Tenth year anniversary of the International Competition Policy Advisory Committee (ICPAC) Report

Brown Bag Teleconference, ICPAC at Ten and the ICN, ABA.

On the Economics of Copyright

The Economics of Copyright and Digitisation: A Report on the Literature and the Need for Further Research, C. Handke.

What motivates businesses to comply with competition law?

Some possible answers: Drivers of Compliance and Non-compliance with Competition Law, OFT.

Bid rigging in the UK construction industry: assessment of the impact of OFT's recent investigation

Evaluation of the impact of the OFT's investigation into bid rigging in the construction industry, Europe Economics.

Predatory models of selective price cuts: the Italian aerated autoclaved concrete case commented

Anticompetitive vs Competitive Explanations of Unilateral Practices: the Identification Problem, Michele Polo

AAI on the US Proposed Horizontal Merger Guidelines

AAI Submits Comments to FTC and DOJ on Proposed Horizontal Merger Guidelines, Robert Lande.

A retrospective study on a non-consummated merger: FTC v. H.J. Heinz Co. and Milnot Holding Corporation

The Evolution of the Baby Food Industry 2000-2008, Viola Chen

Consumer Harm, Consumer Choice and Innovation

Real Knowledge is to Know the Extent of One's Own Ignorance: On the Consumer Harm Approach in Innovation-Related Competition Cases, Josef Drexl

Swedish Competition Authority: Ex-Post Agency Effectiveness Evaluation

Ex-post evaluations initiated by the Swedish Competition Authority,

Dan Sjöblom and Arvid Fredenberg. See also London Economics' Evaluation of OFT Competition Advocacy

ICN 2010: the Executive Summary is out

Here.

Orange/Sunrise: Rekurs zurückgezogen

S. NZZ Online: Orange und Sunrise lassen Fusion definitiv fallen

Trento's "Festival of Economics"

This year's topic: "Information, Choices and Development".

My personal choice from the extremely rich programme: M. Boldrin and D.K.Levine,

Against intellectual monopoly

Harm Quantification in Damages Actions: On the Three-Step Procedure in the German Cement Case

Quantification of Harm in Damages Actions for Antitrust Infringements: Insights from German Cartel Cases, H.W. Friederiszick, L.-H. Röller

Canadian Copyright Modernization Act (or Bill C-32) introduced

Here.

WIPO Gold: one-stop gateway to the organization’s global collections of searchable IP data

Here.

Remedies in the EU Microsoft Case

A CRITICAL APPRAISAL OF REMEDIES IN THE E.U. MICROSOFT CASES, Nicholas Economides, Ioannis Lianos.

WIPO SCCR/19: the draft report is out

Here. Looking ahead for SCCR/20. Read also Key's post on WIPO SCCR open ended consultation on the treaty for the blind

Reflecting on the best antitrust regime: a view from the US

Rewriting History: Antitrust Not As We Know It . . . Yet, J. Thomas Rosch

Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission.

Almunia on the future of public services

The role of public services in “Europe 2020”, Madrid, 31 May 2010.

Apple's App Store and GPL

The Free Software Foundation was alleging non-compliance with sec. 6 GPL v.2. Apple reacted by removing the product from its store.

Fusion untersagt: Magna/Karmann (Cabriodach-Hersteller)

Pressemitteilung und Beschluss des Bundeskartellamtes.

Revised competition rules for motor vehicle distribution and repair in the EU

Commission Regulation (EU) 461/2010 on the application of Article 101(3) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union to categories of vertical agreements and concerted practices in the motor vehicle sector. See also the press release.

On the United/Continental Airlines Merger

The United/Continental Airlines Merger: How Will Consumers Fare?, Darren Bush, before the

US Senate Judiciary Committee, Subcommmittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer

Rights.

Discussing the Goals of Competition Law

The 5th ASCOLA Conference “Goals of Competition Law”, May 27-29, 2010

Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn

Bonn, Germany.

Open Access in Italy

Report 2009, Paola Gargiulo, Maria Cassella.

