The Seminar on Anti-Unfair Competition and Anti-Trust Legal Issues in the Data Age Held in Shanghai

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On November 17, 2017, the Seminar on Anti-Unfair Competition and Anti-Trust Legal Issues in the Data Age was held in Shanghai. The seminar was jointed organized by Shanghai Research Institute and CASS Institute of International Law and attended by about 40 experts and scholars from various universities, research institutions, government organs, law firms, and web portals in China. The seminar was divided into four units. In the first unit, Professor Wang Xiaoye, Director of the Center for Competition Law Studies of CASS Institute of International Law, gave a speech entitled “Several Issues in the Revision of the Anti-unfair Competition Law in China”; Professor Xu Gangyao of the Law School of Nankai University gave a speech on anti-trust issues in a data age; Mr. Zhang Dan, Deputy Director of Anti-Trust and Anti-unfair Competition Law Enforcement Department of State Administration of Industry and Commerce, gave a lecture on the “supervision over Internet service providers under the newly revised Anti-unfair Competition Law”; and Professor Wang Jiang, Dean of the Law School of Zhejiang University of Technology, gave a lecture on “analysis of and reflections on the EU Google Case”; in the second unit, Benjamin Bai, Vice CEO of Ant Financial Services Group, gave a speech on “monopoly of data from the perspective of intellectual property”; Professor Dai Long, Executive Director of the Competition Law Research Center of China University of Political Science and Law, gave a speech on “the application of the principle of neutrality of platforms in the field of data economy”; Dr. Han weibo of China Social Sciences University gave a speech on “anti-trust regulation of algorithm collusion”; and Professor Zhou Wanli of the Law School of East China Normal University gave a speech on “the latest development of anti-trust law in digital market in Germany”; in the third unit, the participants gave speeches on such topics as “definition of internet-related markets”, “manifestations of data-related issues of monopoly”, “AI and anti-trust regulation”, and “regulating the abuse of market force in the data age”; topics discussed in the fourth unit included “data capture under the framework of balance of interest”, “capture of platform data: crime and punishment”, “will the racecar of Anti-unfair Competition Law overturn at the corner of the Internet?”, and “evolution of the structure of cartels in the big-data era”; and in the fifth unit, the following topics were discussed: “the institutional value of exemption system in competition law enforcement”, “the revision of the anti-commercial bribery law”, “protection of consumer rights in internet service agreements” and “legislation on remedies for standard essential patent injunctions”.