Consent Decree

In the waning days of the Trump administration, the DOJ moved to terminate a 70-year-old consent decree that required Decca Records — once one of the country’s most important labels — to license its master recordings to third parties under certain circumstances. Compulsory licensing and forced sharing may seem like a vestige of a bygone […]

By Giovanna Massarotto (UCL & University of Iowa)1 I. Is Antitrust all about a Paradox? Many academic lawyers and economists see antitrust enforcement as either being too lax or too prone to over-regulation.2 Today, Bork’s antitrust “paradox” is even more relevant, because increasingly dynamic data-driven markets are making the enforcement of antitrust principles challenging. Price […]

Jose Gonzalez-Magaz, William Gordon, Mar 28, 2013 Parties seeking dual settlements with the European Commission and the U.S. antitrust agencies are challenged by their differing frameworks. Part of the complexity stems from their separate approaches to competition law enforcement, while other components of the problem relate to their respective settlement processes. Since Microsoft settled its […]