Wednesday, November 28, 2018

Zero-price markets: Updating the Analytical Toolkit

M. Botta, Presentation here.

  1. 1. COMPETITION POLICY IN ZERO-PRICE MARKETS UPDATING THE ANALYTICAL TOOLKIT MARCO BOTTA Joint meeting of the OECD Competition and Consumer Policy Committees Paris, 28th November 2018 Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition | Munich
  2. 2. Outline 2 • Updating the competition analytical tools: 1) Relevant market. 2) Market power. 3) Anti-competitive conducts. 4) Potential remedies. • Conclusions – questions for further debate. 
  3. 3. Limits of the SSNIP test 3 • The relevant market is traditionally defined via the SSNIP test. • Problem: what is “small, but significant price increase” in a zero-price market? • ‘Free effect’ : when the reference price is zero, consumers will automatically switch to any competing product in case of price increase ➢ excessively broad definition of the relevant market. • Multi-sided markets: SSNIP test will limit market definition to one side of the market. 
  4. 4. Alternative tools to define therelevant market 4 • Alternative tools follow a similar logic as the SSNIP test: 1) SSNIC (i.e. increase consumers’ costs): + data / attention ➢ + consumers’ costs. 2) SSNDQ (i.e. decline product quality): + data / attention ➢ - product quality. • Limits of the alternative tools in zero-price markets: 1) Quantification: +5% amount of personal data / attention? 2) Heterogeneous consumers’ preferences: what type of data/attention should we take into consideration? 3) Positive effects: + data transferred can increase the product quality. 4) SSNIC and SSDQ do NOT catch multi-sided markets. 
  5. 5. Market power in zero-price markets 5 • Market power within the relevant market: element to trigger enforcement of competition policy (e.g. unilateral conducts, merger control, vertical agreements). • Traditional definition of market power: ability of the firm to raise prices above the competitive level. • ‘Free effect’ : in zero-price markets firms can never raise prices above 0 ➢ consumers would always switch to other products = NO firm has market power. • The market share has limited relevance to assess market power in zero- price markets. 
  6. 6. Factors to estimate market power in zero-price markets 6 • A number of factors can be assessed to estimate the degree of market power in zero-price markets: 1) Attention degree: users’ attention on the Internet is a ‘scarce’ resource. 2) Direct and indirect network effects: number of users; product quality. 3) Multi-homing and switching costs. 4) Access to data ➢ possibility to purchase data from third parties. 5) Sunk investment costs. 6) Degree of innovation: a) Relevance of innovation in the market; b) Evidence of past radical innovations; c) Evidence of past entry. 
  7. 7. Updating anti-competitive conducts 7 • Assessment of anti-competitive conducts based on ‘price’ should be revised in zero-price markets. • Cartels fixing the price at zero: shift from a per se prohibition to an effect analysis. • Predatory pricing ➢ what is ‘predatory’ in a zero-price market? 1) Fallacies in accordance with the current legal standards: a) EU: presumption of predation when prices are below average marginal costs. b) USA: requirement of likely recoupment in the same market. 2) Recoupment requirement should be always required, BUT extended to other ‘sides’ of the market. 
  8. 8. Updating anti-competitive conducts 8 • Exploitative conducts in zero-price markets (EU): 1) Excessive pricing (i.e. asking ‘too much data’) ➢ NOT relevant. 2) Discriminatory pricing ➢ NOT relevant. 3) Unfair contractual clauses: relevant in zero-price markets a) Clauses ‘unilaterally’ imposed by the dominant firms (e.g. social network unilaterally modified the data protection terms). b) ’Unfair’: clauses ‘un-related’ to the product, and outside the ordinary commercial business practices (e.g. users’ data are transferred to third parties without the user’s consent). c) Relationship with consumer and data protection law: open question. 
  9. 9. Competition law remedies in zero-price markets 9 • Zero-price markets pose new challenges to the application of the traditional antitrust toolkit ➢ infringement decision + fine is NOT an effective remedy. • Structural v. behavioural remedies: 1) Structural remedies (e.g. un-bundling; divestiture of a subsidiary): NOT efficient ➢ negative effect on direct network effects and product quality. 2) Behavioural remedies: the NCA ‘guides’ the firm in terms of competition law compliance: a) Tailor-made ➢ designed in cooperation with the firm (i.e. commitments); b) Possible periodic revision ➢ adaptation to the market dynamics. c) Need of monitoring. d) Risk of market regulation ➢ overlap with data protection and consumer law. 
  10. 10. Behavioural remedies in zero-price markets 10 • Examples of behavioural remedies in zero-price markets: 1) Increase consumers’ awareness (e.g. increase transparency of the contractual terms; info about the personal data collected); 2) Setting minimum standards of data protection terms (e.g. max. duration of data storage); 3) Giving consumers the opportunity to periodically revise the consent to the processing of their personal data; 4) Right to data portability. 
  11. 11. Relationship with sector-regulation 11 • Antitrust remedies can clarify unclear aspects in data/consumer law protection. • Cooperation between NCA and data protection /consumer law authorities: 1) Exchange of information during the investigations; 2) Joint sector-inquiries; 3) Consultation in designing behavioural remedies. • Competition v. consumer / data protection remedies: 1) Advantage: antitrust remedies ensure higher degree of deterrence. 2) Disadvantage: definition relevant market and market power. 
  12. 12. Conclusions – questions for further debate 12 • Are SSNIC and SSNDQ effective tools to define the relevant market? • What aspects should be taken into consideration to assess market power in zero-price markets? • How should the assessment of anti-competitive conducts be adjusted to the peculiarities of zero-price markets? • What type of competition law remedies could be introduced in zero-price markets? • What are the possible forms of cooperation between NCAs and sector regulators when it comes to designing the remedies? 
  13. 13. 13 Thank you very much for your attention! marco.botta@ip.mpg.de 

