Monday, October 28, 2024

Death by a thousand roundtables

 Chalmermagne, here.

The Reform of Article 102 TFEU: Evolution or Revolution?

 ICF, recordings here.

Apple Intelligence is available today on iPhone, iPad, and Mac

 Apple, here.

US weighs Google break-up in landmark antitrust case

 FT, here (and here).

And here.

Call for tenders: Study into how emerging technologies may impact digital market regulation

 Tender, here.

US talk on Google breakup gives EU political cover to get tough

 Politico.eu, here.

Competition Law in South Asia

 A. Darr, here.

The Other Sherman’s March

 R. John, here.

Cofece propone cambios en el sector fintech para que los mexicanos tengan acceso a mejores servicios financieros

 Aquì.

Media and Digital Platforms Market Inquiry

 South African Competition Authority, here.

Google’s $2 Billion Anthropic Investment Faces U.K. Antitrust Scrutiny

 WSJ, here.

Antitrust has come into fashion

 Here.

What happens in the Google ad tech antitrust trial now that testimony is done?

 Digiday, here.

EU AI Act: Brussels effect(s) or a race to the bottom?

 G. Greenleaf, here.

The antitrust trial of the United States v. Google, LLC

Usvgoogleads, here.

PLATAFORMAS DIGITAIS NO BRASIL: FUNDAMENTOS ECONÔMICOS, DINÂMICAS DE MERCADO E PROMOÇÃO DE CONCORRÊNCIA

 Secretaria de Reformas Econômicas do Ministério da Fazenda, aqui. 

Plataformas Digitais no Brasil: Fundamentos econômicos, dinâmicas de mercado e promoção da concorrência

Case summary of 10 October 2024: Facebook; Implementation of the Bundeskartellamt’s decision of 6 February 2019 (Abusive business terms due to inappropriate data processing)

 Bundeskartellamt, here.

Competition and Artificial Intelligence

 Report to the California Law Review Commission Antitrust Law: Study B-750, here.

The Search Monopoly

 Organized Money, here.

Reshaping EU Merger Control: from Harm Detection to Harm Control

 S. Marco Colino, K. Lam Macy Chung, here.

The Push to Fire Lina Khan Reveals a Serious Problem in Silicon Valley

 

Breaking Up Google

 C. Rikap, here.

Protecting competition in a changing world - public workshop

 EC, here.

Reid Hoffman on......Lina Khan

 On with Kara Swisher, here.

Natural monopolies and oligopolies have emerged in the asset management industry

 R. Chopra, here.

Innovation Misunderstood

 M. Stucke, A. Ezrachi, here.

Examining the impact of artificial intelligence on market competition and consumers

 Hungarian Competition Authority, here.

Commission fines České dráhy and Österreichische Bundesbahnen €48.7 million over collusion to exclude common competitor

 Here.

Justice Department and Department of Transportation Launch Broad Public Inquiry into the State of Competition in Air Travel

 Here.

Memorandum on Advancing the United States’ Leadership in Artificial Intelligence

 White House, here.

The next big arenas of competition

 McKinsey Global Institute, here.

DCI Annual Conference 2024

 Day 1, Video here;

Day 2, Video here.

Starting again (a bit) - lost and unsure without it myself ;-)

Wednesday, September 04, 2024

Tuesday, August 06, 2024

Google loses massive antitrust lawsuit over its search dominance

 CNN Business, here. 

Guidelines on exclusionary abuses of dominance: public consultation

 EC, here; Draft Guidelines here. 

Meta’s Fundamental Digital Rights Blunder - And a German Antitrust Fix

 Jürgen (Bering) and myself, here. 

The AI Act Roller Coaster: How Fundamental Rights Protection Evolved in the EU Legislative Process

 F. Palmiotto, here. 

Dynamism and Politics in EU Merger Control: The Perils and Promise of a Killer Acquisitions Solution Through a Law & Economics Lens

 A. Tzanaki, here. 

The Rhyme and Reason of Gatekeeper Designation under the Digital Markets Act

 F. Bostoen, G. Monti, here. 

BGH: Überragende marktübergreifende Bedeutung für den Wettbewerb (Amazon)

 KVB 56/22, hier. 

DOJ, states win Google search antitrust case

 Politico.com, here. 

Digital Platform Regulators Forum 2024

 Communiqué, here. 

Meta to be hit with first EU antitrust fine for linking Marketplace and Facebook, sources say

 Reuters, here. 

A Primer On The DOJ’s Upcoming Antitrust Trial Against Google

 AdExchanger, here. 

Platform power in AI: The evolution of cloud infrastructures in the political economy of artificial intelligence

 D. Luitse, here. 

Is Competition Only One Click Away? The Digital Markets Act Impact on Google Maps

 L.-D. Pape, M. Rossi, here. 

The Meta Smokescreen

 BEUC, here. 

Dual-Use Foundation Models with Widely Available Model Weights

 NTIA, here. 

ByteDance v. Commission

 J. van den Boom, S. Hinck, here. 

Regulating the Direction of Innovation

 J. Gans, here. 

Can AI Break Out of Panglossian Neoliberalism?

 E. Morozov, here. 

Designing (restorative) remedies for abuses of dominance by online platforms

 D. Mandrescu, here. 

LESSONS FROM THE FDA FOR AI

 AINOW, here. 

