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The Voluntary Trade Council is a research center dedicated to antitrust and competition regulation. Working in the tradition of the Austrian School of economics, VTC offers free-market criticism of the Federal Trade Commission, the Department of Justice and other agencies that intervene to prevent the voluntary exchange of goods, services and ideas.

Microsoft-Yahoo!

Alex Epstein, an analyst at the Ayn Rand Institute, has published an op-ed explaining why antitrust regulators should not get in the way of any potential combinations of Microsoft, Google and Yahoo! Esptein notes, "What we are observing in the battle over Yahoo! is not genuine, merit-based competition, but competition based on political pull." You can read Epstein's article, "Set Yahoo! Free," at this link.

PATENT HOLD UP

Bruce Kobayashi and Joshua Wright of George Mason University recently posted an article examining "restraint when applying the antitrust laws to conduct that is normally regulated by state and other federal laws," specifcially the use of antitrust "to regulate the problem of patent hold up of members of standard setting organizations." You can download their paper at this link.

Mises.org

S.M. Oliva, president of the Voluntary Trade Council, authored an article for the Ludwig von Mises Institute on Mark and Marianne Hershiser's landmark First Amendment lawsuit against the Federal Trade Commission. You can read the article, "Consumer Protection or Legal Extortion?" at this link.

IP & Antitrust

Damien Geradin, a professor at Tilburg University and a partner at Howrey LLP, recently presented a paper entitled, "What's Wrong with Royalties in High Technology Industries?" which focuses on royalties paid by companies seeking to implement industry standards, such as those at issue in the FTC's case against Rambus. You can dowload the paper at this link.

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MSG v. NHL
Documents from Madison Square Garden, L.P. v. National Hockey League, et al.

DocumentsDate added

Order by : Name | Date | Hits [ Ascendant ]
file icon Order Denying InjunctionTooltip 06/19/2008 Hits: 98
Memorandum and Order, authored by U.S. District Judge Loretta A. Preska (denial of MSG's request for a preliminary injunction) (Nov. 2, 2007).
file icon NHL Answerhot!Tooltip 06/19/2008 Hits: 373
ANSWER OF DEFENDANTS NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE, NHL ENTERPRISES, L.P.,NHL INTERACTIVE CYBERENTERPRISES, L.L.C., NHL ENTERPRISES CANADA, L.P.,AND NHL ENTERPRISES, B.V. (June 18, 2008).
file icon MSG Amended ComplaintTooltip 06/19/2008 Hits: 88
First Amended Complaint for Injunctive Relief, filed by Madison Square Garden, L.P. (March 31, 2008).

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Suggested Reading

Antitrust: The Case for Repeal
Dominick T. Armentano
2nd ed. 1999
Purchase from Mises.org

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Markets Don't Fail!
Brian P. Simpson
2005
Purchase from Amazon

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The Antitrust Religion
Edwin S. Rockefeller
2007
Purchase from Cato.org
Read the review

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Winners, Losers & Microsoft
Liebowitz & Margolis
1999
Purchase from Independent Institute

 
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