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Business Crimes Bulletin
Regulators Want AI Companies to Respect Antitrust and Consumer Protection Laws
Karen Hoffman-Lent and Kenneth Schwartz
The new era of AI technology has ushered in competition concerns alongside consumer-protection fears. Accordingly, regulators and lawmakers are taking note of the AI craze and are keen on ensuring that companies involved in AI are respecting both antitrust and consumer protection laws.
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Business Crimes Bulletin
California DOJ’s Mission: Reinvigorate Criminal Prosecutions Program
Maria Dinzeo
California hasn’t brought a case for criminal antitrust violations in more than 20 years. But that’s about to change, according to California Assistant Attorney General Paula Blizzard.
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Business Crimes Bulletin
Global Antitrust Competition Enforcers Are Back, According to Report
Gail J. Cohen
Labor markets, artificial intelligence and consumer-related issues are going to be under the microscope from antitrust investigators around the globe in 2024, according to a report from Morgan, Lewis & Bockius.
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Business Crimes Bulletin
AI Is Attracting Antitrust Regulatory Scrutiny
Gretchen L. Jankowski and Abigail L. Cessna
While some jurisdictions are enacting or proposing AI-specific regulation, many existing regulatory frameworks apply to new technologies, including antitrust. Companies may experience different potential antitrust risks depending on the type of AI technology and their use of that technology.
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Business Crimes Bulletin
DOJ and States Open Antitrust Case Against Google for Monopolizing Internet Search Market
Jimmy Hoover
The U.S. Department of Justice and dozens of states opened their antitrust case against Google in Washington last month, accusing the tech giant of illegally monopolizing the internet search and related ad markets.
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Business Crimes Bulletin
Recent DOJ Losses In Antitrust Cases Don’t Tell the Whole Story
Jennifer Fischell and Thomas Schubert
Many of the Biden Administration’s antitrust enforcement actions have involved attempts to regulate anticompetitive conduct in labor markets by means…
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Entertainment Law & Finance
Keeping Tabs On Antitrust Actions In Entertainment Industry Sectors
Stan Soocher
The growth in size of companies dominating sectors of the entertainment industry has been subject to antitrust challenges with mixed results. What are some notable recent developments in this area?
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Business Crimes Bulletin
Antitrust Actions In Entertainment Industry Sectors
Stan Soocher
The growth in size of companies dominating sectors of the entertainment industry has been subject to antitrust challenges with mixed results. What are some notable recent developments in this area?
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Entertainment Law & Finance
Change In ADR Provider at Issue In Event-Ticketing Fees Litigation
Ross Todd and Alaina Lancaster
A new antitrust complaint over ticketing fees has been filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California against Live Nation Entertainment Inc. and Ticketmaster. The plaintiffs in the newly filed suit are challenging Ticketmaster's new arbitration agreement by claiming its protocols for mass arbitrations, laid out in the rules and procedures posted to its website, require “a novel and one-sided process that is tailored to disadvantage consumers.”
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Business Crimes Bulletin
As Federal Antitrust Prosecutions Rise, Potential Criminal Pitfalls Loom for HR Professionals
Laily Sheybani
The Biden administration seeks to position itself as one that will crack down on employers’ attempts to limit their employees’ mobility and pay through allegedly non-competitive measures.
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Cybersecurity Law & Strategy
Tightening Antitrust Enforcement Could Be Boon for E-Discovery
Victoria Hudgins
U.S. antitrust enforcement is tightening, and e-discovery practitioners and vendors in the M&A market are expecting an uptick in work. But the influx of complex discovery may drain resources for other corporate e-discovery matters.
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Entertainment Law & Finance
Antitrust Issues Grow Out of Esports’ Success
William Stark, Steve Walkowiak and Katie Tipper-McWhorter
As esports continues its meteoric growth, its antitrust exposure also grows. Soon, the competitive video game industry must address its increasing market share, either voluntarily or in the form of lawsuits and regulations imposed from the outside.
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Entertainment Law & Finance
Ultra Music Festival Disputes Result in Decisions Within Days of Each Other
Stan Soocher
Only days after winning dismissal of an anti-trust lawsuit over its 2019 move to a new location in Miami, FL, for the Ultra Music Festival, Worldwide Entertainment lost its bid to reopen a court case over use of the “Ultra Music” brand for a festival overseas.
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Internet Law & Strategy
Big Data, Web 'Scraping' and Competition Law
Shepard Goldfein and James Keyte
The Debate Continues
Web "scraping" is one method of accumulating data that has sparked recent legal debate, both antitrust and otherwise. Legal challenges to Web scraping have involved privacy claims and claims under the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, in addition to antitrust claims about the need to collect public data to be able to compete freely.
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The Intellectual Property Strategist
Qualcomm Slammed In Patent Brawl With Apple
Scott [email protected]
Qualcomm Inc. lost two pretrial skirmishes last month in its patent and antitrust battle against Apple Inc. — in just about every way imaginable.
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The Corporate Counselor
Antitrust Corporate Dispositions
Marc Siegel
This article provides critical background on DOJ policy and practice, and highlights some of the steps corporate counsel can take during leniency or plea negotiations to secure non-prosecution protection for the company's employees as part of any antitrust corporate disposition.
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Business Crimes Bulletin
Do Your Employment Practices Violate Antitrust Law? They Might!
Robert G. Brody and Alexander Friedman
Did you know that certain employment practices could violate antitrust law? This is the message to be gleaned from joint guidance recently issued by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division
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Employment Law Strategist
Do Your Employment Practices Violate Antitrust Law?
Robert G. Brody and Alexander Friedman
This article provides critical background on DOJ policy and practice, and highlights some of the steps corporate counsel can take during leniency or plea negotiations to secure non-prosecution protection for the company's employees as part of any antitrust corporate disposition.
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The Corporate Counselor
Do Your Employment Practices Violate Antitrust Law? They Might!
Robert G. Brody and Alexander Friedman
Did you know that your employment practices could violate antitrust law? This is the message to be gleaned from joint guidance recently issued by the FTC and the DOJ Antitrust Division. The Agencies issued this guidance to remind employers that, like any other market, the job market is subject to antitrust laws.
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Employment Law Strategist
Do Your Employment Practices Violate Antitrust Law? They Might!
Robert G. Brody and Alexander Friedman
Did you know that your employment practices could violate antitrust law? This is the message to be gleaned from joint guidance recently issued by the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice Antitrust Division.
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