“Big Data in the Platform Economy” – A Digest of the Conference

On May 13, 2016, the editors of IPdigIT organized a one-day conference to study the growing importance of ‘Big …

Personalized Pricing: “Big Data is watching you!”

Until recently, the idea of first-degree price discrimination was just a theoretical concept resting in standard microeconomics textbooks, as …

They may know it’s Xmas, but do they know there’s IP involved?

As Christmas is drawing nigh, I found it fun appropriate to collect a number of “IP Xmas stories”. As you will …

YouTube turns freemium

On October 28th YouTube launched its new subscription service YouTube Red. So far it is only available for viewers …

Le droit, l’économie et la géopolitique des données: Schrems, TPP, BEPS…

L’arrêt Schrems de la Cour de justice de l’UE, la conclusion d’un accord de libre échange trans-pacifique et le …

Strategic timing of movie releases

Large promotion and production budgets help movie studios not only to attract the audience but also to secure the most profitable …

L’avenir du droit d’auteur au-delà de la stratégie de la Commission européenne sur le Marché unique numérique

Le mercredi 6 mai, la Commission européenne dévoilera sa stratégie pour le Marché unique numérique (ici), l’une des priorités …

Business models for digital goods: video games (episodic games)

In a recent post on IPdigIT Paul Belleflamme raised the question of what might be appropriate business models for …

Business models for digital goods: video games (free-to-play games)

In a recent post on IPdigIT Paul Belleflamme raised the question of what might be appropriate business models for …

Coverage of the HSBC scandal: a story of two-sided media bias?

On February 17, 2015, Peter Osborne, the Daily Telegraph’s chief political commentator, has resigned from the paper.  He explains his …