May 9, 2017

Assessment of Procompetitive Effects of Organizational Restructuring in Ag-Biotech

Geoffrey A. Manne & Allen Gibby

The agriculture sector has seen significant technological innovation and organizational change over the last two decades, leading to increases in both farm productivity and profitability.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

May 2, 2017

Are rules incompatible with the web? Let’s hope not: A response to Tim Wu

Geoffrey A. Manne & Neil Turkewitz

According to Cory Doctorow over at Boing Boing, Tim Wu has written an open letter to W3C Chairman Sir Timothy Berners-Lee, expressing concern about a proposal to include Encrypted Media Extensions…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

March 31, 2017

Antitrust review of ag-biotech mergers: Appropriability versus cannibalization [Ag-Biotech Symposium]

Nicolas Petit

Nicolas Petit is Professor of Law at the University of Liege (Belgium) and Research Professor at the University of South Australia (UniSA) This symposium offers a good opportunity to look again…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

March 22, 2017

Understanding ownership and property in the Digital Age

Geoffrey A. Manne & Neil Turkewitz

What does it mean to “own” something? A simple question (with a complicated answer, of course) that, astonishingly, goes unasked in a recent article in the Pennsylvania Law Review entitled,…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

March 21, 2017

Significant Impediment To Industry Innovation: A novel theory of harm in EU merger policy?

Nicolas Petit

Thanks to Truth on the Market for the opportunity to guest blog, and to ICLE for inviting me to join as a Senior Scholar! I’m honoured to be involved with…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

March 13, 2017

Copyright and the Public Interest: The Importance of Ensuring that Righteousness of Purpose Doesn’t Trump Principle

Neil Turkewitz

I recently became aware of a decision from the High Court in South Africa that examines an interesting intersection of freedom of expression, copyright and contract. It addresses the issue…

Intellectual Property

February 22, 2017

Fair use’s fatal conceit

Geoffrey A. Manne

My colleague, Neil Turkewitz, begins his fine post for Fair Use Week (read: crashing Fair Use Week) by noting that Many of the organizations celebrating fair use would have you…

Financial Regulation

February 8, 2017

The song remains the same: Exceptionalists against the application of the law

Neil Turkewitz

In a recent article for the San Francisco Daily Journal I examine Google v. Equustek: a case currently before the Canadian Supreme Court involving the scope of jurisdiction of Canadian courts to…

Intellectual Property

January 20, 2017

Two tech issues the Trump administration should prioritize

Kristian Stout

Many tech policy questions remain as we prepare to greet our new President. It's impossible to know what the tech priorities will be before they are announced, but there are…

Innovation & The New Economy