Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Public and Private Antitrust Enforcement in the United States

B. Baer, here.

A first reaction to AG Kokott's KONE Opinion (umbrella effects)

Howtocrackanut.blogspot.ch, here.

Yahoo-Yelp Partnership and “Coopetition” in Online Markets

D. O'Connor, here.

Copyright, Competition and Development

Max Planck Institute for IP and competition law for WIPO, here.

Taxation and Competition Policy

A. Gurría, here.

The Future of Fair Use After Google Books

J. Band, here.

Umbrella Liability For Price Fixing: Does The Forecast Call For More Damages In The EU And U.S.?

Antitrusttoday.com, here.

Apple Loses Bid to Delay Court-Ordered E-Books Antitrust Monitor

Businessweek.com, here.

Le Conseil d'État suspend le délai de 15 minutes pour les VTC

Ordonnance du 5 février 2014, SAS Allocab et autres
N° 374524, 374554, ici.

11. Considérant toutefois que le moyen tiré de ce que le simple fait d’accepter, pour un véhicule en circulation sur la voie publique, une réservation par téléphone ou par Internet en vue d’un départ aussi rapide que possible, ne fait pas partie des activités légalement réservées aux taxis et que, par suite, l’administration n’est pas fondée à justifier l’introduction d’un délai d’attente propre aux voitures de tourisme avec chauffeur par la nécessité de protéger l’exercice légal de la profession de taxi, est de nature, en l’état de l’instruction, à créer un doute sérieux sur le bien fondé du premier motif invoqué par l’administration  ;

12. Considérant, en second lieu, qu’il résulte de l’instruction, et notamment des échanges ayant eu lieu lors de l’audience publique, que le moyen tiré de ce que l’introduction d’un délai de quinze minutes entre la réservation d’une voiture de tourisme avec chauffeur et la prise en charge de son client n’aura aucun effet notable sur la fluidité du trafic est également, en l’état de l’instruction, de nature à créer un doute sérieux sur le bien fondé du second motif invoqué par l’administration ;

13. Considérant qu’il résulte de ce qui précède que, sans qu’il soit besoin d’examiner les autres moyens soulevés par les sociétés requérantes, le moyen tiré de ce que les dispositions du décret contesté qui introduisent, pour les voitures de tourisme avec chauffeur, un délai minimal de quinze minutes entre la réservation du véhicule et la prise en charge effective du client, portent à la liberté du commerce et de l’industrie une atteinte qui n’est ni nécessaire à un objectif d’intérêt général ni proportionnée à l’atteinte d’un tel objectif est, en l’état de l’instruction, de nature à créer un doute sérieux sur la légalité de ces dispositions.

V. aussi Avis du Conseil de la concurrence,Voitures de tourisme avec chauffeur (VTC), ici.

Private Enforcement Under EU Law: Abuse of Dominance and the Quantification of Lucrum Cessans

F. Maier-Rigaud, U. Schwalbe, here.

Nokia Releasing First Android Phone

Online.wsj.com, here.

Monday, February 10, 2014

English High Court concludes that terms of Luton Airport’s coach concession agreement are an unlawful abuse of its dominant position

Edwardswildman.com, here. Judgment here.

AAI Objects to Airline Merger Settlement

Fighting Corruption and Promoting Competition

D. Lewis, here.

Competition issues in the distribution of pharmaceuticals

P. Kanavos and O. Wouters, here.

Transplanting the Canadian UGC Exception to Hong Kong: Part 1

P. Yu, here.

UK Energy Secretary re British Gas dominance: a letter to regulators

BBC.co.uk, here.

Domain-Registrar haftet für Urheberrechtsverletzungen auf einer registrierten Seite

Heise.de, hier.

Italy: Consiglio di Stato reinstates original Pfizer Xalatan order

Thespcblog.blogspot.co.uk, here.

La Junta crea un grupo de reclamación por el pacto bancario sobre el euríbor

ElPais.com, aquì.

