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.

Concrete Problems in AI Safety

D. Amodei, C. Olah, J.Schulm, J.Steinhardt, P. Christiano, D. Mané, Here.

A Clash of Swords (The Intel Hearing)

T. Soames, Here.

Will universities be disrupted?

Recode, Podcast here. 

Assessment of current and future impact of Big Data on Financial Services

FSUG, here. 

Measuring the Economic Value of Cross-Border Data Flows

US Department of Commerce, here. 

Why notice-and-takedown is a bit of copyright law worth saving

C. Springman, M. Lemley, here.

OpenAI says it will build a household robot and intelligent agents

VentureBeat, here. 

Kayak’s cofounder talks about how bots are transforming customer engagement

Venture Beat, here. 

A New Paradigm for Personal Data

Facebook, here  (FB users here).

L’Oréal turns to vloggers to beat ad-blocking software

FT, here. 

Taylor Swift, Vince Staples, Paul McCartney and more call for digital copyright reforms

Independent.co.uk, here. 

CMA guides businesses on online competition law

Here. 

Kartelinspecteurs ACM bezoeken duizenden LinkedIn-profielen van havens en transport

ACM.nl, hier. 

The Proprietarization of Android – Google Play Services and Apps

T. Grote, here. 

Digital Assistants Will Serve as the Primary Interface to the Connected Home

Gartner, here. 

Consumers are worse off thanks to price comparison sites

Blogs.spectator.co.uk, here. 

Toutes vos photos vont devenir payantes pour Google : allez-vous gagner de l’argent ?

Numerama, ici. 

A Deep Look Inside Apple Pay’s Matchmaker Economics

D. Evans, R. Schmalensee, here. 

Kirtsaeng II

Here. 

The I’d Like to Add You to My Professional Network Edition

Slate Money, Podcast here. 

Council conclusions on strengthening the balance in the pharmaceutical systems in the EU and its Member States

Here. 

Will Germany ban ad blocking software? A quick look

M. Lüdow, here. 

Quel est l’objectif politique de la “société en réseau” ?

H. Gaillard, ici. 

Out-Of-Market Efficiencies, Two-Sided Platforms and Consumer Welfare: A Legal and Economic Analysis

F. Ducci, here. 

Data May Be Key in Microsoft-LinkedIn Probe, EU’s Vestager Says

Bloomberg, here. 

How to boost FinTech’s contribution to competition

ACM, here. 

FinTech’s Bright Future Marred by Hype

D. Evans and R. Schmalensee, here. 

Efficiency Claims: What’s New?

Symposium, here. 

Regulatory Challenges in Digital Markets: Privacy

BCCP Conference and Policy Forum 2016, Programme here; Livestream here. 

Data portability among online platforms

B. Engels, here. 

Guns, Limbs, and Toys: What Future for 3D Printing?

A. Thierer, A. Marcus, here. 

New data on what connected cars are tracking

FiaRegion1, here. 

Journalism is getting personal: latest trends from the digital front line

Polis, here. 

Secrets of the Sharing Economy

Bloomberg, here. 

AG Szpunar says that time-limited e-lending is allowed under EU law and interpretation of copyright norms must evolve with technology

IPKat, here. 

The Antitrust and Intellectual Property Intersection in European Union Law

N. Petit, here. 

Competition is Messy: Merger Challenges

B. Baer, here. 

Competition, innovation, and legal services

FTC, here. 

Publishers in the copyright value chain

European Copyright Society, here.

Price Comparison Websites

D. Ronayne, here. 

What Ad Blockers Are (and Are Not) Doing

C. Wills and D. Uzunoglu, Here.

What is Differential Privacy?

blog.cryptographyengineering.com, here.

Innovation Is Not Enough

D. Rodrik, here. 

Price comparison sites to be investigated by competition watchdog

The Guardian, here.

Applying blockchain technology in global data infrastructure

ODI, here. 

Intesa anticoncorrenziale fra operatori di vending (distributori automatici)

AGCM, qui.

Court upholds Obama-backed net neutrality rules

Politico, here.
Here.

Why Microsoft bought LinkedIn for $26 billion, in one word: Cortana

PCWorld, here. 

Going gets tough for GoCompare the SuperMeerkat

FT, here. 

Liber on the role of publishers in the copyright value chain and on the 'panorama exception

Here.

