Thursday, January 26, 2017

Luckily, bots’ conquest of knowledge is not yet complete

D. Coyle, here.

Diritti TV, rigettate linee guida Lega Calcio assegnazioni 2018-2021

Provvedimento qui.

(Already on my next year's syllabus...)

Irish competition watchdog to investigate sale of tickets for live events

IrishTimes, here

How the Internet Got Donald Trump Elected

IICom, here

AAI urges the Supreme Court to reverse decision sharply restricting the patent exhaustion doctrine.

Press Release, here.
Amicus Brief here

Compliance Programs – The Italian Competition Authority Highlights the Importance of an Effective Implementation and Update

McDermott Will & Emery, here

Korean Ruling Places Qualcomm’s Business Model at Risk

Mintz Levin, here

It’s Official: TRIPS Health Amendment In Effect, First Ever To A WTO Agreement

IP-Watch, here

Experten im Bundestag: "Soziale Netzwerke verdienen sehr gut an Fake News"

Heise.de, hier

Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Hollywood Anti-Trust Probe in Europe Might Be Softened, Commissioner Vestager Hints

Variety, here

Google Privacy-Policy Change Faces New Scrutiny in EU

WSJ, here and here.

President Trump Told That Strong Copyright Laws Are in His Interest

TorrentFreak, here

Hinweise zum Preisbindungsverbot im Bereich des stationären Lebensmitteleinzelhandels

Bundeskartellamt, hier

Guidelines on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data in a world of Big Data

Council of Europe, here

Rise of the Digital Regulator

R. Van Loo, here

Competition Law Risk

CMA and IRM, here

Antitrust Policy for a New Administration

M. Ohlhausen, here

General Opinion on the EU Copyright Reform Package

European Copyright Society, here

Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Avoiding disqualification: advice for company directors

CMA, here

Kartellgesetz-Novelle stößt bei Experten auf ein geteiltes Echo

Deutscher Bundestag, hier

TransAlgo : une plate-forme scientifique pour juger de la transparence des algorithmes

Sciencesetavenir, ici

Portugal Asks European Court To Determine What Criteria Are Required For Discriminatory Pricing To Be An Abuse Under Article 102 TFEU

EU-competitionlaw.com, here

Google, Mobile And Competition: The Current State Of Play

B. Edelman, here

Competition Law and Big Data: Do Competition Authorities Know How To Do It?

A. Lamadrid, S. Villiers, here

EC seeks feedback on commitments offered by Amazon in e-book investigation

Press release, here

BMW changes policy on car comparison sites following CMA action

CMA, here

Thursday, January 19, 2017

The Silver Lining Of Anti-Globalism Might Be The Creation Of A True Digital Economy

D. Rushkoff, here

GDPR and accountability (for accountants)

E. Denham, here.

AI: Aufstieg der Computer-Gehirne

FAZ, hier

EC welcomes steps taken by Amazon/Audible and Apple to improve competition in audiobook distribution

Press Release, here.

(Investigation opened in Germany the 16 November 2015: that was quick!)

Economics in Antitrust Enforcement and the Private Benefit of Scholarly Commentators

J. Broulik, here.

This almost 6-year old post is still rather apropos, if I may.

MIT Media Lab to participate in $27 million initiative on AI ethics and governance

MIT News, here

Access to data and competition

Interview with A. Mundt, here

Artificial Intelligence at WEF17

Video here.


"the market is not the right way to make certain decisions"
"most engineers don't even know why governments exist"
"a corporation is a kind of AI, already "

Transparency and Trust in the Cognitive Era

IBM, here

The distributed future is personal

D. Searls, here

Mallinckrodt Will Pay $100 Million to Settle FTC, State Charges It Illegally Maintained its Monopoly of Specialty Drug Used to Treat Infants

FTC, here.

Wednesday, January 18, 2017

Artificial Intelligence: Balancing Opportunity and Responsibility

WEF17, Accenture, Video here.

WEF Davos: Who Will Own The Knowledge Produced From “Our” Data By Machines?

IP-Watch, here.

On technology and competition

Interview with W. Allan, here.

Why Is Everyone Talking About Algorithms?

DiscoverSociety, here

Une intelligence artificielle globale et agnostique peut-elle exister ?

