Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan gives insight on how concentration in the electric power sector is one of the main sources to the greenhouse gas emission crisis, which in turn, contributes to frequent periods of exceptionally high temperatures, climate change, and natural disasters.
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CJL director Dr. Courtny Radsch wrote an opinion piece that lays out the problems and solutions of Big Tech’s latest AI technology being built to inherently exploit the intellectual property of journalists resulting in writer’s unemployment, revenue loss, and more.
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In this issue, we explore how hedge funds degrade freight railroads by stripping operators of valuable assets and skilled workers.
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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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Open Markets Institute Food Program Manager Clare Kelloway released a statement concerning the U.S. Department of Food and Agriculture’s newly-proposed Fair and Competitive Livestock and Poultry Markets rule under the Packers and Stockyards Act:
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In this issue, we discuss the need to protect the child care industry from private equity powers looking for quick profit, particularly with an increase in public subsidies to support the critical sector.
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On Monday, June 24 from 9:30 AM – 4 PM ET, Open Markets Institute, the National Women’s Law Center, and Community Change will host an event and release a new report that examines the role of private equity in plundering the nation’s child care industry and outlines a policy strategy to increase the supply of child care as a public good.
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Open Markets and the producers behind Food, Inc. 2 hosted a roundtable discussion on how monopolies took over our food system and what policy makers can do to break them up. Upon requests, participants will received a link to view Food Inc. 2, which puts the issue of corporate consolidation in the spotlight.
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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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In this issue, we explore the impact a recent court ruling dismissing allegations of algorithmic price-fixing might have on similar cases such as the one against real estate software company RealPage.
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Director of Europe and Transatlantic Partnerships Max von Thun demands a new economic vision for the European Union by pursuing competition to create a robust political economy that can take back power from corporate behemoths.
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In this issue, we explore the need for regulation mandating the disclosure of increasingly prevalent AI-generated content by major tech platforms.
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CJL Director Dr. Courtney Radsch constructs a brief providing the framework for protecting the content of journalists and publishers from exploitation by AI companies for the use of news for their large language models.
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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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Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan goes into detail on the recent brief filed by Open Markets, and the attempt by Uber, Lyft, Instacart, etc. to legalize their unlawful business model in Massachusetts--to the detriment of drivers, high-road rivals, and the state's labor market standards.
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CJL Director Dr. Courtney Radsch extends the conversation on journalism and AI discussing generative artificial intelligence deriving responses from journalistic news sources and the unfairness of these practices.
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Open Markets executive director Barry Lynn condemns the newly-released AI Roadmap, led by Senator Schumer.
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