5/ A US federal district judge just dismissed the #antitrust case against six academic #publishers (Jan 30, 2026).
https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/myvmqlljdvr/24-cv-06409-HG%20Uddin%20v.%20Elsevier%20B.V.%20et%20al.pdf

Article about the dismissal:
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/academic-publishers-defeat-lawsuit-over-peer-review-pay-other-restrictions-2026-01-30/

"The four scholars, scientists and professors who filed the lawsuit in 2024 had not shown sufficient evidence of a conspiracy involving publishers Elsevier, John Wiley & Sons, Sage Publications, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis and Wolters Kluwer."

#Monopoly #PriceFixing #USLaw

As Matt Stoller so often does, here he provides the most valuable (IMO) framing of the politics around #ICE

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-round-up-what-the-ice-raids

The focus question should be: why focus on policing the individual immigrants rather than the **corporations** who hire them? Or more generally, why focus on policing workers instead of policing financial crimes and #antitrust violations?

This framing bridges the partisan divides because it appeals to rule-of-law not pro-immigrant or anti-immigrant etc

🇪🇺 Apple Accuses European Commission of 'Political Delay Tactics' Over App Store Changes

｢ Apple further claims that there is little demand for alternative app marketplaces in Europe, and the company said that it is not the reason that Setapp is shutting down ｣

#apple #antitrust #eu https://www.macrumors.com/2026/01/22/apple-europe-political-delay-tactics/

🎷🧬🌐 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

#PublicDomain #Antitrust #IPLaw

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

#PublicDomain #Antitrust #IPLaw #FutureKnowledge

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

#PublicDomain #Antitrust #IPLaw #FutureKnowledge

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

#PublicDomain #Antitrust #IPLaw #FutureKnowledge

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/

#EU #TechPolicy #DigitalMarketsAct #competition #antitrust

"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/

#EU #TechPolicy #DigitalMarketsAct #competition #antitrust

@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

@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.

https://www.propublica.org/article/doj-realpage-settlement-rental-price-fixing-case?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#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 😅

#AntiMonopoly #AntiTrust #LinaKhan

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 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

#USpol #antitrust