Friday, February 13, 2015

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

M. Ohlhausen, A. Okuliar, here.

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

CMA, here.

Authorpreneurship

The Economist, here.

How 21 big tech companies got their names

TheNextWeb, here.

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

ActuaLitté, ici

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

CNMC, Nota de Prensa, aquì

Antitrust, Privacy & Big Data: Setting the Scene

A. Burnside, here

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

F. Marcos, aquì

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

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


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

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

Website here.

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

EC Press Release, here

New agency to sniff out threats in cyberspace

WashingtonPost, here.

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

Forbes, here.

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

Most Big Data is Social Data

Blogs.lse.ac.uk, here.

Monday, February 09, 2015

Sunday, January 11, 2015

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

Cabu interviewé par Charles Sigel,  Podcast ici.

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

J. Tanner, here.

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

Friday, December 19, 2014

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

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

U.S. judge concerned Android antitrust lawsuit too vague

Reuters, here

The Future of Privacy: Digital Life in 2025

Pew Research Center, here

Prêt numérique en bibliothèque: à peine acté, déjà critiqué

Lexpress.fr, ici

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

M. Motta, Presentation, here

How much traffic did Facebook deliver to Bing? Very little

Insidefacebook, here

Apple 'failing to protect Chinese factory workers'

BBC.com, here.

Apple's reaction here (from The Verge)

IP and Standard Setting

OECD Competition Committee, Note by Germany, here

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

Eutopialaw.com, here

Google aiming to go straight into car with next Android

Reuters, here.

Monopolkommission: Die Zähmung der Internet-Giganten

FAZ.net, hier.

Thursday, December 18, 2014

Microsoft stops offering alternative browsers to Windows users in Europe

PCWorld, here

ETH-Bibliothek document delivery service is admissible

Ethz.ch, here.

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

Governments Should Make Markets, Not Just Fix Them

M. Mazzucato, here

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

Reuters.com, here

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

Out-law.com, here

How to crack the Booking.com algorithm

Tnooz, here

WIPO: Study On Copyright Exceptions Stimulates Broad Discussion With Author

IP-Watch, here

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

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

IP, Standard Setting, and Injunctions

M. Dolmans, OECD Competition Committee, here

Intellectual Property and Standard Setting

OECD Competition Committee, Note by the United States, here

Global internet authority ICANN has been hacked

TheVerge, here

Independent Library Report for England

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

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

Yahoo.finance, here.

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


CJEU Case C-364/13,  here.

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

TheNextWeb, here

Monday, December 15, 2014

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

Fortune.com, here

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

CNIL, ici

Datenschutz: Justizministerium drängt auf klaren Rechtsrahmen für Scoring

Heise.de, hier

CBP issues sanction to Google for infringements privacy policy

CBPweb.nl, here

ACCC authorises resale price maintenance for the first time

Clifford Chance, here

UberPop sera interdit dès le 1er janvier

LeMonde, ici.

Warum all die Pakete?

FAZ.net, hier

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

EC, here.

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

Text of the proposed commitments (in French), here

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

Accademia della Crusca, qui.

Facebook dumps Microsoft Web search results

Reuters.com, here

Glitch Causes Items To Be Sold On Amazon For 1p

News.Sky.com, here

The economics of P2P lending

Bruegel.org, here

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

NYTimes.com, here

Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Dancing around data

M. Stucke and A. Grunes, here

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

VentureBeat, here

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

Theglobeandmail.com, here

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

A. Chisholm, here

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

Theverge.com, here. More background info here.

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

Arstechnica.com, here

Open Letter to App Marketplaces from 23 Privacy Authorities

Priv.gc.ca, here

The Object of Effects

A. Italiener, here.

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

Case T-90/11, here.

La CNMC y la economía colaborativa

CNMCblog, aquí

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


P. Ibáñez Colomo, here.

Android's winning mobile strategy: Sell to the poor

TechRepublic, here.

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

Nieman.lab, here.

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

Shearman.com, here.

Monday, November 24, 2014

A Nobel Laureate, Darth Vader© and Access to Health: Balancing IP and Competition in the Pharmaceutical Industry

Giovanni Napolitano
World Intellectual Property Organization 

4th December, 2014, 2 p.m.

DEM - Conference Room
Trento University 

How the UN is using open data to tackle Ebola

Futuregov.asia, here

Virgin Media sets the cat among the pigeons – Ofcom examines Premier League football

Brian Cave, here.

Google settles Internet trolling court case

TheGuardian.com, here

Suède : Les éditeurs lèvent les restrictions sur le prêt numérique

ActuaLitte.com, ici.

Structural Remedies in the Google Case?

I-Comp, here.

Why Textbooks Count: A Policy Paper

T. Oates, here

Brief of Amici Curiae Antitrust Law Professors in O'Bannon v. NCAA

Google launches 'Contributor' payment service

Independent.co.uk, here

Update on Trademark-Related Aspects of the Domain Name System

WIPO Secretariat, here

Europeans Have Authority To Seek Google Break Up Though Unlikely To Do So

SearchEngineLand, here

RBS apologises for 'incorrect' evidence to MPs' committee

BBC.com, here

Where Creativity Thrives: BitTorrent 2014 User Study

Blog.bittorrent.com, here.

Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Court: Google Can Arrange Search Results Any Way It Damn Pleases

Gizmodo.com, here

The Uncertain Scope of the Public Performance Right After American Broadcasting Companies v. Aereo, Inc.

M. Sag, here

Privatisation

UK House of Commons Library Research Paper, here

The Competitive Effects of Across-Platform Parity Agreements

Paolo Buccirossi
LEAR, Rome

Friday, 28th November, 2014 – 1.45 p.m.

Room 2B
Department of Economics and Management
Trento University, Italy

Airbnb and Hotels: What to Do About the Sharing Economy?

Wired.com, here.

Autorité de la concurrence saisie sur les relations contractuelles entre les hôteliers et les centrales de réservation sur internet

Reuters, ici.

Silicon Valley Antitrust: Syllabus

H. Kaiser, here.

Confessions of a price fixer

AutoNews.com, here.

The Ladies Vanish

Thenewinquiry.com, here

High-Cost Generic Drugs — Implications for Patients and Policymakers

J. Alpern, W. Stauffer, and A. Kesselheim, here

Au ministère de la Culture, inquiétudes autour du marché de l’occasion numérique

NextImpact, ici.

Est-ce que les juges européens seront moins frileux et plus imaginatifs que la plupart des politiciens nationaux? De toute façon, bon sujet à débattre dans le cadre de la Concertation nationale sur le numérique.

Internet of Things – Top 10 privacy and data protection concerns

JDSupra, here.

Federal Circuit: Novelty in Implementation of an Abstract Idea Insufficient to Overcome Alice

Patentlyo, here.