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BIG DATA AND COMPETITION POLICY

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Tuesday, November 20, 2018

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State of the Google Shopping auction heading into the 2018 holiday season

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Visa, AmEx, Mastercard Face Antitrust Charges In Brazil

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Monday, November 19, 2018

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Thursday, November 15, 2018

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UK watchdog has eyes on Google-DeepMind’s health app hand-off

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AI & Global Governance: No One Should Trust AI

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Tuesday, November 13, 2018

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Sunday, November 11, 2018

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Artificial intelligence and intellectual property: an interview with Francis Gurry

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Antitrust: Commission seeks feedback on commitments offered by Disney in pay-TV investigation

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Privacy Group Asks European Regulators To Test GDPR Against Seven Tech Companies

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Opinions by European Copyright Society in CJEU Cordoba and Cofemel cases

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Facebook quietly launches a TikTok competitor app called Lasso

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Changes coming to Google News to help publishers ‘find their sites’

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Wednesday, November 07, 2018

Urheberrecht: Ärger im EU-Parlament über verwässerten Schutz für Künstler

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China To Increase Regulation Of Financial Holding Companies

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Commission clears the creation of six joint ventures by Daimler and BMW, subject to conditions

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Frank Pasquale: How To Regulate Google, Facebook and Credit Scoring?

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Tim Berners-Lee launches campaign to save the web from abuse

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EU’s proposed link tax would [still] harm Creative Commons licensors

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Qualcomm Dealt Setback in FTC Case Alleging Monopoly Abuse

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Building a fairer digital world

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Big Tech Sets Up a ‘Kill Zone’ for Industry Upstarts

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Flickr says it won’t delete Creative Commons photos

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Solutions for a responsible use of the blockchain in the context of personal data

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Europe’s AI ethics chief: No rules yet, please

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Android developers can now force users to update their apps

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YouTube-Stars verbreiten gerade massenhaft Panik ums 'Ende von YouTube'

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Monday, November 05, 2018

Our Approach to Competition

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Smartphone Privacy: How Your Smartphone Tracks Your Entire Life

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Schwedischer ISP blockt Elsevier nach Blockieraufforderung

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Mastercard Protests Payments ‘Nationalism’ In India

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COFECE investiga posibles barreras a la competencia y/o presencia de insumos esenciales en el sistema de pagos con tarjeta

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GitHub is now officially a part of Microsoft

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Commission approves acquisition of sole control over EMI Music Publishing by Sony

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THE GENERAL DATA PROTECTION REGULATION FIVE MONTHS ON

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Platforms and the Sharing Economy

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Copyright Office introduces proposal to give consumers right to hack electronics for repairs

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Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?