Competencia y regulación eficiente en las universidades españolas

CNMC, aquì. 

Apple’s response to the chatbot craze doesn’t involve any chatbots

VentureBeat, here.

Apple's differential privacy

Wired, here.

Stealing Books in the Age of Self-Publishing

ThrAtlantic, here.

Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn

Microsoft, here and here. 

Antitrust settlements: the culture of consent

D. Ginsburg and J. Wright, here. 

Fidelity rebates - summary of the contributions

OECD, here. 

Public interest considerations in merger control

OECD Background Note, here. 

Protecting and promoting competition in response to "disruptive" innovations in legal services

OECD Background Note, here. 

Summary of Discussion of the Hearing on Across-Platforms Parity Agreements

OECD, here. 

Ein europäisches Leistungsschutzrecht für Verlagemacht keinen Sinn – eher Anreize für innovative Mehrwertleistungen schaffen

R. Kuhlen, hier. 

The New Economics of Multi-Sided Platforms: A Guide to the Vocabulary

D. Evans, R. Schmalensee, here. 

La competencia de la economía colaborativa

ElPais.com, aquì.

The sharing economy and new models of service delivery

OECD Insights, here.

A luxury Uber for the skies

FT, here.

Music in the age of the algorithm

FT, here.

Competition Tribunal issues decision in ebooks matter

Competition Bureau, here.

Apple tries to find its voice with Siri as it looks to catch up in AI

FT, hère.

Hollywood Studios File Suit Against Service Streaming $1 Movies

HollywoodReporter, here.

Android Users Seek Class-Action Status In Privacy Battle Over App Purchases

Mediapost.com, Here.

Entering the Trust Age

Blablacar, here.

The Web’s Creator Looks to Reinvent It

NYTimes, Here.

Marktmacht von Plattformen und Netzwerken

Bundeskartellamt (6. Beschlussabteilung / Think Tank Internet), Arbeitspapier, hier (148 Seiten).

Einstweilige Verfügung für Euroleague Basketball

Gleiss Lutz, hier.
Beschluss hier.

Lufthansa hits back after being reported to US regulator over surcharge discussion

Tnooz, here. 

Informe económico sobre las restricciones a la competencia incluidas en materia de vehículos de alquiler con conductor

CNMC, aquì. 

On Human Dignity as a Foundation for the Right to Privacy

L. Floridi, here. 

Regulation on Interchange Fees

EC, here. 

Grünbuch Digitale Platformen

BMWi, hier. 

Behavioral Economics in the Classroom

D. Laibson and J. List, here.

The CMA alleges that Ping has breached UK and EU competition law by operating an online sales ban

Press Release, here.
"Bans on internet trading can be a problem if they seek to prevent retailers reaching a significant proportion of customers. We will now consider any justifications put forward by Ping for the alleged conduct".

Fair compensation cannot be financed by a budgetary scheme such as that established in Spain

Case C-470/14, EGEDA. Press Release here. 

International Antitrust Enforcement: China and Beyond

T. Horton, here. 

Google is offering app developers the same revenue sharing terms Apple just announced — with one big advantage

Recode, here.

Expedia’s first bot is for booking hotels

VentureBeat, here.

Oracle v. Google

Order, here.

The role of economics in merger analysis: what can John Oliver teach us?

D. Gelfand (US DoJ), here. 

El TSJM tumba el decreto ‘anti-Airbnb’ de la Comunidad de Madrid

Sabemos, aquì.

Our public institutions need fair use laws

Smh.com.au, here. 

Freedom of expression and the private sector in the digital age

UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression to the Human Rights Council, here (Word).

List of submissions, here. 

The API Industry Supply Value Chain

APIDays, here. 

Copyright Office Opens Inquiry on Digital Rights for Libraries

Copyrightandtechnology.com, here. 

Stop the Bots From Killing Broadway

NYTimes, here.
See also here.

A complete list of all the ride-hail, auto and tech companies that have joined forces

Recode, here.

Voici à quoi ressemble l'ensemble des trajets européens de BlaBlaCar en une journée

LeFigaro,  Ici.

Taxi Messenger: Taxi-Bestellung jetzt auch über den Facebook Messenger

Heise.de, hier.

How 16 Companies are Dominating the World’s Google Search Results

ViperChill, here.

