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Why a Ruling Against The Internet Archive Threatens the Future of America’s Libraries
FTC’s Watchdog Role in Pharma Mergers: Road Bumps and The Way Forward
Eerie Exchanges? US Antitrust Agencies Renew Focus on Information Exchange Practices
New Commissioner, New Mission, New Policy for Competition?
Banking Reform: An Increase In Scrutiny
European Commission Clears First Acquisition Under EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation
New Premerger Notification Regime to Fundamentally Change M&A Strategy
Trouble In Store: New Challenges for Shein and Temu Devotees in South Africa
Gibson Decision Hands Atlantic City Casino-Hotels Dismissal of Price-Fixing Claims
Managing Cybersecurity Risks Arising from AI – New Guidance from the NYDFS
Handling Non-Compliant Deposits in the Era of the Travel Rule: A Path Forward
Unpacking The Implications of The FTC’s Antitrust Case Against Amazon for Online Marketplace Competition
The CJEU Rules in the Diarra Case – FIFA’s transfer Rules Restrict Free Movement and Competition
In Search of a Competition Policy for the Digital Sector
Tech M&A Outlook: Investment and regulatory trends
How Tech Giants Make History
Generative Artificial Intelligence and Competition: The Main Takeaways of the Recent Opinion Issued by the French Competition Authority
Beyond Code: Addressing AI bias with Inclusive Governance
Broadcasters Should Evaluate Attack Ads for Liability Concerns in the Final Weeks Before the November Election
Why a Ruling Against the Internet Archive Threatens the Future of America’s Libraries
US Federal Trade Commission Issues Final Rules on HSR Pre-Merger Reporting
Facing AI, Employing a Safe Approach
Global Governance: Goals and Lessons for AI
Can AI drive Innovation in Qualitative Research? Here’s What We’ve Learnt.
When the State Restricts Competition: What Role for Antitrust Enforcement?
Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property Legal Frameworks in the Asia-Pacific Region
Google’s Antitrust Troubles Demonstrate the Need for a Digital Regulator
Criminal Negligence and Acceptable Risk in the EU’s AI Act: Casting Light, Leaving Shadows
FTC Faces Renewed Criticism Both from Within and from Congress
The Next Administration Must Finish the Merger Guidelines Revision
Evaluating EU Antitrust Procedures: EC Key Findings and Future Directions
Mind the Gap: ECJ Judgment Determines European Commission Cannot Review Deals Below Member State Merger Control Thresholds
ACM: European Court of Justice takes away opportunity to assess acquisition by Microsoft, new power is needed
The Justice Department Challenges Visa’s Predatory Power
Debate: ‘Doubt is their product’—The difference between research and academic lobbying
Antitrust at the Agencies: The Meat of the Matter Edition
Antitrust Sanctions: The Duty to Preserve Chats
Antitrust Under Biden: Taking a Closer Look at the Numbers
School Uniforms: Is Your Policy At Risk of Breaking the Law?
The US Stablecoin Landscape: Leveraging Ecosystem Monitoring to Build Trust
FCC Proposes New TCPA Rules for AI Calls and Texts
Crypto Lobbying Makes Insane Splash in American Politics
The Case for Vigilance in AI Markets
Ten Reasons Why Apple’s App Store Terms are Still Not Compliant with the DMA
From Innovation to Implementation: Regulating AI in Aotearoa New Zealand
Cultivated Foie Gras Flies into Europe – Prepare for Legal Disruption
CrowdStrike and Digital Ecosystem Transitivity
From Concept to Precedent: The 2024 Draft Guidelines on Article 102
Recent Regulatory Developments in Training Artificial Intelligence Models Under the GDPR
Empowering Futures: Digital Transformation in the Eastern Caribbean
Federal Court Strikes Down FTC’s Noncompete Rule: What It Means for Businesses
Podcasters and Broadcasters – Disclose Those Sponsors!
To Google or Not to Google?
