CJL director Dr. Courtney C. Radsch was included in this report emphasizing the necessity of fair compensation for human content creators whose work is utilized to train AI models.
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Senior legal analyst Daniel Hanley emphasizes in Common Dreams the need for the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to block Mars Inc.'s acquisition of Kellanova arguing that this merger would significantly reduce competition in the snack and cereal bar market.
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Open Markets Institute Food Program Manager Clare Kelloway led a comment submission to the USDA in support of the agency’s proposal to regulate unfair tournament payment systems under the “Poultry Grower Payment Systems and Capital Improvement Systems” rule.
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Reporter Austin Ahlman delves into the fate of live television in the midst of Fubo’s against the launch of a new Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, and Fox sports streaming service.
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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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Center for Journalism and Liberty director Dr. Courtney Radsch was quoted on the loss of news programming amid the growing trend in streaming networks.
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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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Open Markets Institute Executive Director Barry Lynn and CJL director Courtney Radsch released statements after the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that Google has violated the Sherman Act by illegally maintaining its monopoly in general online search and search text advertising.
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In this issue, we explore how antitrust enforcers around the world are cracking down on tricks Big Tech uses to dodge merger review.
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Open Markets Institute’s legal director Sandeep Vaheesan was quoted in The American Prospect in an article on private equity investors entering the college sports market.
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Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan gave an interview to PlayerFM’s podcast Money on the Left to discuss his upcoming book Democracy in Power: A History of Electrification in the United States.
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Europe director Max von Thun published an article on the collusive behavior by Big Tech firms that leads to poor product quality, such as Google’s AI hallucinations.
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Open Markets’ editorial director Anita Jain wrote a review of the book The Wolves of K Street: The Secret History of How Big Money Took Over Big Government, a nonfiction account of the excesses of the lobbying industry
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Senior legal analyst Daniel Hanley provides comprehensive insight on the unfair practices of employers using non-compete agreements and TRAPs, and the advancements in the removal of these practices by the FTC.
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OMI legal director Sandeep Vaheesan was quoted in an article in the New York Times on algorithmic price-fixing by companies like RealPage, which helps landlords collude to set rent.
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The New York Times quoted a statement by Open Markets Institute’s Europe director Max von Thun on the global CrowdStrike outage, potentially the biggest in history.
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In this issue, we explain the importance of streaming television service Fubo’s lawsuit against three major entertainment companies poised to monopolize the live sport programming market with a new venture.
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Open Markets Europe Director Max von Thun weighs in on today’s widespread IT outage and how it exposes the great risk in monopolistic corporations controlling our communications systems.
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