Tuesday, February 04, 2014

Definition of Transaction for the Purpose of Merger Control Review

OECD Policy Roundtable, here.

“Human Rights” Protection for Corporate Antitrust Defendants: Are We Not Going Overboard?

A. Sánchez Graells, F. Marcos, here.

EU Directive on collective rights management approved by Parliament

Press release, here.

EU Commission to investigate cross-border pay-TV movie services – a new Murphy’s law?

Reedsmith.com, here.

Quantification of Antitrust Damages

F.Maier-Rigaud, U. Schwalbe, here.

Methods for Calculating Cartel Damages: A Servey

A.M. Doose, here.

Toward a European Directive on Damages Actions

F. Maier-Rigaud, here.

Moving Away from High-Level Theories: A Market-Driven Analysis of FRAND in the Context of Standardization

D. Geradin, here.

The Counterfactual Analysis in EU Merger Control

D. Geradin, I. Girgenson, here.

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Handbook on European data protection law

FRA - EU Agency for Fundamental Rights, here.

Comments Received on Green Paper "Copyright Policy, Creativity, and Innovation in the Digital Economy"

Here.

Gawker: Tarantino should blame himself for Hateful Eight script leak

TheGuardian.com, here.

Time to get Angry about Data Protection!

Paulbernal.wordpress.com, here.

Access to data protection remedies in EU Member States

FRA– European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, here.

Las indemnizaciones de daños derivadas del cártel del azúcar

F. Marcos, aquì.

Commentary to the Marrakesh Treaty on accessible format copies for the visually impaired

M. Ficsor, here.

Google's DeepMind acquisition might be about search, not robots

TheVerge.com, here.

Friday, January 24, 2014

Extraction automatisée des données et des textes : Savoirscom1 s’engage pour une exception!

Savoirscom1.info, ici.

The New Disruptors at Sundance

T. Wu, here.

Premier League steps up TV battle

SportingLife.com, here.

Connected Televisions - Convergence and Emerging Business Models

OECD Digital Economy Papers No. 23, here.

Judge Rules in Favor of DOJ Finding Bazaarvoice / PowerReviews Merger Anticompetitive

McDermott Will & Emery, here.

Self-Replicating Technologies and the Challenge for the Patent and Antitrust Laws

D. Lim, here.

Netflix Says It'll Be Fine Without Net Neutrality Rules; But What About The Next Netflix?

TechDirt.com, here.

Statement of South Africa on Access to Essential Medicines

Keionline.org, here.

Google Awarded Patent For Free Rides To Advertisers’ Locations

TechCrunch.com, here.

How Google controls Android's open-source software

TheGuardian.com, here.

Thursday, January 23, 2014

Big Data and the Future of Privacy

Whitehouse.gov, here.

At the Intersection of Antitrust & High-Tech: Opportunities for Constructive Engagement

R. Hesse, here.

Net neutrality just got a boost in Europe, thanks to a consumer rights committee

Gigaom.com, here.

Pope Francis says the internet is a 'gift from God'

Theverge.com, here.

Lisbon Council and Nesta Launch the Think Tank "European Digital Forum"

Lisboncouncil.net, Press Release here.

Circumventing a protection system of a games console may, in certain circumstances, be lawful

C-355/12, Nintendo and Others v PC Box Srl and Ot, Press Release here. Full text here.

Droit d'auteur : un recueil de tweets retiré de la vente

Livreshebdo.fr, ici.

Droit de citation à l'ère numérique: quels nouveaux enjeux ? De toute façon, en Europe, encore loin d'être harmonisé, voir le Rapport De Wolf/CRIDS, ici (p. 473).

Open Data in Natural Hazards Management

V. Vescoukis, and C. Bratsas, here.

Law and Economics of Antitrust Enforcement in Russia

S. Advasheva, P. Kryuchkova, here.

Standard-Essential Patents

J. Lerner, J. Tirole, here.

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Assessing Innovation Effects in U.S. Merger Cases: An Empirical analysis

B. Kern, R. Dewenter, W. Kerber, here

New open-access mandates in the US

P. Suber, here.

Les processus de normalisation et de certification sont-ils pro-concurrentiels?

