Sunday, October 14, 2012

Copyright, Interfaces, and a Possible Atlantic Divide

S. Vezzoso (this blog's author), here.
Abstract: "Recent copyright cases on both sides of the Atlantic focused on important interoperability issues. While the decision by the Court of Justice of the European Union in SAS Institute, Inc. v. World Programming Ltd. assessed data formats under the EU Software Directive, the ruling by the Northern District of California Court in Oracle America, Inc. v. Google Inc. dealt with application programming interfaces. The European decision is rightly celebrated as a further important step in the promotion of interoperability in the EU. This article argues that, despite appreciable signs of convergence across the Atlantic, the assessment of application programming interfaces under EU law could still turn out to be quite different, and arguably much less pro-interoperability, than under U.S. law."

HathiTrust: A Landmark Copyright Ruling

Publishersweekly.com, here

Monday, October 08, 2012

Privacy and Modern Advertising: Most US Internet Users Want “Do Not Track” to Stop Collection of Data About their Online Activities

C. Hoofnagle, J. Urban, S. Li, here

Google's privacy policy: EU data protection chiefs 'to act within days'

Guardian.co.uk, here

Privacy Regulation and Market Structure

J. Campbell, A. Goldfarb, C. Tucker, here

The Shadow of Steve Jobs in Apple’s Maps Push

Nytimes.com, here

Privacy by Design: A Counterfactual Analysis of Google and Facebook Privacy Incidents

I. Rubinstein, N. Good, here

A private celebration: Waves turns five!


DSRI-Vorträge u.a. zu aktuellen Datenschutzthemen

Legalmemory.blogspot.com, here

International Survey on Private Copying


Stichting de Thuiskopie, WIPO, here.

The Patent, Used as a Sword

Nytimes.com, here

Saturday, October 06, 2012

The New Google-AAP Settlement: Some Questions and Antitrust Speculations

A. Katz, here

A Google book deal is good for everyone — except maybe Amazon

Gigaom.com, here

What Does the Chicago School Teach About Internet Search and the Antitrust Treatment of Google?

R. Bork, J. Sidak, here

French Rules Governing Post Mortem Transmission of Droit de Suite Held Constitutional

The1709blog.blogspot.fr, here

The Memory of the World in the Digital Age: Digitization and Preservation

Vancouver Declaration (draft recommendations), here

Europeanization of EU member-state competition policy: The commission’s leadership role

P. Barros, J. Clougherty and J. Seldeslachts, here

FTC Seeks U.S. Supreme Court Review in AndroGel "Pay-for-Delay" Case

 Federal Trade Commission v. Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc, petition for certiorari, here

Monday, October 01, 2012

A Network of Competition Advocates

E. Perez Motta, here

Project empowers open data in public administration

Researchinformation.info, here

Programa de Clemencia

CNC, Video (0:47), aquí. Ver también Vídeo sobre el "programa de clemencia" elaborado por la Autoridad Holandesa de Defensa de la Competencia, con los subtítulos en español adaptando parte de su contenido a la regulación española, aquì.

WIPO: The Year in Review

F. Gurry, here

New small claims track for businesses with IP disputes

News.bis.gov.uk, here.

Search engine freedom: on the implications of the right to freedom of expression for the legal governance of Web search engines

J. Van Hoboken, here

Report of the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights to the fiftieth session of the WIPO General Assembly

WIPO.int, here

Ansgar Ohly: Fast jeder Urheberrechtler lehnt das Leistungsschutzrecht ab

IGEL, hier

Do patent and copyright law restrict competition and creativity excessively?

R. Posner, here