IAB Crumbles on legality of AdBlock Detection

Privacy-news, here.

Artificial Intelligence and the Law

BBC Radio 4, Podcast here.

Uber fait le plein d’annonces pour séduire ses chauffeurs

Numerama, ici. 

Who Owns Blockchain-Based Assets? An English Legal Analysis

M. Lavy and D. Khoo, here. 

Gestione collettiva dei diritti d’autore e dei diritti connessi e concessione di licenze multiterritoriali per i diritti su opere musicali per l’uso online nel mercato interno

AGCM, qui.

"L’Autorità ritiene che, in un contesto economico caratterizzato da profondi cambiamenti tecnologici, la mancata apertura del mercato nazionale della gestione dei diritti d’autore limita la libertà d’iniziativa economica degli operatori e la libertà di scelta degli utilizzatori. A suo parere, il mantenimento del monopolio legale appare in contrasto con l’obiettivo di rendere effettiva la libertà dei titolari del diritto di effettuare una scelta tra una pluralità di operatori in grado di competere con l’incumbent senza discriminazioni." 

Mobile Advertising: Economics, Evolution and Policy

D. Evans, here. 

Hyper-Reality

K. Matsuda, Video here. 

Digital Matching Firms: A New Definition in the “Sharing Economy” Space

ESA, here.

On the Benefits, Challenges, and Potential Roles for the Government in Fostering the Advancement of the Internet of Things

EPIC, here. 

ANSI Standard ad-supported piracy?

D. Marti, here.

Google VR plans include Getty photos

USAToday, here.
Getty: complainant number 39.

ICO on the privatisation of the Land Registry

Here.

Facebook’s Adgate: The thing is…I’m still not wrong.

D. Carroll, here. 

Alternatives for our smart cities

E. Morozov, Trento Economics Festival, Video  here (from 04:06).

Making Sense of Blockchain Smart Contracts

Coindesk.com, here.

Amazon steps up pursuit of merchants who pay for fake reviews

SeattleTimes, here.

An HBS Professor Argues Uber's API Restrictions Violate Antitrust Laws

BostInno, here.

How Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant Will Make Money Off You

Technology Review, here.

Oracle v Google: The Jury Has Spoken, But What Did it Say?

R. Sanders, here.

3D Scanning: A World Without Copyright

M. Weinberg, here.

How Uber Uses API Restrictions to Block Price Comparison and Impede Competition

B. Edelman, here.

The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World

P. Domingos, visiting speaker at MS Research, here. Transcript here.

EU’s forthcoming Net Neutrality rules Leaked: Here’s The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Netzpolitik, here. 

Main Provisions and Benefits of the Marrakesh Treaty (2013)

WIPO, here. 

Awkward Conversation With Facebook

D. Carroll, here. 

Working together to support fair competition worldwide

M. Vestager, here. 

An Economic Policy Perspective on Online Platforms

B. Martens (JRC Science Hub), here.

"This report is based on the findings and conclusions that can be drawn from existing economic research literature and evidence; it does not present any new evidence. However, it is not meant to provide an exhaustive economic literature review on platforms; it focuses only on a limited number of issues that may be relevant from a regulatory policy perspective. It focuses on potential market failures in digital platforms and examines to what extent existing regulatory tools and self-regulation in platforms can address these failures, or whether there is a need for additional regulatory intervention."

European Commission Announces eCommerce Package

Cooley, here. 

There is no Open Science without the use of open standards and Free Software

Blog.3rik.cc, here. 

You should go check Facebook's new privacy settings ASAP

Wired, here. 

Économie de partage : des assureurs se disent prêts

Journal-assurance.ca, ici.

Madonna Gets Victory Over 'Vogue' Sample at Appeals Court

Billboard, here.
Decision here. 

Economía colaborativa: 1.150 respuestas a nuestras recomendaciones

CNMC, aquì. 

Companies once thought they’d make big money off big data–now it’s their biggest liability

QZ.com, here. 

Market-Based Finance: Its Contributions and Emerging Issues

FCA, here. 

Setting the record straight on privacy dimensions in big data

K. El Emam, here. 

Algorithms: The Future That Already Happened

Lareviewofbooks.org, here. 

Elon Musk doesn’t think Google will compete with Tesla — but Apple could

Techcrunch, here.

The English High Court recently permitted a party to use predictive coding technology in a contested application.

