This decision is about European sovereignty and democracy as much as competition or bargaining power.
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Open Markets Institute has welcomed the European Commission's draft merger guidelines as a major, overdue modernisation of EU competition rules – part of a once-in-a-generation review – while also urging the Commission to close loopholes which risk undermining progress.
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Open Markets Institute issues a statement in response to the US Supreme Court’s precedent-shattering decision in Trump v. Slaughter.
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The Open Markets Institute Europe welcomes the preliminary decision by the European Commission to designate Amazon and Microsoft as gatekeepers under the Digital Markets Act (DMA) for their cloud computing services, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Coalition letter warns United's strategy threatens competition at America's busiest airport and calls for rigorous scrutiny of any future United-American merger.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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“Our work advances a common-sense approach that says policy should help protect human liberty and democracy and build a more resilient economy.”
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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.
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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.
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The Center for Journalism and Liberty (CJL) at the Open Markets Institute today welcomed the launch of the Washington Monthly Institute with the release of a joint white paper, “AI and the Future of Independent Journalism: The Promise and Peril of Privately Controlled Data Markets for Media Content.”
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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.
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Turning Profit-Maximizing Financiers Into Stewards of the Public Interest marks the first in a planned series of reports examining a variety of industries’ market structures and how they either support or undermine public well-being.
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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.
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