Feds put Nvidia AI deal under antitrust scrutiny

 Politico.com, here. 

Apple Updates App Store Guidelines for PC Emulator Apps

 MacRumors, here. 

European Union’s Strategy for Data

 101 Charts, here. 

The Broligarchs Are Trying to Have Their Way

 B. Harrigton, here. 

New Research: So Far, AI is Not Disrupting Search or Making a Dent in Google

 SparkToro, here. 

Why Do Your Eyeglasses Cost $1,000?

 Freakonomics Podcast, here. 

Northwest lawmakers join push to block Kroger-Albertsons merger

 The Seattle Times, here. 

A new merger wave in the agri-food value chain? Some reflections on the Bunge/Viterra merger

ICF, Preliminary Report, here. 

Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Thursday, July 25, 2024

On the Antitrust Implications of Embedding Generative AI in Core Platform Services

 T. Hoppner, S. Uphues, here. 

Nach wettbewerblichen Bedenken – Rücknahme einer Fusionsanmeldung im Bereich Crashtest-Dummies

 Bundeskartellamt, hier.

Google’s latest Privacy Sandbox gambit could pit user choice against tracking

 Natasha The Great, here.

CrowdStrike: il Garante privacy avvia accertamenti sugli effetti del blocco informatico

 GPDP, here.

Joint Statement on Competition in Generative AI Foundation Models and AI Products

 EU, UK, US, here.

IV BRAZIL-EUROPEAN UNION FORUM

 With M.M, here.

Von der Leyen muss Prioritäten setzen für Europas Wirtschaft

 T. Duso, hier.

Breaking Up the Giants of Harm

 Balanced Economy Project, here..

Beyond prices: The role of Monopoly Power in global inflation

 SOMO, here.

CrowdStrike IT Outage Explained by a Windows Developer

 Dave's Garage, here.

La CNMC investiga al grupo Apple por posibles prácticas anticompetitivas relacionadas con la distribución de aplicaciones en sus dispositivos

 Nota de prensa aquì.

Rot Economics - An Interview With MIT's Daron Acemoglu

 Here, and podcast here.

Competition Bureau advances an investigation into Kalibrate’s gas pricing services

 PR, here.

Digital Platform Services Inquiry – March 2025 – Final Report: Issues Paper

 ACCC, here.

Copyright and Generative AI: What Can We Learn from Model Terms and Conditions?

 G. Cifrodelli, L. Edwards, here.

Monday, July 22, 2024

Competition and industrial policy in the 21st century

 J. Tirole, here. 

Japan's competition chief speaks to MLex

 MLEX, here. 

DIGITAL ECONOMY REPORT 2024

 UNCTAD, here. 

FRANK PASQUALE: «NECESITAMOS UNA INTELIGENCIA ARTIFICIAL AL SERVICIO DE LOS HUMANOS»

 Telos, aquì. 

Beware the rise of the super-app that does everything

 K. Birch, here. 

Artificial intelligence and copyright: use of generative AI tools to develop new content

 IP Helpdesk, here. 

Far From a Punt, SCOTUS’s NetChoice Decision Crushes Big Tech’s Big Litigation Dreams

 Epic, here. 

Statement 3/2024 on data protection authorities’ role in the Artificial Intelligence Act framework

 EDPB, here. 

EU Court upholds Commission decision to designate TikTok parent as gatekeeper

 Euractiv, here. 

Avviata istruttoria nei confronti di Google per pratiche commerciali scorrette

 AGCM, qui. 

The DOJ Antitrust Division isn’t afraid to go to court

 The Verge, here. 

EU Antitrust Regulators Probe Google-Samsung AI Deal for Potential Anti-Competitive Practices

 CPI, here. 

Friends of the Neo-Brandeisian Movement Unite!

 NLR, here. 

Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission Extend Public Comment on Request for Information Targeting Serial Acquisitions, Roll-Up Strategies Across U.S. Economy

 Here. 

Digital sovereignty in the G20

 FGV, here and here. 

The Economics of Biodiversity Loss

 S. Giglio et al., here. 

Nigeria’s $220 million fine against Meta previews a clash over market power

 Semafor, here. 

FINAL ORDER AND NOTICE OF THE FEDERAL COMPETITION AND CONSUMER PROTECTION COMMISSION here. 

Kamala Harris’ ties to Silicon Valley: Here’s what you need to know

CNBC, here.  

No, EU competition policy was not responsible for global IT chaos

 I. Brown, here. 

CrowdStruck

E. Zitron, here. 

IT outage exposes fragility of tech infrastructure

 BBC, here. 

The 6 Companies That Own (Almost) All Media [INFOGRAPHIC]

 WebFX, here. 

If it walks like a firm exercising market power post-merger...

 FTC, here. 

And here. 

New European Competition Trends in Digital Markets

Open Access Book, here. 

Commission coordinates action by national consumer protection authorities against Meta on ‘pay or consent' model

 Here. 

Commission accepts commitments by Vifor to address possible anticompetitive disparagement of iron medicine

 PR, here. 

The Korean Air-Asiana Airlines Merger Shows How Rational Actors May Produce Irrational Outcomes

 S. Lee, here. 

AI mass surveillance at Paris Olympics – a legal scholar on the security boon and privacy nightmare

 A. Toomey McKenna, here. 

Wednesday, July 17, 2024

Friday, July 12, 2024

Apple Pay Antitrust case: EC press conference (get your alternative wallets default and ready)

It's obviously hard to get excited about online payment methods, but this is the most important thing to happen at the interface between fintech, big tech, and competition that I can think of.

