by Kevin Coates | Sep 30, 2009 | General
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...
by Kevin Coates | Sep 29, 2009 | General
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...
by Kevin Coates | Sep 8, 2009 | General
<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...
by Kevin Coates | Sep 8, 2009 | General
A lot has been written about Google trying to capture the second-click: the age-old conflict that Google faces between being a pure navigation service – “We get you where you want to go” – and being a media company – “We get you to...