Copyright Collecting Societies have proliferated, with more than 150 organisations now collecting and distributing licensing fees for rights in music, literary, audio-visual and graphic works within the European Union. From the perspective of Competition Law, collecting societies may be viewed...

This article, written for the inaugural volume of the University of Cincinnati Intellectual Property and Computer Law Journal, explores the disconnect between contemporary United States intellectual property law and the often quite different consensus views of disinterested expert opinion....

Antitrust and intellectual property law increasing fall within the common rubric of innovation policy. Yet in fundamental respects, patent law fits more comfortably under that umbrella than copyright. A primary reason is that copyright does not merely spur innovation. It also regulates speech....

This Comment is submitted in relation to the Federal Trade Commission's (“FTC”) Hearings on Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century. We submit this Comment based upon our extensive experience and expertise in antitrust law and economics. As an organization committed to...

The word sanction has two meanings. A sanction may be a punishment - a punitive or coercive measure that results from a failure to comply with a law, rule, or order. On the other hand, a sanction may be an official or authoritative approval. Thus this question is posed: can one be sanctioned, in...

The ubiquitous process of digitization changes economic competition on markets in several ways and leads to the emergence of new business models. The increasing roles of digital platforms as well as data-driven markets represent two relevant examples. These developments challenge competition...

Since the 1970s Ramsey pricing has been acknowledged as an optimal departure from marginal cost pricing in a defined case. That case is where a supplier needs to incur high fixed costs to produce a resource necessary for supply and the marginal costs of supplying each customer are negligible....

This paper is a translation of an earlier paper published in German: http://ssrn.com/abstract= 2206868. At the time the first paper was published, the ancillary copyright for news publishers had not yet been adopted by the German legislator. However, the conclusions drawn in both papers are...