Press conference here.

Press release here. 

Lucky us, Natasha the Great covered it, here.

I wonder how Australian banks - and the @acccgovau - are taking this news, eight years later (from @wavesblog archives  https://www.afr.com/companies/financial-services/apple-is-closed-and-controlling-say-banks-as-iphone-dispute-heats-up-20161017-gs4590 - interestingly also, in retrospect, who their economic consultant was.

Wednesday, July 10, 2024

On Open-Weights Foundation Models

 FTC, here.

Economic termites

DNW Podcast here.

The star economist who inspired Sir Keir Starmer’s ‘missions’

"The Telegraph" here.

The Public-In-The-Loop and the European Approach to AI Policy and Regulation

 From the AI Office trenches, here.

With AI, we need both competition and safety

 Brookings, here.

A false start is not an option for the EU AI Office

 Euractiv, here.

Call for tenders: Online advertising at the crossroads of different regulatory frameworks

 EU, here.

Artificial Intelligence Co-Regulation: The role of standards in the EU AI Act

 C. Marsden, here.

CODE’s Contribution to the European Digital Agenda

 Here.

Design trompeur : les résultats de l’audit du Global Privacy Enforcement Network

 CNIL, ici.

The Netherlands: DMA Enforcement Paradise?

 J. van den Boom et al., here.

Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf v. Meta

 Düsseldorf Regional Court, here (GenAI translation).

And Freiheitsrechte on the ruling hier.

[Video hier.]

Ecosystem theories of harm in EU merger control: analysing competitive constraints and entrenchment

 M. Batra, here.

Dutch Torpedo at Work – AG Collins’ Opinion in the Booking Case

 Kluwer CLB, here. 


And dusting-off, this (much praised by the very kind Heike when I first presented it).

Public Interest AI for Europe? Shaping Europe’s Nascent Industrial Policy

 AINOW, here.

[This is a real] Conference Debrief – Highlights from the ECN DMA Workshop

 SCiDA, here.

Monday, July 08, 2024

Round Table on recent developments in merger control standards

 Competition Commission of South Africa, here.

Enforcing competition law in digital markets and ecosystems: policy challenges and options

 Competition Commission of South Africa, here.

The E.U. Goes Too Far

 Stratechery, here.

The Digital Markets Act: A short guide for tech challengers

 Belgian Competition Authority, here. 

Press release here.

The Japanese Smartphone Act: Teaching Competition Law New Tricks

 A. Ribera Martìnez, here.

Das Dateninstitut kommt. Die Gemeinwohlorientierung bleibt fraglich

 OKF, here.

Enforcing competition law in digital markets and ecosystems

 Portuguese Competition Authority, here.

The EU’s Investigation Into Microsoft Teams: A Preliminary Assessment

 C. Bergqvist, here.

Transparency Unveiled: Access to Information in Digital Markets Act Proceedings at Member State Level – The German and Austrian Experience

 J. Helminger, here.

Transparency Unveiled: Access to Information in Digital Markets Act Proceedings on EU Level

 L. Hornkohl, here.

Instagram e Facebook usam suas fotos e textos para treinar IA: por que a prática está sendo questionada?

 Globo, here.

Industrial Policy Is a Nostalgic Pipe Dream

 J. Galbraith, here.

Global Digital Compact - and the rest of us

 Technologists, here.

MaCCI 2024 Conference on merger control

 Videos here.

BEREC’s input to the EC public consultation on the White Paper “How to master Europe’s digital infrastructure needs?”

 Here.

ICN Workshop on Sustainability

 Video here.

Antimonopoly Antitrust Metrics

 H. Hovenkamp, here.

Four Strengths of the Government’s Lawsuit Against Live Nation-Ticketmaster:

 M. Carrier, Part I and II

The unanimous overhaul of the Competition Act is a big win for Canadians

 The Globe and Mail, here.

The Roberts Supreme Court’s Decision on Netchoice Was Righteous

 Z. Teachout, here.

Promoting Innovation Ecosystems in Antitrust: A Framework for Antitrust Analysis Applied to Emerging AI Technologies

 Roosevelt Institute, here.

A call to action from civil society’s frontlines

 Siaisa Place, here.

Sanzione alla Figc per abuso di posizione dominante

 AGCM, qui.

Facial Recognition Technology: Current Capabilities, Future Prospects, and Governance

 National Academies, here.

DMA, One Year On: Taking Stock of the EU’s Attempts to Rein In Big Tech

 BotPopuli, here.

Delivery Hero may face significant fine due to antitrust violations and intends to increase corresponding provision

 EQS, here.

AI Overviews and Google's AdTech Empire

 


Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, Podcast here.

Publicité en ligne : la CNIL se prépare aux évolutions des modèles d’affaires

 CNIL, ici.

Europe needs competition, not national champions

 Brookings, here.

Commission requests information to Amazon under the Digital Services Act

 EC, here.

Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) Map Launch

 UCL IIPP, here.

Google considered blocking Safari users from accessing its new AI features, report says

 9To5Mac, here.

The Global Benefits of Reining in Live Nation-Ticketmaster’s Power

 K. Montoya, D. Hanley, here.

GEN AI: TOO MUCH SPEND, TOO LITTLE BENEFIT?