Morgan Lewis, here.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai thinks the answer to better privacy may be AI

Mashable, here.

The most serious threat facing the auto industry? Carpooling

Wired, here.

A European agenda for the collaborative economy

EC Communication, here.
Supportive analysis, here.

La Cnil offre un petit sursis à Facebook sur le traçage des non-membres

Numerama, Ici.

The Surprising Resilience of the Patent System

M. Lemley, here.

Alexa could be the 4th pillar of Amazon, says Jeff Bezos

VentureBeat, here.

La CNMC multa con 128,8 millones de euros a ocho fabricantes de pañales para adultos, a su asociación y a cuatro directivos por formar un cártel

CNMC, aquí.

Why Google’s fair use victory over Oracle matters

P. Samuelson, here.

Antitrust in WeChat times

Hogan Lovells, here.

TRANSACTIONS BETWEEN PEERS (P2P). A STEP FORWARD

ACCO, here.

Adblocking goes mobile

PageFair, here.

CJUE : peut-on revendre une licence Microsoft d’occasion sur un disque non authentique ?

Nextimpact, ici.

Zeitenwende im Urheberrecht: Verfassungsgericht erlaubt Sampling

NetzPolitik, hier.

Internet of Things: antitrust concerns in the pipeline?

Baker & McKenzie, here.

Nostrums for Rostrums

Economist, here.

Study on the role of online intermediaries

For the EC, here.

Google Wins Trial Against Oracle, Saves $9 Billion

S. Jeong, here.

Automakers, tech companies decide to make deals, not war (competition?)

Reuters, here.

Schuhe aus der Hochgeschwindigkeitsfabrik

FAZ, hier.

Why the Very Silly Oracle v. Google Trial Actually Matters

S. Jeong, here.

Géoblocage : la musique et les e-books ont gagné une bataille

Contexte, ici.

Online Platforms and the Digital Single Market Opportunities and Challenges for Europe

EC Commission, here.
Staff Working Paper on Online Platforms here. 

How competition supports innovation

M. Vestager, here.

EVA joins CEPIC‘s competition law complaint against Google Image Search

CEPIC, here.

2nd Circuit Libor ruling

Here.

Theranos teaches Silicon Valley a hard lesson about accountability

WashingtonPost, here. 

Control Mechanisms for CRM Systems and Competition Law

R. Hilty, T. Li, here.

CMA response to BIS consultation on moving Land Registry operations to the private sector

CMA, here. 

Saisine d’office pour avis portant sur l’exploitation des données dans le secteur de la publicité en ligne

Autorité de la concurrence, Décision ici.
A voir aussi:

fiche 1 : le secteur de la publicité en ligne en chiffres

fiche 2 : les acteurs de la publicité programmatique

fiche 3 : big data et publicité sur internet

Machine Bias

Propublica.org, here.

International enforcement cooperation in mergers: main principles and recent experiences

EC, Competition policy brief, here.

Q&A: The impact and evolution of the sharing economy

PewResearchCenter, here. 

Copyright reform comes a little closer in Ireland

E. O'Dell, here. 

Platform Privacy: The Missing Piece of Data Protection Legislation

M. Westerlund and J. Enkvist, here. 

The rise of APIs

TechCrunch, here. 

Germany’s supreme court ruling on online games and bots could affect entire EU

VentureBeat, here. 

Regulating Revolution: An Introduction to 3D Printing and the Law

A. Daly, here. 

Internet Competition & Regulation of Online Platforms

CPI and Computer and Communications Industry Association, here. 

AI will create 'useless class' of human, predicts bestselling historian

TheGuardian. here.

Comment survivre à la «disruption»

LeTemps, ici.

Transaction costs and the sharing economy

Uberlandia, Brazil

A. Henden, I. Windekilde, here.

Competition and Poverty

T. Begazo and S. Nyman, Here.

How Can Competition Law Enforcement in the Digital Economy Help in the Fight Against Poverty?

A. Mansour, Here.

Ownership and licensing of the articles posted on SSRN: principles for reassuring authors

AuthorsAlliance.org, here.

Scientists Are Just as Confused About the Ethics of Big-Data Research as You

Wired, here.

The application of the law to machine learning and artificial intelligence

Law Society,  Podcast here.

