The "UsedSoft" decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) about the right of a buyer of a downloaded copy of a software to resell this copy triggered a controversial discussion about the applicability of the "exhaustion" rule (US: first-sale doctrine) to copyright-protected...

This paper analyses whether competition law can help to solve problems of access to data and interoperability in IoT ecosystems, where often one firm has exclu-sive control of the data produced by a smart device (and of the technical access to this device). Such a gatekeeper position can lead to...

Starting with the assumption that under certain conditions also mandatory solutions for access to privately held data can be necessary, this paper analyses the legal and regulatory instruments for the implementation of such data access solutions. After an analysis of advantages and problems of...

This paper shows that with respect to data the legal category of "property" (physical property or intellectual property) is not a suitable model for dealing with the complexity of data governance problems. Although data can be a valuable asset and might need incentives for its generation, the...

Wolfgang Kerber: Evolutionäre Marktprozesse und Nachfragemacht. Das Nachfragemachtproblem im Rahmen einer evolutionären Spielraumanalyse und Kritik seiner bisherigen wettbewerbspolitischen Behandlung. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden 1989, 624 Seiten, 89 DM

Die hier abgedruckten Beiträge lassen sich in drei große Themengruppen einordnen. In der ersten Themengruppe mit den Arbeiten von v. Weizsäcker, Beckenbach und Hanappi stehen theoretische und normative Grundsatzfragen der Evolutorischen Ökonomik im Vordergrund. Wie können normative...