Facebook’s Restrictions on User Data Cast a Long Shadow

WSJ, here. 

Five steps to success in the sharing economy

PCW, here. 

Welcome To The Internet Of Cheating Things

TechDirt, here.

Oktoberfest 2015: no beer without patents

EPO, here. 

Droit au déréférencement : rejet du recours gracieux formé par Google à l’encontre de la mise en demeure

CNIL, ici. 

Big Tech Has Become Way Too Powerful

NYTimes.com, here. 

VW Is Said to Cheat on Diesel Emissions; U.S. to Order Big Recall

Nytimes.com, here. 

Uber Files Antitrust Suit Against Taxi Commission; Defiantly Turns On UberX

Stlouis.cbslocal.com, here. 

Airlines not trying very hard to fight intermediaries in Google search

Tnooz, here. 

Uber accused of price-fixing in $150M lawsuit by Edmonton taxi companies

CBC.ca, here. Legal filing here (competition, §§ 348 ff.).

Transfer fees could go if Fifpro wins legal action against Fifa

TheGuardian, here. 

Huawei v ZTE – No More Need To Look At The Orange Book In SEP Disputes

White & Case, here. 

BlaBlaCar, Airbnb : le Sénat veut fiscaliser les revenus supérieurs à 5.000 euros

LesEchos.fr, ici. 

Herzensbrecher - Dating-Plattform Lovoo im Fake-Verdacht

Heise.de, hier. 

German and Spanish Competition Authorities Got It Right on the Ancillary Copyright for Press Publishers

Project-disco.org, here. 

Measuring The Offline Value Of Paid Search Clicks During The Holidays & Beyond

Searchengineland.com, here. 

Does the 'right to be forgotten' apply to company registers?

Case C-398/15 - Manni, Questions to the CJEU (not yet available on the Curia's website - ?), referring Corte di Cassazione qui.

Exploitative Prices in European Competition Law

A. Robles Martín-Laborda, here. 

E-books: A Tale of Digital Disruption

R. Gilbert, here. 

Global Innovation Index 2015

WIPO, here. 

Online Platforms and the EU Digital Single Market: Call for Evidence

UK House of Lords, here. 

EU Directive on Antitrust Damages Actions: an economic analysis

P. van Wijck, J. Winter, here. 

Patent Settlements in the Pharmaceutical Industry: What Can We Learn From Economic Analysis?

W. Kerber, S. Frank, here. 

Searching a Rationale for Search Neutrality in the Age of Google

V. Falce, M. Granieri, here. 

Public and Private Antitrust Enforcement: Does the EU Directive Preserve Leniency Incentives?

M. Buiten, here. 

The valuation of unprotected works: A case study of public domain photopraphs on Wikipedia

P. Heald, M. Kretschmer, K. Erickson, here. 

Justice Department Will Not Challenge Expedia's Acquisition of Orbitz

Justice.gov, here. 

Apple will ask Supreme Court to hear its ebooks price-fixing case

Fortune.com, here. 

Refusal to license intellectual property under Chinese antitrust regime

Internationallawoffice.com, here. 

5 Ways Big Data is Making a Splash in the Insurance Industry

Bigdatanews.com, here. 

TV ad on abuse of dominance (India)

Video here.

Thank you CCI! Also a powerful introduction to a course on competition policy for managers.

Should libraries start ditching books to bring in new tech?

Washingtonpost.com, here.


“Siempre imaginé que el Paraíso sería algún tipo de biblioteca”
Jorge Luis Borges

Nestlé likely to lose bid to trade mark shape of Kit Kat bars in light of EU court ruling

Out-law.com, here. 

A Berne-compatible reconciliation of hyperlinking and the communication to the public right on the internet

ALAI, here. 

CMA closes hotel online booking investigation

CMA, Press release here. 

Stretching EU competition law tools for search engines and social networks

I. Graef, here. 

Fair Use vs. Algorithms: What the Dancing Baby Did to Copyright

Motherboard.vice.com, here. 

Is Uber's ultimate goal the privatisation of city governance?

TheGuardian.com, here. 

Competition impact assessment

CMA, Part 1 here; 2 here. 

Geld oder Daten! – Ihre Daten sind der Lufthansa teuer

Heise.de, hier. 

Google Found Guilty of ‘Abusing Dominant Market Position’ in Russia

WSJ, here. 

Google злоупотребляет доминирующим положением на рынке предустановленных магазинов приложений в ОС "Андроид"

Fas.gov.ru, вот and here.

Personal Data Stores

G. Brochot, J. Brunini, R. Larsen, D. Lewis, F. Liu Eisma, here. 

The Secret of Airbnb’s Pricing Algorithm

Spectrum.ieee.org, here. 

Provisional text of the Commission’s online platforms consultation

Politico.eu, here. 

Towards a new digital ethics

The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS), here. 

Intellectual property and competition

M. Vestager, here.

Why India’s online shopping revolution won’t kill brick-and-mortar stores

Qz.com, here.

What may make Amazon inclined to poach your product

HBR.org, here. Paper here. 

Die wettbewerbsrechtliche Zulässigkeit von Meistbegünstigungsklauseln auf Buchungsplattformen am Beispiel von HRS

L. Hamelmann, J. Haucap, C. Wey, hier.

Free Software Establishments in India Fight Back as Efforts to Spread Software Patents Are Reported

Techrights.org, here. 