Antitrust Enforcement Led to the Creation of the Telephone
SSNIPPETS (49): Last Minute
SAMR Merger Control Statistics in the First Half of 2024
How Orange Book Antitrust Scrutiny Is Intensifying
4th CCC Diplomatic Conference on Competition Law Places Focus on Inflation, Food Security, and Poverty Eradication
Public Knowledge Hails U.S. v. Google Decision Finding Monopoly Hold on Search Markets
The First Public Meeting of the Strike Force on Unfair and Illegal Pricing: What Happened and What’s Next
Misconceptions About Tacit Collusion
Crypto Needs Comprehensive Policies to Protect Economies and Investors
Has the US Supreme Court Made It Harder to Regulate Social Media — or the Opposite?
NATO Can’t Truly Defend Cyberspace Without Private Partnerships
Did Concentration Exacerbate the CrowdStrike Outage?
Protecting the Public From Abusive AI-Generated Content 
Bots and False Advertising
The Evolving Safety and Policy Challenges of Self-Driving Cars
Mergers & Acquisitions, AI and Antitrust: The New Creative Ways for Big Tech to Enter the AI Market and Avoid HSR Rules
Germany: Landmark Court Decision Deals with AI Training and Copyright
All Change to the UK’s Competition Law Regime
The CJEU Sets Limits to the Application of the Concept of Economic Unity
Deleting an Instagram Post Was Evidence-Tampering–Webb v. U.S.
The NCAA Antitrust Lawsuits Will Not Pay Off for College Athletes Without a Permanent Players Association
Hold The Phone: Antitrust Authorities Looking Closely at Instant Messages in Dawn Raids
Not Dead Yet: Noncompetes Survive, the FTC Rule Doesn’t (For Now)
Ensuring Fair Competition: Antitrust Considerations in the US Patent Eligibility Restoration Act of 2023
The Commission Amends Regional Aid Rules to Foster Support for Strategic Technology Projects
Key Takeaways from the Servier Saga: Object, (Pro and Anticompetitive) Effects and Counterfactual (I)
The WGA’s Misguided Fears: Unpacking the Myths of Media Consolidation in the Streaming Era
Life Sciences and Health Care Companies Under the Competition Microscope: New Cross-Government Initiatives Seek to Expose Antitrust and Other Violations
Maturing UK Competition Appeal Tribunal Collective Proceedings Process Sees Uptick in Cases
Malawi Revamps its Antitrust Laws: Suspensory Merger Control and More
The US Needs a Techno-Industrial Strategy
Lessons to Learn from Airline Mergers
DOJ Filed Cert Petition in United States v. Brewbaker
Artificial Bugs for Enhanced Cybersecurity
FTC’s Non-Compete Rule Blocked and Unlikely To Be Revived – But Risk Remains
Digital Sovereignty in Africa: Moving Beyond Local Data Ownership
Epic Games Calls Out Apple for Rejecting Its Games Store in The EU
DISH Calls Foul on T-Mobile’s Plans for 800 MHz Spectrum
Australia’s Digital ID Act 2024 Signed Into Law
How Uber Provided Short-Term Solutions and Long-Term Problems
CJEU Upholds Country-of-Origin Principle for Online Service Providers in the EU
Microsoft’s Work to Strengthen Cybersecurity Protection
Supreme Court Rejects the Chevron Doctrine – What Does it Mean for Broadcasters Regulated By the FCC?
Connecting The Dots: AI Is Eating The Web That Enabled It
Meta’s Oversight Board is Unprepared for A Historic 2024 Election Cycle
The UK’s New Digital Markets Regime: Some Key Takeaways
A Voice of Reason: European Publishers Council Submits Concrete Proposals to the EC for Strict Enforcement of DMA’s App Store Rules
The Admissibility Benchmark for the Judicial Review of Dawn Raids in Europe. Has Recent Case Law Shifted the Boundaries?
Merger Review Should Incorporate a Role for Unions
Will the FTC Reinvigorate an Antiquated Law that Raises Prices?
