TENDANCES: NORMES OUVERTES - OPEN SOURCE - DÉFINITIONS - POLITIQUE DE CONCURRENCE

Open standards & antitrust

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Les contributeurs à ce dossier « Tendances » se sont vu soumettre une question qui pourrait sembler simple a priori : Les normes ouvertes promeuvent-elle la concurrence ? Cependant, la réponse à cette question requiert un travail préalable et délicat de définition des termes du sujets. Rédigés par des spécialistes du sujet, les contributions illustrent la difficulté de formuler une définition précise, et partagée par tous, de l’expression « norme ouverte ». Cette difficulté est étroitement liée avec les objectifs qui peuvent être assignés à la politique de concurrence.

OPEN STANDARDS & ANTITRUST Open standards and competition law: an overview Jérôme GSTALTER Researcher, University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne 1. Contributors to this thematic study were asked to answer a question that seems simple on the surface: Do open standards promote competition? However, this question raises a tricky and preliminary problem: how to define an “open standard”? Written by eminent specialists, this set of articles reflects the difficulty of giving a clear-cut or a commonly agreed upon definition of an open standard. This difficulty is significantly intertwined with competition policy. This synthesis attempts to give an overview of these problems by addressing, first, the definition of an open standard (I) and, second, the competition policy with regard to an

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