Standard-Essential Patents and the Problem of Hold-Up

J. Kattan, C. Wood, here.

Global Congress Declaration on Fundamental Public Interest Principles for International Intellectual Property Negotiations

Adopted at the Third Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest, University of Cape Town, December 13, 2013, here.

2014 copyright policy tactics: Hollywood's stronger engagement with academic institutions and professors

Hollywoodreporter.com, here.

Narrative Report: WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR), 26th session

Infoclio.ch, here.

Schlussbericht der schweizerischen Arbeitsgruppe zum Urheberrecht (AGUR12)

IPI.ch, hier.

Copyright Exhaustion Rationales and Used Software

A. Rubi Puig, here.

Google's Open Automotive Alliance: the battle for the dashboard is now

The Verge.com. here. 

Antitrust Marathon V: When in Rome Public and Private Enforcement of Competition Law

P. Marsden, S. Weber Waller, P. Fabbio, here. 

Patent trolls & damages

Webinar presentation slides, here. 

Infringement Risk in Copyright-Intensive Industries

J. Band, J. Gerafi, here. 

EU favours licensing over copyright reform for libraries in latest international negotiations

IFLA.org, here. 

The Google Book project: is it fair use?

B. Sookman, here. 

Australian privacy law reform

Oaic.gov.au, here. 

Fashion and Intellectual Property

EuropeanaFashion.eu, here. 

What technological developments (and related legal issues) will 2014 bring?

Taylorwessing.com, here.

Competition law, intellectual property rights and dynamic analysis: Towards a new institutional “equilibrium ?”

F. Jenny, I. Lianos, H. Hovenkamp. F. Marshall, S. Sivaramjani Thambisetty, here.

Chapters, in detail:

I. Lianos, Introduction
S. Thamisetty, WHY PATENT LAW DOESN’T DO INNOVATION POLICY
H. Hovenkamp, INSTITUTIONAL ADVANTAGE IN COMPETITION AND INNOVATION POLICY
F. Jenny, ANTICOMPETITIVE ABUSES OF PATENT SYSTEMS AND THE ROLE OF COMPETITION AUTHORITIES
F. Marshall, A STUDY OF EXECUTIVE BRANCH COLLABORATION

From Hydrogen Peroxide to Comcast: The New Rigor in Antitrust Class Actions

J. Keyte, P. Eckles, and K. Hoffman Lent, here. 

Monopsony 2013:Still Not Truly Symmetric

J. Jacobson, here. 

EU Competition Law Procedural Issues

I. Vanderborre, T. Goetz, here. 

JDownloader2: Neues Licht in der Frage wer, wann für Open Source Software haftet

Ifross.org, hier. 

Nains sans géants. Architecture décentralisée et services Internet

F. Musiani, ici.

The new drug war

The Economist, here.

Injunctions for Frand-Pledged Standard Essential Patents: The Quest for an Appropriate Test of Abuse Under Article 102 TFEU

N. Petit, here.

Die größten deutschen Kartellrechtsfälle

WiWo.de, hier.

Facebook after death: an evolving policy in a social network

D.  McCallig, here.

Supreme Court of Canada Emphasizes Balance in Determining Copyright Scope of Protection

M. Geist, here.

Fundamental Cultural Rights Must be at the Heart of Copyright Reform in Europe!

LaQuadrature.net, here.

Statement of the German Library Association at WIPO SCCR/26

Here.

EU's patience is running out, as massive antitrust fines loom over Google

Zdnet.com, here

Israel publishes bill on disability-related copyright exceptions

The1709blog, here.

OFT consults on amendments to proposed hotel online booking commitments

OFT.co.uk, here.

Commissione Europea su Regolamento AGCOM sul diritto d'autore

Lidis.it, here.

Completed acquisition by Motorola Mobility Holding (Google, Inc.) of Waze Mobile Limited

OFT, here.

Recommandation sur les cookies : quelles obligations pour les responsables de sites, quels conseils pour les internautes ?

CNIL.fr, ici.

LG Düsseldorf weist Millionenklage gegen Zementhersteller ab, weil Abtretungen sittenwidrig

Kartellblog.de, hier. 

Italian Communication Authority Approves Administrative Enforcement of Online Copyright Infringement

Cyberlaw.stanford.edu, here. 

EFTA Court Judgement on Principles Governing PSI Charging

Creditinfo Lánstraust hf. and Registers Iceland and the Icelandic State, Case E-7/13, 16 December 2013, here. 

Advocates Release Best Practices for Making Open Government Data “License-Free”

E-pluribusunum.com, here

Study on the application of Directive 2001/29/EC on copyright and related rights in the information society

De Wolf & Partners, here.

PSI Directive: Results of the Online Survey

EU Commission, here.

Cartel Damages Claims in the European Union: Have We Only Seen the Tip of the Iceberg?

D. Geradin, L.-A. Grelier, here. 

I motori di ricerca devono pagare le notizie

Lettera43.it, qui. V. anche G. Scorza "Agcom, Sovrana assoluta dei contenuti", qui e, dello stesso autore, "Web: e i diritti (d’autore) di 'noantri'?", qui. In questione è quello scempio dell'art. 5 del DDL collegato alla legge di Stabilità 2014, qui. 

Tassa sugli smartphone, la Siae si scrive il decreto

Corriere della Sera, qui. 

Libor fines gathered from UK banks allocated to military charities

BBC.co.uk, here. 

TPP and IP, A Brief Note

P. Krugman, here. 

Unglue.it opens a new chapter – a bookstore for books that want to be free

Libraries.wright.edu, here. 

Google's European antitrust fight: Still battling

TheEconomist.com, here. 