Numerama, ici

App Store app prices to rise in the UK by >25% following Brexit exchange rate fluctuations

9to5mac, here

Qualcomm allegedly bribed Apple into not making a WiMAX iPhone

TheVerge, here

Trump, Corporatism, and the Dearth of Innovation

E. Phelps, here

VW Diesel Rigging Compared to Horse-Meat Lasagna by Court

Bloomberg, here

Tuesday, January 17, 2017

FTC Charges Qualcomm With Monopolizing Key Semiconductor Device Used in Cell Phones

FTC,  here. Qualcomm's response here.

Five things you should know about Charles Dickens and copyright law

Trademarkandcopyrightlawblog, here

Your research can help the FTC protect consumers

L. Cranor, here

Drugmakers Manipulate Orphan Drug Rules To Create Prized Monopolies

KHN.org, here

L'usine du futur

CIGREF, ici

Devices sprout ears

The Christian Science Monitor, here

New approach needed to tackle rising drug prices

OECD, here

Proposal for a Regulation on Privacy and Electronic Communications

EC, Presentation here

Kartellsünder zahlen Bahn 400 Millionen Euro

Rp-online.de, hier

Pokémon Go generated revenues of $950 million in 2016

VentureBeat, here

Monday, January 16, 2017

The Missing Role of Economics in FTC Privacy Policy

J. Cooper, J. Wright, here

Trump’s vision for behavioral science in the White House is anyone’s guess

NewYorker, here.

"The President-elect, it turned out, had a gift for the behavioral arts. He intuitively grasped “loss aversion” (our tendency to give more weight to the threat of losses than to potential gains), and perpetually maximized “nostalgia bias” (our tendency to remember the past as being better than it was). He made frequent subconscious appeals to “cultural tightness” (whereby groups that have experienced threats to their safety tend to desire strong rules and the punishment of deviance), and, perhaps most striking, his approach tapped into what psychologists call “cognitive fluency” (the more easily we can mentally process an idea, such as “Make America great again” or “Lock her up!,” the more we’re prone to retain it). Even his Twitter game was sticky: “Crooked Hillary!” “build the wall.”

Ces avantages majeurs que détient Amazon par rapport à ses concurrents Google et Apple en matière d’innovation

F. Marty, ici (et ici). 

Facebook to roll out fake news tools in Germany

BBC, here

Why Los Angeles made an Alexa skill, and what the city wants to do with it

VentureBeat, here

European Commission finally admits their copyright proposal would levy a link tax for articles shared on social media

OpenMedia, here

6 areas of artificial intelligence to watch closely

N. Benaich, here

Microsoft-Chef Nadella: Künstliche Intelligenz ist eine demokratisierende Technik

Heise.de, hier

What if we could reimagine copyright?

 R. Giblin & K. Weatherall, here

Friday, January 13, 2017

#makeantitrustexcitingagain


"So to you, our dear readers who took the time to join this endeavor, we thank you. Few get excited about antitrust anymore. But apathy has a price. We cannot assume that the digitized hand will always protect our welfare. It is ultimately up to us to start asking our elected officials and agencies what they are doing to prevent these scenarios from happening." 

Updated Antitrust Guidelines for the Licensing of Intellectual Property

FTC, DOJ, here.

(Still "curiously unhelpful", at first glance).

Bornes pour voitures électriques : l’Open Data devient la règle, sauf pour les données en temps réel

NextImpact, here

A Future That Works: Automation, Employment, and Productivity

McKinsey, here

The Watchers: Assaults on privacy in America

J. Shaw, here

“OK Facebook”—Why stop at assistants? Facebook has grander ambitions for modern AI

ArsTechnica, here

Artificial Intelligence - Law, Policy, & Ethics eJournal

Here

Turkish Competition Authority fines Booking.com

Dailysabah, here

Autonomy and the Collection of Personal Data: Measuring the Privacy Impact Google’s Privacy Policy Change

J. Cooper, here.

A User-Centered Perspective on Algorithmic Personalization

A. Lange,  R. Coen, E. Paul, P. Vanegas, G. Hans, here

Statement on Algorithmic Transparency and Accountability

Association for Computing Machinery, here.  

Software Copyright Litigation After Oracle v. Google

J. Band, here

U.S. appeals court revives Apple App Store antitrust lawsuit

VentureBeat, here.

