Facebook/WhatsApp data swap deal being probed by Spanish agency

IndianExpress, here.

L'éditeur de logiciels Nexedi assigne Apple au tribunal de commerce de Paris

Challenges.fr, ici.

Google researchers aim to prevent AIs from discriminating

TechCrunch, here.

Verizon will soon start selling data plans for drones

TheVerge, here.

Apple mysteriously banned a popular app from its App store ... and a lot of programmers are mad

BusinessInsider, here.

Monetizing car data

McKinsey.de, here.

An in-depth analysis of how Expedia converts visitors into customers

EconConsultancy, Part One here.

Patent Assertion Entity Activity

FTC, here.

Only 146 pages, actually

I have seen the future of the Internet: Millions of rogue fridges will render it unusable

G. Moody, here. 

Protecting Privacy for Broadband Consumers

FCC, here. 

Big Data Rights: Let's Get Together

EDPS, here. 

The Pros and Cons of the Sharing Economy

Seminar in Stockholm staged by the Swedish Competition Authority on Friday 11 November, programme here, webcast here.

Neue Behörde soll Google bändigen

Handelsblatt, hier. 

Google's AI Plans Are A Privacy Nightmare

W. Turton, here. 

Echanges d’information : nouvelles frontières

Concurrences, ici.

Sabotaging the Competition: Lessons from Intel

M. Sonwinsky, Video here.

When Algorithms Decide What You Pay

ProPublica, here. 

Effectiveness of the purely turnover-based jurisdictional thresholds of the EU Merger Regulation

EC, Evaluation Roadmap, here. 

The Rise of the Machines – How Automated Digital Assistants Can Reduce Competition (and the Cash in Your Wallet)

A. Ezrachi, M. Stucke, here.

Commission plans cybersecurity rules for internet-connected machines

EurActiv, Here.

The Next Decade of Data Science: Rethinking key challenges faced by big data researchers

V. Polinski, here.

"data scientists often run the risk of studying what is observable rather than what needs to be studied"

How the digital age cuts through notions of material ownership

FT, here. 

Humanity’s war on latency: Semaphore to silicon photonics and beyond

ArsTechnica, here. 

Not OK, Google

TechCrunch, here. 

Everything you need to know from Google’s Pixel event

TechCrunch, here. 

Software patents are deadweight loss to economy, says Federal Circuit

WorldIPReview, here.

Life After Android: The Battle Of The Platforms Heats Up

Forbes, here.

Market Study Online Video Streaming Platforms

ACM, Video Here.

Well, these online platforms have been around for a while already, but it's true that they're continously evolving. In fact, it's tough to produce a market study in this area that isn't at least partly outdated while the ink is barely dry on it.

Amazon bans reviews based on free or discounted products

ArsTechnica, here.

Bibliography of Materials Relevant to the Interaction of Competition Policy, Big Data and Personal Data

C. Ritter, here.

The US no longer controls the address book for the Internet

Wired, here.

Free Trade Agreements Should Promote Generic Competition, Speakers Say At WTO

IP-Watch, here. 

Accelerating the Internet of Things in the UK: Using policy to support practice

RAND, here.
"...the survey results highlight that there is a strong
perception that consumers should be in control of their personal data at all times, signalling a distinctive move towards individuals themselves acting as their own ‘data controllers’."

Seedy business: Patent war looms over Europe’s crop diversity

Politico.eu, here. 

Enhancing competition in retail

R. Sims, here. 

Avec Marketplace, Facebook déclare officiellement la guerre à LeBonCoin

Numerama, ici. 

Révolution cartographique ?

Arte, Le dessous des cartes, Vidéo ici. 

Amazon Bets Big on India's Busiest Shopping Season

Bloomberg, here. 

Google invents a Touch Gesture System Designed Specifically for Future Smart Garments

Patentlyapple.com, here. 

Mergers would cut ‘Big 6’ to ‘Big 4’

Iowafarmertoday, here. 

A Grand Bargain to Make Tech Companies Trustworthy

J. Balkin, J. Zittrain, here. 

What The Rise And Stall Of Pokemon Go Can Teach Creative Marketers

Fastcocreate.com, here. 

Peut-on revendre la copie de sauvegarde d'un logiciel ? Réponse de la CJUE le 12 octobre

NextImpact, ici. . 

Salesforce Will Press Two Big Points in LinkedIn Antitrust Fight

thestreet.com, here.

The Netflix library has collapsed 50% in total title count since 2012

Exstreamist, here  

Online sales of posters and frames

CMA, Decision, here.