The big tech drive to encourage hotel loyalty

HotelMarketing, here.

Remembering Ronald Coase's Legacy

O. Williamson, here.

How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds — from a Magician and Google’s Design Ethicist

T. Harris, Here.

Google answered some of our questions about its fancy new AI chip

Recode, Here.

Istruttoria nei confronti di Net Service per ipotesi di abuso della posizione dominante

Provvedimento qui.

La CNMC impugna el Decreto sobre viviendas vacacionales en Canarias

CNMC, here.

Oracle-Google Dispute Goes to Heart of Open-Source Software

NYTimes, here. 

Kartellrechtliche Beschränkung von Online-Verkäufen über Amazon und eBay

Cmshs-bloggt.de, hier.
Vorlagebeschluss hier.

Goodreads is finally cashing in on its devoted community

Wired, here. 

UK High Court on Plain Packaging

"The" Expert

Here.
Worthwhile read for your week-end.

Read also here.



"I earn a living fronting an organization that kills one thousand two hundred human beings a day; twelve hundred people. We're talking two jumbo jet plane loads of men, women, and children. I mean there's Attila, Genghis, and me, Nick Naylor the face of cigarettes, the colonel Sanders of nicotine. This is where I work, the Academy of Tobacco Studies. It was established by seven gentlemen you may recognize from C-Span. These guys realized quick if they were gonna claim cigarettes were not addictive they better have proof. This is the man they rely on, Erhardt Von Grupten Mundt. They found him in Germany. I won't go into the details. He's been testing the link between nicotine and lung cancer for thirty years, and hasn't found any conclusive results. The man's a genius, he could disprove gravity."
Thank you for smoking

Third Circuit Provides Guidance on Loyalty Discounts

Schiff Hardin, Here.

Google's Data Dominance

M. Kearns, here.

Big Data Enters the Agenda of EU Antitrust Authorities

Skadden, here.

Technology‑led Innovation and Emerging Services in the Canadian Financial Services Sector

Competition Bureau, here.

Google’s chatbot strategy is missing something important

VentureBeat, here. 

Data Mobility at the Intersection of Data, Trade Secret Protection and the Mobility of Employees in the Digital Economy

G. Surblyte, here.

Google Appeals French Right-To-Be-Forgotten Ruling

NYTimes, here.

The Dutch parliament bans zero rating

EDRi, here.

Shared, Collaborative and On Demand: The New Digital Economy

Pew, Study here. 

TTIP on Competition

Wikileaks, here. 

The CMA is right to place its faith in tech, not gimmicks

Cityam.com, here. 

Majority of accommodation providers in the EU offer online booking

Eurostat, here. 

Online tracking: A 1-million-site measurement and analysis

S. Englehardt, A. Narayanan, here. 

It’s the Data, Stupid: What Elsevier’s purchase of SSRN also means

SavageMinds, here. 

The Smoking Gun in Android Antitrust Case

TheInformation, here. 

Staples/Office Depot: Memorandum Opinion

E. Sullivan, here. 

TripAdvisor chief on Instant Book, hotel direct campaigns and tours and activities

Travolution.com, here. 

Guide to big data and the Australian Privacy Principles

Office of the Australian Information Commissioner, Consultation Draft, here. 

Oracle CEO claims it discounted Java by 97.5% to beat out Android on Amazon’s Paperwhite

TechCrunch, here. 

Less Logic, More Health: How Behavioral Economics Can Improve Incentives

Knowledge@Wharton, here. 

Training Computer Programs

Wired, here. 

Colleges Shouldn’t Have to Deal With Copyright Monitoring

P. Samuelson, here. 

An Introduction to Intellectual Property

M. Lemley P. Menell, R. Merges, here.

Google To Enter The Chat Bot Market With New Developer Tools, Integrations

AndroidPolice, here. 

EU-wide cybersecurity rules adopted by the Council

Council of the EU, here. 

Sharing Research Data

S. Summers, Presentation here. 

Runkeeper: A Message to Our Users

Here. And reply by the Forbrukerådet here.

Polish competition authority declares that Uber does not pose a threat to competition and protection of consumer interests.

A. Stawicki, here.
Statement of UOKiK's position here. 

Tripadvisor chief Stephen Kaufer sees no threat from direct hotel booking

IrishTimes, here. 

