PRINCIPLES
In this section, you will find resources including reports, speeches, links to relevant websites and more, categorized by three industry issues: competition, privacy and copyright.
 
Monopolies are like Children - no one likes them until they have one of their own
Podcast featuring David Wood, ICOMP legal advisor and antitrust expert, on the Google/Yahoo! advertising alliance and the debate around it.
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HEALTHY MARKETPLACES
 
  FULL REVIEW: EU REASONING BEHIND THE GOOGLE AQUISITION OF DOUBLECLICK
July 1st, 2008
 
  SHORT REVIEW: EU REASONING BEHIND THE GOOGLE AQUISITION OF DOUBLECLICK
July 1st, 2008
 
  The Google Enigma
Strategy+Business, Nicholas Carr, January 31, 2008
 
  Community Leaders to Department of Justice: Say NO to Internet Monopolies
NEWS RELEASE, Black Leadership Forum, Inc., May 9, 2008
 
  Community Leaders to Department of Justice: Say NO to Internet Monopolies
LETTER TO THE US DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Black Leadership Forum, Inc., May 9, 2008
 
  Microsoft: Predator or Prey?
Robert Hahn and Peter Passell, Policy Matters 08-04, April 2008
 
  Google Acquisition of DoubleClick: Antitrust Implications
The American Antitrust Institute, November 6, 2007
 
  Defining Markets That Involve Multi-Sided Platform Businesses
An Empirical Framework With an Application To Google's Purchase of DoubleClick*, David S. Evans and Michael D. Noel, AEI-Brookings Joint Center For Regulatory Studies, Working Paper 07-18, November 2007
 
  European Interactive Advertising Association Mediascope Europe Study
Mediascope Europe, November 2007
 
  How I was Googled: An Entrepreneur's Encounter with the Behemoth of Online Advertising
Op-Ed, Dan Savage, October 5, 2007
 
  The Structure of Search Engine Law
James Grimmelmann, New York Law School, January 2008
 
  Federal Trade Commission Closes Google/DoubleClick Investigation
Federal Trade Commission, December 20, 2007
 
  Statement of Federal Trade Commission Concerning Google/DoubleClick
December 20, 2007
 
  Concurring Statement of Commissioner Jon Leibowitz - Google/DoubleClick
December 20, 2007
 
  In the matter of Google/DoubleClick F.T.C.
File No. 071-0170 Dissenting Statement of Commissioner Pamela Jones Harbour, December 20, 2007
 
  Letter to the European Commission
Further observations on the proposed acquisition of DoubleClick by Google, BEUC, December 18, 2007
 
  2007 NNN Website Influencer Study
Newspaper Websites Deliver One Of The Most Highly Influential Audiences on the Web, Newspaper National Network, December 10, 2007
 
  Online facts and figures
Internet Advertising Bureau, October 2007
 
  Consumers deserve ethical advertising
Amanda Davie, Head of Search, i-level, September 2007
 
  Letter to Commissioner of Competition (Canada)
Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic, August 2, 2007
 
  Letter to European Commission
BEUC, vzbv, Altroconsumo and OCU, June 27, 2007
 
  Google must allay DoubleClick angst
Andrew Warmsley, co-founder, i-level, April 25, 2007
 
  Marketing and the Internet
Paddy Barwise (London Business School), January 2002
 
 
PRIVACY AND SECURITY
 
  ICOMP Launches Flash Poll - Consumers and Online Privacy
February 2008
 
  Consumer and Privacy Groups Urge Google to Post a Link to Its Privacy Policy From Its Home Page.
NEWS RELEASE. June 3, 2008
 
  Consumer and Privacy Groups Urge Google to Post a Link to Its Privacy Policy From Its Home Page.
LETTER TO GOOGLE. June 3, 2008
 
  Opinion on data protection issues related to search engines
Article 29 Data Protection Working Party, April 4, 2008
 
  BeHavioral Advertising: Tracking, Targeting, & Technology Webcast
FTC Workshop, November 1-2, 2007
 
  Report on dangers and opportunities posed by large search engines, particularly Google
H. Maurer, Co-author, editor and responsible for the project, Institute for Information Systems and Computer Media, Graz University of Technology, September 30, 2007
 
  Protecting Consumers: Privacy Matters in Antitrust Analysis
Peter Swire, Center for American Progress, October 19, 2007
 
  Managing Technical,Business, Legal Concerns with Sensitive Data in Enterprise & Federated Network
Civitas Group, October 2007
 
  Privacy Rankings
Privacy International, 2007
 
 
COPYRIGHT
 
  Principles for User Generated Content Services
Principles for User Generated Content Services
 
 
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
 
  John Battelle’s SearchBlog
John Battelle’s SearchBlog
 
  Google Public Policy Blog
Google Public Policy Blog
 
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