'Maintaining good relationships with customers is a legitimate objective, however where such an objective is achieved by means of an anti- competitive arrangement, that arrangement can be regarded as having an anti-competitive object.'

'Repricing software is normally used by online
sellers to compete with other online sellers by automatically adjusting
the prices of their products in response to the live prices of competitors’
products...However, in the present case the repricing software was
configured by the Parties to restrict price competition between them in
order to give effect to the Infringing Agreement'.

Fighting bid rigging in public procurement

Report on implementing the OECD Recommendation, here. 

Geographic market definition across national borders

OECD Background Paper, here. 

PCW Report

UK Regulators Network, here.
Letter to the CMA, here.
Notes from an acedemic seminar, here. 

Indirect Evidence in Cartel Cases

J. Kloub, Presentation here. 

Filmmakers Stealing From Painters: 20 Examples of Films That “Remixed” a Painting

Mentorless, here. 

Survey and data gathering to support the evaluation of the Satellite and Cable Directive 93/83/EEC and assessment of its possible extension

Study prepared for the European Commission, here.

Exploring Data Portability

The White House, here. 

EU wants Google to stop anti-competitive Android practices, fine expected

Reuters, here.

Google’s Uber Competitor Is Finally Here

Fortune, here.

EU Court Confirms European Commission’s Decision on Pay-for-Delay Agreement

McDermott, here.

A Comparative Analysis of the Perception Differences between Competition Law and Anti-corruption Law

G. Gürkaynak, Ç. Olgu Kama, C. Özkanlı, & B. Ergün, here.

Price discrimination

OECD Background Paper, here.

BIG DATA: BRINGING COMPETITION POLICY TO THE DIGITAL ERA

OECD Background Paper, here.

Boehringer ordered to turn over documents in antitrust probe

Reuters, here.

55 percent of online shoppers start their product searches on Amazon

Recode, here. 

Movie Piracy and Displaced Sales in Europe: Evidence from Six Countries

B. Herz, K. Kiljański, here. 

Schär­fere Fusi­ons­kon­trolle für Internet-Unter­nehmen geplant

LTO.de, hier. 

Wer im Netz Milliarden mit unseren Daten macht

FutureZone.at, hier. 

A robot could get you the cheapest energy deal - forever

Aol, here. 

REALITY CHECK: THE REGULATORY LANDSCAPE FOR VIRTUAL AND AUGMENTED REALITY

A. Hobson, here. 

Cartel bosses must be prosecuted

Iol.co.za, here. 

Networks of Control: A Report on Corporate Surveillance, Digital Tracking, Big Data & Privacy

W. Christl, S. Spiekermann, here. 

Facebook’s privacy head attacks ‘negative’ views around its use of WhatsApp data

MarketingWeek, here. 

Geo-blocking: BEUC Position Paper

Here.

Wer haftet, wenn selbstfahrende Autos Unfälle bauen?

FAZ, hier. 

Commissioner: UK 'must avoid data protection Brexit'

BBC, here.

Can a competition policy Brexit be avoided?

HP issues non-apology for blocking third-party ink cartridges

TechCrunch, here. 

Novel But a Long Time Coming: The Bundeskartellamt Takes on Facebook

R. McLeod, here. 

Vestager says EU may review small but data-rich M&A deals

Reuters, here. 

An Algorithm Gives This 3D-Printed Table Countless Permutations

FastCompany, here. 

Why almost everyone who tries to build an MSP business fails

R. Schmalensee, Audio here. 

Salesforce Is Said to Question Microsoft-LinkedIn Deal in Europe

NYTimes, here.

Learning to trust artificial intelligence systems

IBM, here.

Connect Peers

Deloitte, here. 

'Partnership on AI' formed by Google, Facebook, Amazon, IBM and Microsoft

TheGuardian, here. 

What Facebook Knows About You

ProPublica, here. 

Opinion on coherent enforcement of fundamental rights in the age of big data

EDPS, here. 

Big Data individual rights and enforcement

G. Buttarelli, here.

Pokémon Go menacé par les sculpteurs et architectes

Numerama, ici.

Tech Giants Team Up To Devise An Ethics Of Artificial Intelligence

FastCompany, here.

Principal syndicat professionnel du secteur du mannequinat et 37 agences: entente

Autorité de la concurrence, Décision ici.

EU’s Vestager ‘Exploring’ Need to Probe Deals With Valuable Data

Bloomberg, here.

Big Data and Competition

M. Vestager, here.

CMA launches study into digital comparison tools

CMA, here. Statement of scope, here.

Market Definition in Online Markets: Mission Impossible?

P. Akman, Presentation here. 

Vertical Restraints and e-Commerce: The Divergence of Economic Analysis and Competition Enforcement

K.-U. Kuehn, here. 