Thursday, January 12, 2017

Global Risks Report 2017: Emerging Technologies

WEF, here

New rules for robots backed by European Parliament committee

Out-law.com, here

A course for these troubled times: Calling Bullshit in the Age of Big Data

C. Bergstrom and J. West, here

Europe’s Data Marketplaces – Current Status and Future Perspectives

IDC, Open Evidence for the EC, here

EPA: Fiat Chrysler diesels have illegal software to thwart emissions controls

ArsTechnica, here

Bayer says had productive meeting with Trump over Monsanto deal

Reuters, here

Bundeskartellamt verhängt Bußgelder wegen vertikaler Preisbindung bei Möbeln

Bundeskartellamt, hier. Fallbericht hier.

"Teilweise ergänzt wurde die Praxis um spezielle „Spielregeln“ für den OnlineHandel, deren formuliertes Ziel es war, ein festes und stabiles Preisgefüge am Markt durchzusetzen und deren Einhaltung überwacht und mit dem Mittel der Androhung und Umsetzung von Liefersperren bzw. der Kündigung der Liefervereinbarung durchgesetzt wurde."

France’s ‘right to disconnect’ is a nice idea, but it’s also pretty vague

TheVerge, here

The Problem with Legacy Ecosystems

M. Wessel, A. Levie, R. Siegel, here

Enter the Data Economy

EPSC Strategic Notes, here.

Amazon changes pricing practices and pays $1.1 million to settle price advertising case

Competition Bureau, here

Flying cars: transforming a dream into reality

WIPO Magazine, here

Data-Driven Discrimination at Work

P. Kim, here

The demand for AI is helping Nvidia and AMD leapfrog Intel

TheVerge, here

Nobel Laureates: Eliminating Rent Seeking and Tougher Antitrust Enforcement Are Critical to Reducing Inequality

Promarket, here

Wednesday, January 11, 2017

Who’s responsible for building trust with personal data?

Nesta, here

Windows 10 et vie privée : un nouveau panneau de contrôle en préparation

CNetFrance, ici

Datenschützer schliesst Sachverhaltsabklärung zu Windows 10 ab

Eidgenössischer Datenschutz- und Öffentlichkeitsbeauftragter (EDÖB), hier

Paid Internet advertising in the EU

Eurostat, here

Android, iOS and Market Power – What Does Mobile Platform Competition Really Look Like? – Part Ii

Project-disco.org, here

How Your Medical Data Fuels a Hidden Multi-Billion Dollar Industry

Time, here

‘AI-powered’ is tech’s meaningless equivalent of ‘all natural’

TechCrunch, here

Privacy in Mobile Devices and Web-Applications

DG-JRC, here (p. 36 ff.). 

Mobile Apps Study

FPF, here

Tuesday, January 10, 2017

The Constitution Says Nothing About Behavioral Economics

WSJ, here

Why Fake News Is An Antitrust Problem

Forbes, here

The impact of artificial intelligence on the travel industry

Econsultancy, here

Data capitalism is cashing in on our privacy . . . for now

FT, here

Behavioural Insights at the United Nations

UNDP, here

EU proposes rules allowing media companies to freeze out ad blockers

FT, here

Proposal for a Regulation on Privacy and Electronic Communications

EC, here

Daten in Österreich

iab-austria.at, hier

Communication on Building a European Data Economy

EC, here; Commission Staff Working Document (49 pp.), here

Most Exponential Law Firms 2025

R. Talwar, A. Whittington, here

France does not currently need the new 3D printing laws that parliament is considering, say experts

Out-law.com, here

What if the iPhone had never arrived?

TechCrunch, here.

‘Alexa, are voicebots taking over?’

VentureBeat, here.

Top Economists Grapple With Public Disdain for Initiatives They Championed

WSJ, here

The mind-blowing AI announcement from Google that you probably missed.

freeCodeCamp, here and here

Monday, January 09, 2017

The Humans Working Behind the AI Curtain

HBR, here

Behavioural economics – a critique of its policy conclusions

P. Booth, here

Flight Centre: Australian High Court finds agent competed with principal and breached cartel laws

J. Clarke, here

Take Me to Tomorrowland: The Cloud, Big Data, and the Internet of Things

V. Mosco, Video here

European civil law rules in robotics

EP, Study, here

I have seen the future: Alexa controls everything

ArsTechnica.co.uk, here

F.B.I. Arrests Volkswagen Executive on Conspiracy Charges in Emissions Scandal

NYTimes, here

Regard d’un prix Nobel d’économie sur la politique concurrentielle

T. Schrepel, ici

Why go long on artificial intelligence?

