Publications
In this issue, we detail our successful two-day antimonopoly conference in Paris on how U.S. tech corporations threaten human liberty and European democracy and sovereignty, and look at the potential dangers posed by Fox’s takeover of Roku.
Read MoreIn 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.
Read MoreIn 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.
Read MoreIn this issue, we explore how IBM’s stranglehold over mainframe computing, built up over decades, offers a cautionary tale for today’s monopolies in cloud and AI technologies.
Read MoreAfter 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.
Read MoreIn a new policy brief, Giorgos Verdi, George Colville, and Dora Wierzbicka set out how Europe’s Tech Sovereignty Package needs to be strengthened in order to effectively reduce Europe’s dependence on foreign digital infrastructure. The Commission’s proposals contain many promising elements, but the package needs to be more ambitious, more rigorous in ensuring it does not in fact benefit existing foreign dominant actors, and more holistic in its treatment of the problem.
Read MoreIn this issue, we discuss measures Europe has taken to reduce its dependence on U.S. tech corporations and mitigate the risks of technological coercion by the Trump administration.
Read MoreIn a new policy brief, George Colville makes the case for urgent updates to the DMA to ensure it can meaningfully tackle cloud concentration. Without such changes, the newfound determination to break apart the cloud oligopoly is likely to make little difference, even after Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure were designated as gatekeepers under the DMA.
Read MoreBarry 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.
Read MoreIn this issue, we take a look at how FIFA manipulated World Cup ticket prices, and the lessons for Congress and enforcers.
Read MoreOpen 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.
Read MoreThe Center for Media and Digital Governance (CMDG) at the Open Markets Institute urged the Federal Trade Commission to withdraw its proposed policy statement on AI accuracy, warning that the agency is attempting to use consumer protection law to undermine state AI safeguards while advancing a legal theory that exceeds its statutory authority.
Read MoreIn this issue, we take a look at how a new royalty scheme by dominant music streaming service Spotify shortchanges smaller artists in favor of the large music labels.
Read MoreAs debates about AI governance and transparency sweep across governments, the Open Markets Institute has joined an amicus brief urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to uphold California's law requiring AI companies to disclose information about the data used to train their models.
Read MoreBy 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.
Read MoreA 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.
Read MoreStatement condemning the Federal Communications Commission’s politically motivated decision to order Disney, ABC and their television subsidiaries to file early license renewal applications – a move which comes as the White House once again calls for late-night host Jimmy Kimmel to be fired.
Read MoreOpen Markets Institute Center for Journalism and Liberty director Courtney Radsch argued that the UK failed to meaningfully address the dominance of hyperscale cloud providers, criticizing regulators for relying on voluntary commitments rather than structural remedies despite clear evidence of concentrated market power.
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