The Role of Business Users Under the DMA
California Attorney General Advocates for Greater Antitrust Enforcement in Private Equity in Healthcare
No Offseason for the NCAA
“So Much Abuse”: Overhaul of Competition Law Shifts from ‘Buyer Power’ to ‘Superior Bargaining Position’ Abuse
Competition Law in Sports: It’s Time to Talk About Merger Control
ACM Study: One in Ten Consumers Switches Energy Contracts Following Telemarketing calls or door-to-door sales
Breaking Barriers: EU Issues Record Fine as it Takes On Cross-Border Trade Restrictions (Again)
Is it Possible to Win a Robinson Patman Act Case Now?
FCC’s Space Bureau Seeks Further Input on Regulation of Orbital Debris
Artificial Intelligence: A Challenge for the Mexican Tax Administration Service to Audit
Women in Tech – A Video Series
President Biden Vetoes Crypto Custody Bill
Arizona Turns Up the Heat in Amazon’s Legal Battles
Klarna Reports That 87% of Employees Use GenAI For Their Daily Work
Why America Needs an Apollo Program for The Age of AI
What to make of the new AI Roadmap from the Senate’s Bipartisan Commission
Putting the Public First: The Road to Accountable AI
Use Cases of Machine Learning in Finance
Slow the Roll-up: Help Shine a Light on Serial Acquisitions
What ISPs Need to Know About the FCC’s Title II / Open Internet Order
Federal Suit by Ohio Physicians Challenging Noncompete Agreements Dismissed for Lack of Antitrust Standing
Life After the FTC Non-Compete Ban: What Companies Should Know
A Modest Proposal—Antitrust Division Special Counsel for Whistleblower
Much More Than a Market?
Why Common Ownership Can Increase Competition
Litigating Director Disqualification
AG Opinion in FIFA v BZ – Further Competition Trouble for Football Rules
“But Did You Really Comply…?” Insights into Post-Merger Conditions
How Should We Measure Competition?
Online Retailers Beware – Amazon US Website Found to Target UK Consumers and Infringe UK Trade Marks
CG Antitrust Review Episode 25: In Conversation With Bill Kovacic
The FTC Noncompete Ban Is Legal
Ofcom to Push For Better Age Verification, Filters and 40 Other Checks in New Online Child Safety Code
The Critical Role of the Affordable Connectivity Program in Closing the Digital Divide
Vodafone/Three: A Standalone Decision or A Potential Reversal of Spectrum Policy?
Improving Transparency of AI use in Procurement
As States Lead Efforts to Address Deepfakes in Political Ads, Federal Lawmakers Seek Nationwide Policies
Microsoft Joins Thorn and All Tech Is Human to Enact Strong Child Safety Commitments for Generative AI
Walking the Tightrope: As Generative AI Meets EU Regulation, Pragmatism is Likely
Three Ways the US Could Help Universities Compete with Tech Companies on AI Innovation
11 States Now Have Laws Limiting Artificial Intelligence, Deep Fakes, and Synthetic Media in Political Advertising – Looking at the Issues
Protecting Civil Rights in the Face of AI
U.S. Competition Agencies File Statement of Interest in Algorithmic Pricing Case
Will You Take This Algorithm to Court?
Why the FTC Needs to Intervene in Law School Rankings
DMA AI IKK
U.S. Competition Agencies File Statement of Interest in Algorithmic Pricing Case
Antitrust Compliance Incentive Mechanism in China
‘Articles 101 and 102 TFEU must be interpreted consistently’: Superleague and the EU system of undistorted competition
If I Were You…I’d Listen to this Podcast about Residential Real Estate & Antitrust
DOJ’s Case Against Apple: Beware of Forcing ‘Efficiencies’
Blocked JetBlue-Spirit Deal Illustrates New Antitrust Approach
Administration Launches Antitrust-Focused Strike Force
Is the Brussels Effect Creating a New Legal Order in Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean?
