Data Protection Commissioner gets extra €1.2m funding

Irishtimes.com, here. 

Lyft Adds Ride History With Map Details, Price Breakdown, Tips, And Lost & Found

Androidpolice.com, here.

Amazon reaches deal with deaf rights group to caption all video

ArsTechnica, here. 

Applied Infonomics: Why and How to Value Your Information as an Asset

Blogs.gartner.com, here. 

Netflix’s excuse for its slow growth is a head-scratcher

Wired, here. 

The Role of Consumer Protection in a Fair Market Economy

W. Kovacic, Presentation here 

How Machines Learn (And You Win)

HBR, here. 

How to listen to (and delete) everything you've ever said to Google

Theguardian.com, here. 

European Commission signs best practices merger cooperation framework with China

Press Release, here. 

Consumers are no longer 'Googling' products, they're 'Amazoning' them

Bizjournals.com, here (research by BloomReach, co-founded by former Google scientist).

Europe’s big data protection opportunity

G. Buttarelli, here. 

Deterrence and macroeconomic impact of the work of competition authorities

Motivation and purpose of the conference explained here. Conference presentations, here..

Ordnungspolitik und Kartellrecht im Zeitalter der Digitalisierung

J. Haucap, hier. 

The When and What of Active Supervision

FTC Blog, here. 

Antitrust claim for “sham” patent enforcement

Shuffle Tech International v. Scientific Games Corporation, here.

Positionspapier zum Urteil des Gerichtshofs der Europäischen Union vom 6. Oktober 2015, C-362/14

Unabhängiges Landeszentrum für Datenschutz, hier. 

Bell Canada reaches agreement with Competition Bureau over online reviews

Competitionbureau.gc.ca, here. 

“The Continuing Relevance of Hayek’s The Constitution of Liberty”

R. Epstein, Video here. 

The Final Leaked TPP Text Is All That We Feared

EFF, here. 

Sunlight: Fine-grained Targeting Detection at Scale with Statistical Confidence

M. Lecuyer, R. Spahn, Y. Spiliopoulos, A. Chaintreau, R. Geambasu, and D. Hsu, here. 

Airbnb and eDreams give undertakings to ACCC for improved pricing practices

ACCC, here. 

China Proposes Stricter Laws Targeted At Ridesharing Apps Like Didi Kuaidi And Uber

TechCrunch, here. 

Uber : dans les coulisses d’une machine de guerre juridique

LesEchos, ici. 

Vertical agreements between suppliers and retailers that specify a relative price relationship between competing products or competing retailers

M. Hviid for the OECD, here .

Contributions to the October 2015 OECD hearing by Italy, France, Germany, Sweden, UK, US (to be updated). Two key contributions (still?) missing: Australia and the European Union...

Guru denied copyright protection for Bikram yoga sequence of postures

Arstechnica, here. 

Résoudre le casse-tête du financement de la numérisation patrimoniale ?

Scinfolex.com, ici.

New CJEU reference on linking and streaming of unlawful content

IFFRO, here. 

Trove Lets You Customize Gold and Silver Jewelry Using 3D Printing

TechCrunch, here. 

Jet, la start-up qui veut bousculer Amazon, change déjà de modèle

LeMonde, ici.

Data-Driven Innovation: Big Data for Growth and Well-Being

OECD, here (read only - no search, offline reading, etc.; PDF available, 73 EUR).

Amazon now wants to sell you yogurt soaps and handmade cat lamps, too

ArsTechnica, here. 

Google denies Android Auto car system sends it user's driving data

TheGuardian, here.

Volkswagen’s emissions cheating scandal has a long, complicated history

ArsTechnica, here. 

Competition Commission of Pakistan to probe fare raise by private airlines

Thenews.com.pk, here. 

Panels: WTO Could Play Crucial Role In Challenges Facing Global Digital Trade

IP-watch.org, here. 

The Brussels Court Judgement in Commission v Elevators Manufacturers, or the Story of How the Commission Lost an Action for Damages Based on its Own Infringement Decision

J. Marcos Ramos, D. Muheme, here. 

Expedia defends hotel contracts being scrutinised by ACCC

Theage.com.au, here. 

Get AMP’d: Here’s what publishers need to know about Google’s new plan to speed up your website

NiemanLab, here.

Position Paper Concerning the Implementation of the WIPO Marrakesh Treaty

Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, here, 

Amazon Shuts Down Its Music Importer Software, Points Users To Amazon Music App Instead

Techcrunch.com, here. 