N. Benaich, here

Deezer Hires Facebook, Spotify Managers to Fight Bigger Rivals

Bloomberg, here

Data Could Be the Next Tech Hot Button for Regulators

NYTimes, here

Uber Extends an Olive Branch to Local Governments: Its Data

NYTimes, here

What does 2017 hold for open data initiatives?

TheGuardian, here

EC-Karten-Kartell kommt vor den Kadi

Bargeldlosblog.de, hier

Friday, December 23, 2016

Zwischenlösung im Streit über Vergütungsregel für digitale Semesterapparate

Heise.de, hier

How Online Retailers Ripped You Off These Holidays

Interview with A. Ezrachi and M. Stucke, Podcast here (from 3:42).

Intel: Analysing the Advocate General’s Opinion

Concurrences, here

Recent issues in Antitrust in the Pharmaceutical sector

Concurrences, here

2016 Out-of-Cycle Review of Notorious Markets

US Trade Representative, here

Uber explains why it looks like its app is still tracking your location, long after drop-off

TechCrunch, here

We need European regulation of Facebook and Google

L. Andrews, here

Schnelle Eskalation des Patentstreites: Nokia fordert iPhone-Verkaufsstopp

Heise.de, hier

Tuesday, December 20, 2016

New York Appeals Court Rules No Public Performance Rights in Pre-1972 Sound Recordings

HollywoodReporter, here

Discrimination by algorithm: scientists devise test to detect AI bias

Theguardian, here

Übernahme von LinkedIn durch Microsoft: 26 Mil­li­arden Dollar-Daten

lto.de, hier

L'IA est plus artificielle que réellement intelligente, la raison pour laquelle elle est si vulnérable

Linc, ici

Thinking Outside the Blocks

BCG, here

How to Force Our Machines to Play Fair

QuantaMagazine, here.

What IoT players can learn from software monetization

Deloitte, here

Amazon launches Amazon Pay Balance in bid to increase cashless transactions

LiveMint, here

Qualité des données client : le maillon faible de votre transformation numérique ?

LesEchos, ici.

Commission alleges Facebook provided misleading information about WhatsApp takeover

Press Release, here

Microsoft’s plan to use machine learning to improve eyecare in India

TechCrunch, here

Cost benefit analysis of changes to the Copyright Act 1968 (Fair Use)

Ernst & Young for the AU Department of Communications and the Arts, here

Tom Friedman: The internet is an 'open sewer’

Recode, Podcast here

The limits of parental consent in an algorithmic world

Blogs.lse.ac.uk, here

First take on the leaked e-Privacy Regulations

ORG, here

Kongress "Love and Sex with Robots": Menschen, Maschinen, große Gefühle

Heise.de, hier

Among Nature's 10: The founder of an illegal hub for paywalled papers

Nature.com, here

CWD, Privacy Rights Clearinghouse File Complaint Over Google/Doubleclick Privacy Pledge

Here

Intellectual Property Arrangements: Inquiry Report

Productivity Commission, here

Verbraucherrecht 2.0

Sachverständigenrat für Verbraucherfragen, hier.

Monday, December 19, 2016

Joint Strategic Plan on Intellectual Property Enforcement (FY 2017-2019)


The Office of the Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator, here.

Big Data and The Great A.I. Awakening. Interview with Steve Lohr

R. Zicari, here.

Data and Analytics Strategy Predictions Through 2021

Blogs.Gartner, here.

Designing Competitive Markets for Industrial Data - Between Propertisation and Access

J. Drexl, here.

Amazon wants to cut out the middleman and book freight directly with an app

ArsTechnica, here

'My Other Bag' Appeal Not Looking Promising for Louis Vuitton

TheFashionLaw, here

Joint Committee Discussion Paper on the Use of Big Data by Financial Institutions

EBA, EIOPA, and ESMA (the ESAs), here.