Hospital Consolidation Matters
A New Dawn for African Antitrust in Uganda
ACM: Fair Competition is No Guarantee for Affordable Energy for Everyone
Driving Innovation with Antitrust
Enforceable Terms and Arbitration Provisions Important for Providers in Current Crypto Cyberthreat Environment
Patent Trolls Are Harming Innovation. Congress Can Help
AI in Brazil: Exploring opportunities
The Tech Industry Can’t Agree on What Open-Source AI Means. That’s a Problem
How an April Fools’ Day On-Air Prank Gone Wrong Could Result in FCC Issues
Can Journalism Survive AI?
AI Legal Updates
Broadband Providers Are Not Copyright Cops: Why the Sony v. Cox Case Threatens Internet Users
The ACM’s Mission To Plug the “Small Acquisitions Gap”
The EU’s New Market Definition Notice
Relaxing whilst doing Competition Law is not an Oxymoron EU Competition Law and Sports: my presentation at the Institut d’études européennes (ULB)
Mi Mercado Es Su Mercado: The Flawed Competition Analysis of Mexico’s COFECE
Antitrust for Kids—Anatomy of a Chocolate Cartel (an Antitrust Review of the movie Wonka)
Merger Guidelines Provide Insight on DOJ and FTC Enforcement Priorities for 2024
DOJ Takes a Cue from ‘Catch Me If You Can’ with Price-Fixing Plea Agreement
The European Commission Fines Apple 1.84 Billion Euros and Spotify Still Isn’t Happy
Rethinking My Economics
Taking Stock of Merger Enforcement Under the Biden Administration
Problems in the Ports! Competition Commission of Mauritius Launches a Market Study in the Ports Industry
AI and Product Safety Standards Under the EU AI Act
Apple’s Exclusionary App Store Scheme: An Existential Moment For The Digital Markets Act
Study Suggests Chatbots Could Lessen Legal Chores
Generative AI Risks Further Atomizing Democratic Societies
Who’s Been Regulating My AI?: Goldilocks and The House Of Lords Report on LLMs and Generative AI
Introduction to China’s Trade Sanctions System
Indirect Beneficiaries of State aid
Antitrust for Kids: The Best Unfair Valentine Competition Ever
Blog Paul de Bijl: Corporate responsibility goes further than merely not violating the law
Whose Failure Is the Failed Amazon/iRobot Merger?
Disappearing No More: Maintaining Electronic Messages for Antitrust Investigations
The Subsidy Advice Unit – Our First Year and Next Steps
Whose Interest Is It Anyway? CAK Stresses ‘Public Interest’ in Merger Control
Don’t You (Forget About Me)
The Fix Is In – Key Learnings From Recent Vertical Merger Challenges
The Political Economy of the Decline of Antitrust Enforcement in the US
The Impacts of Increasing U.S. Hospital Consolidation on Medicaid Recipients
What Do We Do With Presumptions in Antitrust?
SEC Approves Exchange Listing Applications for Spot Bitcoin ETPs
Enhancing Trust and Protecting Privacy in the AI Era
Prohibited: Meta’s Unlawful Behavioural Advertising Practices
Walking the Tightrope: As Generative AI Meets EU Regulation, Pragmatism Is Likely
Four Lessons From 2023 That Tell Us Where AI Regulation is Going
The GDPR As a Cyber Risk Management System: The ECJ Cautiously Tackles Data Breaches in the NAP Case
UK Government Consults on Amending Mandatory Filing Obligations for AI Acquisitions
Fourth Circuit Holds Per-Se Rule Does Not Apply in Bid-Rigging Case
Mexico President Announces Plan to Shut Down Autonomous Regulators
Resh(AI)ping Good Administration: Addressing the Mass Effects of Public Sector Digitalisation
Federal Judge Fights the Use of Artificial Intelligence in His Courtroom
The Biden Administration’s Recent Antitrust Wins Help Us All
What The Research Says About the Impacts of Hospital Consolidation Across the United States
Competition on The Merits
All I Want for Christmas….