Autorité de la concurrence, ici (avis à rendre).

Open Data Can and Will Shift the Power Balance

Blogs.gartner.com, here.

The next episode: can Dr. Dre's Beats Music take on Spotify?

TheVerge.com, here.

UK IP Bill: Second Reading

Official Report, columns 38-84, here.

Norms and Values in Digital Media: Rethinking Intellectual Property in the Digital Age

World Economic Forum, here.

Una sentencia obliga a cortar Internet a un usuario por compartir música

ElPais.com, aquì. Ver también aquí.

EU Data Protection Reform Proposal and NHS Database

Telegraph.co.uk, here. See also here.

Antitrust in Chicago (Law School): Syllabus and Materials

R. Picker, Fall 2013, here.

Monday, January 20, 2014

Sharing Economy

World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders, here.

The awkward copyright collision of Fair Use and Creative Commons

Blogs.scientificamerican.com, here

Les juges allemands réaffirment la licéité du marché des logiciels d'occasion

Cio-online.com, ici.

Shedding Some Light on the Dark Matter of Competition: Insights from the Strategic Management and Organizational Science Literature for the Consideratio n of Diversity Aspects in Merger Review

B. Kern, M. Ackermann, here.

Competition Commission of India launches second FRAND antitrust investigation against Ericsson

Fosspatents.com, here.

Ouverture des données et des contenus culturels, le défi à venir des établissements culturels

C. Domange, ici.

Wie die EU Kommission die Netzneutralität abschafft

Netzpolitik.org, hier.

NHS patient data to be made available for sale to drug and insurance firms

Theguardian.com, here.

Innovation and competition: a survey

M. Gomellini, here.

Monday, January 13, 2014

Google purchases Nest for $3.2 billion

TheVerge.com, here.

Against the "Making Available" Right

G. Lunne, Statement, Committee on the Judiciary,  Hearing:The Scope of Copyright, here.

Identifying a Maverick: When Antitrust Law Should Protect a Low Cost Competitor

T. Owings, here.

Incentive Scoring Methodology for Merger Analysis

S. Moresi, S. Salop, here (pdf download).

Uber car attacked as Paris taxi strike turns violent

Verge.com, here.

EU Commission investigates restrictions affecting cross border provision of pay TV services

Press Release, here. J. Almunia's Statement here.

Hohe Bußgelder wegen Preisabsprachen bei Bier

Faz.net, hier.
Pressemitteilung des Bundeskartellamtes, hier

Quel statut légal pour le data-mining ?

Scoms.hypotheses.org, ici.

UK consultation on draft regulations for orphan works

Consultation document here.

Barnier on the Unified Patent Court and the risk of patent trolls

Answer to a MEP's question to the Commission, here.

La protection juridique d’une application mobile

Journaldunet.com, ici.

We should be worrying about Google’s assimilation and consolidation, and here’s why

Gigaom.com, here.

Friday, January 10, 2014

Scribd Responds to Writer Beware on Pirated Content

Publishersweekly.com, Here.

5 Industries Facing Disruption In 2014

Project-disco.org, here.

Bitcoin explained

Qz.com, here.

Open Data Licensing (With Emphasis on the Italian Public Sector): Guidelines for Choosing and Applying the Most Suitable License

C. Piana, S. Aliprandi, Presentations's video and slides here.

The Thomson Reuter Commitment Decision

Kluwercompetitionlawblog.com, here.

The Comparative Law and Economics of Standard-Essential Patents and FRAND Royalties

T. Cotter, here.

How the Google Consent Order Alters the Process and Outcomes of Frand Bargaining

E. Dorsey, M. McGuire, here.

The ‘Anti-Amazon Law’ Is About To Become A Reality In France, But It’s Not A Bad Thing

Techcrunch.com, here.

