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National Efforts to Control the Internet: to Regulate or Not?
Giovanni Maria Riccio
E-Lex Law Firm - Italy
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Taxonomy
• What is regulation? What is innovation?
• According to the neoliberal paradigm regulation is only a good regulation
• The problem is how the regulation fits with the emerging business models
• Why we consider the regulation as a limit to the innovation?
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Why companies innovate?
Successful innovation is normally a source of temporary market power, eroding the profits and position of old firms, yet ultimately succumbing to the pressure of new inventions commercialized by competing entrants
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The Circle of Innovation
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Disruptive Innovation
Lower performances
New performance features
Initially developed for small markets
Quality improves as the market/revenues improve
As the quality improves, the new products – offering new features – replace the older ones
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Regulation may…
Support innovation
Limit innovation
Be indifferent to the innovation (and leave space to self-regulatory measures)
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Supporting Innovation
• Interoperability and IoT technologies
• The necessity of using standardized technology is limited by existing patents
• SEPs (standard essential patents): patents which are essential to implement a specific industry standard
• SEPs grant patent holders a significant power towards other developers that cannot implement their inventions
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Motorola Case EU Commission April – 2014
• According to the European Commission, IP rights are a crucial aspect of the Single Market, as they play a key role in promoting innovation
• The injunction made by Motorola against Apple is an abuse of a dominant position
• Motorola, holding a SEP, licensed on FRAND terms (fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory)
• Apple agreed to enter into a FRAND licence agreement
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Limiting Innovation Uber Cases
• Madrid Commercial Court – Dec. 9, 2014 (Prel. injunction)
Uber doesn’t own the administrative authorizations required by the Spanish Law and by the Law of the Madrid Region and breaches the Spanish competition law of 1991
• Commercial Court of Bruxelles – Mar. 31, 2014
According to the SA Taxi Radio Bruxellois, Uber violates the unfair commercial practices as it offers its services lacking administrative authorizations
• German cases (Frankfurt, Hamburg, Berlin)
Again, administrative authorizations are required by the German Trasport Act - “PBefG”
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Are these provisions complying with the EU Treaty?
• According to Uber, State measures infringe articles 102 and 106 of TFEU since they would create a monopoly that is unfavorable to the welfare of consumers
• Commercial Court of Paris (Dec. 12, 2014)
Submitted the question to the French Constitutional Court as well as to the ECJ
French Constitutional Court – Décision n° 2015-468 – May 22, 2015
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Limiting Innovation (2)
• Article 180 of the Italian Copyright Law provides that the collecting management of copyright is reserved to the Italian society of authors and publishers (SIAE)
• The paradox after the CISAC decision: non Italians CCS can collect royalties in the Italian territory, which is forbidden to companies based within the Italian territory
• The EU Directive on CSS doesn’t affect existing monopolies
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National Efforts to Control the Internet
The “battle” of copyright holders
• HADOPI Law
• AGCom Regulation
• Ley Sinde
Addressing ISPs, user generated platforms or users liability is the right (and most efficient) way to protect copyright?
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Technical Solutions Rather than Regulatory Solutions
Two examples
Privacy by design
Attacking the money supply (so-called “follow the money approach”)
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Follow the money
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Privacy by Design and by Default
EU Data Protection Directive
• No specific rule addressed to privacy by design in the EU Directive
EU Data Protection Regulation
• Having regard to the state of the art and the cost of implementation, the controller shall implement appropriate technical and organizational measures and procedures in such a way that the processing will protect the rights of the data subject.
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