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CMDG Director Courtney Radsch warns that the Paramount–Warner Bros. Discovery settlement will deepen media concentration, arguing that stronger antitrust enforcement and policies curbing Big Tech’s control over information markets are needed to protect jobs, plurality, and independent journalism.
In a groundbreaking new legal paper, Sandeep Vaheesan argues that companies that systematically violate laws to undercut rivals are engaging in an unfair method of competition and that the FTC can and should take action. This includes Big AI copyright law violations.
In a comment letter to the FTC, Open Markets Institute urges the Commission to use the full extent of the law to crack down on surveillance-enabled pricing.
Barry Lynn condemned the settlement by a coalition of attorneys general that sued to block Paramount’s takeover of Warner Brothers Discovery.
After finding Google guilty of illegal conduct, this decision is an embarrassing capitulation that essentially lets them determine their own punishment in exchange for a promise not to repeat the behavior.
Barry Lynn released a statement condemning the decision in U.S. v Google, in which U.S. District Court Judge Leonie Brinkema declined to order the breakup of Google’s AdX ad exchange.
CMDG Director, Dr. Courtney Radsch, calls on policymakers and legislators to use this settlement as a minimum floor to pursue more expansive reforms that put an end to harmful platform design for all users.
OMI Legal filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit urging the court to allow an antitrust lawsuit, CareFirst v. Amgen, that challenges Amgen’s use of acquired patent rights to extend its monopoly over the blockbuster drug Enbrel.
OMI’s legal team filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit urging the court to reverse a lower court decision that shielded a no-hire agreement between grocery giants Kroger and Albertsons from antitrust liability.
“This decision effectively places FCC Chair Brendan Carr in open defiance of Congress, and it gives us yet again another reason to call for removing him from his post,” said CMDG director, Dr. Courtney Radsch.
