Automatisiertes Fahren: Bundestag beschließt Haftungsregeln und Datenspeicher

Heise.de, hier. 

Richard Posner in Conversation with Luigi Zingales

Video here.
05:20 "Because antitrust is dead, isn't it? That was my impression".

The Hidden Monopolies That Raise Drug Prices

TheAmericanProspect, here. 

A Turkish Court Has Temporarily Shut Down Booking.com over breach of competition law

Fortune, here. 

Protection des données : Microsoft tente d’amadouer la CNIL

LeMonde, ici. 

Google annonce la mort du moteur de recherche et l’avènement de l’Age de l’assistance

FrenchWeb.fr, ici. Google lui même ici. 

Is There a Role for Political Antitrust?

Panel, Video here. 

Sponge

A. Ezrachi, here. 

Eis-Kartell in Tübingen? - Kugeln kosten plötzlich mehr

Zeit.de (!), hier. 

EC blocks proposed merger between Deutsche Börse and London Stock Exchange

Press release, here. See also here.

The Trade-Off Every AI Company Will Face

A. Agrawal, J. Gans, A. Goldfarb, here. 

Asymétrie d’information, défaut de loyauté et contrôle des données... l'économie collaborative demande régulation

LINC, ici. 

ICYMI: Winner-Take-All Digital Platforms

Panel includes Dennis Carlton, Randal Picker and Gary Reback, Video here. 

Judge criticizes Uber’s secrecy in lawsuit with Waymo

TechCrunch, here. 

ICYMI: What Does History Tell Us? The Development of Antitrust in America

Panel, Programme here, Video here. 

Digital comparison tools market study: Update paper

CMA, here. 

'The Way A User Interacts With VR Allows For Extremely Pervasive Information Collection'

InnovationEnterprise, here. 

Vorschau EuGH in Sachen Coty

Schulte-lawyers.com, hier. 

Commission clears merger between Dow and DuPont, subject to conditions

Press Release, here. 

Winner-Take-All Digital Platforms / Big Data and Competition

Stigler Center, 28 March 2017, 3.30 pm Trento Time, live streamed, links here. 

The online advertising market in the EU

European Audiovisual Observatory, here. 

Conduct in the modelling sector

CMA, Case CE/9859-14, Decision here. 

Booking.com suspected of cartel activity in GVH probe

BBJ, here. 

Defining 'Big Data' in Antitrust

X. Boutin, G. Clemens, here.



What giants?" Asked Sancho Panza.
"The ones you can see over there," answered his master, "with the huge arms, some of which are very nearly two leagues long."
"Now look, your grace," said Sancho, "what you see over there aren't giants, but windmills, and what seems to be arms are just their sails, that go around in the wind and turn the millstone."
"Obviously," replied Don Quijote, "you don't know much about adventures.

Elon Musk’s Billion-Dollar Crusade To Stop The A.I. Apocalypse

VanityFair, here. 

BT to be fined £42m for breaching contracts with telecoms providers

OFcom, here. 

Whither Antitrust Enforcement in the Trump Administration?

S. Salop, C. Shapiro, here. 

Populism: The Phenomenon

Bridgewater, here.

Why American Farmers Are Hacking Their Tractors With Ukrainian Firmware

MotherBoard, here. 

Maurice Stucke discussing "Virtual Competition" at Harvard University

Tuesday, March 28, 2017 at 06:00 pm Trento Time, Video here.

Alleged Collusion Cloud Over Airline Industry Shows Some Signs of Dissipation

Holland & Knight, here. 

Health Law, IP and Human Rights: Standardised Packaging of Tobacco

S. Palmer, Presentation here (slides and video)

Vestager: “We have found in more than one case, that there was a case of misleading information”

WSJ, here. 

Using Intellectual Property Tools to Achieve Human Rights Ends: The Example of the Marrakesh VIP Treaty

L. Helfer, Presentation here.

Big data in social sciences: a promise betrayed ?

The Undercover Historian, here. 

Mining Is The New Reading

IP-Watch, here. 

Banks and Tech Firms Battle Over Something Akin to Gold: Your Data

NYTimes, here. 

These AI bots created their own language to talk to each other

Recode, here. 

"I am concerned that there will be..political antitrust"

ProMarket, here. 

Halter sollen Eigentümer von Fahrzeugdaten werden

Golem.de, hier.

Supreme Court Uses Imagination in Ruling Cheerleader Uniform Designs Can Be Copyrighted

HollywoodReporter,  here.

ECN+: Proposal for a Directive to empower the competition authorities of the Member States to be more effective enforcers and to ensure the proper functioning of the internal market

EC, here. 

RCEP: Competition Chapter Leaked

Keionline, here. 

Deal in sight for Amazon in e-books case against EU

Euractiv, here. 

Une stratégie pour la France en matière d’intelligence artificielle

Le Gouvernement, ici.

A voir aussi ici. 

Co-regulation in EU personal data protection: the case of technical standards and the privacy by design standardisation 'mandate'

I. Kamara, here.

A Patent Case That Affects Everyone

Bloomberg, here.

Data-Opolies

A. Grunes, M. Stucke, here. 

 

ICO highlights that GDPR requires businesses to understand and explain the rationale of decisions taken by machines

Out-Law.com, here.

From Marrakesh to Brussels: the long arm of the EU copyright lobby

CEO, here.

Case M.8323 - AT&T / TIME WARNER

EC, here.

“There Is Convincing Evidence That Concentration Has Been Rising”

Interview with J. Kwoka, here. 

Weißbuch Digitale Plattformen

BMWi, hier. 

Conference: Vestager, Posner, and Top Scholars Ask If There Is a Concentration Problem in America

ProMarket.org, here. 

Volvo autonomous cars ‘won’t make moral decisions’ for occupants

Caradvice.com.au, here. 

Merkel fordert einheitliche Regelung bei Eigentum an digitalen Daten

Heise.de, hier. 

Google ad controversy: what the row is all about

TheGuardian, here.

CMA launches campaign to crack down on cartels

Here. 

Law, Virtual Reality, and Augmented Reality

M. Lemley, E. Volokh, here. 

Industry 4.0: Building the digital enterprise

PWC (yes, that one), here.

Das Wissen der Masse nutzen

FSZ, hier. 

Google Home is playing audio ads for Beauty and the Beast

TheVerge, here. 

Licensing Terms of Standard Essential Patents

JRC, here. 

Surveillance capitalism's companies disappointed by EU laws meant to protect people

Fortune, here. 

7 Reasons Why Europe's Antitrust Cases Against Google Are A Big Deal

Forbes, here.