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This week the EU Commission announced that it has started antitrust investigations against the platform group Apple. Both antitrust proceedings are focused on the terms and conditions of Apple’s platform. One concerns the conditions for the App Store (Commission press release); the other concerns the conditions for Apple Pay (Commission press release). In both cases...Continue Reading
End of last year I reported on the introduction of a new provision in the German ZAG aka PSSA, Section 58a PSSA. You will find this regulation there cited in its entirety. It contains provisions on sector-specific access regulation. It is intended to overcome competitive abuses in the field of mobile payment solutions. This regulation...Continue Reading
In Germany, the following new regulation has been in force since the beginning of this year: Access to technical infrastructure services for the provision of payment services or e-money (1) An undertaking contributing through technical infrastructure services to the provision of payment services or the conduct of e-money business within the national territory (system undertaking)...Continue Reading
Promotion in my own interest: the handbook “Datenrecht in der Digitalisierung” (Data Law in Digitalisation), edited by Louisa Specht-Riemenschneider, Nikola Werry and Susanne Werry, is now available. It is a very opulent volume, which in the end only just misses the 1,000 page mark. Not that the mere number of pages matters: But more than...Continue Reading
Google has been imposed various provisional obligations by the French competition authority Autorité de la Concurrence in connection with the enforcement of the so-called ancillary copyright for press publishers. The company must therefore enter into a negotiation process with the French publishing industry regarding remuneration. Furthermore, Google is not allowed to hide their content. What...Continue Reading
A workshop under the label Blockchain Technology in International Trade and Shipping would actually have taken place in Edinburgh on 31.3.2020. I got invited to present a speech under the title of this paper. Everything should have been like this, but unfortunately and responsibly this event also had to be cancelled. Since I would like...Continue Reading
The importance of data for competition has been clear not only since the Bundeskartellamt’s pioneering Facebook decision. Numerous references and interrelationships also seem to exist between the fields of antitrust law and data protection law. In the summer I participated in several conferences (among others with my colleague Carlo Piltz from reusch.law). Now I have...Continue Reading
In the current issue of the magazine GRUR Int. I have published an essay together with David Saive entitled “Antitrust by Design – The prohibition of anti-competitive coordination and the consensus mechanism of the blockchain“. The article is based on a very intensive scientific dialogue where I learned a lot. Before we published it in...Continue Reading
Sebastian Louven
Since 2016 I have been an attorney at law. I advise mainly on antitrust law and telecommunications law. Further focal points of my work are intellectual property law as well as distribution law and IT law.
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Since 2016 I have been an attorney at law. I advise mainly on antitrust law and telecommunications law. Further focal points of my work are intellectual property law as well as distribution law and IT law.