In this issue, we explore how copyright protections, currently under threat from the Trump administration, stand as a bulwark against Big Tech‘s use of copyrighted material to turbocharge AI growth.
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The Open Markets Institute held a panel at the CDPD Conference on May 23rd, 2025 aimed at challenging the myth that Big Tech is the primary driver of AI innovation, highlighting how competition, regulation, and public-interest policies can foster a more open and democratic innovation ecosystem.
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Senior reporter Karina Montoya warns that Shira Perlmutter’s firing reflects Big Tech’s campaign to undermine copyright safeguards, as AI giants seek to freely exploit creative works without consent or accountability.
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Open Markets Legal Director Sandeep Vaheesan condemns the partisan FTC’s withdrawing a historic Robinson-Patman lawsuit against beverage giant PepsiCo.
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Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan publishes a major review critiquing Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson for promoting deregulation as a primary solution to societal challenges like housing shortages and the transition to renewable energy.
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CJL submitted a comment letter urging the FTC to address how dominant tech platforms suppress journalism through systemic, opaque, and retaliatory practices.
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CJL director Dr. Courtney Radsch joins TechSequences to discuss why platform governance must go beyond surface fixes to address the structural harms of surveillance-driven social media.
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Open Markets Institute released a statement from Dr. Courtney Radsch, Director of the Center for Journalism and Liberty at OMI, on the bipartisan reintroduction of the Protecting AI and Cloud Competition in Defense Act by Senators Warren and Schmitt, which aligns with Open Markets recommendations for diversifying AI and cloud procurement.
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Our webinar was hosted on May 15th, focusing on concentrated corporate control over cloud infrastructure threatens competition, innovation, and national security—and what bold steps are needed to build a more open, resilient digital future.
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The Center for Journalism and Liberty at the Open Markets Institute released a statement from its director, Dr. Courtney Radsch on the California Assembly’s passage of AB 412, the AI Copyright Transparency Act.
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The Open Markets Institute, with partners, urges the UK CMA to strengthen merger remedies to effectively address anticompetitive risks from proposed deals.
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CJL Director Courtney Radsch was featured in Goodbot’s Common Sense Tech Policy series, where she unpacks how Meta’s news ban in Canada exposes the dangers of letting tech giants control access to essential journalism.
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Open Markets Institute report, “Engineering the Cloud Commons: A Blueprint for Resilient, Secure, and Open Digital Infrastructure,” offers a long-overdue reconception of cloud computing as a single integrated system whose essential nature for all aspects of modern life requires that it be regulated as a utility of foundational importance to society.
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Open Markets criticized a House Energy and Commerce Committee draft budget reconciliation provision that would give Big Tech a “democracy-free decade” for artificial intelligence.
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In this issue, we celebrate OMI’s own Claire Kelloway for being named a finalist for a James Beard Award, explore how the Trump administration is helping Elon Musk’s Starlink to cement a monopoly on space, and welcome recent speeches by the DOJ’s Gail Slater and the FTC’s Mark Meador.
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Reporter Austin Ahlman warns that the Trump administration is aggressively advancing Elon Musk’s Starlink monopoly over global communications, urging regulators to counterbalance his growing dominance.
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The Open Markets Institute proudly celebrates Food Program Manager Claire Kelloway for being named a finalist in the 2025 James Beard Media Awards.
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Editorial director Anita Jain explores how two contrasting books—Searches by Vauhini Vara and Like by Bob Goodman and Martin Reeves—reveal different but revealing ways of understanding Big Tech's impact on society.
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