Open Markets Institute and more than 25 civil society organizations are calling on Brussels to reject one of the most sweeping media mergers Europe has been asked to approve.
Open Markets filed an amicus brief urging the Fourth Circuit to revive antitrust claims against Johnson & Johnson, arguing the company used its acquisition of biosimilar-related patents to protect its Stelara monopoly and delay lower-cost competition.
By deepening concentration in the film and TV industry, the proposed transaction raises significant competition concerns. CMDG and Open Markets Europe call on the EU Commission to investigate the proposed merger.
Coalition letter warns United's strategy threatens competition at America's busiest airport and calls for rigorous scrutiny of any future United-American merger.
The UK Competition and Market Authority’s (CMA) will require Google to to adhere to new conduct requirements in their use of publisher content for AI Overviews. CMDG was at the forefront of urging the CMA to adopt remedies to level the playing field with publishers in the transition to AI-enabled search.
A report from Open Markets Institute Senior Fellow Sally Hubbard argues policymakers must ensure either that AI agents work on behalf of users, or that users understand when AI agents are working on behalf of a corporation.
The Open Markets Institute filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit supporting Innovative Health, LLC in Innovative Health v. Biosense Webster urging the court to uphold a jury verdict finding Biosense Webster guilty of violating federal antitrust law by using its dominant position in the cardiac-mapping market to block competition from lower-cost medical device reprocessors.
“Our work advances a common-sense approach that says policy should help protect human liberty and democracy and build a more resilient economy.”
The Center for Journalism and Liberty is now the Center for Media and Digital Governance (CMDG) at the Open Markets Institute. The new name reflects the Center’s expansive body of work examining how concentrated technology power, digital infrastructure, and artificial intelligence are reshaping journalism, information markets, democratic governance, and public debate.
The Open Markets Institute Europe warns that the Commission is failing to seize the full potential of the DMA to address harmful abuses of market power by digital gatekeepers.