1. What is publishing?

What are the tasks and responsibilities of a Publisher in a digital environment? On the one side, differentiating on the basis of economic criteria, performing technical activities (transport, distribution platform) and creating meaningful contents. On the other side, it implies enlarging the field of activity and the techno-economic characteristics of Editing beyond written texts, to a broader spectrum of Medias and consumption goods with a social connotation. This analysis will be a stepping stone for the adaptation of institutional instruments such as intellectual property, and regulation, which ultimately condition the industrial organisation and the competitiveness of the industry.

• Publishing of documents from the cycle of Seminars on Publishing Protocols of 2011
• Copyright Economics and Trademark
• Economics of Publishing Brands
• Exploitation of Media Brands through versioning tools
• Vertical restrictions and competition rules in Media Industries

2. Digital Economy: growth of bandwidth and internalisation rules

The growth of bandwidth imposes investments in infrastructures. These must be based on new agreements between digital agents. Beyond net-neutrality, how do vertical relations evolve between network operators and online services? How do pricing models evolve? (Interview with Michel Riguidel on net- neutrality)

In the meantime, the development of the internet produces the more and more harmful usage habits: piracy, privacy violations, impersonation, etc... These negative externalities are constantly evolving and will hardly be reabsorbed by central regulation or fiscal policies. Which incitation mechanisms will be effective to make agents responsible for the control of their externalities, or else, for the damages caused to collateral industries?

How could this responsibility be compatible with the objective of increasing competitiveness of European agents?

• Evolution of vertical relations between digital agents
• Intellectual Property Parasitism.
• Intermediaries responsibility and evolution of fiscal policies on the internet