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Monday, March 14, 2011
Friday, March 11, 2011
African Competition Forum launched in Nairobi
Here.
The launch was announced during a two days conference jointly hosted by Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC), the Kenya Monopolies and Price Commission, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of Finance together with the UK Department for International Development (DFID) The newly appointed Chair, Mr Francis Kariuki said: “The ACF will raise awareness and provide support as widely as possible for the creation of strong competition regimes in Africa. The Forum will share information on appropriate practices in competition law and enforcement and will collaborate in building institutional capacity throughout the continent.”
The launch was announced during a two days conference jointly hosted by Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC), the Kenya Monopolies and Price Commission, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of Finance together with the UK Department for International Development (DFID) The newly appointed Chair, Mr Francis Kariuki said: “The ACF will raise awareness and provide support as widely as possible for the creation of strong competition regimes in Africa. The Forum will share information on appropriate practices in competition law and enforcement and will collaborate in building institutional capacity throughout the continent.”
Thursday, March 10, 2011
EU merger control has come of age
J.Almunia, here. From the speech, on international competition policy:.
Wednesday, March 09, 2011
Tuesday, March 08, 2011
Study on the Overall Functioning of the European Trade Mark System
Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law, here.
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
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Monday, February 21, 2011
Statut d’hébergeur de fuzz.fr aussi confirmé par par la Cour de cassation
Arrêt n° 164 du 17 février 2011 (09-13.202) - Cour de cassation - Première chambre civile
Friday, February 18, 2011
On Horizontal and Vertical "Price Fixing" in Poland
Poland’s Office of Competition and Consumer Protection, here.
Dailymotion: statut d’hébergeur confirmé par la Cour de cassation
Arrêt n° 165 du 17 février 2011 (09-67.896) - Cour de cassation - Première chambre civile
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Loi sur le prix unique du livre numérique adoptée en France par l'Assemblée Nationale
Ici. Lire aussi l'Avis de l'Autorité de la concurrence, son Communiqué de presse e le Rapport d'information du Sénat " La politique du livre face au défi du numérique ".
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Monday, February 14, 2011
Friday, February 11, 2011
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Schadensersatzanspruch bei Lesser General Public License-Verletzung
LG Bochum, Teilurteil vom 20.01.2011 (Az. I-8 O 293/09)
Hotfile: Complaint for Copyright Infringement
Here. Read also MOTION PICTURE STUDIOS' press release.
Wednesday, February 09, 2011
Chairman of the Australian Competition Commission: First Criminal Case Looming
Here. From the interview: "Every day, every minute, even while you sleep, everything you do will be oversighted by the ACCC"
Tuesday, February 08, 2011
Monday, February 07, 2011
Friday, February 04, 2011
UK Ofcom's proposal on ex ante competition check in respect of trades of mobile spectrum
Notice of proposals to make 900 MHz, 1800 MHz & 2100 MHz public wireless network licences tradable, here.
Thursday, February 03, 2011
Wednesday, February 02, 2011
Tuesday, February 01, 2011
Monday, January 31, 2011
Friday, January 28, 2011
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Italian "class" action against Microsoft for bundling and refusal to reimburse Windows
Techrights, here. Here the writ of summons filed (in Italian)
FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules and Implications for Research Libraries
Association of Research Libraries, here.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Friday, January 21, 2011
Österreich: Spediteure anerkennenTeilnahme an Kartellen vor Kartellgericht
Hier. S. auch die Bestätigung, dass die Kommission "dawn raids" bereits durchgeführt hat.
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Monday, January 17, 2011
Friday, January 14, 2011
Free Software in Contemporary Civil Society
Sociology Faculty at Trento University.
Speakers: Karsten Gerloff, Carlo Piana, Tiziano Sartori, Patrick Ohnewein, Fabio Ropelato, Program (in Italian).
Speakers: Karsten Gerloff, Carlo Piana, Tiziano Sartori, Patrick Ohnewein, Fabio Ropelato, Program (in Italian).
Oracle/Sun Microsystems: The challenge of reviewing a merger involving open source software
C.-C. Buhr, S.Crome, A. Lübbert, V.Pozzato, Y.Simon, R.Thomas, here.
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Judge Posner on the interpretation of the pleading standard set forth in Twombly
IN RE: TEXT MESSAGING ANTITRUST LITIGATION. Appeal of: Verizon Wireless, et al., Defendants, No. 10-8037, here.
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
E-Learning: Intranet-Klausel ( § 52a Urheberrechtsgesetz) vor Gericht
Alfred Kröner Verlag gegen Fernuniversität in Hagen, Klageschrift.
Règles du code de procédure civile et pratiques anticoncurrentielles
Cour de cassation française, 7 janvier 2011 Société Philips France – Arrêt n° 587
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
"Comité des Sages" on bringing Europe's cultural heritage online presents its report "The new Renaissance"
Here. See also the Summary Record of the public hearing of the Comité des Sages on "Bringing Europe's cultural heritage online".
Monday, January 10, 2011
WIPO Seminar Series on “The Economics of Intellectual Property”: Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, Intellectual Property and Litigation
Christine Greenhalgh, January 12, 2011 paper here.
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Copying an Entire Article and Fair Use
RIGHTHAVEN LLC v. CENTER FOR INTERCULTURAL
ORGANIZING, CASE NO.: 2:10-cv-01322-JCM-LRL, BRIEF OF AMICUS CURIAE
PROFESSOR JASON SCHULTZ
ORGANIZING, CASE NO.: 2:10-cv-01322-JCM-LRL, BRIEF OF AMICUS CURIAE
PROFESSOR JASON SCHULTZ
US Ambassador: Over-Focus On Development “Will Kill” WIPO
W.New, here. Official Transcript of Ambassador King’s December 16, 2010 Press Conference
Monday, December 20, 2010
L’INSTITUT NATIONAL DE L'AUDIOVISUEL (INA) C/ La Société YOUTUBE
TRIBUNAL DE GRANDE INSTANCE DE CRETEIL, Jugement du 14 Décembre 2010, DOSSIER : N° 06/1281, ici.
Bank Competition and Stability: Reconciling Conflicting Empirical Evidence
T. Beck, O. De Jonghe, G. Schepens, here.
Thursday, December 16, 2010
European Competition Network Brief
No. 5/2010 and Special Issue December 2010 - A look inside the ECN: its members and its work
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
L'Autorité de la concurrence estime que Google est en position dominante sur le marché de la publicité liée aux moteurs de recherche
Avis n° 10-A-29 du 14 décembre 2010 sur le fonctionnement concurrentiel de la publicité en ligne.
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
EU Commission adopts revised competition rules on horizontal co-operation agreements
Press Release, Horizontal Guidelines, Block exemption regulations applicable to specialisation agreements and research and development agreements
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Ofcom.org.uk, here .
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G. Soros, here.
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T. McSweeny, here.
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Los Angeles Times, here .
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LG Frankfurt am Main, 2-06 O 172/09 (verkündet am 13.05.2009). Lesenswertes aus der Begründung (meine Hervorhebungen): "Vorstellbare ...
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EnGadget, here . Qualcomm's Answer and Counterclaims here .
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Deutscher Bundestag, hier . S. auch Entschließungsantrag der Grünen, hier .
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The Borders of Economic Freedom, video here (from 33:00). Some personal highlights:
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OECD Digital Economy Papers, here .