Google Books

The DOJ and FTC have filed a joint statement of interest in respect of the proposed Google Books settlement. It’s noteworthy for a couple of things. First, they agreed a joint response. Given relations between the FTC and DOJ in recent years, that’s...

State subsidies in the EU and US

At the 2009 Fordham Antitrust conference, there was a long session on EU and US approaches to the control of state aid (state subsidies), in the context of the financial and economic crisis. The EU has an extensive State aid control regime, which requires notification...

Innovation, Change and Lobbying

<blockquote>That is what real revolutions are like. The old stuff gets broken faster than the new stuff is put in its place. Clay Shirky, <a href=”http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/03/newspapers-and-thinking-the-unthinkable/”>Newspapers and...