Uber, competition and regulation

D. Geradin, Presentation here. 

The European Commission extends its settlement procedure to abuse of dominance cases under Article 102 TFEU

White & Case, here. 

Why data is the new coal

TheGuardian, here. 

Fintech: The Regulatory Risks & Opportunities

Mlexmarketinsight.com, here, 

Neuer Ordnungsrahmen für den Wettbewerb in einer digitalisierten Welt

bmwi.de, hier,

How I Changed My Mind on Intellectual Property

FEE.org, here. 

Taxi and private hire regulation: CMA letter to City of Sheffield

CMA, here.

Using Behavioral Economics and Field Experiments To Make The World A Better Place

Vienna Behavioral Economics Network, here. 

Facebook and Google: most powerful and secretive empires we've ever known

TheGuardian, here.   

Italian Privacy watchdog probing WhatsApp

Ansa, here.

The Global Competitiveness Report 2016-2017

WEF, here.

Facebook darf WhatsApp-Daten nicht nutzen

Tagesspiegel, hier.

Anordnung gegen Massendatenabgleich zwischen WhatsApp und Facebook

hier.

Statement of Objections to International Skating Union on its eligibility rules

EC, here.

Getty Images to Commissioner Vestager re Google Images

Letter, here.

AmEx can bar merchants from steering card customers elsewhere

Reuters, here.
Ruling here.

How Can Antitrust Be Used to Protect Competition in the Digital Marketplace?

ProMarket, here.

The Competence of the EU to Create a Neighbouring Right for Publishers

A. Ramahlo, here.

American Antitrust Is Having a Moment: Some Reactions to Commissioner Ohlhausen’s Recent Views

ProMarket,here.

A 3% boost to GDP from blockchain? It’s a real possibility

WEForum, here.

Marriott's next battle: the Expedia war

DailyHerald, here.

Taking a closer look at online video platforms

ACM, here.

Bias in, bias out

Nature, here.

An ode to the night train

Politico.eu, here.

Japan's antitrust watchdog considers action against Apple, carriers - sources

Reuters, here.

Bahamas Leaks : la trahison morale des élites

LeMonde,  ici.

The Social and Economic Implications of Artificial Intelligence Technologies in the Near-Term

AI Now, here.

Stealing an AI algorithm and its underlying data is a “high-school level exercise”

QZ, here.

Liebe OTAs, habt ihr das denn wirklich nötig?

TopHotel.de, hier.

Matchmaking to Find Homes for Refugees

Bloomberg, here.

Grote Platforms, grote Problemen?

ACM.nl, hier.

Ex-EU commissioner Neelie Kroes failed to declare directorship of offshore firm

TheGuardian, here.

Still hoping that this isn't as bad as it might seem...

Abuse of dominance by firms charging excessive or unfair prices: an assessment

F. Jenny, here.

Wie das Hotelportal HRS seine Kunden manipuliert

Correctiv.org, hier.

The Untold EpiPen Story: How Mylan Hiked Prices by Blocking Rivals

M. Carrier, C. Minniti, here.

Cartel Detection: Introducing the V-023

ACM, Video here. 

Data Control – monopoly or individual control

Videos here. 

5 to 4, 4 to 3, 3 to 2: Lessons to be learned?

RBB Economics, here.

The Businesses That Platforms Are Actually Disrupting

D. Evans, R. Schmalensee, here.

UK watchdog drops plans for review of Big Data use by insurers

Reuters, here. 

Amazon’s algorithms are misleading customers and causing them to spend way more than they should

Qz.com, here.

Desorden judicial en defensa de la competencia

F. Marcos, aquì.

Personalisierte Preise

Vzbv, hier.

Amazon Says It Puts Customers First. But Its Pricing Algorithm Doesn’t.

ProPublica, here. 

Consolidation and Competition in the U.S. Seed and Agrochemical Industry

US Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing, written testimonies here.

U.S. – E.U. Convergence: Can We Bridge the Atlantic?

M. Ohlhausen, here. 

Competition as Fair Process – the shared language of popular and expert antitrust

R. Hesse, here. 

Federalberghi: Booking "vìola palesemente le regole"

Corrierecomunicazioni.it, qui.

Competition for a Fairer Society

M. Vestager, here.

"Here in the United States, the Council of Economic Advisors has warned about the risks of markets that are increasingly dominated by a few large companies".

Commissioner Vestager on Recode Decode

Podcast, here.

Monopolkommission: Hauptgutachten XXI - Wettbewerb 2016

Hier.