OFT's Market Study on Behavioural Advertising and Consumer Protection

Online Targeting of Advertising and Prices.

Sport Leagues: Single Entity Defence in Antitrust Revisited

US Supreme Court, American Needle, Inc. v. National Football League. See also AAI's Amicus Curiae.

Google AdMob Deal: FTC Closes its Investigation

Read Press Release and Statement. See also AAI's first reaction.

Competition and regulatory objectives in the framework of the financial crisis

Financial Crisis Remedies in the European Union: Balancing Competition and Regulation in the Conditionality of Bailout Plans, Damien Gerard.

On Competition Authorities and National Regulators

The Relationship between Competition Authorities and Sectoral Regulators: An International-Comparative Perspective, Maher Dabban

Intellectual Property Regimes in a Global Context

Winston Tabb (convener), Nancy Weiss and Michael Geist, Proceedings of the 156th Association of Research Libraries Membership Meeting.

WIPO: On-line Forum on Access to Copyrighted Works by Visually Impaired

Here. See also WIPO's announcement.

Joaquin Almunia on the first European Commission Cartel Settlement

Read the transcript of his (short) speech. See also OECD, EXPERIENCE WITH DIRECT SETTLEMENTS IN CARTEL CASES, 2009.

Bulgarian Competition Authority (Комисия за защита на конкуренцията - КЗК): independence at risk?

Read this from EurActiv.

On Banks and Competition Policy

St Gallen International Competition Forum, ‘Too big to fail, but not too big to be unbundled’, Peter Freeman, UK Competition Commission's Chairman.

A Digital Agenda for Europe

See the Communication.

Jane Ginsburg on Mandatory Copyright Formalities

The U.S. Experience with Mandatory Copyright Formalities: A Love/Hate Relationship, 33 Columbia Journal of Law and the Arts 311 (2010), p. 311.

DRAM producers fined € 331 million for price cartel

Press release. It is also the first settlement decision adopted by the European Commission according to Articles 7 and 23 of Regulation 1/2003 (Q&A) .

Filmmakers and the use of fair dealing in Canada

See the new guide released by the Documentary Organization of Canada.

Strategies for opening up content

See this special issue of Research Library Issues (RLI), Association of Research Libraries.

Italian Google Competition Case: Undertakings Made Public

Here.

On Behavioral Economics and Antitrust

Behavioral Antitrust, A. P. Reeves, M. E. Stucke. See also OFT's  What does Behavioural Economics mean for Competition Policy?

Google/AdMob: diminishing competition in the market for advertising on mobile phones?

S. this article from the NYT.

Fotos in Personensuchmaschinen

OLG Köln, Urteil v. 09.02.2010, Az. 15 U 107/09.

On E-Books, Copyright and DRM

S. Sara Bannerman's post.

DRM in motion

A motion infographic project about Digital Rights Management (DRM), Vancouver Film School.

EPO on computer-implemented inventions

Opinion of the Enlarged Board of Appeal of 12 May 2010, European Patent Office (here some background info; see also the amicus curiae brief of the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure). See here the list of all amicus curiae briefs.

Mario Monti: défendre le marché unique et la concurrence

Voir Le Monde, 10.05. 10.

India-EU Broad-based Trade and Investment Agreement - IPR Chapter

S. the Preliminary Consultation Draft reflecting interesting divergences.

On the concept of ‘fair compensation’ in the InfoSoc directive

Advocate General’s Opinion in Case C-467/08 Sociedad General de Autores y Editores (SGAE) v PADAWAN S.L., from the press release: "Where a Member State, such as Spain, opts for a system of compensation in the form of a levy on digital reproduction equipment, devices and media, such a charge can be regarded as a compensation scheme for private copying which is compatible with the directive only where it may be presumed that those equipment, devices and media are to be used for making private copies. Remuneration which is granted to rightholders as a result of the indiscriminate application of such a levy to undertakings and professional persons, who from experience purchase digital reproduction devices and media for purposes other than private use, is not ‘fair compensation’ within the meaning of the directive".