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Who owns this AI-generated painting?

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Richemont s'allie à Alibaba pour doper ses ventes en ligne en Chine

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Financial Technology: Opportunities and Challenges to Law and Regulation

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Researchers complain to Brussels over ‘dominant position’ of RELX Group in scientific publishing

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Cryptoassets Taskforce: final report

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GM’s data mining is just the beginning of the in-car advertising blitz

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AI and the Global Economy

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Verbrauchergerechtes Scoring

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„Volkswagen hat betrogen und schuldet Schadenersatz“

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Swedes grumbling about Apple Store in their park are lucky – in Toronto, Google eats all your data

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Vestager on the intersection of data and competition

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Recent Developments at DG Competition: 2017/2018

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Essential Principles for the Design of Antitrust Analysis for Multisided Platforms

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Federal Circuit: Conference Distribution Still a Printed Publication even if No PHOSITA Attend

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Dish-HBO Standoff Shows How Trump's Justice Dept. Choked in the AT&T Merger Fight

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Competition, Market Power and Third-Party Tracking

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WHY THE GOOGLE WALKOUT COULD BE A TURNING POINT FOR TECH

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In FTC Hearings, a Few Bright Spots Amid a Pro-Monopoly Status Quo

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Goldman Sachs has asked one of its most prominent tech bankers to help infuse itself with that same tech

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ComparetheMarket home insurance deals could deny people better prices

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Apple Pay in Deutschland: Apple nennt Banken und Geschäfte

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Our car-free future will be blocked by Comcast tactics

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Soft ethics, the governance of the digital and the General Data Protection Regulation

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Google Chrome’s Users Take a Back Seat to Its Bottom Line

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CMA’s new DaTA unit: exciting opportunities for data scientists

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Tuesday, October 23, 2018

What Can U.S. v. Microsoft Teach About Antitrust and Multi-Sided Platforms?

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Mobile app data sharing 'out of control'

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Google could finally face serious competition for Android

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The Opportunity Costs of Socialism

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Uber to appeal Singaporean competition watchdog decision on Grab merger

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How Senator Mark Werner Wants to Rein In Big Tech

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Google tax on Android makers in the EU: Fee offset if Search and Chrome included alongside Play Store, of course

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Avec ses « skills », Amazon veut créer l'App Store des assistants vocaux

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IBM introduces Open Banking platform

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DSGVO: ICANN debattiert zentrales Whois und schon den Zugriff darauf

Heise.de, hier

Is a Cashless Society Problematic?

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How smartphone apps track users and share data

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From local impact to European added value: Digital Innovation Hubs

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Leading academics reveal: what are we getting wrong about AI?

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The Dynamics of Technology Adoption and Vertical Restraints: An Empirical Analysis

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RETHINKING PRIVACY IN THE AGE OF AI

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Third Party Tracking in the Mobile Ecosystem

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AN ALTERNATIVE HISTORY OF SILICON VALLEY DISRUPTION

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Monday, October 22, 2018

A look at the Android Market (aka Google Play) on its 10th Anniversary

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Portugal's Aptoide says wins first court ruling against Google

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Don’t Break Up The Tech Oligarchs. Force Them To Share Instead

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BWB veröffentlicht Fairnesskatalog für Unternehmen

BWB, hier

After Taking Berlin, Germany's Uber for Buses Targets Manhattan

Bloomberg, here

Android and that Google's Blog Post on Proposed Remedies

VergeCast, here (from 40:32)

