OLG Düsseldorf bestätigt Grundsatzentscheidung des Bundeskartellamtes zum Verbot von Preissuchmaschinen

Bundeskartellamt, hier.
S. auch Zeit.de, hier.
"Der Asics-Anwalt, Ingo Brinker, betonte, es gehe dem Unternehmen um den "legitimen Schutz eines Premium-Markenimages" und der damit verbundenen Beratungsqualität. Dies lasse sich mit Preissuchmaschinen nicht vereinbaren.
Der Vorsitzende Richter zeigte sich allerdings nicht von der Notwendigkeit umfangreicher Beratung überzeugt. Er trage selber als Jogger gerne Schuhe des Herstellers."

Ich auch

"Er wisse aber auch, man brauche als Läufer nicht bei jedem Kauf eine neue Beratung. Und wer online einkaufe, wolle diese oft auch nicht. Außerdem seien die Verbraucher durchaus in der Lage zwischen Preissuchmaschinen und dem Markenauftritt des Herstellers oder seiner Vertragshändler zu unterscheiden."

Droits de l’Homme et concurrence

Conférence-déjeuner, Synthèse ici.

Minority Neighborhoods Pay Higher Car Insurance Premiums Than White Areas With the Same Risk

ProPublica, here.

Microsoft clarifies exactly what personal data is collected in Windows 10

TechRadar, here. 

An Intelligence in Our Image: The Risks of Bias and Errors in Artificial Intelligence

O.Osoba, W. Welser IV, here. 

Birss J hands down first FRAND decision in Unwired Planet v Huawei

IPKat, here. 

Firing on All Cylinders: The 2017 Big Data Landscape

M. Turck, here. 

This Budding Movement Wants to Smash Monopolies

TheNation, here. 

Internet Engineering Task Force discusses human rights in plenary meeting for the first time in its history

Article19, here. 

Algorithmic Consumers

M. Gal, N. Elkin-Koren, Video here.

Welcome To The Emotion Economy, Where AI Responds To—And Predicts—Your Feelings

FastCompany, here. 

Les hauts et les bas du plan France Intelligence Artificielle

FrenchWeb.fr, ici. 

Key Trump appointment raises....over direction of IP and antitrust in new US administration

IAM, here. 

Japan to urge businesses to share big data

Asia.nikkei.com, here.

Regulating Inscrutable Systems

A. Selbst, S. Barocas, here. Discussion here. 

How Uber Uses Psychological Tricks to Push Its Drivers’ Buttons

NYTimes, here.

„Bald gibt es kostenlose Flugtickets“

FAZ, hier.

Song here. 

Ahead of Vestager's remarks at #ATSpring17: The US Chamber of Commerce’s Current State of Mind

US Chamber of Commerce, here. 

Amazon and Walmart are in an all-out price war that is terrifying America’s biggest brands

Recode, here. 

The Google Search Case: Implementing and Monitoring a Non-Discrimination Remedy

Foundem, here. 

Banks forced to fight solo on Apple Pay

TheAustralian, here. 

Droit de communication au public

Conseil supérieur de la propriété littéraire et artistique, ici.

Das Wettbewerbsregister – Die 10 wichtigsten Regelungen

VergabeBlog, hier. 

Automatisiertes Fahren: Bundestag beschließt Haftungsregeln und Datenspeicher

Heise.de, hier. 

Richard Posner in Conversation with Luigi Zingales

Video here.
05:20 "Because antitrust is dead, isn't it? That was my impression".

The Hidden Monopolies That Raise Drug Prices

TheAmericanProspect, here. 

A Turkish Court Has Temporarily Shut Down Booking.com over breach of competition law

Fortune, here. 

Protection des données : Microsoft tente d’amadouer la CNIL

LeMonde, ici. 

Google annonce la mort du moteur de recherche et l’avènement de l’Age de l’assistance

FrenchWeb.fr, ici. Google lui même ici. 

Is There a Role for Political Antitrust?

Panel, Video here. 

Sponge

A. Ezrachi, here. 

Eis-Kartell in Tübingen? - Kugeln kosten plötzlich mehr

Zeit.de (!), hier. 

EC blocks proposed merger between Deutsche Börse and London Stock Exchange

Press release, here. See also here.

The Trade-Off Every AI Company Will Face

A. Agrawal, J. Gans, A. Goldfarb, here. 

Asymétrie d’information, défaut de loyauté et contrôle des données... l'économie collaborative demande régulation

LINC, ici. 

ICYMI: Winner-Take-All Digital Platforms

Panel includes Dennis Carlton, Randal Picker and Gary Reback, Video here. 

Judge criticizes Uber’s secrecy in lawsuit with Waymo

TechCrunch, here. 

ICYMI: What Does History Tell Us? The Development of Antitrust in America

Panel, Programme here, Video here. 

Digital comparison tools market study: Update paper

CMA, here. 

'The Way A User Interacts With VR Allows For Extremely Pervasive Information Collection'

InnovationEnterprise, here. 

Vorschau EuGH in Sachen Coty

Schulte-lawyers.com, hier. 

Commission clears merger between Dow and DuPont, subject to conditions

Press Release, here. 

Winner-Take-All Digital Platforms / Big Data and Competition

Stigler Center, 28 March 2017, 3.30 pm Trento Time, live streamed, links here. 

The online advertising market in the EU

European Audiovisual Observatory, here. 

Conduct in the modelling sector

CMA, Case CE/9859-14, Decision here. 

Booking.com suspected of cartel activity in GVH probe

BBJ, here. 

Defining 'Big Data' in Antitrust

X. Boutin, G. Clemens, here.



What giants?" Asked Sancho Panza.
"The ones you can see over there," answered his master, "with the huge arms, some of which are very nearly two leagues long."
"Now look, your grace," said Sancho, "what you see over there aren't giants, but windmills, and what seems to be arms are just their sails, that go around in the wind and turn the millstone."
"Obviously," replied Don Quijote, "you don't know much about adventures.

Elon Musk’s Billion-Dollar Crusade To Stop The A.I. Apocalypse

VanityFair, here. 

BT to be fined £42m for breaching contracts with telecoms providers

OFcom, here. 

Whither Antitrust Enforcement in the Trump Administration?

S. Salop, C. Shapiro, here.