 Goldman Sachs, here.

Epic Games CEO promises to ‘fight’ Apple over ‘absurd’ changes

 TechCrunch, here.

The Great Scrape: The Clash Between Scraping and Privacy

 D. Solove, W. Hartzog, here.

Friday, July 05, 2024

Tuesday, June 25, 2024

Commission sends preliminary findings to Apple and opens additional non-compliance investigation against Apple under the Digital Markets Act

 EC, here.

US Antitrust: Principles, Cases, and Materials (2d Edition)

 D. Francis, C. Sprigman, here.

Protecting competition in a changing world

 EC, here. 

Conference here (27 June), Live-stream 2PM here.

The European Union's AI Act: beyond motherhood and apple pie?

 N. Smuha, K. Yeung, here.

European Elections & the Digital Markets Act: J Espinoza (FT) L Crofts (MLex) S. Stolton (Bloomberg)

 Chez Oles, here.

Commission sends Statement of Objections to Microsoft over possibly abusive tying practices regarding Teams

 Here.

Varieties of corporate innovation systems and their interplay with global and national systems: Amazon, Facebook, Google and Microsoft’s strategies to produce and appropriate artificial intelligence

 C. Rikap, here.

United Nations Global Principles For Information Integrity

 Here.

Let's Talk Competition | Episode 7: Past and future of Competition policy

 Video here.

ECN DMA Conference in Amsterdam: This is not a de-briefing.

 

The conference unfolded under the quintessential Amsterdam weather—perfectly sunny and temperate. The venue was notably accessible and comfortable, which, coupled with its considerable distance from the city’s main attractions (a city where, full disclosure, my husband was born), ensured that attendance remained high throughout the event. The dessert buffet was quite impressive, matched only by the quality of the snacks provided during the post-conference reception.

From a substantive standpoint, the conference aimed to showcase the potential of the Digital Markets Act (DMA) to the business community. I can personally attest to the presence of CEOs from a diverse array of small to medium-sized enterprises, not just from Europe. Naturally, there was a risk that discussions might veer towards the non-compliance of gatekeepers; however, I believe this was mitigated, at least to a point. The presentations and ensuing discussions were constructive, both in the plenary sessions and the breakout rooms.

While I'm not sure if new business ideas directly stemming from the DMA emerged, the conference certainly brought to light several research topics (see our call for papers here). It was particularly intriguing to note the presence of investors interested in enterprises that could benefit from the DMA. Remember, navigating the DMA is a marathon, not a sprint. Fingers crossed.

M. Vestager, speech here.

The DMA, A short guide for tech challengers here. 

My X posts, unrolled here.

Wednesday, June 19, 2024

The Promise and Perils of Human Rights for Governing Digital Platforms: Symposium Introduction

 TechPolicyPress, here.

Transatlantic Dialogue: areas of convergence

 DOJ, here.

How the EU’s DMA is changing Big Tech: all of the news and updates

 The Verge, here.

EBU publishes “strategic asks” on generative AI and media

 BroadbandTVNews, here.

REDISCOVERING ADAM SMITH

 M. Holyoak, here.

Learning from the EU’s Mistakes: What To Do About Google’s Dominance in Search

 T. Cowen et al., here.

How to master Europe's digital infrastructure needs

 Internet Society, here.

We put the Google Finance link first

 Google, video here.

The Hacking of Culture and the Creation of Socio-Technical Debt

 e-flux Journal, here.

What’s All the Fuss About Antitrust?

 ACS, here.

The alarm bells are ringing: Competition is the solution to the productivity crisis - in Canada

 M. Boswell, here. 

Video here.

SCiDA Podcast on the DMA!

 Here.

UBS/Credit Suisse: FINMA schliesst Kontrollverfahren ab

 FINMA, hier.

Africa: The need for a new competition policy approach in digital economies

 F. Wang'ombe Kariuki, R,.Mazer, here.

Wettbewerbsbehörde beantragt Geldbuße gegen Brau Union

 ORF, hier.

RTL/DPG: Vergunning aanvragen

 ACM, Beslissing in NL and E-DeepL.

Monday, June 10, 2024

2024 Milton Handler Lecture on Antitrust: Bill Baer on Competition Policy and Enforcement

 Video here.

Procompetitive Industrial Policy

 EU at the OECD, here.

Monopolisation, Moat Building and Entrenchment Strategies

 US at the OECD, here. And the EU, here.

The Evolution of the Case Law on ‘Abuse’ of Dominance in EU Competition Law

 P. Akman, audio here. 

The impact of the EU General data protection regulation on product innovation

 K. Blind et al. here. 

Pay or Okay coercion or a fair deal

 CPDP.ai, video herehere. 

Fifty Years of the Brussels-New York Connection

 EC and Fordham, video herehere. 

Entretien avec Shoshana Zuboff : les mutations du capitalisme de surveillance à l'ère de l'IA

 France Culture, Podcast ici. 

Opinion on Meta’s reference offer published in March 2024 to facilitate WhatsApp interoperability under Article 7 of the Digital Markets Act

 BEREC, herehere. 