Waze va concurrencer BlaBlaCar avec un service de covoiturage

Numerama, ici. 

Pratiques Unilatérales

F. Marty, A. Wachsmann, Chroniques ici. 

CMA warns UK estate agents against colluding in online portal selection

EU-competitionlaw.com, here.

Elsevier acquires online community SSRN

TheBookseller, here.
See also here.
See Elsevier's post here.
There is somewhere a lesson to be learned about how communities are formed and monetized in the platform society. Moreover, would authors respond/react by increasingly disintermediating (own blog, other more "private" repositories, etc.), possibly? Or what about a broader ArXiv?

Oracle v. Google - Day 5

S. Jeong, Storify here. 

Die Hotel-Branche soll die Zimmerpreise von Buchungsplattformen wieder unterbieten dürfen, kündigt Wirtschaftsminister

Tiroler Tageszeitung, hier. 

Retail banking market investigation: Provisional decision on remedies

CMA, here.

Waze brings its carpooling service to the Bay Area

TechCrunch, here.

A brief history of disobedience

Seriously..., Podcast here.

How much of an optimistic disobedient person are you?

Vermieter zeigen Berliner Ferienwohnungs-Verbot bei EU an

Morgenpost, hier.

Made in Roma - Marchi di produzione e di possesso nella società antica

Museo dei Fori Imperiali, Mostra, info qui.
V. anche S. Pastor, Dal “Domo Roma” al “Made in Roma”, qui.

Blockchain startups make up 20% of largest crowdfunding projects

VentureBeat, here.

Tacit Agreement Under Section 1 of the Sherman Act

W. Page, here.

Online Platforms, Competition Rules and Consumer Protection in Travel Industry

M. Colangelo, V. Zeno-Zencovich, here.

European Union Competition Law, Intellectual Property Law and Standardization

D. Geradin, here.

The Problem of Intra-Personal Cost

B. Galle, here.

Hail and Farewell to The Google Books Case

J. Grimmelmann, here.

Forbes Tests New Tactics to Combat Ad Blocking

Forbes, Here.

The inside story of Facebook’s biggest setback

TheGuardian, Here.

Some hope for software patents in the US after the CAFC's Enfish decision, but this is no game-changer

Iam-Media, Here.

How expiring patents are ushering in the next generation of 3D printing

TechCrunch, Here.

Facebook news selection is in hands of editors not algorithms, documents show

TheGuardian, here.

Google faces record-breaking fine for web search monopoly abuse

TheTelegraph, here.

Okcupid And Google Deepmind: Happily Ever After? Purposes And Ethics In Datasharing

J. Persson, here.

Cybersecurity Futures 2020

The University of California, Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity, here.

(Already compulsory reading for students attending my classes next semester - you're warned).

Apple invests $1 billion in Chinese ride-hailing service Didi Chuxing

Reuters, here.

Who Will Own Your Data If the Tech Bubble Bursts?

TheAtlantic, Here.

Competition Policy in a World of Big Data (again)

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

Slightly revised and updated version (and yes, this week's FR and D Data Report is also considered).

EU’s Vestager Considers Third Antitrust Case Against Google

A. White, here. 

Matchmakers: The Future of Online Dating Platforms?

Arstechnica, here. 

What Platforms Do Differently than Traditional Businesses

D. Evans, R. Schmalensee, here. 

Draft Study on Copyright Limitations and Exceptions for Educational Activities

D. Seng, here.

Runkeeper tracks users when the app is not in use

Forbrukerradet, here. 

Ready for the week-end?

Spanish sherry maker fined by for cartel conduct aimed at raising export prices, here (Spanish)

Dispersion of Power as an Economic Goal of Antitrust and Competition Policy

S. Martin, here. 

Antitrust in the Age of Amazon

NYTimes, here.

In Oracle v. Google, a Nerd Subculture Is on Trial

S. Jeong, here. 

The Blockchain is the new Google

TechCrunch, here. 

European online travel marketplace Evaneos picks up $21M funding

TechCrunch, here. 

Bundeskartellamt gegen Facebook: Marktmachtmissbrauch durch Datenschutzverstöße?

D. Wiedmann, T. Jäger, hier.

Uber’s Antitrust Problem

Prospect.org, here.

In a $9 Billion Trial, Google's Secret Weapon Is a Filing Cabinet

MotherBoard, here. 

