Open Markets speaks out advocating for a lawsuit filed today by the Department of Justice and eight states to hold RealPage accountable for its part in the scheme of landlords are colluding to raise prices by using the software.
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In this issue, we look at the BIOSECURE Act, and how it fails to address chokepoints and dangerous dependencies in the supply of vital drugs. We also look at the DOJ’s transformative victory in the Google search case.
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The Open Markets Institute and its partners filed an amicus brief in the case of FuboTV versus a joint streaming venture between major TV broadcasters including Disney, Warner Brothers, Fox and Discovery, urging the courts to block the new venture that would dominate 80% of live sports content and is slated to begin this fall.
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Senior reporter Karina Montoya offers a breakdown of the key points from the recent ruling of Judge Mehta in the trial against Google’s illegal online search and advertising monopoly.
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Sandeep Vaheesan, legal director, and Brian Callaci, chief economist co-authored a piece about judicial changes to antitrust law that has taken a more permissive approach to coercion and exploitation affecting worker wages.
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Senior reporter Karina Montoya and senior legal analyst Daniel Hanley co-authored a piece amplifying the DOJ’s landmark case against Live Nation and Ticket Master as a turning point of American antitrust regulators turning a blind eye to coercion by market-dominant firms.
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Reporter Austin Ahlman and CJL Director Dr. Courtney Radsch co-wrote a report explaining why regulations are needed to check the proliferation of disinformation on the Big-Tech Platforms.
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Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan joins the Broken Law Podcast to discuss major updates in antitrust, including the FTC’s rule banning non-competes and the Amazon, Kroger-Albertsons, and Apple cases.
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Open Markets Legal Director Sandeep Vaheesan released a statement on the Department of Justice and state attorneys general suing to break up the entertainment and ticketing monopoly, Live Nation-Ticketmaster (formally “Live Nation Entertainment”).
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Open Markets Legal Director Sandeep Vaheesan released a statement in response to the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) final rule to ban non-compete clauses for all workers.
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Open Markets Executive Director Barry Lynn responded to the Department of Justice’s landmark announcement, suing Apple for a wide range of unfair competition practices and its monopoly over smartphone markets and applications.
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CJL Director Courtney Radsch & Senior Reporter Karina Montoya delve into the infrastructural role of cloud in watchdog journalism to illustrate how market concentration in cloud services can exacerbate existing harms by dominant digital platforms on news media sustainability. They argue that the design of policies seeking to redress potential harms to competition in cloud services should consider its effects in public interest journalism.
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Senior Reporter Karina Montoya recaps the vital points of Google’s upcoming Ad Tech Trial .
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Open Markets Legal Director Sandeep Vaheesan released a statement regarding the news that two of the U.S.’s largest credit card companies, Capitol One and Discover, seek to merge.
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Senior Reporter Karina Montoya analyzes how Google convinced the court to limit transparency and public access to information during the landmark trial.
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In this issue, we explore a novel approach by Danish publishers to claw back funds from tech giants who have monopolized their advertising revenues. We also introduce our report “AI in the Public Interest: Confronting the Monopoly Threat,” which shows how a handful of Big Tech companies have already monopolized the emerging AI space.
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In this issue, we explore new revelations about how Amazon’s internal ads business aims to deceive buyers and to hurt sellers on its marketplace. We also introduce our seminal report on how to save journalism from Google and Facebook’s destructive business models, which are designed to monopolize all advertising.
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