Governing Digitization in Public Interest

 F. Bria, herehere. 

What Is Bold, Old, and Necessary about the DOJ’s Lawsuit Against Live Nation-Ticketmaster

 J. Kwoka and Tommaso, here. 

AI governance in India – law, policy and political economy

 D. Joshi, herehere. 

Three Algorithms in a Room

 L. Goldstein, herehere. 

BMW, Mercedes, Thyssenkrupp und VW dürfen zum Erwerb von bestimmten Technologielizenzen gemeinsam verhandeln

 Bundeskartellamt, hierhier. 

Intelligence artificielle : la CNIL poursuit ses travaux pour une IA innovante et respectueuse de la vie privée

 CNIL, iciici. 

EX-ANTE VERSUS EX-POST IN COMPETITION LAW ENFORCEMENT: BLURRED BOUNDARIES AND ECONOMIC RATIONALE

 P. Bougette & Friends, herehere. 

Auswirkungen von KI auf die Meinungsvielfalt und Regulierungsansätze

 KEK, hierhier. 

50 YEARS OF THE GERMAN MONOPOLIES COMMISSION

 D'Kart, here. 

Where it all began: The Bundeskartellamt’s Meta case

 Germany at the OECD, here.

Mass Surveillance in Digital Markets Raises Many Privacy and Competition Concerns

 US at the OECD, here.

The intersection between competition and data privacy

 OECD, Background Note here.

Apple has drawn a fuzzy line about what counts as console emulation on iPhone

 AppleInsider, here.

The Digital Fixer

 


Part I, Part II, and Part III.

Thursday, May 30, 2024

The slipstream strategy: How high-status OEMs coopete with platforms to maintain their digital extensions' edge

 G. Reischauer et al., here. 

Competition policy in the Biden administration: Translating campaign poetry into governing prose

 B. Baer, here.. 

Commission calls on 18 Member States to comply with the EU Data Governance Act

 EC, here. 

The Evolving Role of Non-Price Competitive Parameters in EU Merger Review

 Norton Rose Fulbright, here. 

Fairness and contestability in the provision of software application stores services

 J. Padilla, here. 

Vertical Interoperability in Mobile Ecosystems: Will the DMA Deliver (What Competition Law Could Not)?

 G. Colangelo, A. Ribera Martínez, herehere. 

How a DOJ [IO] Economist Approaches Antitrust in America

Odd Lots, herehere.  

Harmful Online Choice Architecture

 CERRE Report, here.

Assessing India’s Ex-Ante Framework for Competition in Digital Markets

 V. Kathuria, here.

The Digital Services Act Meets the AI Act: Bridging Platform and AI Governance

 TechPolicy.Press, here.

Devising a trajectory towards a just and fair future: the identity of data protection in times of AI

 EDPS, here.

Pro-competitive industrial policy

 OECD, here.

Yann LeCun: AI Dynamics and Regulation

 Video here.

Taxonomy of Human Rights Risks Connected to Generative AI

UN B-Tech Project, here.

Privacy EU’s ChatGPT taskforce offers first look at detangling the AI chatbot’s privacy compliance

 Natasha The Great, here.

CDT EU Hosts DSA Civil Society Roundtable

 CDT, here.

Internet shutdowns in 2023: a global overview

 Access Now, here.

Ecosystem Theories of Harm: A Deeper Dive

 OECD, BIAC, Video here.

Reading the "Shadow Report" on US AI Policy

 TechPolicy.Press, here.

UK CMA Provides First Insights into the Application of UK Merger Control Rules to AI Partnerships

 Morrison & Foerster, here.

Regulating general-purpose AI: Areas of convergence and divergence across the EU and the US

 Brookings, here.

AI Integration and Modularization

 Stratechery, here.

Faux ScarJo and the Descent of the A.I. Vultures

 The New Yorker, here.

A new agenda to boost competitiveness and growth in the European Union

 Germany and France, here.

The Berlin Summit Declaration – Winning back the people

 Forum New Economy, here.

Justice Department Sues Live Nation-Ticketmaster for Monopolizing Markets Across the Live Concert Industry

 DOJ, here.

Private Ordering and Generative AI: What Can We Learn From Model Terms and Conditions?

CREATe, here.

Promoting competition in AI

 DOJ and Stanford, video here.

The ugly truth behind ChatGPT: AI is guzzling resources at planet-eating rates

 M. Mazzucato, here.

What Does the Supreme Court Have to Say About Consumer Welfare? A Reply to Professor Hovenkamp

 D. Bush, here.

THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF INDUSTRIAL POLICY

 R. Juhász, N. Lane, here.

Wednesday, May 29, 2024

Saturday, May 25, 2024

Fear and concentrated market power

 L. Khan, here

Media Companies Are Making a Huge Mistake With AI

 J. Lessin, here.

Artificial intelligence, data and competition

 OECD BP, here.

The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy

 G.Weyl, A. Tang, here.

Bringing Back Business Competition

 Lina in the Dragons' Den, here.

Consultation on new digital markets competition guidance

 CMA, here. 


Apple may soon have to allow third-party app stores in Japan too

 9to5mac, here.

Interim report 8: data products and services

 ACCC, here.

From Brussels to Boulder: Colorado Enacts Comprehensive AI Law on the Heels of EU’s AI Act with Significant Obligations for Business and Employers

 Baker McKenzie, here.

Olivier Guersent: Antitrust, Tech Giants and the Digital Markets Act in Talks with Aurelien Portuese

 GW, Podcast here.

