Internet monopolies: Everybody wants to rule the world

TheEconomist, here.

Private Property in the Public Interest: The interplay of patents and standards

A. Dore, here.

Who Will Benefit From Digital Currency? Bitcoin Experiment Gives A Glimpse

Forbes, Interview with Susan Athey, here.

Apple's iOS Has Once Again Decimated Android When It Comes To Data That Matters

BusinessInsider, here.

Secteur de la vente événementielle en ligne et clause d’exclusivité

Autorité de la concurrence, Décision ici.

Ehestreit: Smartphone-Hersteller OnePlus contra Android-Alternative Cyanogen

Heise.de, hier.

Bahn fordert Milliarden von Lufthansa und anderen Airlines

FAZ.net, hier.

The double duality of two-sided markets

A. Lamadrid de Pablo, here.

Werke für Unterrichts- oder Forschungszwecke öffentlich zugänglich machen

Bundesrat, hier.

Albert Foer and the Revival of Antitrust

Corporate Crime Reporter, here. 

German position on key digital related issues

A Letter to Mr Ansip, Mr Oettinger Ms Jourová, Ms Vestager, here. 

AGCM: Avviata istruttoria sul rincaro dei farmaci tumorali di Aspen

Provvedimento qui.

OLG Köln: Öffentlicher Rundfunk ist "non-commercial"

A. Metzger, hier.

Right to be Forgotten: Article 29 Working Party Guidelines

Here.

Europese Commissie krijgt geen schadevergoeding van liftkartel

Nu.nl, hier.

Should digital monopolies be broken up?

TheEconomist, here. 

Damages Directive Adopted: Wave Of Antitrust Damages Actions Looms

DeBrauw.com, here. 

The right to privacy in the digital age

Third Committee on Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Affairs of the UN General Assembly (UNGA), here. 

U.S. court rejects Motorola Mobility price-fixing appeal

Reuters.com, here.

Court's Opinion here.

Near-automatic injunctions raise concerns at hearing on rules for European patent court

FOSSpatents.com, here.

In wake of Uber privacy scandal, Lyft announces data restrictions

ArsTechnica, here.

UK court orders CMA to pay £186,000 in legal costs to Skyscanner over hotel-pricing case

Here, 

Taylor Swift leaving Spotify was great news for YouTube

TheVerge, here.

Copyrightability of Java APIs revisited

P. Samuelson, here.

Copie Privée : le vrai préjudice... des consommateurs français !

UFC-QueChoisir, ici.

The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs Private Sector Myths

M. Mazzucato, Transcript of the presentation given to OECD Staff, here (p. 3 ff.).

Is the Head of Germany’s Bundeskartellamt Right to Suggest Criminal Law Sanctions are Too Severe for Cartels?

A. Stephan, here. 

Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin : « Ceux qui pensent être propriétaires de nos données se trompent »

LesEchos.fr, ici.

Wah-the-ley on Wah-way: a matter of Opinion

IPKat, here. 

83% of Global Internet Users Believe Affordable Access to the Internet Should be a Basic Human Right

Ipsos, on behalf of the Centre for International Governance Innovation (“CIGI”), here. 

A Nobel Laureate, Darth Vader© and Access to Health: Balancing IP and Competition in the Pharmaceutical Industry

Giovanni Napolitano

World Intellectual Property Organization 

4th December, 2014, 2 p.m.

DEM - Conference Room

Trento University 

How the UN is using open data to tackle Ebola

Futuregov.asia, here. 

Virgin Media sets the cat among the pigeons – Ofcom examines Premier League football

Brian Cave, here.

Google settles Internet trolling court case

TheGuardian.com, here. 

Suède : Les éditeurs lèvent les restrictions sur le prêt numérique

ActuaLitte.com, ici.

Structural Remedies in the Google Case?

I-Comp, here.

Why Textbooks Count: A Policy Paper

T. Oates, here. 

Brief of Amici Curiae Antitrust Law Professors in O'Bannon v. NCAA

Here.

Google launches 'Contributor' payment service

Independent.co.uk, here. 

Update on Trademark-Related Aspects of the Domain Name System

WIPO Secretariat, here. 

Europeans Have Authority To Seek Google Break Up Though Unlikely To Do So

SearchEngineLand, here. 

RBS apologises for 'incorrect' evidence to MPs' committee

BBC.com, here. 

Where Creativity Thrives: BitTorrent 2014 User Study

Blog.bittorrent.com, here.

Gates Foundation announces world’s strongest policy on open access research

Blogs.nature.com, here.

Rapport Sirinelli

Ici.

Uber veut faire annuler la loi Thévenoud sur les taxis et VTC

Numerama, ici.

Google Wrote An Equation For Deciding Which Engineers Should Get Promoted - Here's Why It Failed

BusinessInsider, here.

Summary of the Advocate General's Opinion in Huawei v. ZTE

Comparativepatentremedies, here.

How Not To Apply Actavis

M. Carrier,  here.

Google Should Face EU Web Law If Competition Probe Fails

Bloomberg.com, here.

How Google Inbox shares 70% of its code across Android, iOS, and the Web

ArsTechnica, here.

Monitor and the Competition and Markets Authority

A. Sánchez Graells, here. 

Algorithms Are Great and All, But They Can Also Ruin Lives

Wired.com, here. 

