“Big Data” Goes to the Movies: Revealing latent similarity among movies and its effect on box office performance

B. Barbosu, here.

Big Data and the Entertainment Industry

J. Gans, here.

Oettinger verteidigt Vorstoß für EU-Leistungsschutzrecht

FAZ, hier.

Android and Competition Law: Exploring and Assessing Google's Practices in Mobile

B. Edelman, D. Geradin, here.

Goodbye, Ivory Tower. Hello, Silicon Valley Candy Store.

NYTimes, here.

How Tech Giants Are Devising Real Ethics for Artificial Intelligence

NYTimes, here.

Popper en Moyo Island

M. Vargas Llosa, aquì.

Is Artificial Intelligence Permanently Inscrutable?

Nautilus, here.

Creative Commons Wants To Step Into Lawsuit Over Definition Of 'Noncommercial' In A CC License

TechDirt, here.

Is a big Google search update happening? Chatter thinks so

SearchEngineLand, here.

ICANN’s globalization creates peril and promise

TechCrunch, here.

CCI rejects ‘predatory pricing’ allegations against Ola

IndianExpress, here.

Nintendo’s DMCA-backed quest against online fan games

ArsTechnica, here.

Should You Become a Platform?

M. Van Alstyne and M. Jamison, here (p.30 ff.).

Chatbots are a creation channel for storytelling

VentureBeat, here.

Apple, Ireland and the Spanish connection

rte.ie, here.

EC on Pokémon Go and data protection

Here.

Ein "Reinheitsgebot für ehrliche und vertrauenswürdige Internetdienste".

Heise.de, hier.

EU-Kommission überprüft WhatsApp-Übernahme durch Facebook

Focus.de, hier.

One Step Forward, No Steps Back: National Ratification Needs to Respect the Objectives of the Treaty of Marrakesh

IFLA, here.

Sans données, le futur de l’IA restera artificiel

LINC, ici. 

Cheating In Gaming: Will Copyright Laws Level Up?

Forbes, here.

Expedia and Bookings.com now have to compete on hotel rates: ACCC

Smh.com, here.
See also here.

"The cheaper hotels can [now] put a billboard out the front saying 'rooms at this rate' "

The Simple Solution to Traffic

Grey, here. 

Hollywood studios, football leagues urge EU rethink on copyright

Reuters, here. See also here.

China’s anti-trust regulators are investigating the Didi-Uber deal

TechCrunch, here.

Niantic responds to Senate inquiry into Pokémon Go privacy

TechCrunch, here.
Letter here.

AI Wants to Be Your Bro, Not Your Foe

MIT Technology Review, here.
One Hundred Year Study 2016 here.

Development of the audiovisual markets and creation of original contents

Lear for Mediaset, here. 

Entgelt für Online-Übermittlung von Tickets ist unzulässig

Heise.de, hier. 

Elsevier’s New Patent for Online Peer Review Throws a Scare Into Open-Source Advocates

Chronicle, here. 

Visa seeks bank volunteers for blockchain-based payment trial

Finextra, here.

Maybe you don’t have as much choice as you think

TheGuardian, here. 

Online tool allows users to inspect banks’ privacy notices

iapp, here. 

Neue Regelungen im BuchPrG zur Preisbindung von E-Books und zur grenzüberschreitenden Preisbindung

Preisbindungsgesetz.de, hier. 

DoJ Sues to Block Deere’s Acquisition of Precision Planting

PR, here.

Companies are making money from our personal data – but at what cost?

TheGuardian, here. 

More EU copyright "leaks"

Draft Directive on copyright in the Digital Single Market, here.
Draft Communication: Promoting a fair and efficient European copyright-based economy in the Digital Single Market, here.

Still to come:
Directive and Regulation to ensure EU implementation of the Marrakech Treaty.

Big Data Is Nudging You

PsychologyToday, here.

Quand Pokémon Go inquiète l’armée française

Numerama, ici.

Frank Ocean, Apple Music, And The Headache Of Streaming Exclusives

FastCompany, here.

Intellectual Property, Antitrust, and the Rule of Law: Between Private Power and State Power

A. Katz, here.

Are US antitrust regulators giving Silicon Valley’s ‘free’ apps a free pass?

J. Newman, here.

Apple's EU tax dispute explained

FT, here.

BEREC publishes guidelines on net neutrality

PR, here. See also consultation report, here.

Big Data comes with all the biases of its creators

Time, here.

Your Garbage Data Is A Gold Mine

Fastcompany, here.

Spotify Reportedly Burying Artists Who Sign Competing Exclusives

Fortune, here. See also here.

Neue Leitlinien der EU-Regulierer zur Netzneutralität stehen

Heise.de, hier.

Why the Energy Sector Needs a Sharing Economy

SustainableBrands, here.

The NFL is putting tracking sensors inside its footballs for the first time

Recode, Here.

Big data, Google and the end of free will

FT, here. 

