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This comprehensive paper looks at various developments in the regulation of new media in Europe, such as copyright and intellectual property, liability of Internet intermediaries, net neutrality in Europe, Google and the Commission competition investigation, Public Service Broadcasters' online...
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crisis squarely in context of the long-standing jurisdictional struggle between regulation and antitrust law. These two … examines the jurisdictional boundaries between these regulatory and antitrust camps. In analyzing the jurisdictional limits of … antitrust authority maximized where most salutary and appropriate …
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series of legal obstacles. These energy market decisions belong to a group of antitrust cases in which a structural …, ownership unbundling and divestiture of assets as an antitrust remedy share a common basis, meaning that they lead to the … two major differences between the two cases. First, regarding the antitrust decisions, this transfer was imposed as a …
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The Scottish National Party (SNP) government in Scotland has published an outline of how it wishes economic and competition regulation to operate in the event that it is successful in persuading the residents of Scotland to vote in September 2014 for independence in March 2016. It envisages a...
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If the plebiscite in Scotland, due in autumn 2014, results in its independence from the United Kingdom, it is expected to become a member state of the European Union (EU). One consequence of this is that Scotland would be required, by the acquis communitaire, to create a considerable number of...
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Severe limitations on antitrust enforcement officials’ knowledge and the potential impact of ill-advised investigations … single-firm conduct. Although it is common to depict antitrust enforcement as protecting market competition while other forms … of regulation are seen as intrusions (justifiable or not) into market operation, antitrust enforcement has …
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For well over a century, U.S. trademark law has afforded brand owners certain rights, remedies and obligations. As the Department of Commerce has noted, owners of trademarks have both a legal right and an affirmative obligation to protect their trademarks from unauthorized third-party use....
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Production costs play a crucial role in competition policy and price regulation. A shared purpose of both policies is to keep prices close to production costs to the benefit of the consumers and of the society as a whole. The problem is that prices are per product and costs are per firm. So, the...
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