Copyright, Competition, and the Digital Single Market: my presentation
I am back in London after a mini-tour in Spain (Madrid and Valencia), where I gave a presentation on Copyright, Competition, and the Digital Single Market, which can be found here. The presentation focuses on the online/geo-blocking aspects of the Cross-Border Pay TV case (in line with the broad theme of the two events). It reflects the views I have been expressing on the blog in the last couple of years, which means that there is little point in going over them again.
I will just mention that theCross-Border Pay TV case is intriguing for an academic. My impression is that, like other recent decisions, the case hints at a new balance between competition law and intellectual property. This is a theme that I have discussed abundantly with my LLM students this term and is also one of the topics of a book on which I am working.
And I should also point out that – shame on me – it was my first time in Valencia. I enjoyed the city, but more so the genuine certified 100% Paella Valenciana at Casa Roberto after the conference!
Chillin'Competition 
Hi Pablo, great slides! Much of it points to the expanding regulatory scope of antitrust, as Alfonso hinted in his FB’s post. The policy aiming at eliminating geo-blocking also discovers the growing complexity (not necessarily good) of the legal system. It highlights that seemingly good/attractive policies or prospective regulation in the vacuum would actually debilitate (IPRs) or alter (antitrust) other pieces of legislation when considered together.
Jorge
8 March 2016 at 5:02 pm