Google’s Sundar Pichai Welcomes Antitrust Scrutiny on Android

WSJ.com, here. 

Belgium, Japan to 7th Circuit: Don’t interfere with our antitrust enforcement!

AntitrustUpdateBlog, here.

Uber wrangling regulations (and setting some hope on the FTC)

Interview with Brian Worth,  Uber Public Policy Lead, Harvard Kennedy School Policycast, here.

Report says illegal Airbnb apartments made up over a third of the company's NYC revenue

TheVerge, here.

Report from the NY State Attorney General's office here.

New WikiLeaks of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement Intellectual Property Chapter — Analysis of Copyright Provision

Policynotes.arl.org, here. 

Google defends flight search – it’s hard to do it well and industry doesn’t appreciate us

Tnooz.com, here. 

Resolution on enforcement cooperation among data protection authorities

Here.

Jean Tirole's (provisional) legacy

Bruegel.org, here. 

Are Google’s search results deceptive, or can consumers identify ads on their own?

Gigaom, here.

Business Benefit from Public Data

Blog.opengroup.org, here. 

Cartel members may argue that damage caused by cartel was passed on to customers

De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek, here. 

YouTube has paid $1 billion to rights holders via Content ID since 2007

ArsTechnica, here.

Q. and A. With Jean Tirole, Economics Nobel Winner

NYTimes, here

Whois-Daten werden schleichend zentralisiert

Heise.de, hier.

El Nobel de Economía a Jean Tirole: mucho más que regulación

Cnmcblog.es, aquì.

Überwachungskapitalisten unter sich

FAZ.net, hier.

ACCC cracks down on taxi company for blocking goCatch

CNET,  here.

Eric does it again

I-comp.org, here.

Regulatory Case in North Carolina Appears to Trouble Supreme Court

NYTimes, here.

How Jean Tirole’s Work Helps Explain the Internet Economy

NYT, Here.

Right to Be Forgotten: Google Sentenced to Pay Damages in Spain

M. Peguera, here.

Patents and Standards - A modern framework for IPR-based standardization

ECSIP Consortium for the European Commission, here.

J. Tirole cited once, at p. 30.

Google’s Schmidt Heads to Berlin Talks to Soothe Rattled Germans

Bloomberg.com, here.

The EU Commission’s “contempt” of national courts? - C-170/13 Huawei Technologies

Verfassungsblog.de, here.

Linux Foundation Does Open Source Drones

G. Moody, here.

Trends and milestones in competition policy since 2010

J. Almunia, here.

Challenges of international co-operation in competition law enforcement

OECD, Report here; Statistical Highlights here. 

Adobe’s Latest E-Book Misstep: This Time, It’s Not the DRM

Copyrightandtechnology.com, here. 

Wie Nobelpreisträger Jean Tirole auch Deutschland prägte

WSJ, hier.

Google's Chairman Says Amazon — Not Bing — Is Its Biggest Search Competitor

BusinessInsider.com, here. See also E. Schmidt, The New Gründergeist, here. 

Is There a Vatican School for Competition Policy?

T. T'óth, here.

EU Commission congratulates Economics Nobel winner

Press Release, here.

Mr Tirole's research has direct relevance to current policy issues.

TheEconomist, here.

Bozza di Dichiarazione dei Diritti in Internet

Camera dei deputati, Commissione per i diritti e doveri in Internet, qui.

Jean Tirole: Market Power and Regulation

Scientific Background on the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2014,  here.

Popular science background here.

Tirole's 2013 lecture on two-sided markets, part 1 here, and part 2 here.

In essence, a nobel prize to the "more economic approach"...

Google rivals get help with antitrust campaign -- from Google

CNEt, here.

Looking ahead: preparing for the digital economy – view from the new competition regulator

A. Chrisholm, here.

La machine Booking face à la gronde des hôteliers

Lesechos.fr, ici.

Paulo Coelho Tells Publishers 'Don't Be Greedy'

PublishersWeekly, here.

Amazon must be stopped

F. Foer, NewRepublic.com, here.

Japanese court orders Google to halt search harassment

The Japan Times, here.

Why Germans Are Afraid of Google

NYT.com, here.

Weaving Europe’s single competition enforcement area

J. Almunia, here. 

In Net Neutrality Discussion, Lawsuits Loom Large

Bits.blogs.nytimes.com, here. 

How Patents Provide the Foundation of the Market for Inventions

D. Spulber, here. 

Canada: New Copyright Exception for Political Advertising?

Here.

EU’s TTIP negotiation mandate

Here.

Alice decision a big reason for sharp fall in US patent litigation

Iam-magazine, here.

The Google Case: Where are we now?

I-comp.org, here. 

HarperCollins ups royalty for books sold through their website

Mhpbooks.com, here.

CMA sets out proposals to lower payday loan costs

CMA, here. 

Google asks Supreme Court to decide Oracle copyright fight

Reuters.com, here. Google's certiorari petition here.

Der Staat als Unternehmer

Arbeitskreis Kartellrecht, Hintergrundpapier, hier.

September 2014 New Patent Case Filings Down 40% From September 2013

Lex Machina, here.

Amazon führt E-Book-Flatrate in Deutschland ein

Heise.de, hier.