Crowdfunding sans licences libres = piège à gogos ?

Scinfolex.com, ici.

Top Ten Internet Law Developments Of 2013

Forbes.com, here.

Wednesday, January 08, 2014

La CNIL condamne lourdement Google à 2 minutes d'amende

Numerama.com, ici.

Patent Litigation Reform: Who Are You Calling a Troll?

J. Brill, here.

Use of meta search engine for data scraping infringes database right

Taylorwessing.com, here.

The Proposed EU Data Protection Regulation Two Years Later

C. Kuner, C. Burton and A. Pateraki, here.

Previous update (September 2013) here

Allowing parodies within Hong Kong's copyright law: the benefits of an exception for user-generated content

P. Yu, here

Google’s Europe Foes Show No Sign of Letting Up in 2014

Blogs.wsj.com, here. ICOMP Report here (pdf download). 

Telematics data sharing, competition law and privacy rights

Out-law.com, here

The rise of the reputation economy

World Economic Forum (blog), here

Safe to be open: Study on the protection of research data and recommendations for access and usage

L. Guibault, A. Wiebe (Eds.), here

Hollywood studios sign up for W3C membership

Zdnet.com, here

Apple seeks removal of court-appointed antitrust monitor

Reuters.com, here

Tuesday, January 07, 2014

Bundesregierung: Das reine Betrachten eines Videostreams ist keine Urheberrechtsverletzung

Irights.info, hier.

Suivi des missions relatives au secteur culturel et au numérique après le rapport Lescure

Lasic.fr, ici.

When FRAND meets FOSS: Bottom Up or Top Down?

Consortiuminfo.org, here.

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

Monday, January 06, 2014

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

Saturday, December 14, 2013

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

Wednesday, December 11, 2013

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

Monday, December 09, 2013

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

Sunday, December 08, 2013

Study on business models for Linked Open Government Data

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

Thursday, December 05, 2013

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

C. Moraes, J. Albrecht, here.

House of Representatives passes widely supported bill to fight patent trolls

TheVerge.com, here.

The Holy See on the TPP


Statement, 9th Session of the Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization
Bali, here (p.4-5).

Complexities evident in today's oral argument in Oracle v. Google (API and copyright)

J. Band, here. See also my take on the District Court's ruling in a comparative perspective, here

Public Consultation on the review of the EU copyright rules

Here.Press Release, here.

Some highlights:

"The principle of EU exhaustion of the distribution right applies in the case of the distribution of physical copies (e.g. when a tangible article such as a CD or a book, etc. is sold, the right holder cannot prevent the further distribution of that tangible article). The issue that arises here is whether this principle can also be applied in the case of an act of transmission equivalent in its effect to distribution (i.e. where the buyer acquires the property of the copy). This raises difficult questions, notably relating to the practical application of such an approach (how to avoid re-sellers keeping and using a copy of a work after they have “re-sold” it – this is often referred to as the “forward and delete” question {The UsedSoft ruling had an answer to that} as well as to the economic implications of the creation of a second-hand market of copies of perfect quality that never deteriorate (in contrast to the second-hand market for physical goods) {also, technical solutions possible?}


Finally, the question of flexibility and adaptability is being raised: what is the best mechanism to ensure that the EU and Member States’ regulatory frameworks adapt when necessary (either to clarify that certain uses are covered by an exception or to confirm that for certain uses the authorisation of rightholders is required)? The main question here is whether a greater degree of flexibility can be introduced in the EU and Member States regulatory framework while ensuring the required legal certainty, including for the functioning of the Single Market, and respecting the EU's international obligations. {pretty straightforward answer: yes, on all accounts}.

Teaching (exception)
Some argue that the law should provide for better possibilities for distance learning and study at home {indeed: my longish take here, Italian only}.

