IPdigIT revient sur l’affaire ReDigi: adapter la technologie pour éviter l’interdit du droit

Dans un billet d’avril 2013 (ici) consacré à la revente de fichiers numériques de ‘seconde main’ sur ReDigi, IPdigIT …

A ‘multisourced’ case-study of a multisided platform

To paraphrase a famous Belgian surrealist artist: “This post is not a post“. More precisely, it is not a …

Are non-practicing entities (NPEs) aka ‘patent trolls’ operating in Europe?

Hee-Eun Kim, an associate with Covington & Burling LLP,  where I work as Of Counsel, has prepared a very …

When sheiks and cheques shake the media

  A media bias is defined by Wikipedia as the bias or perceived bias of journalists and news producers …

Planned obsolescence in the digital age

In about two weeks, on April the 8th, Microsoft is ending its support services for its popular operating system …

No need to ask for authorization before hyperlinking, but…what did the EU Court of Justice mean in Svensson?

In a previous post (see here), I had asked to anticipate the response of the Court of Justice of …

What drives self-regulation in the nascent P2P “ride-sharing” industry?

The American company Uber has been all over the news in Belgium over the last three weeks. Uber connects passengers …

How do comparison shopping sites make a living?

Comparison shopping sites, also known as shopping robots or shopbots, have been around for about two decades. Sites such …

Prezi: a successful freemium model?

Last year, I had to deliver a speech about the economics of Internet to a non-technical audience. To make …

Association avec la Coupe du Monde 2014: quelle limite au marketing sauvage?

Personne n’ignore que la Coupe du Monde de football se déroulera au Brésil en juin-juillet 2014, ni que la …