparateurs en ligne

LeMonde, ici. 

Can There Be a "One-World Approach" to Competition Law?

R. Hesse, here.

Qualcomm to Test Strength of China Agreement With Patent Suit

Bloomberg, here.

Online tracking – more than cookies

FTC Blog, here.

Klage gegen Adblock Plus: Teilerfolg für Springer, Niederlage für Eyeo bei "Acceptable Ads"

Heise.de, hier.
S. hier auch.

Brexit, quel avenir pour les low-cost britanniques et le transport aérien européen ?

LaTribune, ici. 

Drug prices post-Brexit – an expensive pill to swallow?

F. Bokhari, here. 

The Public Consultation on Regulation 1/2003: A Stronger Institutional Infrastructure for Fostering the EU Common Competition Culture

G. Petruzzella, here. 

Dear Europe...

IPKat, here.

Referendum result response

UK Information Commissioner's Officer, here.

CMA's response slightly more complex, I guess.

FCA exploring whether 'price discrimination' fuelled by big data benefits the few over the many

Out-Law, here.

Terrible Ruling In Germany: Digitizing The Public Domain Creates New Copyright

TechCrunch, here.

Innovation: The History of a Buzzword

TheAtlantic, here.

Four Takeaways from the FTC’s Healthcare Merger Losses

antitrustupdateblog.com, here.

The Art of Privacy

NYTimes, here.

UMICORE: abus de position dominante (approvisionnement exclusif)

Autorité de la concurrence, ici. 

The hidden risks of the bot explosion

Techcrunch, Here.