Measuring the Openness of AI Foundation Models: Competition and Policy Implications

 T. Schrepel, J. Potts, here.

Towards a Framework for Openness in Foundation Models

 A. Basdevant et al., here.

How Does Competition in Generative AI Work?

 Video here.

Gateways Comparing Digital Communication Systems in Nordic Welfare States

 S. Sophus Lai, S. Flensburg, here.

Danish market investigations

 Here.

Monopolisation, moat building and entrenchment strategies

 OECD, here.

A Competition Lawyer’s Digest of the Letta Report – What You Need to Know

 S. MacMahon Baldwin, here.

Café IA, un dispositif pour débattre et agir sur notre relation aux technologies.

 CNN, ici.

Follow the (personal) Data: Positioning Data Protection Law as the Cornerstone of EU’s ‘Fit for the Digital Age’ Legislative Package

 G. Zanfir-Fortuna, here.

WIPO Member States Adopt Historic New Treaty on Intellectual Property, Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge

 WIPO, here.

Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act receives Royal Assent

 UK Gov, here.

Tuesday, May 14, 2024

Of Hope, Reality, and the EU Digital Markets Act

 C. Caffarra, here. 

POWER & DIGNITY The Ends of Online Behavioral Advertising in the European Union

 A. Zerdiashvili, here. 

Private equity escapes major antitrust lawsuit

 Axios, here. 

What’s Happening in France, Portugal, and Poland? Catching Up With International Enforcers at the 2024 Spring Meeting

 ABA, Our Curious Amalgam here. 

Las Startups españolas denuncian prácticas anti-competitivas de Microsoft ante la CNMC

 Startups, aquí. 

CNMC public consultation on cloud services

 Here. 

Avec Antoine Monin, directeur général de Spotify France

 On n'arrête pas l'éco,  ici (de 21:25). 

Computational Antitrust and the Future of Competition Law Enforcement

 V. Robertson, J. Fleiss, here. 

A Regulatory Roadmap to AI and Privacy

 D. Solove, here. 

ICN 2024 Conference

 Live streams here. 

The new EU and UK regimes for regulating competition in digital markets: we finally see what’s on the plate—but do we know how to eat it?

 O. Andriychuk, here. 

Smart Data Roadmap – a response from non-govt members

 Here. 

Microsoft is launching its mobile game store in July

 TechCrunch, here. 

What to expect during dawn raids under the DMA, the DSA, and the draft AI Act

KCLB, here. 

Generative AI for Pro-Democracy Platforms

 MIT, here.

Governments Must Shape AI’s Future

 M. Mazzucato, F. Gernone, here (and here). 

Wednesday, May 08, 2024

How the EU’s DMA is changing Big Tech: all of the news and updates

The Verge, here.  

CASE AT.40437 – Apple – App Store Practices (music streaming)

 Decision here. 

EU Competition Day 2024

 Video here. 

Noncompete agreements in a rigid labor market: the case of Italy

 T. Boeri et al., here. 

How to Fix a Failing Art. 102 TFEU: Substantive Interpretation, Evidentiary Requirements, and the Commission's Future Guidelines on Exclusionary Abuses

 H. Schweitzer, S. de Ridder, here (and here). 

Are Letta, Macron and Draghi Marking the End of Neoliberalism in Europe?

 C. Caffarra, here. 

Digital Ecosystems: Market challengers and pro-competitive solutions

 Edited by V. Falce, here. 

Commission seeks feedback on commitments offered by Vifor over possible anticompetitive disparagement of iron medicine

 Here. 

24th Annual Loyola Antitrust Colloquium

 Here. 

Readings: 

Breaking Up Bottlenecks in Big Tech and Everywhere Else: Two Remedies That Keep Your Packages Arriving in Two Days

The Healing Power of Antitrust  

Monsters in the deep?

 Bank of England, here. 

AI and the Law: Regulation and Opportunity

 Panel moderated by R. Picker (I don't often agree with him, but always learn something), Video here. 

Monday, April 22, 2024

L'economia dei dati nell'Intelligenza Artificiale

 


Video qui. 

You don’t need to own an iPhone for the government lawsuit against Apple to benefit you

 Los Angeles Times, here and here. 

Audizioni sul ddl n. 1066 (Norme per lo sviluppo e per l'adozione di tecnologie di intelligenza artificiale)

 Senato, video qui. 

Considerations for AI Opt-Out

 M. Nottingham, here. 

EU Data Summit of the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung: Always learning something new and unexpected


Programme, here. 

Recordings:

Day 1 here.

Day 2 here. 

(Study mentioned during the "Level Playing Field in Accessing Vehicle Data?" here, BTW). 

Day 3 here. 


Second time that I participate in person, the other 4 editions I followed online (and I hereby gratefully acknowledge that I normally use the summit's recordings also as teaching material for my courses). 

Saffron Risotto - sophisticated dish
This time I participated in a transatlantic panel on antitrust (as a humble researcher and observer, I didn't have perhaps tons to say - apart from talking of saffron risotto - but the other two Panelists did - worth watching for their comments and the excellent questions by Samuel Stolton). But I also had a fun dual role as a moderator of a truly insightful DMA panel (first time I moderated a panel - and it showed - but, luckily, my great Panelists didn't need me at all!).

Driving Innovation with Antitrust

 G. Massarotto, here. 

EU Merger Regulation 139/2004: 20 Years that Made a Difference

 EC, Video here. 

