Biweekly FTC Roundup: Total Drama Island Edition
In a Feb. 14 column in the Wall Street Journal, Commissioner Christine Wilson announced her intent to resign her position on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). For those curious . . .
Biweekly FTC Roundup: Total Drama Island Edition
Mergers and Innovation: DOJ and FTC Take Heed
Economists have long recognized that innovation is key to economic growth and vibrant competition. As an Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) report on innovation . . .
No, Chevron Deference Will Not Save the FTC’s Noncompete Ban
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced in a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) last month that it intends to ban most noncompete agreements. Is that a good . . .
State-Mandated Digital Book Licenses Offend the Constitution and Undermine Free-Market Principles
Various states recently have enacted legislation that requires authors, publishers, and other copyright holders to license to lending libraries digital texts, including e-books and audio . . .
Killer Acquisition or Leveling Up: The Use of Mergers to Enter Adjacent Markets
In the world of video games, the process by which players train themselves or their characters in order to overcome a difficult “boss battle” is . . .
A Few Questions (and Even Fewer Answers) About What Artificial Intelligence Will Mean for Copyright
Not only have digital-image generators like Stable Diffusion, DALL-E, and Midjourney—which make use of deep-learning models and other artificial-intelligence (AI) systems—created some incredible (and sometimes . . .
Section 230 & Gonzalez: Algorithmic Recommendations Are Immune
In our previous post on Gonzalez v. Google LLC, which will come before the U.S. Supreme Court for oral arguments Feb. 21, Kristian Stout and I argued that, . . .
7 Top Takeaways from the 2nd Annual Mercatus Antitrust Forum
At the Jan. 26 Policy in Transition forum—the Mercatus Center at George Mason University’s second annual antitrust forum—various former and current antitrust practitioners, scholars, judges, and agency . . .
Biweekly FTC Roundup: A Guide for the Perplexed Edition
In a prior post, I made the important if wholly unoriginal point that the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) recent policy statement regarding unfair methods of competition (UMC)—perhaps a . . .