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September 5, 2019

Kochland: An Inadvertent Paean to the Glories of the Free Market

Kristian Stout

Kochland is a quick read that presents a gripping account of one of America’s corporate success stories. Even those who hate the Koch brothers on account of politics would do well to learn from the model of entrepreneurial success that Kochland cannot help but describe in its pages.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

September 3, 2019

The District Court’s FTC v. Qualcomm Decision Rests on Impermissible Inferences and Should Be Reversed

Geoffrey A. Manne & Ben Sperry

Contrary to established Supreme Court precedent, the district court’s decision relies on mere inferences to establish anticompetitive effect. The decision, if it stands, would render a wide range of potentially procompetitive conduct presumptively illegal and thus harm consumer welfare.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

August 28, 2019

In FTC v. Qualcomm, Judge Koh Gets Lost in the Weeds

Dirk Auer

TOTM: The following is the eighth in a series of posts by TOTM guests and authors on the FTC v. Qualcomm case recently decided by Judge Lucy Koh in the Northern District of California. The blog post is based on a forthcoming paper regarding patent holdup, co-authored by Dirk Auer and Julian Morris.

Intellectual Property

August 27, 2019

7 Things Netflix’s ‘The Great Hack’ Gets Wrong About the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica Data Scandal

Alec Stapp

Despite its tone and ominous presentation style, The Great Hack fails to muster any support for its extreme claims. The truth is much more mundane: the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data scandal was neither a “hack” nor was it “great” in historical importance.

Data Security & Privacy

August 21, 2019

A Regulatory Failure of Imagination

Julian Morris & Kristian Stout

The music licensing market is stuck in a paradigm from the early twentieth century thanks to the DOJ's PRO consent decrees. Its time to terminate the decrees and let the markets discover better solution for music licensing.

Intellectual Property

August 21, 2019

The Capitalist Paradox: How Cooperation Enables Free Market Competition

Paul Rubin

"I propose a different way to view the economy, and one that might help us better explain what we are doing to students and to policy makers, including voters."

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

August 9, 2019

ICLE COMMENTS ON Department of Justice Antitrust Consent Decree Review: ASCAP and BMI 2019

Kristian Stout & Julian Morris & Geoffrey A. Manne

Introduction These comments seek to address the questions raised by the Department of Justice in its current review of the ASCAP and BMI consent decrees. The origin of the decrees…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

August 7, 2019

Governing the Patent Commons

Dirk Auer & Julian Morris

We suggest that antitrust authorities and courts should draw inspiration from acclaimed scholarship regarding both the evolution of cooperation and the management of common-pool resources.

Intellectual Property

July 30, 2019

Municipal Revenue Extraction Should Not Stand in the Way of Next Generation Broadband

Kristian Stout

Advanced broadband networks are hot topics, but little attention is paid to the critical investments in infrastructure necessary to make these networks a reality. The FCC’s proposed 621 Order is an important measure to help providers deploy high speed broadband across a fragmented municipal regulatory environment.