With help from Alexa, Kayak debuts voice-enabled travel search on Amazon Echo

SearchEngineLand, here. 

Fair use’ test at heart of $9 billion Google-Oracle copyright trial

MLex, here. 

GDPR and privacy are smokin’ hot for innovation right now

S. Carroll, here. 

Google to ban payday loan advertisements

WashingtonPost, here.
See also Led Astray, here. 

An EU exception for Text and Data Mining in the pipeline

Kluwer Copyright Blog, here. 

Targeted online ads: Do customers benefit from giving out personal information to advertisers?

Stanford Business, here. 

Patent Trolls: Moral Panics, Motions in Limine, and Patent Reform

E. Lee, here. 

Android Share Growth is Highest in EU5 (Great Britain, Germany, France, Italy, and Spain) in Over Two Years

Kantarworldpanel, here. 

3D, yes. But do it yourself not so much.

InsideStory, here. 

Wal-Mart Takes Another Swipe at Fees for Payment Cards

Bloomberg, here. 

Innovative uses of consumer data by financial institutions

EBA, Discussion Paper, here. 

Où est passé le bien commun ?

J. Tirole, ici. 

Keeping Pace in the Digital Age

T. McSweeney, Video here. Written comments here.

The next AI is no AI

TechCrunch, here. 

The Information Age is over; welcome to the Experience Age

TechCrunch, here. 

China's Baidu must cut paid-for adverts after death, regulators say

BBC, here. 

New report shows some publishers pay to join Snapchat's Discover section

Recode, here. 

The Role of Two-Sided Markets in United States v. American Express

E. Hochstadt and M. Thomas-Kennedy, here. 

BlaBlaCar dice que su conductor que más ganó obtuvo 3 euros en un año

ElPais, aquì. 

Competition Law, Market Power, and (Big) Data (retitled)

Autorité de la concurrence,
Bundeskartellamt, here.

The creators of Siri just showed off their next AI assistant, Viv, and it's incredible

TheVerge, here.
Demo here.

Personal digital assistants are on the rise (and they want to talk)

USAToday.com, here. 

OLG Düsseldorf lässt einstweilig abblitzen

Hotellerie.de, hier. 

The digital age of data art

TechCrunch, here. 

How blockchains could change the world

McKinsey, here. 

Millionenbuße wegen vertikaler Preisabsprachen beim Vertrieb von Bier

FAZ.net, hier.
Fallbericht hier.

Disruptive innovations in legal services

OECD Secretariat, Background Note here. 

New app gives Uber a little disruption of its own

BostonGlobe, here. 

Vehicle Dealers Allege Car Carrier Price Fixing

Maritime-executive, here.
Complaints here and here. 

Chasing the Uber model is killing a lot of on-demand companies

VentureBeat, here. 

The Platform Society

J. Van Dijk, Podcast here.

The Future of Machine Intelligence: Perspectives from Leading Practitioners

D. Beyer, here.

It begins: BotRevenue.com to serve ads in bots

VentureBeat, here.

Retrial of Oracle copyright infringement case against Google begins Monday

SFGate, here.

Auslieferung wegen Kartellvergehens: EuGH prüft Staatshaftung der Bundesrepublik im Fall Pisciotti

Juve.de, hier.

Why AI development is going to get even faster. (Yes, really!)

MappingBabel, here.

One of the world's largest digital libraries opens doors to text mining scholars

HathiTrust, Here.

Challenging Anticompetitive Acquisitions and Enforcement of Patents

AAI, here. 

How Android gets to 100% market share

TechCrunch, here.

Facebook is building AI that builds AI

Wired, here. 

Italian Film Industry Condemns Paramount’s EU Antitrust Deal

HollywoodReporter, here. 

CMA publishes one stop guide to obtaining redress for competition law breaches

Out-law.com, here. 

New regulations for the grocery sector now in force in Ireland

CCPC, here. 

eBay acquires AI-powered big data processor Expertmaker

TechCrunch, here. 

An analytical review of text and data mining practices and approaches in Europe

OFE, here. 

Regulating Patent Hold-Up

LCII Policy Brief, here. 

3D printing companies request Supreme Court clarification over cheerleader uniform copyright case

3ders.org, here.
Petition here.
Amicus Brief here. 