Payment card ruling could open new era for EU transparency

Euractiv.com, here. 

AG: SEP owner may be required, before seeking an injunction, to make a specific licensing offer

Press Release here; Opinion here. 

Senator Al Franken Asks Uber’s CEO Tough Questions On User Privacy

TechCrunch, here.

Which Mobile Apps Are Worst Privacy Offenders?

Spectrum.ieee.org, here.

Copyright Issues in Education and for the Visually-Impaired

A. Adler, here. 

Online Advertising Techniques for Counterfeit Goods and Illicit Sales

Stroppa et al., here.

Obama Scores on Net Neutrality

Foreignaffairs.com, here. 

In Europe, Slower Growth for e-Books

NYTimes, here.

Top Dutch speed skaters want EU to act on Ice Derby ban

DutchNews.nl, here.

Open Letter here. 

Understanding patents, competition and standardization in an interconnected world

ITU, here.

Die möglicherweise teuersten Taxis der Welt und der Uber Effekt: Gratis-WLAN in Schweizer Taxis

Heise.de, hier.

(BTW - Jemand sollte mal ein Paper über "The Swiss Paradox" schreiben: die angeblich innovationsreichste Nation der Welt mit einer der unproduktivsten Wettbewerbsbehörden. Oder hamma schon?)

Court: Google Can Arrange Search Results Any Way It Damn Pleases

Gizmodo.com, here. 

The Uncertain Scope of the Public Performance Right After American Broadcasting Companies v. Aereo, Inc.

M. Sag, here. 

Privatisation

UK House of Commons Library Research Paper, here. 

The Competitive Effects of Across-Platform Parity Agreements

Paolo Buccirossi
LEAR, Rome

Friday, 28th November, 2014 – 1.45 p.m.

Room 2B
Department of Economics and Management
Trento University, Italy

Airbnb and Hotels: What to Do About the Sharing Economy?

Wired.com, here.

Autorité de la concurrence saisie sur les relations contractuelles entre les hôteliers et les centrales de réservation sur internet

Reuters, ici.

Silicon Valley Antitrust: Syllabus

H. Kaiser, here.

Confessions of a price fixer

AutoNews.com, here.

The Ladies Vanish

Thenewinquiry.com, here. 

High-Cost Generic Drugs — Implications for Patients and Policymakers

J. Alpern, W. Stauffer, and A. Kesselheim, here. 

Au ministère de la Culture, inquiétudes autour du marché de l’occasion numérique

NextImpact, ici.

Est-ce que les juges européens seront moins frileux et plus imaginatifs que la plupart des politiciens nationaux? De toute façon, bon sujet à débattre dans le cadre de la Concertation nationale sur le numérique.

Internet of Things – Top 10 privacy and data protection concerns

JDSupra, here.

Federal Circuit: Novelty in Implementation of an Abstract Idea Insufficient to Overcome Alice

Patentlyo, here.

Prediction in Antitrust is Hard (But Some Predictions are Harder than Others)

J. Wright, presentation here.

For whom was Google really built?

I-comp.org, here. 

Study on Copyright Limitations and Exceptions for Libraries and Archives (2014 Update)

K. Crews, here.

Why Did Google Decide To Split Inbox From Gmail?

TechCrunch.com, here.

In Search of a Competition Doctrine for Information Technology Markets: Recent Antitrust Developments in the Online Sector

J. Eisenach and I. Knable Gotts, here. 

Going all in on GSU

Blogs.library.duke.edu, here. 

La CNMC multa a la SGAE con 3,1 millones de euros por la gestión de los derechos en los conciertos

Nota de prensa, aquì. 

In A Big Shift, Google’s Latest Ad Test Drives Users To Google Shopping, Not Advertisers’ Sites

SearchEngineLand, here.

Uber launches carpooling service in Paris as competition with BlaBlaCar looms

VentureBeat, here.

Monetising Online Content

In The Balance, BBC, Podcast here. 

ABA sections release comments on Australian Competition Policy Review Issues Paper

AmericanBar.org, here. 

WIPO Committee On Development Solves Two Standing Issues, Breaks Cycle Of Disagreement

IP-watch.org, here.

Amazon and Hachette kiss and make up

C. Doctorow,  here.

Why mobile data to prevent Ebola has not yet been released

TheEconomist, here.

Perhaps a further explanation: Telecoms fiercely opposed to setting a financially unpalatable precedent in the time of big data?  

Why I left United Airlines after the merger

T. Wu, here.

In Amazon/Hachette deal, ebook agency pricing is a winner

GigaOm, here.

Multa a Consiglio nazionale forense per aver ristretto concorrenza sui compensi

AGCM, Provvedimento qui.

Amazon v Hachette - Frozen Conflict

TheEconomist, here.

Perception des décisions de justice (type fermeture) par les consommateurs illicites

Hadopi, ici. 

Ten years after, ou : les licences libres et le spatial européen

La vie est mal configurée, ici. 

Firefox Leans Towards the Vertical

G. Moody, here. 

Do Free Mobile Apps Harm Consumers?

G. Sidak, here. 

Amazon and Hachette have finally resolved their bitter dispute

TheVerge, here.