Gazprom Submits Draft Proposals to EU in Antitrust Probe

Online.wsj.com, here. 

Canada’s Competition Bureau Escalates Google Antitrust Investigation

Searchengineland.com, here. 

The Politics of the EU Court Data Retention Opinion: End to Mass Surveillance?

Freedom-to-tinker.com, here. 

Bye bye Internet, la settimana nera delle nuove tecnologie

G. Scorza (IlFattoQuotidiano), qui. 

Ribaudo: "Consumatori indenni dal compenso SIAE". Come?

Dday.it, qui. 

Il Trattato di Marrakesh per favorire l'accesso alle opere da parte di persone con difficoltà di lettura: aspetti applicativi

S. Vezzoso (this blog's author), here. 

Open access mandate from the European Union.

P . Suber, here.

Innovation & Intellectual Property: Collaborative Dynamics in Africa

J. de Beer, C. Armstrong, C. Oguamanam & T. Schonwetter, here. 

Open Data in Transition: Trento Conference

Judge Dismisses E-Book DRM Antitrust Case

Copyrightandtechnology.com, here. 

Istruttoria nei confronti della supercentrale d’acquisto ‘Centrale Italiana’ e delle 5 catene distributive che ne fanno parte

AGCM, Provvedimento qui. 

Hitler-Hetzschrift: Bayern streitet über "Mein Kampf"-Veröffentlichung

Spiegel.de, hier. 

AG: Data Retention Directive is incompatible with the Charter of Fundamental Rights

C-293/12, here. 

UK Government Response to the Technical Review of draft secondary legislation to regulate licensing bodies

Ipo.gov.uk, here. 

Commercialising Public Research: New Trends and Strategies

OECD, here (DRM protected). 

"At the Crossroads" (consumer privacy in the commercial sphere v. citizens’ privacy in the face of government surveillance)

J. Brill, here. 

Offre légale : la Hadopi invente l'offre "d'apparence légale"

Numerama.com, ici.

Big Data: New Tricks for Econometrics

H. Varian, here. 

Open data and the creation of digital public services

L. Maxwell, Video here. 

Data isn't a four-letter word

N. Kroes, here. 

Report on Legal Rights Objection Procedure (gTLDs)

WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center, here. 

The World’s Most Popular Song Goes to Court

Blog.davismcgrath.com, here. 

Data Protection Principles for the 21st Century - Revising the 1980 OECD Guidelines

F. Cate, P. Cullen, V. Mayer-Schönberger, here (pdf download).

Visualizing TPP Negotiating Positions with New Leaks: Salt Lake City

Topromotetheprogress.wordpress.com, here. 

EU's Almunia says Gazprom antitrust proposal due this week

Globalpost.com, here. 

Comment Lovecraft inventa les Creative Commons un siècle avant tout le monde

ActuaLitte.com, ici. 

The UK Government Is Already Censoring The Global Internet

Techweekeurope.co.uk, here.

Il Golpe della “copia privata”

G. Scorza, qui.

4th Report on the Monitoring of Patent Settlements

European Commission, here. 

Stiglitz to TPP Negotiators

Letter, here. 

Memo For Sr. Almunia, A Patent Assertion Entity Is Not Necessarily A Patent Troll

Forbes.com, here. 

France's sovereign patent fund takes aim at LG and HTC in the US and Germany

Iam-magazine.com, here. 

Turning Government Data into Gold': The Interface between EU Competition Law and the Public Sector Information Directive – With some Comments on the Compass-Case

B. Lundqvist, here or here.

Maverick: Making Sense of a Conjecture of Antitrust Policy in the Lab

C. Engel, A. Ockenfels, here. 

Some brief comments on SEPs and Art.102 TFEU (Moscow Conference)

This blog's Author, here. 

Cartel Fines imposed by the EU Commission - Statistics

Ec.europa.eu, here. 

Intellectual property and competition policy

J. Almunia, here. Important update on (too?) many open issues: SEP, patent trolls, Google Search, etc.

Seminario sobre Propiedad Intelectual: Google and the World Brain

Uoc.edu, aquì. 

Global Patent Filings See Fastest Growth in 18 Year

WIPO, here. 2012 World Intellectual Property Indicators Report, here. 

UK Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit goes global in its pursuit of illegal websites

Cityoflondon.police.uk, here. 

The European Union Public Licence (EUPL)

P.-E. Schmitz, here. 

Protection Of Handicrafts Gains Global Interest; Challenges Persist In The South

Ip-watch.org, here. 

Open Innovation 2.0 – A New Paradigm

EU Open Innovation Strategy and Policy Group (OISPG), here. Presentations here. Open Innovation 2.0 Yearbook 2013 here.

Second release of secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement document

Wikileaks.org, here. 

Study on business models for Linked Open Government Data

Interoperability Solutions for European Public Administrations (ISA) Programme of the European Commission, here. 

Historic Bali Deal to Spring WTO, Global Economy Ahead

ICTSD.org, here.

Telecom Italia's rebel investor opposes sale of TIM Brasil

Reuters.com, here. 

Europe needs data protection, not data protectionism

N. Kroes, here. 

EU data protection bill 'moves backwards'

Euobserver.com, here. 

Net Neutrality: EU Parliament Must Amend Kroes' Dangerous Proposal

LaQuadrature.net, here. 

New Online Licensing System Makes it Easier to Republish the Work of Intergovernmental Organizations

Wipo.int, here. 

Does parody trump copyright?

TheEconomist.com, here. 

On the relation between surveillance practices in the EU and the US and the EU data protection provisions

C. Moraes, J. Albrecht, here.