Uber ou comment conquérir une position dominante mondiale en un temps record

F. Lévêque, ici. 

Sunken Safe Harbor: 5 Implications of Schrems and US-EU Data Transfer

D. Solove, here. 

Airbnb expands business travel focus with BridgeStreet deal

TNooz, here. 

University of Luxembourg professor makes internet waves

wwwen.uni.lu, here. 

Does your website have a leak?

Iconewsblog.wordpress.com, here. 

Non-disparagement clauses vs. your right to leave negative reviews online

VentureBeat, here.

Ddl concorrenza: sì all'emendamento sugli hotel (narrow MFN)

IlSole24Ore, qui.

Art. 32. 1.
(Nullità delle clausole contrattuali che vietano alle imprese ricettive di offrire prezzi e condizioni migliori rispetto a quelli praticati da piattaforme di distribuzione online).
  1. È nullo ogni patto con il quale l'impresa turistico-ricettiva si obbliga a non praticare alla clientela finale, con qualsiasi modalità e qualsiasi strumento, prezzi, termini e ogni altra condizione che siano migliorativi rispetto a quelli praticati dalla stessa impresa per il tramite di soggetti terzi, indipendentemente dalla legge regolatrice del contratto. 

ФАС России выдала Google предписание

Fas.gov.ru, Вот
Резолютивная часть решения, Вот.

Haunted By Data

M. Cegłowski, here. 

The Court of Justice of the European Union invalidates the EU Commission Safe Harbor Decision

WP29, here. 

Apple Approves An App That Blocks Ads In Native Apps, Including Apple News

TechCrunch, here. 

Amazon commands almost half of all product searches, and marketers are ignoring omnichannel

VentureBeat, here. 

The Arrival of Algorithmic Business

Gartner.com, here. 

Digitale Ökonomie – Internetplattformen zwischen Wettbewerbsrecht, Privatsphäre und Verbraucherschutz

Bundeskartellamt, hier. 

Investigation of the online travel agency Expedia closed

Konkurrensverket, here. 

Comment of the Global Antitrust Institute, George Mason University School of Law, on the Korea Fair Trade Commission's Revised Review Guidelines on Unfair Exercise of Intellectual Property Rights

Here.

IoT: Enterprises, not consumers, the likely beneficiaries

Deloitte, here. 

Functionality and Expression in Computer Programs: Refining the Tests for Software Copyright Infringement

P. Samuelson, here. 

"Prep document" ahead of the CJEU ruling on Safe Harbor

M. Schrems, here. 

The European Commission’s ISU antitrust investigation explained

Asser.nl, here. 

Schrems gegen Facebook: "Offline gehen ist keine Lösung"

Diepresse.com, hier. 

DMCA doesn't block reverse engineering of vehicle diagnosis software but TM might

Tushnet.blogspot.ch, here. 

Lufthansa stellt sich der Kritik an Buchungskosten

Heise.de, hier. 

Commission opens formal investigation into International Skating Union's eligibility rules

Press Release, here. 

Future reading

C. Mod, here.

Tracking not allowed (unless you’re Google)

A. Grunes, here. 

Huaweï v ZTE – Judicial Conservatism at the Antitrust and IP Intersection

N. Petit, here. 

Searching for harm or harming search? A look at the European Commission’s antitrust investigation against Google

A. Renda, here. 

Competition in telecom markets

M. Vestager, here. 

Protocole d'accord pour un développement équitable de la musique en ligne : Les Artistes disent oui

Lagam.org, ici. 

Macht das Kartellrecht deutsche Internetunternehmen kaputt?

Diskussionsrunde zum Kartellrecht, Video hier. 

The values of competition policy in Europe

M. Vestager, here. 

Des taxis robots testés dès aujourd'hui au Japon

Numerama.com, ici. 

Amazons alberne Argumente

Heise.de, hier.

Newsonomics: The Washington Post offers an Arc in the storm

Niemanlab.org, here.

The price of the Internet of Things will be a vague dread of a malicious world

Ieet.org, here. 

New US Senate Bill Protects Online Reviews

Project-disco, here.

Competition and economic growth

D. Currie, here. 

FTC Files Amicus Brief Explaining that Pharmaceutical “Product Hopping” Can Violate the Antitrust Laws

FTC, here. 

A Competition Law Assessment of Platform Most-Favoured-Customer Clauses

P. Akman, .here.

Un an après la première action de groupe à la française, les consommateurs ne font pas vraiment trembler les entreprises

Atlantico.fr, ici.. 

Achmea biedt premiekorting bij delen privédata

NOS.nl, hier. 

Competition Rebooted: Enforcement and personal data in digital markets

G. Buttarelli, here. 

US-style class actions introduced in UK

BBC.com, here.

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.