Tuesday, March 08, 2011
US Supreme Court Justice Breyer on "l'économique" and the judges
US Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer delivered a very nice speech (in impressive French), March 7, 2011 at the invitation of the Association Internationale de Droit Economique, in Paris (disclosure: I'm a member of that association). The title of the Seminar was "La prise en compte de l'Economique par la Cour Suprême des Etats-Unis, des cours supérieures européennes (CJUE, Cour de Cassation, Conseil Constitutionnel français, etc …)", thus, roughly, on the relevance of economics ("l'Economique", by that meaning, possibly, economic theories, models but also bare economic data) in taking legal decisions at the highest court instances, both in the US and France (but also, as other speakers covered, in Belgium).
This is my personal take on that intense speech.
Friday, March 04, 2011
US Senate Judiciary Committee on “Targeting Websites Dedicated To Stealing American Intellectual Property”
Webcast.
Tom Adams
President and CEO
Rosetta Stone Inc.
Arlington, VA
Scott Turow
President
Authors Guild
New York, NY
Christine N. Jones
EVP, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
The Go Daddy Group, Inc.
Scottsdale, AZ
Thomas M Dailey (at 51:51)
Vice President and Deputy General Counsel
Verizon
Arlington, VA
Denise Yee
Senior Trademark Counsel
Visa, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
Tom Adams
President and CEO
Rosetta Stone Inc.
Arlington, VA
Scott Turow
President
Authors Guild
New York, NY
Christine N. Jones
EVP, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
The Go Daddy Group, Inc.
Scottsdale, AZ
Thomas M Dailey (at 51:51)
Vice President and Deputy General Counsel
Verizon
Arlington, VA
Denise Yee
Senior Trademark Counsel
Visa, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
Canadian Competition Bureau Announces Plans to Moderately Revise the Merger Enforcement Guidelines
Here. Among the announced revisions:
"- clarify that merger review is not a linear process that must start with market definition, but rather an iterative process in which evidence of market concentration is considered alongside other evidence of competitive effects, with the goal of determining whether a merger creates or enhances market power" and
"- provide more detailed guidance on how the Bureau assesses the unilateral effects of a merger, particularly in light of current economic thinking"
"- clarify that merger review is not a linear process that must start with market definition, but rather an iterative process in which evidence of market concentration is considered alongside other evidence of competitive effects, with the goal of determining whether a merger creates or enhances market power" and
"- provide more detailed guidance on how the Bureau assesses the unilateral effects of a merger, particularly in light of current economic thinking"
Advocate General Ján Mazák on banning internet sales in selective distribution agreements
Opinion in Case C-439/09 Pierre Fabre Dermo-Cosmétique SAS v Président de l'Autorité de la Concurrence & Ministre de l'Économie, de l'Industrie et de l'Emploi.
Thursday, March 03, 2011
Metcash-Franklins Merger: Australian Federal Court to Decide
Australian Senate, Economics References Committee's Report
Wednesday, March 02, 2011
FAIR ACCESS TO CULTURE AND THE RIGHT TO READ OF VISUALLY IMPAIRED PERSONS
Exceptions and limitations to copyright with regard to libraries, education and print disabled persons - European Parliament P7C050 - 13th April 2011 10.00-13.00
10.00 Introduction
Luigi Berlinguer MEP - Overview of the issues
Ádám Kósa MEP President Disability Intergroup - Copyright and disabled people’s rights
Ben White –IFLA/EBLIDA / British Library - The case for Education and Libraries
10.30 Panel 1. The book famine- what are the barriers and solutions?
Ádám Kósa MEP President Disability Intergroup - Copyright and disabled people’s rights
Ben White –IFLA/EBLIDA / British Library - The case for Education and Libraries
10.30 Panel 1. The book famine- what are the barriers and solutions?
Wolfgang Angermann– European Blind Union
European Dyslexia Association- Raymond Claes
Q&A from the floor
11.00 Panel 2. A WIPO treaty for print disabled people?
Rodolfo Cattani EBU - Rationale for a treaty and the campaign so far
David Hammerstein – Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue
Q&A from the floor
11.45 Panel 3. Limitations and exceptions to copyright. Opinion of the EP, Commission and Council
An MEP perspective: F. Keller, F.Sosa Wagner.
The Commission’s position (speaker TBC)
Council position – Representative from Hungarian Presidency
Dan Pescod – European Blind Union
Ben White – IFLA/EBLIDA
Q&A from the floor
12.45 Conclusions
European Dyslexia Association- Raymond Claes
Q&A from the floor
11.00 Panel 2. A WIPO treaty for print disabled people?
Rodolfo Cattani EBU - Rationale for a treaty and the campaign so far
David Hammerstein – Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue
Q&A from the floor
11.45 Panel 3. Limitations and exceptions to copyright. Opinion of the EP, Commission and Council
An MEP perspective: F. Keller, F.Sosa Wagner.
The Commission’s position (speaker TBC)
Council position – Representative from Hungarian Presidency
Dan Pescod – European Blind Union
Ben White – IFLA/EBLIDA
Q&A from the floor
12.45 Conclusions
Concluding remarks - Luigi Berlinguer MEP
Tuesday, March 01, 2011
Media, Aggregators and the Link Economy: Strategic Hyperlink Formation in Content Networks
C. Dellarocas, Z. Katona, W. Rand, here.
Monday, February 28, 2011
Greece's Competition Commission fines crisis cartel in the fish farming sector
Here. See also Greece's contribution on the topic of crisis cartels to the OECD 10th GFC
OECD 10th Global Forum on Competition
Forum documents.
In particular:
Session I Cross-border Merger Control: Challenges for Developing and Emerging Economies
Session III Crisis Cartels
WHY (EVER) DEFINE MARKETS?
K.Kaplow, here ("The thesis of this Article is that the market definition process should be abandoned").
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
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A. Zerdiashvili, here .
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B. Mäihäniemi, here here .
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N. Shaxson, here.
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V. Robertson, J. Fleiss, here .
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TheInnovator, here here .
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Axios, here .
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C. Caffarra, here .
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M. Mazzucato, F. Gernone, here (and here ).