June Threads 2025
Threads from ICLE scholars on trending issues for the month of June 2025.
The debate over interchange fee caps is heating up, with a recent working paper claiming caps will benefit all consumers … even if credit card rewards shrink. But real-world evidence tells a very different story. pic.twitter.com/X6kMLL0N1K
— Eric Fruits, Ph.D. (@ericfruits) June 30, 2025
The debate over interchange fee caps is heating up, with a recent working paper claiming caps will benefit all consumers … even if credit card rewards shrink. But real-world evidence tells a very different story. pic.twitter.com/X6kMLL0N1K
— Eric Fruits, Ph.D. (@ericfruits) June 30, 2025
1/10 Another AI fair use win – this time in Kadrey v. Meta. Good outcome here, but the court telegraphed that it really really really wants to use the theoretical market harm from unknown model outputs to factor into the market harm analysis on input fair use. more below.
— kristian stout (@kristianstout) June 25, 2025
I started a new seminar series called "Law & Technology & Economics" last September. The goal: to merge law & technology with law & economics. The final seminar of this academic year took place last week. Here’s a quick retrospective:
? The first guest was @DianeCoyle1859… pic.twitter.com/Pkd60pnp4Q
— Thibault Schrepel (@ProfSchrepel) June 25, 2025
The EU Commission admitted it will ignore economic consequences when enforcing the Digital Markets Act against Meta's "pay or consent" on Facebook and Instagram. This is an example of a fundamental regulatory failure that threatens the EU businesses the DMA claims to protect.
— Miko?aj Barczentewicz (@MBarczentewicz) June 19, 2025
A jury hit the NFL with a $4.7B verdict for "harming" consumers through bundling. The judge tossed it (rightly) for being a completely made-up number, not grounded in the facts.
But appeals are ongoing.
The @LawEconCenter team just submitted a brief on the core of TV bundling https://t.co/vZ3lobBGf8
— Brian Albrecht (@BrianCAlbrecht) June 18, 2025
1/?On June 16, @kristianstout joined @NetCaucusAC to discuss the future of FCC video regulations in the age of streaming. A few comments to remember: pic.twitter.com/5WjplXK0af
— Int'l Ctr Law & Econ (@LawEconCenter) June 17, 2025
Unfortunately, this was all too predictable. A few years ago, in a @LawEconCenter white paper (later published in the European Law Review: https://t.co/0SGNU1ej9t), we warned about the liaison dangereuse between the DMA and antitrust enforcement.
— Giuseppe Colangelo (@GiuColangelo) June 2, 2025
European tech regulation is broken.
The latest example is the German @Kartellamt's (FCO) case against Amazon:
– It undermines the rationales of both EU competition law and DMA enforcement,
– Likely harms consumers,
– Makes compliance impossible for firms.— Dirk Auer (@AuerDirk) June 2, 2025