Standards project addressing data privacy processes and methodologies

IEEE Standards Association, here

Landscaping study on Standard Essential Patents (SEPs)

IPlytics, here

Transparency, Predictability, and Efficiency of SSO-based Standardization and SEP Licensing

CRA for the EC, here

Actavis Targeted by U.K. for Raising Drug Price by 12,000%

Bloomberg, here

Yahoo would be liable to pay an $198m fine were GDPR already enforced

Cityam.com, here

Evernote backs off from controversial privacy policy changes, says it 'messed up'

PCWorld, here

Labour wants tech firms like Google and Facebook to disclose what's under the hood

BusinessInsider UK, here

Building digital trust: The role of data ethics in the digital age

Accenture, here

Study on Big Data in Public Health, Telemedine and Healthcare

EC, here

Alleged Aid to Apple

Decision, C(2016) 5605 final, here

Germany-wide consortium of research libraries announce boycott of Elsevier journals over open access

BoingBoing, here

Protection of press publications concerning digital uses: Unnecessary, undesirable, unclear, unlikely to be effective

UK IP Scholars, here

UN General Assembly Resolution: TRIPS Flexibilities, High-Level Panel On Medicines Access

IPWatch, here

So what does it really mean to be a world-leading competition and consumer agency?

CMA, here

The Whatchamacallit Economy

NYTimes, here

How Much of Health Care Antitrust is Really Antitrust?

S. Weber Waller, here

Does Antitrust Have A Role to Play in Regulating Big Data?

D. Sokol, R. Comerford, here

Effects Analysis in Abuse of Dominance Cases in China – Is Qihoo 360 v Tencent a Game-Changer?

A. Emch, here

Individual Sanctions for Competition Law Infringements: Pros, Cons and Challenges

Concurrences, here

Private Enforcement of EU Antitrust Law and its Relationship with Public Enforcement: Past, Present and Future

W. Wils, here

Exploitative Abuses of Intellectual Property Rights

H. First, here

Access Barriers to Big Dta

D. Rubinfeld, M. Gal, here

How Do App Stores Challenge the Global Internet Governance Ecosystem?

V. Almeida, D. Doneda, C. Rossini, here

Are eBay sellers the ultimate customer, or the ultimate consumable?

M. Sag, here

The Privacy Tools Project

Harvardmagazine, here

How Search Engines Are Killing Clever URLs

TheAtlantic, here

Why you should be afraid of Google’s expansion into hardware

VentureBeat, here

Kartellamt fordert mehr Verbraucherschutz im Netz

Heise.de, hier

Wednesday, December 14, 2016

ClickClickClick : l’étrange site web qui révèle ce que vos clics disent de vous

Cnetfrance.fr, ici

Mind over matter: is scarcity as much about psychology as it is economics?

Bank Underground (Bank of England), here

Loyauté des plateformes, d’accord, mais loyauté à quoi ?

Rue89.nouvelobs.com, ici

Entwurf der ePrivacy-Verordnung: Erste Anmerkungen

DeLegeData, hier

Accélérer ensemble la transformation numérique de nos économies

Conférence numérique franco-allemande, ici.  

Mobile phones are transforming Africa, where they can get a signal

TheEconomist, here

Competition cartel settlement decision annuled by Court

Case T‑95/15, here.

Microsoft debuts brilliant Cortana SDK strategy

Searchengineland, here

US privacy rules stir confusion

TheHill, here

Leaked: Draft EU Commission Communication on the Data Economy

Here

U.S. Files First Charges in Generic Drug Price-Fixing Probe

Bloomberg, here

Banks Listen in on Phone Calls to Discover the Best Traders

Bloomberg, here

Should Google Search be subject to the Rule of Law? Absolutely! (Google v Equustek)

Hughstephensblog, here

Preisabsprachen: China kündigt Strafe gegen amerikanischen Autohersteller an

FAZ, hier

Drones mean business

Deloitte, here

How Microsoft and LinkedIn Can Make This Expensive Deal Work

Bloomberg, here

Searchmetrics Google ranking factors study says content gaining while links losing in importance

Searchengineland.com, here

Australian Competition and Consumer Commission v Flight Centre Travel Group Limited

High Court of Australia,  B15/2016, here.
ACCC's Press Release, here

Microsoft is bringing Cortana to fridges, toasters, and thermostats

TheVerge, here

The EU Pass-On Study

P. Hitchings, here

IEEE puts out a first draft guide for how tech can achieve ethical AI design

TechCrunch, here.
ETHICALLY ALIGNED DESIGN here

What is your experience in trading on online platforms?

EC, Survey, here