The first practitioner work to give full comparative examination to EU and US competition law and regulation within the information, communication and media markets
Unique analysis of the relationship between EU/US competition law, intellectual property, telecoms regulation and data protection
Includes dedicated chapters on pricing, product design, standards and interoperability, communications networks and data protection.
Outlook sections examine possible future developments and law reform
Written by an official in the Directorate General for Competition in the European Commission with prior in-house experience at a global communications firm
The influence of European Competition Law is global, and Competition Law and Regulation of Technology Markets takes a practical, integrated approach to competition law, which is becoming increasingly prominent in the technology sector in Europe - as demonstrated by a number of high profile cases such as Microsoft, Sony/BMG and Intel.
The book focuses on the information, communication and media markets, that form the 'new economy'. It provides a coherent analysis of these various markets by considering the regulatory context, and by addressing the issues, and ensuing legal problems, that are common to them. These include; high fixed costs, the importance of intellectual property and standards, the impact of interoperability, and the prevalence of the network effect.
The book considers how EU competition rules interact with regulation, intellectual property law and data protection rules, and goes on to analyse the application of competition rules in four fields; communications networks, industrial intellectual property, creative intellectual property, and electronic commerce and services.. The book charts a clear path through this complex interaction of rules, and provides the competition law practitioner with the necessary tools to advise on legal problems in these sectors.
Readership: This book is indispensable for competition lawyers in private practice or in-house at technology companies, and useful for practitioners specialised in these sectors, but with limited knowledge of the competition rules.
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