Marrakesh Treaty
The EU and its Member States have started work to sign and ratify the Treaty {how far advanced are they, really? }This may require the adoption of certain provisions at EU level (e.g. to ensure the possibility to exchange accessible format copies across borders). 

A specific Working Group was set up on this issue in the framework of the "Licences for Europe" stakeholder dialogue. No consensus was reached among participating stakeholders on either the problems to be addressed or the results. At the same time, practical solutions to facilitate text and data mining of subscription-based scientific content were presented by publishers as an outcome of “Licences for Europe”. In the context of these discussions, other stakeholders argued that no additional licences should be required to mine material to which access has been provided through a subscription agreement and considered that a specific exception for text and data mining should be introduced {following some proposals at State level...Shouldn't it be the other way round?} possibly on the basis of a distinction between commercial and non-commercial. 








Tuesday, December 03, 2013

Henry Ford, Patent Trolling, & the Goodlatte Innovation Act in Cartoon Form

Patentlyo.com, here.

Open Data in Transition: Intellectual Property, Competition, and Regulatory Issues

Thursday 19th December 2013
University of Trento
Venue: Department of Economics and Management
Conference Programme here

Privacy and Facial Recognition Technology

Ntia.doc.gov, here

UK Competition Network (UKCN): Statement of Intent

Here

Digitising copyrighted film, books and music is probably going to become legal - it's about time

Newstatesman.com, here

Five Stages of Data Grief

Open Data Institute, here

Avis sur la situation de la concurrence dans le secteur des autoroutes

Autorité de la Concurrence, ici.

Utiliser les irrépartissables des sociétés de gestion collective pour financer la numérisation du domaine public ?

Scinfolex.com, ici. 

United Kingdom: interim injunctions in competition litigation

Kluwercompetitionlawblog.com, here

New F.C.C. Chief Promises He Will Protect Competition

NYTimes.com, here

LG Berlin: Urteil vzbv vs. Google im Volltext

Legalmemory.blogspot.com, hier.

Monday, December 02, 2013

Indistinguishable from Magic: A Wizard's Guide to Copyright and 3D Printing

J. Grimmelmann, here.

EU-Ministerrat: Deutsche Beamte bremsen Europas Datenschutz aus

Spiegel.de, hier

Internetvertrieb und vertikale Wettbewerbsbeschränkungen

G. Kallfaß, hier

Could Digital College Textbooks Become Free in the USA?

Publishingperspectives.com, here

Fair use, Georgia State, and the rest of the world

Blogs.library.duke.edu, here

How a 2-page letter led to American Airlines' antitrust settlement with the feds

Dallasnews.com, here

Drug detectives: scientists want to crowdsource the discovery of new antibiotics

TheVerge.com, here

La CNMC multa con 15 millones de euros a Mediapro y a cuatro clubs de fútbol

CNMC.es, aquì

Ending the Book Famine: How Does the WIPO Treaty Help?

S. King, Presentation here

When Algorithms Grow Accustomed to Your Face

NYTimes.com, here

Startup Cities To Become Reality (ZEDE - Zonas de Empleo y Desarrollo Económico)

EdanYago.me, here

Open Government Guide

The Transparency and Accountability Initiative, here

Thanks for the tip, I’ll get it on Amazon

Macleans.ca, here

Saturday, November 30, 2013

Google Books: Eight Years Later...

Publishersweekly, here

Bundeskartellamt erwirkt Änderung des Händler-Rabattsystems bei GARDENA

Bundeskartellamt.de, hier

Competition Policy for Modern Banks

L. Ratnovski, here.

Film Producers and Distributors Obtain Site Block from Paris Court

The1709blog.blogspot.co.uk, here

Israeli Publishers and Hebrew University Reach Historic Agreement on Fair Use

ArielKatz.org, here

Rivals can create copycat software through testing developers' software and interpreting their user manuals, rules UK court

Out-law.com, here

Bundesgerichtshof zur Nutzung urheberrechtlich geschützter Werke auf elektronischen Lernplattformen von Universitäten

