Big Data: The Amazing Numbers in 2015

Bigdatanews, here. 

Google Ads Boss: ‘We Need to Deal With’ Ad Blocking as an Industry

Recode.net, here. 

Transport for London’s plans to crack down on taxi hire app Uber

Order-order.com, here. 

Gazprom: seeking a rapprochement with the EU?

Bruegel, here

Court Strikes Down Payments to College Athletes

NYTimes, here. 

Formula 1 presto nel mirino dell’antitrust europeo?

S. Benedettini, qui.

Most millennials are willing to pay for content, but not so much for news

Niemanlab.org, here. 

China hands Microsoft administrative fine over Xbox venture

Reuters.com, here.

Insumos Esenciales, Reguladores y Lecciones para América Latina

Entrevista con el Prof. Richard Whish, aquì. 

Neue Top Level Domains: zögerliche Nutzung der Marken-Privilegien

Heise.de, hier. 

Enquiries into Intellectual Property's Economic Impact

OECD, here. 

The Connectivity Declaration

Here. 

Julia Reda: „Eine europäische Öffentlichkeit braucht ein europäisches Urheberrecht“

J. Reda, hier. 

Competition, Trade and Development

E. Fox, Video here. 

Le projet de loi pour une République numérique

Republique-numerique.fr/, ici.

Google Search Is 4th Most Popular App & Growing Faster Than Facebook

SearchEngineLand, here.

Data Driven Everything Remains Elusive

TechCrunch, here.

A structural break cartel screen for dating and detecting collusion

C. Crede, here. 

Google Said to Be Under U.S. Antitrust Scrutiny Over Android

Bloomberg, here. 

Leistungsschutzrecht: Snippet-Tarif der VG Media "nicht angemessen"

Heise.de, hier. 

Competition rebooted: Enforcement and personal data in digital markets

A. Lamadrid, here. 

Public consultation on the regulatory environment for platforms, online intermediaries, data and cloud computing and the collaborative economy

Questionnaire, here.

(Short) Background info, here.

Safe Harbor menacé : l'industrie du Cloud monte au créneau

Numerama.com, ici. 

Building a global community of practice

M. Vestager, here. 

Loterie Nationale belge condamnée pour abus de position dominante

LeVif.be, ici. 

Broadening the Lens on Investigating Potential Collusion in the U.S. Airline Industry

AAI, here. 

How big (and bad) adblocking could get – and why news sites should sell adblockers

TheOverspill, here. 

The Arrival of Artificial Intelligence and “The Death of Contract”

I. Kerr, here. 

European Court Adviser Calls Trans-Atlantic Data-Sharing Pact Insufficient

NYTimes, here, 

Stellungnahmen zur Sektoruntersuchung Nachfragemacht im Lebensmitteleinzelhandel

Bundeskartellamt.de, hier. 

The Web as Platform Data: Flows in Social Media

A. Helmond, here. 

If cars cheat, what else?

NYTimes, here. 

The Internet of Everything: Data, Networks & Opportunities

M. Ohlhausen, here.

VW scandal highlights irony of EPA opposition to vehicle software tinkering

ArsTechnica, here.

See also EFF, here. 

Who owns the road? The IoT-connected car of today—and tomorrow

Deloitte, here. 

Airlines' privacy policies do little to protect consumers' personal data

LATimes, here. 

Big Data and smart devices and their impact on privacy

European Parliament, Study for the LIBE Committee, here. 

The Macron Law: what it changes in Competition Law

Eversheds.com, here. 

Les chiffres qui expliquent pourquoi Uber cartonne

LeMonde, ici. 

The Digital Single Market, consumers and EU competition policy

J. Laitenberger, here. 

Upcoming OECD buoyant roundtable: Competition and across platform parity agreements!

OECD, here.

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. 

Open Data : Météo-France ouvre ses modèles atmosphériques

Nextinpact.com, ici.

Exploring Zero-Rating Challenges: Views From Five Countries

C. Rossini, T. Moore, here. 

Disneyland Paris faces pricing probe

BBC, here.

Uber: The Mirage of the Marketplace

Slate.com, here. 

The ‘gig economy’ is coming. What will it mean for work?

TheGuardian, here. 

Why the internet of things favours dominance

TheGuardian, here.

On Extraterritoriality and the Gazprom Case

M. Martyniszyn, here. 

EDPS recommendations on the EU’s options for data protection reform

Opinion 3/2015, here. 

The European Commission’s Battle Over Pay-TV Services: Can Segmenting the EU Market Be Justified?

A. Stephan, here.

Copyright reform through competition law? The Commission’s statement of objections in the pay TV investigation

P. Ibanez-Colomo, here.

The online classroom is a surveilled classroom: no privacy here

NYBook.com, here.