Input Price Discrimination (Bans), Entry and Welfare

M. Dertwinkel-Kalt, J. Haucap, C. Wey, here.

In European Journal of Law and Economics 2015 under the title "Procompetitive Dual Pricing"

Matera v. Google

Case number 5:15-cv-04062, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, here. 

Impacto del Nuevo Artículo 32.2 de la Ley de Propiedad Intelectual

Nera para la Asociación Española de Editoriales de Publicaciones Periódicas (AEEPP), aquì. 

Emerging forms of innovation in the Internet of Things

Deloitte, here. 

Beschluss zum Streit um das Leistungsschutzrecht

Bundeskartellamt, hier.

"Auch ein marktbeherrschendes Unternehmen kann kartellrechtlich nicht dazu verpflichtet werden, bei einer ungeklärten Rechtslage ein erhebliches Schadensersatzrisiko einzugehen"

Décision du 9 septembre 2015 relative à une demande de mesures conservatoires de la société Gibmedia

Autorité de la concurrence, ici. Communiqué de presse ici. 

The Billboard Effect is dead, says a study of hotels listed on OTAs

Tnooz, here. 

Competencia cuestiona la protección al sector del taxi

ElPais, aquì.

Cars, newspapers and permissionless innovation

B. Evans, here. 

Data protection and service providers - new obligations, liabilities and contract changes loom

Out-Law.com, here. 

Microsoft is using Bing to discourage Windows 10 users from downloading Chrome and Firefox

VentureBeat, here. 

Wettbewerbspolitik in digitalen Märkten aus Verbrauchersicht

Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband, hier. 

Quand "l'ubérisation" gagne (aussi) nos assiettes

LExpress.fr, ici. 

When Big Data Becomes Bad Data

Propublica.org, here. 

The Role of Market Transparency in Assessing MFN Clauses

I. Vandenborre, M. Frese, here. 

Canadian company accuses majors of anti-competitive behaviour over public domain Beatles tracks

Completemusicupdate.com, here. 

Responses to CMA Consultation Regarding Potential Remedies in the Energy Market Investigation

C. Waddams, M. Hviid, D. Deller, here. 

Checking Out? Hilton’s App Now Lets You Grab An Uber

TechCrunch, here. 

Uber verbieten, um Monopole zu schützen

J. Haucap, hier. 

Wie Online-Händler Kunden zum Kauf drängen

NDR.de, hier. 

Il caso Booking: prove generali di cooperazione tra le autorita nazionali di concorrenza

N. Latronico, qui.

The Essential Guide to drafting Commission documents on EU competition law

F. Ronkes Agerbeek, here. 

A lawyer's alleged double life could screw up one of the biggest antitrust settlements in US history

UK.businessinsider.com, here. 

Google Redress and Integrity Platform

Grip.eu, here. Press release here. 

CCI charges Google with rigging search results; Flipkart, Facebook corroborate complaints

Economictimes.indiatimes.com, here. 

Hotels Fight Back Against Sites Like Expedia and Priceline

NYTimes, here. 

Flight Centre's legal win to be challenged

News.com.au, here.

Judgment here. 

Anything wrong with asking for the best price?

J. Sim, H.L. Tan, here. 

Offline? How Europe can catch up with US technology

 Centre for European Reform, here. 

The essence of Josh Wright’s FTC tenure was to ensure that benefits outweigh costs; the rest is commentary

G. Manne, here. 

Improving quality isn’t anti-competitive

Googlepolicyeurope.blogspot, here. 

Price Comparison Websites

D. Ronayne, here. 

Rechtswidrige Beschränkungen des Online-Vertriebs bei Laufschuhen von ASICS

Bundeskartellamt, hier. 

PRS for Music takes SoundCloud to court

Musicweek.com, here. 

Internet and Mobile Association of India Opposes Zero Rating

Press Release, here. 

Digital Star Chamber

F. Pasquale, here. 

#BajarPrecioGasolina: 30 recomendaciones de la CNMC

CNMC, aquì. 

Lobby-Kampf um die EU-Datenschutzreform kommt ins Kino

Heise.de, hier. 

Digital platforms: Competition and government oversight

Application Developers Alliance, here.

UK Competition Authority Takes Action Against Suspected Excessive Pricing of Pharmaceuticals

Cooley.com, here. 

BGH verwirft Apple-Patent auf die typische Schiebe-Geste zum Entsperren der iPhones und iPads

FAZ, hier. 

Vente de jeux d'occasion : Fleur Pellerin appelée à plus de clarté

Numerama, ici. 

Digital surveillance 'worse than Orwell', says new UN privacy chief

TheGuardian, here. 

Intellectual Property Issues in a Global Context: Management & Policy Concerns

D. Teece, here.

EU seeks views on the Satellite and Cable Directive

Press announcement here.

Is Amazon Creating a Cultural Monopoly?

NewYorker, here. 

Canadian Maple Syrup ‘Rebels’ Clash With Law

NYTimes, here. 

In Uber’s Quest to Win Over China, Tencent Blocks the Way

Bloomberg.com, here.

Authors United asks DOJ for Amazon probe

Thebookseller.com, here.