European Copyright Society on Hyperlinking (Svensson CJEU Reference)

Here (pdf file).

Facebook May Already Be Taking Away Searches From Google

Mashable.com, here. 

European publishers slam Google copyright deal in France

Managingip.com, here. 

BnF: sacrifier le domaine public pour numériser les indisponibles

Actualitte.com, ici. 

Licensing Controversy — Balancing Author Rights with Societal Good

Scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org, here. 

Reps. Zoe Lofgren, Mike Doyle and Kevin Yoder Introduce Bill Expanding Access to Federally Funded Research

Lofgren.house.gov, here. 

Critical Cloud Computing

A Critical Information Infrastructure Protection (CIIP) perspective on cloud computing, ENISA, here. 

Macmillan to Pay $20 Million to Settle State, Class Action Price-Fixing Claims

Publishersweekly.com, here. 

Attention Rivalry among Online Platforms and Its Implications for Antitrust Analysis

D. Evans, here. 

Drug development: Teaching old pills new tricks

TheEconomist.com, here. 

Proposed new EU General Data Protection Regulation: Article-by-article analysis paper

UK Information Commissioner's Office, here. 

Vertical restraints in soccer: Financial Fair Play and the English Premier League

T. Peeters, S. Szymanski, here (pdf file).

Max Planck comments on draft directive on collective rights management

Ipkitten.blogspot.com, here

The people versus the bankers

TheEconomist.com, here. 

Google faces new privacy concerns over Android app market

Rawstory.com, here. 

The Privacy Legal Implications of Big Data: A Primer

Infolawgroup.com, here.

Read Any Good Web Sites Lately? Book Lovers Talk Online

Nytimes.com, here. 

Which countries receive the most in royalty and license fees?

World Bank, here.

Pratiques anticoncurrentielles dans le secteur de l'abattage et de la commercialisation du porc charcutier sanctionnées

Autorité de la concurrence, ici. 

La farmacia en el supermercado

ElPais, aquì. 

Spanish Tribunal Supremo on "screen scraping"

RYANAIR LIMITED v  ATRAPALO, S.L, here (Spanish).

Dutch government will end protection of non-original works to modernise copyright law

Futureofcopyright.com, here. 

Oracle vs Google legal war begins a new chapter

Newsandinsight.thomsonreuters.com, here. 

Materials from the GCLC lunch talk on Google

ChillingCompetition.com, here. 

FRAND, RAND, and SEP: Why These Acronyms Are Important

Techpolicy.com, here. 

BGH legt EuGH Frage zum technischen Schutz von Schutzmaßnahmen für Videospiele vor

Institut für Urheber- und Medienrecht, hier. 

Mining the Digital Gold Rush: The Legal (L)ore around France’s Data-Mining Tax

Iposgoode.ca, here. 

Yelp Defeats Legal Challenge to Its User Review Filter

E. Goldman, here. 

Functional Claiming and Software Patents

C. Chien, A. Karkhanis, here.

Money from Music: Survey Evidence on Musicians’ Revenue and Lessons About Copyright Incentives

P. DiCola, here. 

Domain disputes rise again as new gTLDs loom

Managingip.com, here. 

SPARC Europe response to the UK BIS Committee Open Access Inquiry

Here. 

Why Japanese readers don't like e-books

Tech.fortune.cnn.com, here. 

Responses of Creative Commons to House of Lords comments concerning the CC BY license

Here. 

U.S. appeals judges quiz lawyers on rules for patenting software

Newsandinsight.thomsonreuters.com, here. 

Access and the Public Domain

R. Picker, here.

Of particular interest to me is how broad access issues are likely to shape the "scale and scope of competition in the provision of the public domain". 

Efectos del carácter restrictivo de la normativa comercial sobre la competitividad de la economía catalana

Autoritat Catalana de la Competència, aquí.

IP, Antitrust and Looking Back on the Last Four Years

R. Hesse, here. 

EU antitrust control and patent abuses

M. Mariniello, here (Video, 6:58).

Counting couch potatoes

TheEconomist, here. 

L'Open Data fragilisé par le droit sur les bases de données

Numerama.com, ici. 

LobbyPlag - Wie Konzerne Gesetze diktieren

Heute.de, hier. 

Antitrust Litigation: What’s Changed in Twenty-Five Years?

W. Kolasky, here. 

Innovation Nation at War (Posner and patents)

Nytimes.com, here. 

Un passo indietro per il software libero

A. Meo, qui. 

“Students are heavily dependent on studying from photocopies”

Thehindu.com, here. 

EU Personal Data Protection "Reform Package":Tracking Lobbyists' Influence

Europlag.eu, here. See also the background article to this project here (German).

IFLA Principles for Library eLending

Here. 

What Software Is Patentable? Federal Court To Consider In CLS Bank Rehearing

TechCrunch.com, here. 

Macmillan settles with DOJ, and Apple is last man standing in ebook pricing case

PaidContent.org, here.

