Monday, December 12, 2011

Open Data – Freigabe von Daten aus Bibliothekskatalogen

T. Kreutzer, hier

Imperial Tobacco Group plc and Imperial Tobacco Limited v Office of Fair Trading

UK Competition Appeal Tribunal, Cases No: 1160-5/1/1/10, 12 December 2011, here. Read also OFT's Statement

EU Communication on Open Data

Provisional version, here

Data is the new gold

N.Kroes, here

Snapshot of the "Apps" market in relation with public sector information

A SCHEME TO ADDRESS ONLINE COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT

AUSTRALIAN INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDER (ISP) PROPOSAL, here

Digital Content Services for Consumers: Assessment of Problems Experienced by Consumers

Report 4, Europe Economics, here.

Seeds protection: when Monsanto tests the limits of patent in the EU and the U.S.

A.Strowel, here

Friday, December 09, 2011

"Self"-regulation: Should online companies police the internet?

Seminar, List of speakers and Video (from 28:50). 

New AGCM President: Competition as Growth Lever and More Europe to Overcome the Crisis

Here (Press Release in Italian). 

Study on the Interplay between Standards and Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs)


Fraunhofer Institute for Communication System and Dialogic, School of Innovation Sciences at Eindhoven University of Technology, here.

AUDIT MARKET INVESTIGATION - Issues statement

UK Competition Commission, here

100 years of Copyright and Disruptive Technology

Part 1, Copyhype, here

Stellungnahme des Bundeskartellamts zum Referentenentwurf zur 8. GWB-Novelle

Hier

TGI Paris: Samsung v. Apple

N. RG 11/58301, ici

The newsonomics of Google’s retail push

NiemanLab, here

"METRO Cash & Carry” created discriminatory conditions for suppliers of meat and fish products in Russia

FAS, here, and here for some general background on the issue of discrimination in food retail chain in Russia.

A QUICK REVIEW OF THE DRAFT EU DATA PROTECTION REGULATION

Privacyinternational.org, here. Circulating version here

Tuesday, December 06, 2011

Enforcement Cooperation in International Competition Policy

Alessandra Tonazzi (Italian Competition Authority) speaking  at Trento University
December 7, 2011
4 pm, Room 3C.
Presentation here

Will out-of-commerce books soon be managed by a collective management society in France?

C. Jasserand, here

How Crocs Are Helping Apple Stomp On Samsung

Paidcontent.org, here

Use It, or Lose It: In defence of the critical role of “fair use”

publishersweekly.com, here

Public bodies and competition law

OFT, here

Privacy: A Lesson from the Playroom

J. Brill, here

EU Commission consults on review of current regime for technology transfer agreements

Here

Assessment of potential anticompetitive conduct in the field of intellectual property rights and assessment of the interplay between competition policy and IPR protection

P. Regibeau, K. Rocket, here

HathiTrust's filed response to the lawsuit

The Authors Guild, Inc. et al v. Hathitrust et al., here.

Der Referentenentwurf (RefE) zur 8. GWB-Novelle

C. Dobler, hier (Danke an @JohannesZoettl). 

EU Commission opens formal proceedings to investigate sales of e-books

Press Release, here

SOPA and people with print disabilities

benetech.blogspot.com, here

Sunday, December 04, 2011