Amazon and the Law

When Monopolists Discriminate - with:
Maurice Stucke
Professor of antitrust law at the University of Tennessee
Cofounder of the Data Competition Institute
Author of Big Data and Competition Policy, Oxford University Press (forthcoming 2016)
Lina Khan
Second year student at Yale Law School
Fellow with the Open Markets Program
Khan has extensively researched Amazon and data discrimination, and has written numerous articles on antitrust.
Is there a Case? With:
Jonathan Kanter
Antitrust partner at Cadwalader
Co-head of Cadwalader's global Technology Industry Team
Formerly at the Bureau of Competition at the FTC and on the Microsoft antitrust case
Paul Yde
Partner in the Antitrust Group of Freshfields, Bruckhaus, Deringer
Moderator: Haley Sweetland Edwards
Correspondent, Time Magazine
From the event Amazon's Book Monopoly: A Threat to Freedom of Expression?
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Amazon dominates the U.S. book industry to a degree never before seen in America. This corporation controls more than half of every key segment of the book market. And this immense size gives Amazon unprecedented power to manipulate the flow of books - hence of information and ideas - between author and reader.
Last summer a group of authors made the case that Amazon's actions constitute an abuse of its monopoly powers and threatens this vital marketplace of ideas. Amazon's actions, they wrote, may already be affecting what authors write and say. The authors strongly urged antitrust regulators to take action, in what would be the most important antitrust case since Microsoft in the late 1990s.
Join New America's Open Markets program for a discussion of Amazon's monopoly over books and what it means for American readers and America's democracy. Some of the nation's best-known authors will discuss their personal experiences with Amazon. Antitrust lawyers and experts in Big Data and price discrimination will then discuss the larger effects of the corporation's behavior, and whether the government should bring a case against Amazon.
Follow the discussion online using #BookMonopoly and follow us @NewAmerica.
Participants:
Scott Turow
Lawyer, former president of the Authors Guild, and author of 11 books, including Presumed Innocent.
Douglas Preston
President of Authors United, author of numerous best-selling works of science fiction and journalism.
Jeffrey Rosen
President and CEO of the National Constitution Center, professor of law George Washington University, author of The Supreme Court: The Personalities and Rivalries that Defined America.
Susan Cheever
Best-selling memoirist, historian, and author, most recently of Drinking in America.
Mark Coker
Founder and CEO of Smashwords, and pioneering self-published author, including of Boob Tube and Secrets to Ebook Publishing Success.
Frank Foer
Author of How Soccer Explains the World and former editor of The New Republic, Frank is now working on a book on Amazon and other online monopolists.
Jonathan Kanter
Antitrust partner at Cadwalader where he is co-head of the firm's global Technology Industry Team. Jonathan worked in the Bureau of Competition at the FTC and on the Microsoft antitrust case.
John R. MacArthur
President and Publisher of Harper's Magazine. Author of "Second Front: Censorship and Propaganda in the 1991 Gulf War."
Eric Simonoff
Lliterary agent at William Morris Endeavor.
Maurice Stucke
Professor of antitrust law at the University of Tennessee, cofounder of the Data Competition Institute. Stucke is author of Big Data and Competition Policy, Oxford University Press (forthcoming 2016).
Paul Yde
Partner in the Antitrust Group of Freshfields, Bruckhaus, Deringer.
Lina Khan
Second year student at Yale Law School and fellow with the Open Markets Program. Lina has extensively researched Amazon and data discrimination, and has written numerous articles on antitrust.
Christopher Leonard
Author of the "Meat Racket: The Secret Takeover of America's Food Business," former business reporter at the Associated Press.
Haley Sweetland Edwards
Correspondent, Time Magazine.
Barry C. Lynn
Director of the the Open Markets Program at New America, and author of Cornered: The New Monopoly Capitalism and the Economics of Destruction.
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[@MrAgbxl]

I found Lina, by far, the most impressive person on this panel. And that is when she was only in Year 2 of law school!

[@jaredlewis8689]

Damn she went from KZbin videos to the FTC. Life is crazy.

[@equitynow-i2q]

She has been working on these issues since 2011.

[@the_famous_reply_guy]

Smash Amazon Lina Khan!

[@PaolaPalacios]

Es buena la tesis. Creo que hay bastantes argumentos a considerar. Sin embargo no estoy del todo de acuerdo en la demonizacion de Amazon y los eslabones de su cadena de negocios. La razón, ahora los gobiernos tras post covid están poniendo en mayor medida sus intereses. Pienso que realmente el foco de la intención de regular no es el consumidor, sino el gran volumen de dinero que amaza esta compañía. Y escapa a las manos de los gobiernos. Si es un bien común, en este nuevo paradigma: las plataformas, la logística que ha entrado con un papel importante y las telecomunicaciones, sin embargo el impulso que un privado ha hecho tras años de lobby e inversiones millonarias en tecnología, a mi parecer debe reconocerce y valorarce, pues este, era un trabajo de los gobiernos que por ausencia de políticas y falta de dinero lo dejado de lado en manos de las startaps de silocon valley. Hay beneficios para los ciudadanos que impactan socio-econimicamente en la vida de muchos en todo el mundo. ¿Entonces quien asumiría esta responsabilidad, los gobiernos? Los pequeños ricos que especulan. ? Hay que ver también los beneficios en el crecimiento de PIB en los 197 países con respecto a antes de amazon. Como dice Mazzucato en su libro el valor de las cosas. Reclamando beneficios y reclamando títulos. Al final la ecuación debería ser despejada por mayores beneficios que perjuicio. Esta misma escena fue el exte de Google en el 2020 previo a la pandemia donde la UE. Pretendía con su sanción limitar su posición dominante frente a la publicidad. Justo que nos salvo en la pandemia. Incluso a las escuelas

[@PaolaPalacios]

Thank you!

[@paulwolinsky1538]

Amazon still utterly dominates the online book market. 7/17/24

[@xBlake]

@19:00

[@pradhumnpatel659]

I think she has some sort of problem with Amazon always criticize and talks crap

[@tylerclark2563]

You should have kept this comment in your galaxy-sized brain.

[@kyrie4451]

Thanks Captain Obvious. I wouldn't have known.

[@mastersplinter666]

@@tylerclark2563 Thanks for this.

[@UUAD]

Joe Biden thought otherwise. You jealous?!

[@fred8169]

She’s jealous