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Senate’s antitrust subcommittee to hold hearing on Universal-EMI deal

By  |  May 14, 2012

The Senate Judiciary Committee’s antitrust subcommittee, chaired by Senator Herb Kohl (D-Wis.), plans to hold a hearing, likely this summer, on Universal’s plan to buy EMI’s recorded music business. The $1.9 billion deal would bring Universal’s market share up to 40 percent. Critics of the acquisition say that the acquisition will give Universal too much power to raise prices, with potential anticompetitive conseqences in digital music outlets. The deal is currently under scrutiny by the FTC.

Full content: Reuters

 

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