by Kevin Coates | Aug 5, 2014 | News from around the Web
From ongoing by Tim Bray: Legal Advice “ Hey, are you operating an app or a Web site? If so, are you among the (large number of) people (for example, Instagram) who connect via “http:” instead of “https:”? Here’s some advice....
by Kevin Coates | Jul 23, 2014 | News from around the Web
From Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog: Weak versus Strong Net Neutrality “Joshua S. Gans, University of Toronto – Rotman School of Management describes Weak versus Strong Net Neutrality. ABSTRACT: This paper provides a framework to classify and evaluate the impact of net neutrality regulations on the allocation of consumer attention...
by Kevin Coates | Jul 23, 2014 | News from around the Web
From Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog: Weak versus Strong Net Neutrality “Joshua S. Gans, University of Toronto – Rotman School of Management describes Weak versus Strong Net Neutrality. ABSTRACT: This paper provides a framework to classify and evaluate the impact of net neutrality regulations on the allocation of consumer attention...
by Kevin Coates | Jul 9, 2014 | News from around the Web
From Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog: The Areeda-Turner Test for Exclusionary Pricing: A Critical Journal “Herb Hovenkamp has an interesting paper on The Areeda-Turner Test for Exclusionary Pricing: A Critical Journal. ABSTRACT: Few works of legal scholarship have had the impact enjoyed by Areeda and Turner’s 1975 article on predatory pricing. Proof of predatory...
by Kevin Coates | Jun 24, 2014 | News from around the Web
From Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog: The Areeda-Turner Test for Exclusionary Pricing: A Critical Journal “Herb Hovenkamp (Iowa) discusses The Areeda-Turner Test for Exclusionary Pricing: A Critical Journal. ABSTRACT: Few works of legal scholarship have had the impact enjoyed by Areeda and Turner’s 1975 article on predatory pricing. Proof of predatory pricing under the...
by Kevin Coates | Jun 15, 2014 | News from around the Web
From Antitrust Law Blog: Department of Justice Opens Review of ASCAP and BMI Consent Decrees “The Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice this month announced that it has opened a review of the 73-year-old ASCAP and BMI Consent Decrees. In its press release, the DOJ noted that it is most interested in comments “on competitive concerns that arise from the joint licensing of music by performance rights organizations and … Continue...
by Kevin Coates | Jun 9, 2014 | News from around the Web
From Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog: Software Interoperability Information Disclosure and Competition Law “Qang Yu, Leiden Law School discusses Software Interoperability Information Disclosure and Competition Law. ABSTRACT: Software interoperability information is indispensable in establishing connections among the parts of a program and to applications and users. According to the concepts of copyright...
by Kevin Coates | Jun 4, 2014 | News from around the Web
From Journal of Competition Law and Economics – current issue: DO COMMON CARRIAGE, SPECIAL INFRASTRUCTURE, AND GENERAL PURPOSE TECHNOLOGY RATIONALES JUSTIFY REGULATING COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS? “”
by Kevin Coates | May 27, 2014 | News from around the Web
From Journal of European Competition Law & Practice – Advance Access: New EU Technology Transfer Block Exemption: A Note of Caution “”
by Kevin Coates | May 22, 2014 | News from around the Web
From Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog: Antitrust Limits on Targeted Patent Aggregation “Alan Devlin (Latham) has a new paper on Antitrust Limits on Targeted Patent Aggregation. ABSTRACT: Patent-assertion entities, or “PAEs,” are non-technology-practicing companies that aggregate and license patents under threat of suit. Their activities have drawn fire, including Presidential condemnation,...