Vestager: Answers to EP Questionnaire

Here.

When the cookies crumbled, so did your web anonymity

TheGuardian.com, here.

Top 10 Lines Uttered by Economists At The FCC's Open Internet Roundtable (With English Translations)

Forbes.com, here.

MasterCard to mine Facebook user data

Smh.com.au, here.

Cash is not Always King in Pharma Pay-to-Delay Deals, a Judge Rules

WSJ.com, here.

Apple Facing Trial Over Whether Its Use Of DRM Violated Antitrust Laws

TechDirt, here.

Antitrust and the Patent System: A Reexamination

H. Hovenkamp, here.

Skyscanner: CAT quashes commitments in the online booking sector

Competition Bulletin, here.

Judge Posner orders Sherlock Holmes estate to pay attorneys’ fees for “form of extortion”

McDermott Will & Emery, here.

Microsoft likely to make more money from Android than from its own Windows phones

BBC News, here.

Rapport de la mission du CSPLA sur les « œuvres transformatives »

V. Benabou, ici.

Does UK copyright law have a sense of humour?

A. Rendle, here.

Ddl Concorrenza, dall’energia alle banche tutte le misure allo studio del governo

IlFattoQuotidiano.it, qui.

Iceland: Competition Authority Fines Dairy Company

IcelandReview.com, here.

Google Flight Search, four years in: Not the competition-killer critics feared

WashingtonPost, here.

Apple vs. Google: The Privacy Revolution Rumble

HuffPost, here.

Ecuador: Nuevas reglas para los supermercados

Pbplaw, aquí.

L'impression 3D, nouveau défi du droit de la propriété intellectuelle ?

M. Berguig, ici.

Understanding and Maximizing America's Evolutionary Economy

R. Atkinson, here.

Commission approves acquisition of WhatsApp by Facebook

Press Release, here.

"Although WhatsApp is not active in online advertising, the Commission examined whether the transaction could strengthen Facebook's position in that market and hamper competition. In particular, the Commission examined the possibility that Facebook could (i) introduce advertising on WhatsApp, and/or (ii) use WhatsApp as a potential source of user data for improving the targeting of Facebook's advertisements. The Commission concluded that, regardless of whether Facebook would introduce advertising on WhatsApp and/or start collecting WhatsApp user data, the transaction would not raise competition concerns. This is because after the merger, there will continue to be a sufficient number of alternative providers to Facebook for the supply of targeted advertising, and a large amount of internet user data that are valuable for advertising purposes are not within Facebook's exclusive control."

The Right to be Forgotten: Not an Easy Question

F. Pasquale, here.

Kartellamt greift vorerst nicht in Streit Google/Verlage ein

Reuters.com, hier. 

Antitrust Nominee in Europe Promises Eye on Big Tech Companies

Bits.blogs.nytimes.com, here

Regolamento Agcom a tutela del diritto d'autore online: il TAR Lazio conferma la legittimità dell'impianto regolamentare del provvedimento, ma rinvia alla Corte Costituzionale

Dirittodautore.it, qui.

Ordinanza qui.

Las demandas colectivas chocan con el sistema judicial español

Expansiòn, aquì.

Finally, a Big 5 publisher raises digital royalties (but there’s a catch)

GigaOm, here.

Exercising choice: some reflections on competition enforcement in online markets

P. Marsden, here.

How big data could help stop the Ebola outbreak

CNBC, here.

German publishers accuse Google of “blackmail” as search firm axes News snippets

GigaOm, here. 

Big US tech companies face major patent losses in the post-Alice world

Iam-magazine.com, here

The Devil is in the Retail

A. Italiener, here.

{Of course, with less concentration on both the supplier and retailer sides of the market we could've had, possibly, higher levels of innovation and better choice for consumers. How do you measure that?}

Russian Retailers Bet on E-Books Before Amazon Entry

Bloomberg.com, here. 

The ballad of Google Spain

Paul Bernal's Blog, here. 

The Horizon Report Europe: 2014 Schools Edition

Here.

The economic impact of modern retail on choice and innovation in the EU food sector

European Commission, Final Report, here. Press Release, here. 

How The Proposed Payments Legislation Will Restrain Competition Among Payment Card Schemes And Harm Consumers In The European Union

D. Evans, here. 

UK Treasury Plans to Criminalise All Benchmark Fixing LIBOR-Led by Example

ForexMagnates.com, here.

What an Economist Brings to a Business Strategy

Blogs.hbr.org, here. 

WIPO General Assembly Fails to Draw any Conclusions on Exceptions and Limitations

IFLA.org, here.



(For transparency's sake: this blog's author was part of the team representing IFLA at WIPO GA). 

Google : comment mettre en œuvre le droit à l’oubli ?

Méta-Media, ici.

Authors Guild Met With DoJ to Seek Investigation Into Amazon's Practices Guild Says Retailer Is Abusing Its Market Power in Hachette Dispute

WSJ, here.

To Avoid Liability, Google Limits German News Content To Headlines

SearchEngineLand, here.

Judge Cues Trial in iPod Antitrust Case

The Reporter, here.

The economics of Uber

Bruegel.org, here.

In defence of spontaneous order

TheEconomist, here.