The Wait is Over: DOJ and FTC Issue Final Merger Guidelines
New FTC, DOJ Merger Guidelines Create Challenges and Opportunities
Towards a More Interactive Merger Review Process: UK CMA Proposes Amendments
Supreme Court Will Not Review Judgment-Sharing Agreement Among Defendants in Broiler Chicken Case
Mobile Gaming: M&A Trends and Predictions
Lessons from DOJ’s Wave Of Labor Market Prosecutions
Antitrust Regulation of Big Tech Needs a Better Understanding of Behavioral Economics
Why States and Localities are Acting On AI
China’s Personal Data Law – Legal and Practical Assessment of Compliance Risk
The Morocco Competition Council takes action to ensure fairness in Morocco’s fuel market with a settlement of 1,840,410,426 Moroccan Dirhams
EU AI Act Update – Latest developments and potential roadblocks ahead
In the Shadow of the European Court of Justice: The Luxembourg Conference on Transatlantic Data Transfers
Accelerating Sustainability with AI: A Playbook
The Microsoft / Activision Saga – A Real Game Changer?
Meta to Require Labeling of Digitally Altered Political Ads (Including Those Generated By AI) – Looking at the Rules that Apply to Various Media Platforms Limiting Such Policies on Broadcast and Cable
Why Mental Health Apps Need to Take Privacy More Seriously
How a Tiny Pacific Island Became the Global Capital of Cybercrime
The Legal Definition of Self-Preferencing: Too Narrow, Too Broad, or Both?
How Monopolies are Making TV Worse
Small Mergers, Big Problems
UK’s Top AI Founders Recommend 4 Impactful Actions for Government
Taking Legal Action to Protect Users of AI and Small Businesses
FTC Takes Nontarget to Court in Robinson-Patman Act Investigation
GAO Recommends Increased Guidance for DOD Mergers & Acquisitions Review
Market Power as a Limiting Principle in Merger Enforcement
If I Had a Broadaxe…
Setting The Record Straight on Crypto Crowdfunding by Hamas
Spain Creates AI Regulator to Enforce the AI Act
FTC Rolls Up on Private Equity Serial Acquisitions
State Attorneys General Take a Strong Pro-Enforcement Stance in Comments to Draft Merger Guidelines
Valve v Commission: a (seemingly) straightforward case with some open questions of major significance
U.S. Deputy AG Announces New Safe Harbor Policy for Voluntary Disclosures in M&A
Is Amazon’s Scale a Harm?
MMA & Monopsony: MMA Fighters Win Class Certification Bout in Employment Monopolization Case
Competition Commission Publishes ‘Public Interest Guidelines Relating To Merger Control’
China To Loosen Cross-Border Data Transfer Rules
The Elegant Economy Does Not Economize
The FCC’s Clock Is Ticking on Defining Digital Discrimination
Platform Divergence and Geographic Divergence After Microsoft/Activision and Apple v. CMA
Chinese Regulators Give AI Firms a Helping Hand
The IP in AI: Can Patents Protect AI-Generated Inventions?
