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Showing posts with label antitrust. Show all posts
Showing posts with label antitrust. Show all posts
Saturday, March 9, 2024

Can't see sports, Oscars without channel-bundle subscription you don't want? Let regulators know

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Gencraft I filed a comment today with the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice regarding the Disney-Fox-Warner sport stream...
Monday, February 12, 2024

Hertz/Thrifty takes reservations for cars it doesn't have, stranding customers; worse, that's the business model

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I've been locked in pre-litigation combat with Hertz Corp. for almost a year, and I'm tapping out. The problem is simple: The Thrift...
Thursday, September 14, 2023

U.S. Soccer, FIFA lose antitrust appeal; defense shows short-sighted strategy to develop soccer in America

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Cristiano Ronaldo plays for Real Madrid against Barcelona in 2011. Jan S0L0 via Flickr CC BY-SA 2.0 U.S. Soccer and the Fédération Internat...
Monday, September 11, 2023

Gladstone, Doctorow game out tech reg quagmire

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Cory Doctorow Houari B. via Flickr CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 On the Media 's Brooke Gladstone talked to Cory Doctorow, author, internet activist,...
Monday, January 30, 2023

Senate inquisition of Ticketmaster is antitrust theater

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Ginny via Flickr CC BY-SA 2.0 Inquisition of Ticketmaster in the Senate last week made headlines , but it's so much antitrust theater, ...
Wednesday, September 28, 2022

Proposed Biden rule would try again to compel airline pricing transparency; it worked out so well last time

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President Biden has his own plane. (U.S. Mission photo by Eric Bridiers CC BY-SA 2.0 via Flickr ) The U.S. Department of Transportation (DO...
Saturday, September 3, 2022

FTC finally notices abuse of customers, shady business practices by car rental industry

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In an omnibus resolution late last week, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) green-lighted investigation of the car rental industry. Earlie...
Saturday, August 13, 2022

NBC resists TV free market, overcharges U.S. viewers: PL football costs $20 in Canada, $70 in United States

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Each year, I become freshly enraged at the cost of seeing Premier League football in the United States, a ready example of antitrust non-enf...
Monday, January 24, 2022

American Airlines resists transparency, sues 'Points Guy' for tortious interference, trademark infringement

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Photo by RJ Peltz-Steele at O.R. Tambo International Airport, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2020 ( CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 ) The Points Guy ( TPG ) h...
Tuesday, January 18, 2022

U.S. rental car oligopoly hits new lows, as customers alleging false arrests intervene in Hertz bankruptcy

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Photo by Diego Angel CC BY 3.0 A curious story of alleged false arrests and a corporate lawyer's blunder surfaced in business media ea...
Wednesday, September 2, 2020

While U.S. Congress ponders Big Tech oligopoly, Uruguay Supreme Court upholds TV football for all

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While our powers-that-be in Congress wring their hands over trying to reconcile allegiance to our corporate overlords with antitrust in the ...
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Tuesday, October 22, 2019

Legal comparatists meet in Missouri

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Maxeiner Last week the American Society of Comparative Law ( ASCL ) met at the University of Missouri Law School .  I was privileged to ...
Wednesday, September 11, 2019

Antitrust regulators need to up their game to meet challenges of media convergence, Argentine researchers write in UNESCO paper

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Published by UNESCO, a new policy paper from Argentine researchers Martín Becerra and Guillermo Mastrini warns that antitrust regulation ...