Interesting to academia and beyond:
"Electronic versions of academic textbooks” are removed from the settlement’s “requirements and prohibitions” because the DOJ antitrust case focused only on trade books.

The Digital Economy

OECD, Competition Committee, DAF/COMP(2012)22, here.

Coup de coeur: the French contribution to the October 2011 hearing, p. 75 ff.

Google, the ACCC and the High Court

Core Economics, here. 

La BnF accusée de privatiser des oeuvres du domaine public

Lexpress.fr, ici. 

Charlottesville anti-drone resolution sparks similar action across US

Wired.co.uk, here. 

Protection of personal data

ECHR, Factsheet, here. 

Court of Appeal takes a punt on database rights

The1709blog.blogspot.com, here. 

Why Information Providers Need To Be Open To Sharing in Their Business Models

J. Gans, here. 

Comparative Analysis on National Approaches to ISP Liability for Copyright Infringement

I. Garrote Fernandéz-Diez, here.

AG Jääskinen on access to court files of public law competition proceedings

Case C‑536/11, here. 

Commission européenne : tentative scandaleuse d'éviter la réforme du droit d'auteur

Laquadrature.net, ici. 

Initial Comments on Orphan Works

Received by the US Copyright Office, here. 

Criticism Mounting Before German Data Portal Launch

Epsiplatform.eu, here. 

Cartel class actions and immunity programmes

E. Iacobucci, here. 

Is competition always good?

M. Stucke, here.

Efforts to Update and Strengthen Privacy Law in Europe and the United States

Letter from prominent US consumer and civil liberties organizations to US government leaders, here. 

New Year, New Project: Turning the Focus to Competition Policy for 2013

E. Pérez Motta, here. 

The Patent Policy Debate in the High Tech World: A Literature Review

K. Gupta, here. 

Leistungsschutzrecht für Presseverlage: Müsste Google wirklich zahlen? – eine kartellrechtliche Analyse

C. Kersting, S. Dworschak, hier. 

Market Dominance and Quality of Search Results in the Search Engine Market

I. Lianos, E. Motchenkova, here. 

Irish High Court Order following FitFlop investigation involving allegations of resale price maintenance

Competition Authority Press Release, here. 

The Nature of Competition in the Digital Age

Techliberation.com, ici. 

Numérisation à la BnF : comment la France se fait rouler

ActuaLitté.com, ici. 

Europe Moves Ahead on Privacy

NYTimes.com, here. 

The Right to Be Forgotten

R. Walker, here. 

Open archaeology

M. Lane, here. 

EU Commission enforcement action in pharmaceutical sector following sector inquiry (January 2013 update)

Press Release, here. 

Accord entre la vieille presse et Google, signé à l'Elysée

Numerama.com, ici. 

When Trade and Intellectual Property Collide

Iposgoode.ca, here. 

Mobile Privacy Disclosures

FTC Staff Report, here. 

Ireland deputy data protection Commissioner to take up Apple job

Irishtimes.com, here.

The Patent-Antitrust Interface: Are There Any No-No’s Today?

Venable.com, here. 

New Year Will See More Policing of Patent Conduct By US and EU Competition Agencies

Skadden.com, here. 

Ed O'Bannon vs. the NCAA: The antitrust lawsuit explained

Sbnation.com, here. 

PRIVATE ACTIONS IN COMPETITION LAW: A consultation on options for reform - government response

UK Government, here. 

OFT chief calls for more competitive banking sector

Telegraph.co.uk, here. 

EU Commission sends Statement of Objections to J&J and Novartis on delayed entry of generic pain-killer

Press Release, here.

Recommendations Resulting from the Mediation on Private Copying And Reprography Levies

A. Vitorino, here. 

What's wrong with data protection?

A Greens/EFA hearing, January 31, 2013, here (archived video available here).
Stallman:  neither using most of the available Internet services, nor possessing a mobile phone...too dangerous, he says. 

Open Access versus Traditional Journal Pricing: Using a Simple “Platform Market” Model to Understand Which Will Win (and Which Should)

M. McCabe, C. Snyder A. Fagin, here.

Digital music rights - Baby got backlash

TheEconomist.com, here. 

Ökonomische Auswirkungen der Einführung eines Leistungsschutzrechts für Presseinhalte im Internet

R. Dewenter, J. Haucap, hier. 

Amici Curiae Professors and AAI on reverse-payment settlements

Here. 

UK petrol and diesel sector

OFT, here. 

The Business Case for Data Protection

Industry Coalition for Data Protection, here. 

Open data economy: Eight business models for open data and insight from Deloitte UK

Radar.oreilly.com, here.

Who’s Afraid of Kim Dotcom?

Robertamsterdam.com, here.

Academics revolt over open access

Thebookseller.com, here. 

Microsoft Files Brief in Novell's WordPerfect Antitrust Appeal

Groklaw.net, here. 

Ten Years of DG Competition Effort to Provide Guidance on the Application of Competition Rules to the Licensing of Standard-Essential Patents: Where Do We Stand?

D. Geradin, here. 

What EU data protection can do for growth

TheHill.com, here.