Brussels has boxed itself into a familiar corner: first limit how a platform can make money, then regulate what is left. The European Commission’s case against Meta over WhatsApp is …
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Washington may be closing in on an AI “term sheet.” The industry, meanwhile, is already writing its own rules. Recent commentary suggests U.S. artificial intelligence (AI) policy may be coalescing …
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In 1992, the U.S. Supreme Court held in Eastman Kodak Co. v. Image Technical Services that a firm without market power in photocopiers might still possess market power in photocopier …
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Competition authorities are gearing up to regulate quantum computing. The problem: there is no market there yet. In March 2026, the Italian Competition Authority (AGCM) launched an “IC59 fact-finding inquiry” …
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Although not a single, Mitski’s “Washing Machine Heart” ranks among her most popular songs. Its insistent drumbeat echoes the spin cycle of an old washing machine, recalling the singer’s frustration …
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When Sergio Leone shot “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” in 1966, he refused to hand the audience a clean moral. The “Good” wasn’t really good. The “Bad” looked …
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Three section leads at the International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE) read the same viral GitHub post and reached three different conclusions. Call it a trilogue—three views, one problem, …
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Generative AI strains nearly every layer of copyright law. Policymakers have focused most on one pressure point: the use of copyrighted works to train AI models. Fitting that practice into …
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If the Digital Markets Act (DMA) is going to force open the most sensitive parts of modern smartphones, it will have to answer a basic question it has so far …
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Antitrust used to ask a simple question: are firms making consumers worse off? Increasingly, it asks a different one: are consumers making the “wrong” choices? The consumer welfare standard (CWS) …