Apple Music's Worst Feature? You can't delete it

Wired, here.

Advocate general deals another blow to economic assessment of rebates

KluwerCompetitionLawBlog, here. 

Is streaming good for music?

BBC World Service, Beach Podcast  here.

Can anything curb the dominance of the internet's big guns?

TheGuardian, here.

European Commission sends Statement of Objections on cross-border provision of pay-TV services available in UK and Ireland

Press Release, here. 

Oracle seeks permission to update copyright lawsuit against Google

Reuters, here.

Oracle Request to Supplement Java Lawsuit here. 

Aeroflot boykottiert Kartenzahlung

Biztravel, hier.

Wenn die Bestpreisklauseln wegfallen, sinken dann jetzt die Preise?

FAZ, hier. 

Supply Chains Morphing Into ‘Value Webs’

Deloitte, here. 

Consumer Watchdog alleges Apple Music plot to crush streaming music business

Katyonthehill.com, here.
Letter here. 

Australian Online Copyright Infringement Research

TNS for the Department of Communications, here. 

CJEU ruling in Huawei/ZTE leaves the door open to injunctive relief in SEP litigation

Allen & Overy, here. 

Google, Facebook get behind Samsung in patent battle with Apple

CNET.com, here. 

Taylor Swift: Can online travel learn from her haggling skill?

Tnooz, here. 

Auch Monopolist darf Patentverletzer verklagen

FAZ, hier. 

On-demand Transport: A discussion paper for future innovation

West Australian Department of Transport, here. 

Das Bundeskartellamt und die TV-Branche

DWDL.de, hier. 

UK non-paper on the sharing economy

Department for Business, Innovation and Skill, here. 

Airline passengers file antitrust suit against the world’s three largest global distribution systems (GDSs) for airline tickets

Tnooz.com, here. 

Uber Says Spain Legal Case Has Been Referred To The European Court Of Justice

TechCrunch, here. 

Inside Spotify’s hunt for the perfect playlist

Wired, here. 

UK government releases rules to get self-driving cars onto public roads

ArsTechnica, here. 

The Importance of Protecting Our Attention

ABC, here. 

16 Franken pro Ticket – Swiss führt GDS-Gebühr ein

TravelInside.ch, hier. 

Countries should address disruptive effects of the digital economy

OECD, Press Release, here. 

Lufthansa claims it is on solid legal ground over GDS tax move

Tnooz.com, here. See also here. 

Everything to know about the FTC’s antitrust review of Apple’s music business

WashingtonPost, here. 

Brazil agency to offer pro-competition view on any Uber lawsuits

WKZO, here. 

CJEU: Huawei v. ZTE

Press release, here. Judgment here.

"Moreover, in February 2013 a German Regional Tribunal posed to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) five questions whose answers could be influential in shaping the interpretation of Article 102 TFEU with regard to intellectual property rights’ enforcement in the context of standardization" from some notes I took back in April 2013, here (it feels like AGES ago).

Bundeskartellamt verhängt Bußgelder gegen Rüstungslieferanten wegen Kartellabsprachen

Bundeskartellamt, hier. 

European Commission opens antitrust investigations against Qualcomm—again

ArsTechnica, here.

Leniency, damages, and EU competition policy

P. Buccirossi, C. Marvão, G. Spagnolo, here. 

TripAdvisor Wins in Italy as Court Rejects Hotels’ Fake Reviews Complaints

Skift, here.

And Then the Earth Shook: Google Enters Travel Booking

Skift, here. 

Apple’s Share of Smartphone Industry’s Profits Soars to 92%

Wsj.com, here. 

Google accidentally reveals data on 'right to be forgotten' requests

TheGuardian, here. 

Position Paper on Amazon’s Book Selling Practices

Authors United, here.

Challenges for Competition Policy in a Digitalised Economy

European Parliament, here. 

Banken im Strudel der Digitalisierung

Capital.de, hier. 

Patent Landscape Report on Assistive Devices and Technologies for Visually and Hearing Impaired Persons

WIPO, here. 

Silently debuting homestays, Booking.com jabs Airbnb

Tnooz.com, here. 

Focus on the User

Here.

Costly comparison

The Economist, here.

Accusing Amazon of Antitrust Violations, Authors and Booksellers Demand Inquiry

NYTimes, here.

Spotify makes case against Apple in Congress

Politico.com, here. 

Authors Guild Slams 'Inadequate' E-book Royalty

PublishersWeekly, here,
Authors Guild's analysis here.

Platform Shift

M. Van Alstyne, here.

FTC exploring Apple rules for streaming music rivals in App Store

Reuters, here.