Open Data, Privacy, and Fair Information Principles: Towards a Balancing Framework

F. Borgesius, J. Gray & M. van Eechoud, here. 

Sensay, a chatbot for getting help with any task, passes 1 million users

VentureBeat, here. 

Merger Remedies Guide

ICN Merger Working Group, here. 

Government Advocacy and Disruptive Innovations

ICN Special Project Report, here.

Google AI has access to huge haul of NHS patient data

NewScientist, here.

Liability for robots/AI generated harm

N. Petit, presentations here and here.

Disruptive innovation: Competition enforcement challenges and advocacy opportunities

OECD Forum, contributions here.

Anticipating Disruptive Strategies

Deloitte, here.

Australia should follow Europe against US digital giants

TheAustralian, here.

Los grandes fabricantes alertan: la marca blanca es 'invisible' para Competencia

ElEspanol, aquí

Google y el abuso de posición de dominio: una cronología

CNMC, here.

Online platforms: Commission wants to make the internet more like traditional media

Communia, here.

Google Is Feeding Romance Novels To Its Artificial Intelligence Engine To Make Its Products More Conversational

BuzzFeed, here.

Ever-Litigious Apple Loses Copyright Battle With China Over iPhone

Sputniknews, here.

Accountable Algorithms

J. Kroll, J. Huey, S. Barocas, E. Felten, J. Reidenberg, D. Robinson, and H. Yu, here.

Big Data: A Report on Algorithmic Systems, Opportunity, and Civil Rights

The White House, here.

"Meet"...me

OFE, here.

Blockchain and big data privacy in healthcare

IAPP, here. 

Google and Microsoft have made a pact to protect surveillance capitalism

TheGuardian, here. 

The business face of Big Data: do we have to care

CEPIC, here.

Antitrust regulators get tough on Google

KoreanTimes, Here.

As Social Shifts To Video, Content Creators Win Transient Power And A Few Dollars

BuzzFeed,  here.

Always On: Privacy Implications of Microphone-Enabled Devices

Future of Privacy Forum, here.

Big Data Does Not Shield Tech Companies From Competition

A. Lambrecht, C. Tucker, here.

What's at Stake in Algorithmic Accountability?

N. Couldry, here.

Now at an UBER rocky antitrust court bench: a follow up on the UBER price-fixing case

J. Nowag, here.

Is blocking ad blockers really illegal in Europe?

DigiDay, here.

Getty’s high-resolution competition law complaint against Google in the EU

M. Sag, here.

The boundaries of the “premium sports rights” category and its competition law implications

M. Montejo, here. 

Online Platforms and the EU Digital Single Market

O. Batura, N. van Gorp, P. Larouche (and L.Filistrucchi), here.
TNO/Ecorys/IViR Report here. 

Musicians: canaries in the coalmine

J. Lanier, here.
WIPO Magazine, Interview here. 

Who's downloading pirated papers?

ScienceMag.org, here.

What is the European Commission’s problem with Google and Android?

M. Martyniszyn, here. 

Will blockchains remove the need for an intermediary?

iDate, here. 

Airbnb dumps Berlin holiday flats before city crackdown

IrishTimes, here. 

Bathroom supplier fined £826,000 for restricting online prices

CMA, here.

"The CMA will issue its formal infringement decision shortly."

Google Shuts Out Competitors on Android? Hardly

NYTimes, here. 

Exploring the Boundaries of Big Data

WRR, here. 

Google Tests Feature That Lets Media Companies, Marketers Publish Directly to Search Results

WSJ, here. 

Competition Tribunal rules against TREB in dispute over home sales data

CBC.ca, here.
CB's press release, here. 

PayPal Says Federal Trade Commission Investigating Venmo

Bloomberg, here. 

Whoa, Amazon isn't just making money. It's making more money than ever.

Wired, here. 

TripAdvisor acquires HouseTrip as home-rental market consolidates

VentureBeat, here. 

Waze downplays exploit that let researchers track users

TechCrunch, here. 

Le Sénat adopte une disposition contre les abus de Google

Numerama.com, ici. 

Buchungsportal darf nicht mit eigenen Hotel-Sternen werben

FAZ, hier. 

Consumers not breaching copyright by circumventing with VPN, AU Government agency says

ABC.net.au, here.

Draft Report here. 

Colgate fined over price fixing

CPI, here.
ACCC's press release, here.