January 18th, 2012 was the largest online protest in history to stop the internet censorship bills, SOPA & PIPA. On January 20th, Congress shelved the bills indefinitely. If they return, we must be ready. Everybody has heard about the largest online strike of last week, with the blackout of Wikipedia and Reddit […]
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The online strike against SOPA and PIPA: exit the law, will a new Internet ‘code’ help?
By 25 January 2012 1
Online banking, switching costs and competition: a complex story
By 18 January 2012 59
(Updated February 7, 2013) In an article published in October 2012 in the New York Times, Nelson D. Schwartz suggests that online banking creates switching costs and, thereby, reduces competition in the US banking sector. The title of the article summarizes the argument in a forceful way: “Online Banking Keeps Customers on Hook for Fees”. Mr. Schwartz illustrates […]
Is the US patent system sick? Discussion about ‘Patent Medicine’
By 21 September 2011 34
On August 15, Google bid $12.5 billion to acquire the Motorola Mobility mobile phone business. This deal raises a few questions. 1. What are the various reasons behind this acquisition? To respond to this question, you might start here. In your response, you should focus on the legal aspects. You will discover that intellectual property […]
The Premier League case: not the last case on internal market restrictions before the ECJ
By 7 May 2011 0
In the Premier League case, the Court of Justice of the EU (Cases C-403/08 and C-429/08) is asked to give a preliminary ruling on several questions asked by the UK High Court of Justice in relation to the marketing of decoder cards and the satellite transmission of football matches throughout the internal market. The facts […]
A paperback version of “Intellectual Property and Theories of Justice” (Palgrave, Nov. 2010)
By 5 December 2010 0
The book “Intellectual Property and Theories of Justice” edited by Axel Gosseries, Alain Marciano and myself is available in paperback since November 2010. Please visit the page of the publisher here. The book benefits from a positive review of Richard Posner, now Judge at the US Court or Appeal, Seventh Circuit, formerly Professor at the […]
Towards an ethical music downloading?
By 3 December 2010 9
In expressing your opinion about digital piracy (in reaction to my post of last week), many of you suggested that the copyright industries should find alternative and creative ways to distribute their content in order to better compete with end-user piracy. Here is a sample of your comments: “Companies should find an alternative like […]
Legal responses to online piracy
By 27 November 2010 35
Yesterday (November 26, 2010), the New York Times published two short articles concerning online piracy of digital goods. The first article (Swedish Court Upholds Convictions in File-Sharing Case) reports that an appeals court in Sweden upheld the copyright convictions of three men behind Pirate Bay, a popular file-sharing site that remains in operation despite attempts to […]
Bokhylla.no, the Norwegian bookshelf: a model?
By 3 October 2010 0
On September 30, EFTA (by the way, do you remember the countries which are still members of the European Free Trade Association? do you know that EFTA was celebrating its 50th birthday in 2010 ? more on EFTA)… EFTA was thus organising a copyright conference at its Brussels HQ on “The Nordic Model – Extended […]
“Party’s over for US music downloads”: what could cheer up the music industry?
By 27 September 2010 0
Today (27 Sept. 2010), the Financial Times, under the title “Party’s over for US music downloads”, reports that the online sale of music during the first half of 2010 is flat compared to the same period last year (in 2009, downloads were increasing at 13% a year, and in 2008, at 28% a year). The […]
The Google Book Settlement – The Challenge of Building a Digital Library that Benefits All
By 1 September 2010 0
Friday 12 February 2010 – From: 13:45 To: 17:45 On 12 February, the Centre for Innovation and Intellectual Property of the Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis in Brussels (FUSL – Académie Louvain) , jointly with the Institute for European Legal Studies (IEJE) of the University of Liege (ULg), will hold in Brussels a half-day conference entitled “The […]
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