Reporter Austin Ahlman delves into Google’s ramped up state-level lobbying efforts and surpassing of federal spending, trying to counter legislation like California’s CJPA and sway data privacy and media compensation laws nationwide.
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Transportation policy analyst Arnav Rao writes on how ocean freight carriers are exploiting their monopolistic control to hike prices and boost profits, harming U.S. importers, exporters, and small businesses, necessitating stronger regulatory oversight to restore fair pricing.
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Phillip Longman reveals in a new article published in The Washington Monthly, that the goal of revitalizing American manufacturing is deeply threatened by financiers who are radically downsizing the nation’s freight rail system in pursuit of short-term profit.
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In The Washington Monthly, Dr. Courtney C. Radsch argues that the survival of artificial intelligence hinges on high-quality, human-generated content and data, which means and that journalists, artists, content creators, and analysts, have more leverage to be fairly compensated for their work than they might realize.
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In Project Syndicate’s Big Question, Tara Pincock weighs in on the current state of antitrust law, enforcement, and the courts.
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In Competition Policy International: Antitrust Chronicle, September 2024, Open Markets senior legal analyst Daniel Hanley publishes a paper, "Illuminating the Anti-Coercion Foundations of Refusals to Deal.”
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Karina Montoya shares five takeaways from the initial weeks of the Google ad tech monopoly trial in Tech Policy Press.
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As the EU's competition enforcer Margrethe Vestager prepares to step down, Max von Thun writes in the Financial Times that the incoming chief Teresa Ribera must take up the mantle to shape markets in the public interest.
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Barry Lynn authors Harper's October 2024 cover story, "The Antitrust Revolution: Liberal democracy’s last stand against Big Tech."
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Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan and chief economist Brian Callaci have co-written an article on the impact that unaffordable housing is having on regional and national economics, specifically high living cost areas, and what to do to fix the problem.
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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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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 legal analyst Daniel Hanley details why the rule of reason should be completely abandoned in favor of bright-line rules.
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Policy Director Phillip Longman publishes a featured piece largely based on a pivotal report published by Longman/Open Markets and the Center for Journalism & Liberty at Open Markets on how the breakdown of journalism's business model is not the result of inherent features of the internet or of digital technology.
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Open Markets Industrial Policy Program Manager Audrey Stienon penned a piece in The American Prospect on the pros and cons of California’s close partnership with Civica Rx, as the state begins to manufacture insulin in an effort to lower costs.
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Food systems program manager Claire Kelloway co-wrote a piece covering the C&S divestiture take down of the Kroger - Albertsons merger.
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Georgetown Law Professor and Open Markets Institute scholar Caroline Fredrickson published "What I Most Regret About My Decades of Legal Activism," in The Atlantic, revealing how the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe and other abridgments of civil liberties are in many ways a direct result of a failure to sufficiently understand and oppose conservative assaults on political economy law and enforcement.
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Food systems program manager Claire Kelloway published an article focusing on the implementation of bipartisan legislation regarding greenhouse gas emissions.
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