7.21.2004  Antitrust Retrospective  Timothy J. Muris, outgoing Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, has just written "How History Can Inform Practice in Modern U.S. Antitrust Policy," George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 04-20 (2004). Since competition among firms is, increasingly, a contest of competing versions of intellectual property, antitrust doctrine is important to the IP world. Muris is a law & econ type who has rotated around government, academia, and practice, and his views are based on reality rather than utopian abstractionism. I am not a fan of antitrust doctrine, which is mostly drivel (see here and here), even in such capable hands as Muris's, but reading him is a good way to track developments over the past 30 years and to make reasoned guesses about the future. posted by James DeLong : 7/21/2004 07:49:14 AM   IPcentral WebLog Blog Main Recent Posts   Markets Affect Type of Files on P2P Networks The Free Market Garden Good Article on Inducing Infringement & Sony Hearing on S. 2560 (Inducing Infringement) Video of ICAC Event on the DMCA Today's Menu NYT Rejoinder Landes & Posner Monograph More on Micropayments Blogger Powell . . . Archives by Month   December 2003 January 2004 February 2004 March 2004 April 2004 May 2004 June 2004 July 2004 August 2004 September 2004 October 2004 November 2004 December 2004 Links   PFF Blog

	7.21.2004  Antitrust Retrospective  Timothy J. Muris, outgoing Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, has just written "How History Can Inform Practice in Modern U.S. Antitrust Policy," George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 04-20 (2004). Since competition among firms is, increasingly, a contest of competing versions of intellectual property, antitrust doctrine is important to the IP world. Muris is a law & econ type who has rotated around government, academia, and practice, and his views are based on reality rather than utopian abstractionism. I am not a fan of antitrust doctrine, which is mostly drivel (see here and here), even in such capable hands as Muris's, but reading him is a good way to track developments over the past 30 years and to make reasoned guesses about the future. posted by James DeLong : 7/21/2004 07:49:14 AM   IPcentral WebLog Blog Main Recent Posts   Markets Affect Type of Files on P2P Networks The Free Market Garden Good Article on Inducing Infringement & Sony Hearing on S. 2560 (Inducing Infringement) Video of ICAC Event on the DMCA Today's Menu NYT Rejoinder Landes & Posner Monograph More on Micropayments Blogger Powell . . . Archives by Month   December 2003 January 2004 February 2004 March 2004 April 2004 May 2004 June 2004 July 2004 August 2004 September 2004 October 2004 November 2004 December 2004 Links   PFF Blog