The AI inside your iPhone

BackChannel, here.

The Rise of Behavioural Discrimination

A. Ezrachi, M. Stucke, here.

Google snippet tax, geoblocking, other copyright reform shunned in EU plan

Arstechnica.co.uk, here. 

Any last requests?

2040infolawblog, here. 

La Audiencia Nacional anula 15 millones en multas a Mediapro y cuatro clubes de fútbol

ElMundo, aqui.

Libraries of the future are going to change in some unexpected ways

BusinessInsiderUK, here.

Why AI consolidation will create the worst monopoly in US history

TechCrunch, here.

Data Geeks Are Taking Over Economics

BloombergView, here. 

No time to think: How utilities are handling the deluge of grid data

UtilityDive, here.

Draft version of updated Media Merger Guidelines released

ACCC, here. 

Collusion and Online Platforms in Eturas

K. Havu & N. Zupančič, here. 

EU-Kommission will Leistungsschutz für Verleger einführen

WiWo, hier. 

Relaxing Privacy Vow, WhatsApp to Share Some Data With Facebook

NYTimes, here. 

Leak: Impact Assessment on the modernisation of EU copyright rules

StateWatch, here.

(Pity the annexes are missing).

"...stakeholders also underline a risk that introducing the COO (country of origin, WB) rule for online transmissions will weaken territorial licensing of rights (or even lead to mandatory pan-European licensing). They argue that the establishment of the COO rule in combination with the application of the free movement of services principle and competition law would have a detrimental effect on territorial licensing. As it is not possible to predict potential future effect that the application of the free movement of services principle and competition law may have on territorial licensing of rights, this IA does not assess impacts that the proposed intervention may have in combination with these rules".

WIPO, Design and Burkini: "Success Story to learn"

“Looking Good”: The Role of Design in Branding, here.
Read also the Guardian, here.

Did Microsoft buy LinkedIn for the contacts?

Constellation, here (full report: $2000).
. 

How censored is China’s first Tibetan-language search engine? It omits the Dalai Lama’s website

Qz.com, here.

New Rules for Online Selling Taking Place

Bryan Cave, here.

Seeking customer centricity: The omni business model

KPMG, here. 

Digitalisierung – Herausforderungen für die Wettbewerbspolitik

M. Blatter, hier. 

Authors, Attribution, And Integrity: Examining Moral Rights In The United States

Symposium Transcript, here. 

Protecting privacy in genomic databases

MIT News, here..

In copyright law, computers and robots don’t count

J. Grimmelmann, here. 

Tax incidence on competing two-sided platforms: Lucky break or double jeopardy

P. Belleflamme, E. Toulemonde, here. S. also ici.

Mozilla beteiligt sich an dem Privacy-by-Design Browser Cliqz

Soeren-hentzschel.at, hier

Happy 25th birthday to the World Wide Web

"On August 23, 1991, new users outside of CERN were invited to join the web, marking its official anniversary, or Internaut Day."

98 personal data points that Facebook uses to target ads to you

Washington Post, here.

How Digital Copyright Law Is Being Used to Run Roughshod Over Repairs

NBC, here.

Google keeps ex-Googlers close by investing in their startups

Recode, here.

Data-Driven Economy and Artificial Intelligence: Emerging Competition Law Issues

G. Surblyte, here.

European Commission Closes Pay-TV Antitrust Investigation of Paramount Following Acceptance of Commitments

Cooley, here.

Massachusetts to tax ride-hailing apps, give the money to taxis

Reuters, here.

Sharing Economy: Nutznießer oder Opfer institutioneller Inkonsistenzen?

T. Theurl, hier.

Distribution online - Vertriebsvorgaben im E-Commerce

Taylor Wessing, hier.

MySQL founder tries a new software licensing model

TechCrunch, here.

Forget Uber: Fly over traffic jams at the push of a button

The mythical Paperinik, gem of Italian creativity

AirBus, here.

Scholar behind 'net neutrality' joins White House as competition policy adviser

TheHill, here.
See also here.

Prison breakthrough

TheEconomist, here.

Pirates in the Library – An Inquiry into the Guerilla Open Access Movement

B. Bodó, here.

Proyecto para regular apps es "redundante" y anticompetitivo

ElObservador (Uruguay), aquí.

Digital Single Market Update: The European Commission’s Proposal to Revise the Audiovisual Media Services Directive

Morrison & Foerster, here.

The Olympics and IP

ManagingIP, here.

White House Kept Close Tabs on FTC Google Probe

Google Transparency Project, here.
(Mails have some interesting attachments)

A New Approach to Copyright Exceptions and Limitations

J. Band, here.

ACCC continues its review of banks’ application for authorisation to collectively bargain with Apple

ACCC, here.

The Getty Museum's Lessons Learned From Opening Up Content

TecHDirt, here.

Banks v. Bots

Forbes, here.

Fitch: CMA Remedies Could Mean Slow Profit Erosion at UK Banks

Reuters, here.