Zentralvermarktung in der Fußball-Bundesliga S. 80 ff.
Digitale Märkte: Sharing Economy und FinTechs S. 363 ff.

Libre installation des notaires

Autorité de la concurrence, ici. 

Google Steps Up Travel Presence With Trip-Planning App

Bloomberg, here. 

Monopolkommission: Airbnb und Fintechs nicht überregulieren

FAZ, hier. 

Commission fines ARA €6 million for hindering competition on Austrian waste management market

EC, here. 

Daten ohne Schutz: WhatsApp überschreitet rote Linie

vzbv, hier. 

Bundeskartellamt hat keine Einwände gegen App-basiertes Girokonto der Sparkassen

Bundeskartellamt, hier.

"Die gemeinsame Vereinbarung der Sparkassen darüber, die Basisversion des App-Kontos kostenlos anzubieten, könnte eine wettbewerbsbeschränkende Vereinbarung darstellen...Im Rahmen seines Aufgreifermessens hat das Bundeskartellamt entschieden, kein Verfahren gegen die teilnehmenden Sparkassen einzuleiten. Das gemeinsame Vorgehen der Sparkassen erscheint in diesem Fall gerechtfertigt, da so insbesondere auch kleinere Institute die Möglichkeit haben, über die App Neukunden zu gewinnen. Darüber hinaus erscheint es in dem derzeitigen Marktumfeld unumgänglich, die Basisversion eines App-Kontos kostenfrei anzubieten, so dass die Vereinbarung – wenn überhaupt – den Wettbewerb nur geringfügig beschränkt."

Salesforce Einstein delivers artificial intelligence across the Salesforce platform

TechCrunch, here. 

More on Lundbeck v Commission: some comments on the comments #ourreadersask

P. Ibanez Colomo, here. 

Do no harm, don't discriminate: official guidance issued on robot ethics

TheGuardian, here.

Uber and Little Cab’s battle to control the streets of Nairobi

Africa.tvcnews.tv, here. 

Brexit does not mean Brexit—it means “total chaos”

WIPR, here. 

How New Consumer Data Marketplaces Are Changing Advertising -- Forever

Forbes, here.

Susan Athey on Machine Learning and Econometrics

Medium, here.

Japan report finds Apple, Google hinder app sales competition

Nikkei, here. 

Grenzüberschreitende Nutzung von digitalen Inhalten erleichtern

vzbv, hier. 

La blockchain dans les industries créatives : peut-on accroître la transparence tout en préservant la vie privée des utilisateurs ?

LINC, ici. 

Opérations de visite et saisie inopinées dans le secteur de la fabrication et la distribution des sandwichs

Autorité de la concurrence, ici. 

Experiments in Intellectual Property

C. Buccafusco, C. Sprigman, here.

"Inventing a new pharmaceutical or producing a movie takes years of intellectual effort. The creativity that researchers can study in the laboratory, however, may involve minutes or even seconds".

General Court’s pay for delay judgment in Lundbeck – some guidance, but worries remain

S. Gallasch, here. 

Artificial Intelligence: The Economic and Policy Implications

S. Athey, Video here. 

The Commission’s proposed TDM exception: Who’s to benefit?

M. Caspers, here. 

Data Ownership and Access to Data

Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Position Statement, here. 

Using Behavioral Science Insights to Better Serve the American People: Implementation Guidance

The White House, here.

EU court confirms Thomson Reuters coding settlement

...Reuters, here.

T-76/14, here.

An Antitrust Review of a Bayer-Monsanto Merger

A. Grunes, M. Stucke, here.

FTC Approves Final Order Preserving Competition in Markets for 79 Pharmaceutical Products

FTC, here.

Fusion hängt von Bayers Bereitschaft zu Zugeständnissen ab

WiWo, hier. 

Using Behavioral Science Insights to Better Serve the American People

The White House, Executive Order, here.
Also "White House Summit on Behavioral Science Insights", here (live soon)

Anti-Surge Pricing

UN High-Level Panel On Access To Medicines Issues “Landmark” Report

IP-watch, here.

Report of the United Nations Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel On Access To Medicines

Here.

New EU Telco Rules

Arstechnica, here.

Competition and the Digital Single Market

M. Vestager, here.

E-Commerce Sector Inquiry: Preliminary Report

Press Release, here. Fact sheet here. Preliminary Report here.

Digital content:
- "the information provided during the sector inquiry... shows that multiple business models and a great diversity of licensing practices are available and indeed used, which can cater for the needs of both right holders and digital content providers";
-"Little substantive evidence was provided on the importance of pre-sale arrangements to fund new products by respondents, in relation to the products included in the sector inquiry."

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.