The FCC has published its notice of proposed rule-making on net neutrality rules (see also News Release, Genachowski Statement, Staff Presentation). Under the draft proposed rules, subject to reasonable network management, a provider of broadband Internet access service: 1. would not be allowed to prevent any of its users from sending or receiving the lawful […]
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 already an achievement. I met Tom Barnett’s chief of staff for an […]
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 to the European Commission of any aid that may distort […]
<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 Thinking the Unthinkable</a>, March 2009</blockquote> Different people draw different conclusions about law-making from this type of problem. For some, we cannot reasonably hope to understand the consequences of […]