Tech Group Calls India’s Proposed Guidelines Against Dark Patterns ‘Regulatory Overlap’
Crypto Regulatory Affairs: IMF proposes crypto-risk assessment matrix
Humanity Must Establish Its Rules of Engagement with AI — and Soon
Darrow Raises $35 Million in Series B Funding to Expand AI Platform for Intelligent Legal Violation Detection
Federal Reserve Targets Supervision of “Novel” Activities
Big Brother & Biased Bots: Practical Considerations for Using AI in Employment Decision-Making
Conference Debriefing (38): Professors Go Karellamt
Merged Firms Offer Less Product Variety
Competition Litigation Funding Doesn’t Grow on Trees – Unintended Consequences of The UKSC’s PACCAR Decision
Ownership Claims over Auction of “The First NFT” Previously Dismissed by a New York Court Now on Appeal
The FTC’s Landmark Case Against Amazon Tackles the Central Issue of e-Commerce Market Power
An Inside Look at Congress’s First AI Regulation Forum
Antitrust Enforcement Increases Economic Activity
Extreme Makeover: US Merger Notification Edition
The Case of Microsoft: Why Software Monocultures Also Play a Role Beyond Antitrust Considerations
DOJ’s Increased Focus on Criminal Trade Secrets Cases
U.S. Labor Market Concentration, Competition, and Worker Bargaining Power as Employment Trends Shift From Manufacturing to Services
Paul Weiss Discusses Proposed Merger Guidelines and Private Equity
Form and Substance in EU Competition Law
Microsoft and Activision: Where Things Stand
McDonald’s & Monopsony: The Seventh Circuit Vacates District Court’s Dismissal of a Per Se No-Poach Theory
The FTC Lacks Authority for Competition Rulemaking
Michigan Law School Bans ChatGPT Generated Applications
Self-Driving Cars and AI Ethics
European Commission Adopts First DMA Designation Decisions
Formula 1’s NFTs: A New Era In Ticketing And Digital Technology
India’s AI Opportunity
Large Language Models Aren’t People. Let’s Stop Testing Them As If They Were
And Then There Were Five – Senate Approves Anna Gomez as Fifth FCC Commissioner – What Broadcast Issues Could a Full FCC Consider?
What Does The New EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR) Mean For Companies Doing Business In The EU?
CAK Imposes Highest-Ever Cartel Fine On 9 Steel Producers
ABA Forms Task Force to Study Impact of Artificial Intelligence on The Legal Profession
Family Ties And The Boundaries Of The Firm In Antitrust Enforcement
Patenting for Blockchain and Crypto Tech
Steps You Can Take To Help Choose The Right Bank For You
Lies, Damn Lies, and Generative Artificial Intelligence: How GAI Automates Disinformation and What We Should Do About It
Case‑376/20 P, CK Telecoms: Tetra Laval Survives, But The Legal Test For Non-Coordinated Effects Will Have To Wait
Update: Judge Issues Decision and Final Judgment in DOJ Antitrust Case Against JetBlue
AI Under the Antitrust Microscope: Competition Enforcers Focusing on Generative AI from All Angles
Federal and State Antitrust Enforcers Double Down on Stance Against No-Poach Agreements, Urging 2nd Circuit in Amicus Briefs to Revive High-Fashion Case
Sweeping Inquiry Sheds Light on Online Intermediation Platforms: Competition, Opportunity, and the Road Ahead
CAT’s Liothyronine Judgment Is Notable Beyond Excessive Pricing Cases
Congress Eyes Establishing a Digital Regulator
Does ‘Open Finance’ Promote Competition or Facilitate Free Riding?
More “Suddenly Classic” Antitrust Cases from the New Merger Guidelines: Philadelphia National Bank and Pabst
Developers continue to dive into the crypto space as market remains lackluster
Computer Says No – Will Fairness Survive In The Age Of AI?
Corporate Responsibility in the Age of AI
Amazon/iRobot: Does Amazon Have An Incentive To Preference Its Own Products?
Working Assumption: Factors Slowing AI’s Impact on Jobs
FCC Chairwoman Rosenworcel Announces Proposed Voluntary Cybersecurity Labeling Program for Smart Devices
Microsoft, Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI launch Frontier Model Forum
The EU AI Act at a crossroads: generative AI as a challenge for regulation
AI Rules For The Metaverse
DOJ/FTC Draft Merger Guidelines: More Second Requests and More Merger Litigation
Six Ways That AI Could Change Politics
The European Court Of Justice In Meta Platforms Leaves Competition And Data Protection Authorities With An Assignment
The Ripple Effect: Implications of the SEC’s Partial Loss in SEC v. Ripple Labs Inc.
The New Merger Guideline Commandments: Thirteen Is An Unlucky Number
Can we Limit Algorithmic Coordination?
Our Emerging Regulatory Approach To Big Tech And Artificial Intelligence