Publications
Open Markets worked with civil society groups from Europe, the UK and the US to submit details and recommendations to the European Commission regarding Microsoft’s partnership with OpenAI, as the Commission investigates the partnership on fair competition grounds.
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A coalition of civil society groups including Open Markets, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties, Mozilla, Foxglove and more wrote to the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) calling for a full investigation into Microsoft's $13 billion monopolistic partnership with OpenAI.
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The Open Markets Institute, Foxglove, and Balanced Economy Project have provided a civil society submission on the UK’s Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill (DMCCB), as the bill moves to the House of Lords for further discussion.
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CJL Director Courtney Radsch testified at the California Senate Judiciary Committee’s “Information Hearing on Issues Facing Digital News”.
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CJL Director Courtney Radsch testifies before the Canadian Parliament’s Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage (CHPC) regarding the ways in which Big Tech companies have used their outsized power in order to censor news, distort public information, and subvert government oversight.
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Open Markets Institute, the Authors Guild, and the American Booksellers Association have sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) urging these agencies to focus on how Amazon abuses its monopoly power over the market for books and ideas, as regulators appear on the verge of bringing a major suit against Amazon.
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Open Markets Institute and Europe Director Max von Thun have joined civil society partners in making a public submission to the European Commission on effective compliance with the DMA.
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Open Markets Institute Europe Director Max von Thun gave oral evidence in the UK Parliament on the UK’s Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill.
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Open Markets submitted a comment led by Claire Kelloway, to the USDA enthusiastically supporting their “Product of USA” labeling rule to make the case for why the agency, having the legal authority to do so, must finalize the proposal.
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The Open Markets Institute has led a joint submission to the European Commission on the critical role of third parties in implementation and enforcement of the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA).
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Open Markets Executive Director Barry Lynn testified on May 3, 2023 at a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Competition Policy, Antitrust, and Consumer Rights on “Competition in the Digital Advertising Ecosystem.”
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Open Markets Institute Europe Director Max von Thun, alongside a group of leading European civil society organizations, has submitted a detailed response to the European Commission’s call for evidence on future guidelines on enforcement of Article 102 TFEU, one of the European Union’s key antitrust laws.
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The Open Markets Institute today led a coalition of fifty civil society groups that urged the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to ban non-compete clauses as well as functionally equivalent restraints.
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The Open Markets Institute writes a letter on how Canada could strengthen its antimonopoly laws, including on merger review, exclusive dealing and other forms of unfair competition and vertical restraints.
The Open Markets Institute led a letter to the Surface Transportation Board alongside ten other public interest groups and allies, urging the board to oppose the merger between major rail carriers Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern that is currently under evaluation.
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The Open Markets Institute submits a letter urging the FTC to block the pending merger between grocer giants, Albertsons and Kroger.
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The Open Markets Institute, Irish Council for Civil Liberties, and the Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue, a forum of 75 NGOs, have sent the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) a joint submission on the privacy, market, and security hazards of surveillance advertising, urging the agency to act against commercial surveillance and to define “Real-Time Bidding” (RTB) as an unfair and deceptive practice.
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