JPMorgan to open fintech campus in Silicon Valley

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CMA sends tough message to business cheats with cartel campaign

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Sony makes no concessions to EU regulators in EMI music bid

Reuters, here

Acquisitions in the third party tracking industry: competition and data protection aspects

E. Bietti, R. Binns, here

Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World: A Talk at Google

A. Giridharadas, here ("this is going to be like therapy").

US banks and fintechs form group to tackle customer data-sharing

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Calculating art

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Weaponizing the Digital Influence Machine: The Political Perils of Online Ad Tech

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PERSONALISED PRICING IN ESSENTIAL MARKETS

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The Prophets of Cryptocurrency Survey the Boom and Bust

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Google app suite costs as much as $40 per phone under new EU Android deal

The Verge, here

As if the Last 30 Years Never Happened”: Towards a New Law and Economics

S. Naidu, E. Ash, here

Want to understand the future of Android in Europe? Look at China

The Verge, here

The urgent case for a new ePrivacy law

G. Buttarelli, here

The Amazon investigation and Europe’s “Big Tech” Crusade

D. Auer, here

Lawsuits Over Paparazzi Images on Instagram Raise Celebrity Questions Over Right of Publicity

The Fashion Law, here

Wednesday, October 17, 2018

Philippine watchdog fines Grab, Uber for rushed merger, drop in service quality

Reuters, here.

Google will start charging Android device makers a fee for using its apps in Europe

The Verge, here

As Google splits Android in Europe, it risks losing control of its empire

Wired.co.uk, here

Next Generation Internet 2025

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Should We Regulate Digital Platforms? A New Framework for Evaluating Policy Options

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How Portable is Portable? Exercising the GDPR’s Right to Data Portability

J. Wong, T. Henderson, here

After $5 billion EU antitrust fine, Google will start charging for Android apps

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Stroppy Google runs rings round Brussels with Android remedy

The Register, here

An opinion embedded in math

C. O'Neil, Video here

Tuesday, October 16, 2018

Android: more freedom to offer alternative services (not the original title, I know ;-))

NYTimes, here

Did Uber Steal Google’s Intellectual Property?

The New Yorker, here

Google-Chef: Tests für zensierte chinesische Suchmaschine vielversprechend

Heise.de, hier

Google to charge smartphone makers for Google Play in Europe

Reuters, here.
See also Google, Complying with the EC’s Android decision, here. Question: is it enough?
Deeper one: Dragonfly, privacy leaks, sidestepping, the demise of Google+, changes in app developers’ “access” to personal data, Android remedies...Is there a connection somewhere? Microsoft CEO Nadella has correctly pointed out that strategies in these "markets" are far more complex than just bundling...

Microsoft CEO: antitrust law doesn't really understand tech

Wired 25, Video here

Daimler, BMW offer concessions to ease EU concerns on car-sharing deal

Reuters, here

Radiotaxi Torino, aperta istruttoria per abuso di posizione dominante

AGCM, qui.
Provvedimenti precedenti sanzionano clausole di esclusiva come restrizioni verticali, qui (101 TFEU).

The EU Observatory on the Online Platform Economy: a talking shop or the beginnings of a new regulator?

Inline Policy, here.


BEREC Public Consultation on the data economy

Here

German court orders deletion of customer lists in Facebook Custom Audiences

Spirit Legal, here

Quality considerations in digital zero-price markets

OECD, Background Note, here

Personalised Pricing in the Digital Era

OECD, Background Note, here

Excessive Prices in Pharmaceutical Markets

OECD, Background Note, here

The value of data, big data, is only beginning to become apparent

R. Sims, here

Monday, October 15, 2018

eBay claims Amazon illegally poaches sellers for its marketplace

Engadget, here

Disney offers EU antitrust concessions over $71.3 billion Fox deal

Reuters, here

Butchers, bakers, and today’s digital marketplaces

R. Chopra, here

CNMC’s CONTRIBUTION ON THE “IMPLICATIONS OF DIGITISATION FOR COMPETITION POLICY”