OECD-EU Online Workshop on Regulation of Artificial Intelligence

 Video available here. 

Competitive and resilient high-tech manufacturing base in Europe

 M. Vestager, here.

Letta Report here. 

Draghi's Géopolitiques Article here. 

AI Foundation Models: Technical update report

 CMA, here. 

Non-price competition in EU merger control

 EC, Policy Brief here. 

Toward a Safer, Freer, and Fairer Digital Economy

 FTC, here. 

USTR Initiates Section 301 Investigation of China’s Targeting of the Maritime, Logistics, and Shipbuilding Sectors for Dominance

 US, here. 

Meta, in Its Biggest A.I. Push, Places Smart Assistants Across Its Apps

 NYTimes, here. 

European cloud customers affected by restrictive licensing terms for existing on-premise software, new [paid for] research finds

 Savanta, here. 

Konferenz: Shaping AI - Demokratisch. Nachhaltig. Innovativ

 Grüne im Bundestag, Video hier. 

EDPB: ‘Consent or Pay’ models should offer real choice

 Here. 

Sam Altman Invests in Energy Startup Focused on AI Data Centers

 WSJ, here. 

2024 Antitrust and Competition Conference

Full of amazing panels, you just have to watch them all - over the coming weeks and months, also because they'll even get better with time.

Day one, video here. 

How Much Does Antitrust Enforcement Affect Productivity Growth? (8:23)

Case Studies: AT&T & IBM (2:07:25)

The Quest for Next: How Antitrust Shapes Competition and Innovation in Computers and Chips (3:45:17)

Case Study: Microsoft (4:48:19)

Case Study: Google (6:11:24)

The End of the Beginning for the Antimonopoly Movement? (7:33:50)

Conversation with Lina Khan and Jonathan Kanter (9:39:53)



Day two, video here.

Regulatory Competition, the DMA and Innovation (14:05)

How (Not) To Regulate AI: Challenges and Opportunities (1:50:54)

The Proper Role of Economics in Merger Review (3:34:20)

Privacy, Property Rights and the Diffusion of AI (4:52:29)

This Conference is NOT Funded by Big Tech (6:20:55)


Sunday, April 14, 2024

FTC chair Lina Khan on playing "anti-monopoly"


 CBS News, here. 

Gen AI - Law & Policy Challenges

 DCI, Video here.

Rebalancing Europe: A new economic agenda for tackling monopoly power

 Programme here; livestream here. 

Meta Seeks Dismissal of FTC’s Antitrust Lawsuit Over Instagram, WhatsApp Deals, Claiming It ‘Faces Fierce Competition From a Range of Platforms’

 Variety, here. 

Regulating Big Tech: India Joins the Club

 V. Kathuria, here. 

Monopoly Round-Up: A Judge Can Break Up Google Right Now. Will He?

 M. Stoller, here. 

Développement des systèmes d’IA : les recommandations de la CNIL pour respecter le RGPD

 CNIL, ici. 

Nach EU-Milliardenstrafe: Apple streicht Linkverbot, beharrt auf Provision

 Heise.de, hier. Also here. 

How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I.

 NYTimes, here.

Reshoring and Restoring: CHIPS Implementation for a Competitive Semiconductor Industry

 Economicliberties.us, here. 

Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity

 D. Acemoglu, Video here. 

Sure, No One Knows What Happens Next. But Past Is Prologue When It Comes To AI

 TechPolicy.press, here. 

Google's Chrome Antitrust Paradox

 S. Munir et al., here. 

Revision of EU pharmaceutical legislation

 EP, here. 

The DSA and Platform Regulation Conference 2024

 Videos here. 

Meta's Pay-or-Okay Model: An Analysis Under EU Data Protection, Consumer, and Competition Law

 A. D'Amico et al., here. 

Grüne Technik: EU-Kommission will Chinas Marktdominanz eindämmen

 Heise.de, hier. 

In Conversation with Mariana Mazzucato, Tim O’Reilly and Ilan Strauss on Algorithmic Attention Rents

 Video here. 

EU Companies Criticize Proposal Favoring Big Tech in Cloud Computing Contracts

 CPI, here. 

The EU Artificial Intelligence Act: our 16 key takeaways

 Stibbe, here. 

UN: AI resolution must prioritise human rights and sustainable development

 Article 19, here. 

Said no to tracking cookies? Good chance your data are still being collected

 Amsterdam Law School, here. 

Rebalancing Europe – a new economic agenda for tackling monopoly power

 EU civil society, here. 

Amazon Self-preferencing in the Shadow of the Digital Markets Act

 J. Waldfogel, here. 

Global dominance of biggest stocks rises to highest in decades

 FT, here and here. 

Business Blog’s Clear Eye on AI

 FTC, here. 

The Forgotten Anti-Monopoly Law: The Second Half of Clayton Act § 7

 R. Lande, J. Newman, R. Kelly Slaughter, here. 

Alternative browsers report uplift after EU’s DMA choice screen mandate

 Natasha The Great and I. Mehta, here. 

AI Foundation Models: Update paper (11 April 2024)

 CMA, here. 

Meta trials its AI chatbot across WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger in India and Africa

 TechCrunch, here. 

Commission approves Illumina's plan to unwind its completed acquisition of GRAIL

 Here. 

3 key interlinked risks to fair, open and effective competition (update)

 CMA, here. 