Urteil vom 28. November 2013 - I ZR 76/12 - Meilensteine der Psychologie, Pressemitteilung hier

Regulatory context of Machine to Machine (M2M)

M. Delecluse, Presentation here

Google’s Growing Patent Stockpile

MIT Technology Review, here

Your medical data in their hands - concerns mount over new NHS IT project

Opendemocracy.net, here

Pour le respect des droits fondamentaux des lecteurs dans un environnement numérique

Association des Bibliothécaires de France, ici

Monday, November 25, 2013

European citizens and Intellectual Property: perception, awareness and behaviour

OHIM, here

The European Commission and Open Access

J.-F. Dechamp, Presentation here, video here

Government of Canada Quietly Changes Its Approach to Crown Copyright

MichaelGeist.ca, here

Competition in Road Fuel

OECD Roundtable, here

Creative Commons to European Commission: No restrictions on PSI re-use

CreativeCommons.org, here

Proposition de loi concernant les stratégies abusives de réappropriation du domaine publique

Actualitte.com, ici

Lobbyarbeit im Datenschutz: Ex-Kommissar auf schräger Mission

Sueddeutsche.de, hier

The Changing Textbook Industry

J. Band, here

A US Court Issues Second Ruling Determining RAND Rate for Standard Essential Patent (Innovatio)

M. Carrier, here

Tracas en perspective pour Google Maps ?

Zdnet.fr, ici

Sunday, November 24, 2013

Sustainability of Open Source software communities beyond a fork: How and why has the LibreOffice project evolved?

J. Gamalielsson, B. Lundell, here.

Brussels to launch antitrust probe into sales of pay-TV rights


Financial Times, here.

"Joaquín Almunia, the EU competition commissioner, last year sanctioned a “fact finding” effort in light of the (Murphy) ruling to see whether barriers to cross-border access merited antitrust scrutiny and possible enforcement action.

Some investigators are now poised to step up their inquiries into whether “absolute territorial protection clauses” break competition law. These stop licensees from selling to other countries or accepting unsolicited demands from overseas customers to pay to access the content.

......

Maurits Dolmans, a partner at Cleary Gottlieb, said the 2011 Premier League case concerned satellite sports broadcasting and the court left open whether it could be applied at all to other distribution channels and other forms of content.

“The Commission will have to take into account different economic factors,” he said. “Forcing EU-wide licensing may be attractive for consumers in richer countries, who may pay less, but not necessarily for consumers in poorer countries, who might be forced to pay more.”

Friday, November 22, 2013

Creative Economy Report 2013

UNESCO, here.

Intellectual Property chapter of TPP poses threat to Open Access

Mysciencework.com, here.

Le policy universitarie in materia di Accesso Aperto alla scienza: l’esperienza dell’Università di Trieste

Seminario, 27 novembre 2013, Università di Trento, qui.

Programma
14.30
Saluti della Rettrice - prof.ssa Daria de Pretis

14.40
Introduzione – prof. Roberto Caso, delegato della Rettrice per l’Open Access e le politiche contro il plagio

15.00
La policy dell’Università di Trieste in materia di accesso aperto – prof. Fabio Benedetti, Presidente della Commissione di Ateneo per l’accesso aperto dell’Università di Trieste

15.30 - 16.00
Dibattito

Thursday, November 21, 2013

Delivering the Benefits? Efficiencies and Airline Mergers (US Airways-American)

AAI White Paper (D. Moss), here

India's PM (also) on competition policy

Inaugural address at the 3rd BRICS International Competition Conference, here

A Brazilian State Takes Open Data To Another Level

Techpresident.com, here

After a year of threats, first suit is filed over hated “scanner patents”

ArsTechnica.com, here

Die Open-Data-Bewegung - Das Verhältnis von Praktiken, Zielen und Selbstbild der Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland

S. Baak, hier.

Defying the logic, forgetting the facts: the new European proposal for data protection in the police sector

J. Cannataci, here

Living with Uncertainty in IP Law

JIPLP Editorial, here.