Digital Competition Expert Panel: Open Consultation

UK Gov, here

Governing artificial intelligence: ethical, legal and technical opportunities and challenges

C. Cath, here

Epic Games Sues YouTuber ‘Golden Modz’ Over ‘Magical’ Fortnite Powers

TorrentFreak, here.
Complaint here

Governing artificial intelligence: ethical, legal, and technical opportunities and challenges

The Royal Society, Theme Issue, here

Apple acquires music analytics firm that claims it can ‘find the next Justin Bieber’

The Verge, here

Intellectual property and e-commerce: Alibaba’s perspective

WIPO Magazine, here

IP and Competition: Context, Test, and Balance

M. Carrier, here.

FTC agenda for the IP/competition hearing here

What's Monopsony? It May Be the Reason You Haven't Had a Raise

Bloomberg, here

Saturday, October 13, 2018

The Myth of Capitalism – Introduction and Chapter One

J. Tepper, D. Hearn, here. Intro and Chapter 1, here

Modernising the law on abuse of market power

H. Schweitzer, here.

How Google’s China project undermines its claims to political neutrality

The Verge, here.
The Good Censor here.

A journey through the FCA regulatory sandbox

Deloitte, here.

Closing the Investigation on the Suspected Violation of the Antimonopoly Act by Airbnb Ireland UC and Airbnb Japan K.K.

Japan FTC, here.

The role of IP rights in the fashion business: a US perspective

WIPO Magazine, here.

Sidestepping Google Play: as simple as scanning a QR code

TechCrunch, here.

Alexa, Should We Trust You?

The Atlantic, here.

Twitter Under Formal Investigation for How It Tracks Users in the GDPR Era

Fortune, here.

DOJ giving cover to monopolizing firms that breach antitrust rules

M. Carrier, here.

Blockchain Competition

I. Lianos, here.

Debating Ethics in the digital age

G. Buttarelli, here.

When Your Boss Is an Algorithm

NYTimes, here.

Platform Giants and Venture-Backed Startups

IanHathaway.org, here.

Foreign Exchange Rigging ‘Cartel’ Started With Beers, Jury Told

Bloomberg, here.

Thursday, October 11, 2018

A Future Where Everything Becomes a Computer Is as Creepy as You Feared

NYTimes, here

Amazon's new recruiting machine learning algo did not like women.

Reuters, here

Nos plaintes contres les GAFAM avancent !

La Quadrature Du Net, ici

Mastercard brings real-time bill payments to mobile banking apps

Finextra, here

Study: Google is the biggest beneficiary of the GDPR

Cliqz.com, here

KI und die ewige Suche nach der richtigen Frage

Heise.de, hier

Expediente sancionador contra Acciona Construcción, Corsán-Corviam, Dragados, FCC Construcción, Ferrovial Agromán, OHL y Sacyr Construcción

CNMC, aquì.

The Facebook breach – a GDPR test-case

EDRi, here

Investigation of the Atlantic Joint Business Agreement

CMA, here

In the EU Blockchain Resolution we Trust

Daily Fintech, here

Microsoft tritt Open Invention Network bei

Linux-Magazin.de, hier

Judicial Infringements at the Court of Justice – A brief comment on the phenomenal Commission/France (C-416/17)

Despiteourdifferencesblog, here

Amazon patents new Alexa feature that knows when you're ill and offers you medicine

Telegraph.co.uk, here

FÜR IMMER ANONYM: WIE KANN DE-ANONYMISIERUNG VERHINDERT WERDEN?

ABIDA, hier

Walmart Patented a Cart That Reads Your Pulse and Temperature

MotherBoard, here

Plateformes de commerce en ligne et abus de position dominante Réflexions sur les possibilités d’abus d’exploitation et de dépendance économique

F. Marty, ici

Intelligence Artificielle et Organisation Industrielle : quels enjeux pour l’économie numérique

F. Marty, ici

Alipay Says Hackers Used Stolen Apple IDs to Siphon Off Money

Bloomberg, here.