by Kevin Coates | May 7, 2014 | News from around the Web
From Kluwer Competition Law Blog: Premier League fans in Europe worse off after Murphy judgment “TMC Asser Institute TMC Asser Institute When the European Court of Justice (CJ) delivered its judgment in joined cases FA Premier League v QC Leisure and others (C-403/08) and Karen Murphy v Media Protection Services (C-429/08) (Murphy), it was deemed a radical game-changer … Continue reading → • Leave a comment on Premier League fans in Europe worse off after Murphy judgment...
by Kevin Coates | Apr 24, 2014 | News from around the Web
From Law360: Competition: FCC To Introduce New Open Internet Rules “The Federal Communications Commission will reportedly propose new net neutrality rules on Thursday that would allow content creators to pay Internet providers to guarantee faster access to consumers, replacing the regulations struck down by the D.C. Circuit in...
by Kevin Coates | Apr 24, 2014 | News from around the Web
From Antitrust Law Blog: Microsoft-Nokia: China’s MOFCOM Quietly Slips Into the Debate about Injunctive Relief for FRAND-encumbered SEPs “This past November and December, the US Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) and European Commission (“EC”) cleared Microsoft Corporation’s (“Microsoft”) acquisition of the bulk of the devices and services business of Nokia Corporation of Finland (“Nokia”) without any conditions. In contrast, on April 8, 2014, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce (“MOFCOM”) approved the acquisition subject to … Continue...
by Kevin Coates | Apr 15, 2014 | News from around the Web
From CPI RSS: On the Relationship Between Media Plurality Legislation and Competition Law “ Recent events in the United Kingdom, including the furor surrounding the newspaper "phone hacking" scandal which led to the Leveson report, have focused attention on possible new legislation concerning media plurality. These events follow an inquiry in the European Union that is longer lasting but less likely to bear legislative fruit. Broad questions are raised in these debates, but the focus here is upon the relationship between legal provisions for media plurality and competition law and, in particular, upon such questions as: To what degree does competition law include consideration of media plurality issues? To what degree can competition law be expected to promote the goals of media plurality? Are measurement approaches used in competition law likely to be of help in measuring plurality? To what degree are there similarities between remedies applicable under competition law and remedies applicable under actual or prospective plurality legislation? Does the process by which competition law has been enacted and grown to maturity have any lessons for a similar development in the area of the case of media plurality? Although some of these questions are of general application, others can only be answered within the context of a particular country’s legal system. In the present article, that country is chosen as the United Kingdom. ...
by Kevin Coates | Apr 15, 2014 | News from around the Web
From AntitrustConnect Blog: Is the FTC Changing Its Intellectual Property Rights Policy? “Schiff Hardin LLP Schiff Hardin LLP Commissioner Josh Wright of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission certainly is the gift that keeps on giving to antitrust commentators. Rarely do many weeks go by without a Wright speech or dissenting opinion that cogently takes on … Continue reading → • Leave a comment on Is the FTC Changing Its Intellectual Property Rights Policy?...