🎷🧬🌐 James Boyle connects jazz riffs, gene sequences & the early web to one core idea in THE PUBLIC DOMAIN: creativity depends on a shared cultural commons, and that commons is quietly shrinking.
🎙️ Hear how expanding IP rights can fence off culture itself on the Future Knowledge #podcast.
🎧 Listen now ➡️ https://futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/the-public-domain
James Boyle explains why concentration of market power is dangerous—but when oligopoly locks arms with IP, it becomes a near-unbreakable set of manacles around the public domain.⛓️
🎙️ Learn more in the latest Future Knowledge #podcast.
🎧 Listen now ⤵️ https://futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/the-public-domain
James Boyle explains why concentration of market power is dangerous—but when oligopoly locks arms with IP, it becomes a near-unbreakable set of manacles around the public domain.⛓️
🎙️ Learn more in the latest Future Knowledge #podcast.
🎧 Listen now ⤵️ https://futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/the-public-domain
James Boyle explains why concentration of market power is dangerous—but when oligopoly locks arms with IP, it becomes a near-unbreakable set of manacles around the public domain.⛓️
🎙️ Learn more in the latest Future Knowledge #podcast.
🎧 Listen now ⤵️ https://futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/the-public-domain
Nvidia's $20B Antitrust Loophole (Not an Acquisition)
https://ossa-ma.github.io/blog/groq
#HackerNews #Nvidia #Antitrust #Loophole #Nvidia #$20B #Technology #News #Tech #Industry #Groq
Italian Competition Authority Fines Apple $115M for Abusing Dominant Position
https://en.agcm.it/en/media/press-releases/2025/12/A561
#HackerNews #ItalianCompetitionAuthority #Apple #Fine #DominantPosition #Antitrust #News #TechRegulation
"The permissionless #innovation enabled by #FOSS allowed smaller and non-profit business models to flourish, letting organizations develop and provide high-quality technological products and services to market sectors often ignored by commercial companies. Enforcing the #DMA could consolidate #interoperability as a foundational policy for #Europe’s digital #infrastructure."
https://www.techpolicy.press/making-the-digital-markets-act-developer-friendly/
"The permissionless #innovation enabled by #FOSS allowed smaller and non-profit business models to flourish, letting organizations develop and provide high-quality technological products and services to market sectors often ignored by commercial companies. Enforcing the #DMA could consolidate #interoperability as a foundational policy for #Europe’s digital #infrastructure."
https://www.techpolicy.press/making-the-digital-markets-act-developer-friendly/
Paramount says it could get antitrust approval for WBD before Netflix
Paramount has already proven it can get a controversial merger done.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/12/paramount-says-it-could-get-antitrust-approval-for-wbd-before-netflix/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
@arstechnica we’re all assuming the merger should happen, just not sure who will get to be the buyer, but why are we allowing this crazy consolidation to continue? You don’t get rid of monopolies, or duopolies by allowing unfettered mergers/takeovers of massive corporations.
#antitrust #media #wbd
“An extremely negative signal”: French court dismisses search engine Qwant's case against Microsoft
"In a ruling handed down on Thursday, the Competition Authority found that Microsoft did not abuse its dominant position. This is a setback for Qwant, which is seeking to break free from its dependence on the American giant.
The verdict is in, and it does not favor Qwant. The French search engine, which has been engaged in legal proceedings for nearly a year against Microsoft, accusing it of abusing its dominant position in the B2B search engine market, has been dismissed by the Competition Authority.
In its verdict handed down on Thursday, the authority found that Qwant had not provided “sufficient evidence” to demonstrate that the American giant was dominant in the market in question, nor that “the conditions for abuse of economic dependence were met.”
Archive: https://archive.is/q5NRx
@ueeu The press release is indeed not convincing. #Qwant may be developing its own search technology ( #ESP, with #ecosia), but until they develop it, they are dependent on #Bing. The fact that #Microsoft imposes restrictions on the development of #ESP demonstrates and strengthens that dependence. #antitrust
The Department of Justice and Texas software-maker RealPage announced this week that they have reached a settlement in a case involving price-fixing allegations in some of the nation’s largest rental markets.
#News #DOJ #Rent #Law #Antitrust #Technology #Tech #Software
"One of Biden's best photocopier kickers was and is Lina Khan. She embodies the incredible potential of a fully operational battle-station, which is to say that she embodies the awesome power of a skilled technocrat who is also deeply ethical and genuinely interested in helping the public."
#CoryDoctorow, 2025
https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/15/unconscionability/#standalone-authority
Best blog passage of 2025 😅
Why exactly can I still not uninstall #Microsoft effing #Edge on a fully patched #Windows11 in the EU?
#DigitalMarketsAct #competition #antitrust #DigitalRights #SoftwareFreedom #DMA
Why exactly can I still not uninstall #Microsoft effing #Edge on a fully patched #Windows11 in the EU?
#DigitalMarketsAct #competition #antitrust #DigitalRights #SoftwareFreedom #DMA
The Federal Trade Commission has failed to prove Meta's acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp allowed it to illegally monopolize the social networking market, a U.S. district court ruled. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/11/19/tech/meta-ftc-antitrust-instagram-whatsapp/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #meta #ftc #antitrust #instagram #whatsapp #facebook #apps #socialmedia #markzuckerberg #donaldtrump
Next was a great talk by Niamh Dunne on regulatory norms in competition law assessment at the UCL Faculty of Laws https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-z0fVKutDzg (4/6) #law
Next was an engaging panel on AI-supported collusion at the GW Competition & Innovation Lab with Douglas Ginsburg, Koren W. Wong-Ervin, Salil Mehra, Maurice Stucke, and Ai Deng https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-DTFh_zbHQ (5/6) #economics #antitrust #law
@pluralistic says it best:
«[Lina Khan] embodies the incredible potential of a fully operational battle-station, which is to say that she embodies the awesome power of a skilled technocrat who is also deeply ethical and genuinely interested in helping the public.
[U]nder Biden, the trustbusters that had been chosen and fought for by the Warren-Sanders wing of the party proved themselves to be both a) incredibly principled; and b) incredibly skilled.»
https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/15/unconscionability/#standalone-authority
@pluralistic says it best:
«[Lina Khan] embodies the incredible potential of a fully operational battle-station, which is to say that she embodies the awesome power of a skilled technocrat who is also deeply ethical and genuinely interested in helping the public.
[U]nder Biden, the trustbusters that had been chosen and fought for by the Warren-Sanders wing of the party proved themselves to be both a) incredibly principled; and b) incredibly skilled.»
https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/15/unconscionability/#standalone-authority
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney hails Google's antitrust settlement as a win for Android's 'open platform' vision! Lower fees and more competition are on the horizon for the app store. Do you think this will truly level the playing field for developers?
#AndroidDev #TechNews #EpicGames #Google #Antitrust
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/05/epic-games-ceo-calls-googles-antitrust-settlement-a-win-for-androids-vision-as-an-open-platform/
#OpenAI Signs $38 Billion #Cloud Computing Deal With #Amazon
After signing agreements to use computing power from #Nvidia, #AMD & #Oracle, OpenAI is teaming up with the world’s largest cloud computing company.
#tech #AI #law #antitrust #technocracy #plutocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/technology/openai-amazon-cloud-computing.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