The Dispersion of Power: Samuel Bagg’s Urgent Call to Redefine Democracy

 Yale ISPS, here. 

Epic's proposed permanent injunction

 Here. 

The historic all-star, whole-of-government approach panel


 Video here, from 41:50. 

Tuesday, April 09, 2024

The DMA in Action: Early Effects and Global Reach

 ITIF (supported by all DMA gategeepers but Bytedance - as well as Boeing, the national champion), video will be here. 

When it comes to digital, this is our 1955.

 


M. Vestager, video here; speech here. 

Saturday, April 06, 2024

'Super Apps' and the Digital Markets Act

 


Short piece 'invited' by a Journal, preprint here.


Notate Bene: written before the DOJ v. Apple Complaint was filed ;-).

Appeals court reopens DOJ antitrust probe of Realtors

 Politico.com, here. 

Not a ‘side dish’: New industrial policy and competition

Great side dishes from all over Europe and beyond!

 C. Caffarra and N. Lane, here. 

BTW: CC blocked me on X because she finds me and/or my views annoying. No hard feelings, her views will always be welcome on this blog!

America Has a Resilience Problem

 L. Khan, here (or you car hear the Author here). 

Google Is Killing Retro Dodo & Other Independent Sites

 Retrododo, here. 

Friday, April 05, 2024

Big Tech's inside job

 Business Insider, here. 

Does Apple Stifle or Promote Innovation?

 M. Stucke, here. 

Amazon offers free credits for startups to use AI models including Anthropic

 Reuters, here. 

Vestager: Apples Sicherheitsbedenken wegen Sideloading per DMA sind Blödsinn

 Heise.de, hier. Video here. 

Projet de loi visant à sécuriser et réguler l'espace numérique

 DOSSIER LÉGISLATIF, ici. 

Reinvigorating Antitrust: Citizens, not just Consumers

 Transcript, here. 

Ten years later, Facebook’s Oculus acquisition hasn’t changed the world as expected

 TechCrunch, here. 

A first look at Europe’s alternative iPhone app stores

 The Verge, here. 

Lina Khan – FTC Chair on Amazon Antitrust Lawsuit & AI Oversight | The Daily Show

 Video here. 

EU AI Act Compliance Checker

Here.  

Regulator Probes BlackRock and Vanguard Over Huge Stakes in U.S. Banks

 WSJ, here. 

Data Protection Reform: CIPIL spring conference 2024

 Videos here. 

Algorithmic Collusion by Large Language Models

S. Fish et al., here.  

Banking in video games and virtual worlds

 CFPB, here. 

EU: AI Act fails to set gold standard for human rights

 Article 19, here. 

THE original law school paper on Amazon: did you read it?

 S. Sharda, here. 

Will Antitrust Become Progressive?

 H. Hovenkamp, here. 

For AI firms, anything "public" is fair game

 Axios, here. 

Thursday, March 28, 2024

Eleanor Fox on Global Computational Antitrust

 Video here

EU Policy. Deal on landmark health data space clinched in the eleventh hour

 Euronews, here. 

Meta v Bundeskartellamt — data-based conduct between antitrust law and regulation

 A. Witt, here. 

Avviata istruttoria nei confronti di Booking per presunto abuso di posizione dominante

 AGCM, here. 

Quantum antitrust – A unified exclusionary abuse theory

 Xiaomi, here. 

An Economic Framework for Understanding Artificial Intelligence

 The White House, here. 

Preserving competition across the spectrum

 DG Comp, here. 

Breaking down the DOJ's complaint against Apple

 S. Sharda, here. 

Competition in Generative AI: Future of Life Institute’s Feedback to the European Commission’s Consultation

 Here. 

Qualcomm Abandons Bid to Buy Autotalks, FTC Welcomes Decision

 WSJ, here. 

EDPS INVESTIGATION INTO USE OF MICROSOFT 365 BY THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION

 EDPS, here. 

Apple, Google and Meta face first formal investigations under EU’s DMA

 Natasha The Great, here. 

Online news: Research Update

 Ofcom, here. 

Google Attempts to Redefine Its Local Services to Avoid DMA Compliance Consequences

 Near Media, here. 

MARKET POWER IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

 J. Gans, here. 

‘Even stronger’ than imagined: DOJ’s sweeping Apple lawsuit draws expert praise

 The Verge, here. 

ASOS, Boohoo and Asda: greenwashing investigation

 CMA, here. 

A Bump in the Road for Apple

 The American Prospect, here. 

Digital public infrastructure and public value: What is ‘public’ about DPI?

 UCL, here. 

Case C-797/23, Meta Platforms Ireland: Request for a preliminary ruling

 Here. 

A Big Defeat for Big Tech

 J. Stiglitz, here. 

In-App Browsers: The worst erosion of user choice you haven’t heard of

 Open Web Advocacy, here. 

Commission opens investigation into possible anticompetitive conduct by Zoetis over novel pain medicine for dogs

 EC, here. 

Government Agencies Act to Elevate and Build Tech and Digital Capacity

 FTC, here. 

Building Tech Capacity in Law Enforcement Agencies

 FTC, here. 

Online advertising: Amazon’s request to suspend its obligation to make an advertisement repository publicly available is rejected

 CJEU, here. 

AI: Accountability Report

 NTIA, here. 

Workshop series on DMA compliance

 Recordings here.