HarperCollins, Curriculet Test New School E-book Model

PublishersWeekly.com, here

That Google Books decision: good, but only second best?

The IPKat, here

Software patent reform just died in the House, thanks to IBM and Microsoft

Washingtonpost.com, here

Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Hidden efficiencies: On the relevance of business justifications in abuse of dominance cases

H. Friederiszick, L. Gratz, here

Schienenkartell: ThyssenKrupp zahlt Millionenentschädigung an Deutsche Bahn

Spiegel.de, hier. Sueddeutsche.de, hier

Convention 108 with Additional Protocol and Modernisation proposals

CAHDATA, Council of Europe, here

Big data can improve health outcomes, say experts

Out-Law.com, here

Patent Reform 2013: Measured Reform Proposals from the Senate

Patentlyo.com, here

How Self-Publishing Led Amazon to German Ebook Dominance

PublishingPerspectives.com, here

Base de données : caractère non substantiel des investissements de constitution

Legalis.net, ici.

Comments Received on Copyright Green Paper

Ntia.doc.gov, here

Marking Up the TPP

Project-disco.org, here.

Numérisation : L'Etat ne suppléera pas "les partenaires privés réticents"

Actualitte.com, ici

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

The Rise of Innovative Business Models: Content Delivery Methods in the Digital Age

Hearing, Committee on the Judiciary, here.

The Internet of Things: Privacy and Security in a Connected World

E. Ramirez, here. FTC workshop's page here

Google's vertical search proposals: what will be EC antitrust chief's verdict?

TheGuardian.com, here

These charts show how the U.S. could lose its edge in scientific research

Washingtonpost.com, here

Rémunération proportionnelle du partage: la Hadopi s'associe à des universitaires

Numerama.com, ici

Open Access to science and data = cash and economic bonanza

N. Kroes, here

New group fights digital theft with personal touch

Usatoday.com, here.

EPIC Urges FCC to Investigate AT&T’s Practice of Selling Consumer Phone Records

Epic.org, here

Rights Protection Mechanisms for New gTLDs

ICANN Generic Domains Division, here.

Monday, November 18, 2013

Revisiting antitrust institutions: The case for guidelines to recalibrate the Federal Trade Commission’s section 5 unfair methods of competition authority

J. Wright, here

Frank La Rue (Onu): “Incostituzionale una riforma Agcom su diritto d’autore online”

Lastampa.it, qui

Neelie Kroes calls for modernising copyright for the digital age

Futureofcopyright.com, here

Kick the data secrecy habit and everyone wins

Newscientist.com, here

Comments Received To South Africa’s Process For New IP Policy

IP-watch.org, here

Study on Intellectual Property and Brain Drain - A Mapping Exercise

WIPO Secreteriat, peer-reviewed by F. Lissoni, here

Information Resellers - Consumer Privacy Framework Needs to Reflect Changes in Technology and the Marketplace

US Government Accountability Office, here

Law Professors Call for Public Process for Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) Intellectual Property Chapter

Infojustice.org, here

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Google Books Litigation Update

A. Ahsir, here.

Italy: Open Data Action Plan

Department for Public Administration in cooperation with the Agency for Digital Italy (AgID), here.

Apple maps: how Google lost when everyone thought it had won

Theguardian.com, here

Competition in the online world

J. Almunia, here

Content Creation, Access to Information, Open Internet

Workshop, Internet Governance Forum, Transcript here

Copyright research and innovation policy

European Parliament, Brussels, 12 November 2013, Programme here, streaming here

The Art of Persuasion: Competition Advocacy at the Intersection of Antitrust and Intellectual Property

R. Hesse, here

La legge italiana sull’accesso aperto agli articoli scientifici: l’inizio di un percorso normativo

R. Caso, P. Galimberti, here

A few words about copyright

G. Brandis, here