Our latest report showing how AI Agents could concentrate market and political power in a few companies, the risk to democracy and markets, and policy recommendations.
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Open Markets Institute calls for breaking up Waymo and Google Maps, warns that unchecked robotaxi monopolies threaten public transit, local democracy, and Americans' freedom to move
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Our brief argues that AI giants are breaking copyright law to undermine journalism and gain an unfair advantage over competitors that follow the rules.
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CMDG welcomed the Paris Court of Appeal’s dismissal of Meta's challenge to the French Competition Authority's interim measures on publishers’ rights.
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he Center for Media and Digital Governance at Open Markets joined a coalition letter urging the Australian government to maintain strong copyright protections for creators and journalists amid reports that officials are considering exempting AI companies from copyright obligations when training their models. CMDG warned that weakening these protections would undermine rights holders’ ability to control and negotiate compensation for the use of their work and could set a harmful international precedent.
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This report with Americans for Financial Reform is an urgent warning: it details how the money pouring into AI could spiral into an economy-wide crisis and lays out recommendations for policymakers on how to keep an AI crash from devastating ordinary people’s finances.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Barry Lynn condemned the settlement by a coalition of attorneys general that sued to block Paramount’s takeover of Warner Brothers Discovery.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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“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.
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Open Markets filed an amicus brief urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to prohibit Google from continuing to pay billions of dollars each year to preserve its monopoly over internet search.
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