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The Overlapping Web Of Data, Territoriality And Sovereignty, Jennifer Daskal
The Overlapping Web Of Data, Territoriality And Sovereignty, Jennifer Daskal
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Provides a framework to better understand Global Legal Pluralism and the current international state of law.
Equips practitioners, theorists, and students with deeper insights and analytical tools to describe the conflict among legal and quasi-legal systems.
Analyzes global legal pluralism in light of legal theory, constitutionalism, conflict of laws, international law, commercial transactions, and as it affects indigenous polities, religious orders, and citizenship.
Cartel Ringmaster Or Competition Creator? The Ebooks Case Against Apple (2013), Jonathan Baker
Cartel Ringmaster Or Competition Creator? The Ebooks Case Against Apple (2013), Jonathan Baker
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In 2013, a federal district court found that Apple had orchestrated a cartel agreement involving it and five major book publishers three years earlier, when Apple opened the iBookstore in conjunction with the introduction of its iPad tablet computer. According to the court, Apple organized collective action by the publishers to take away ebook pricing authority from Amazon, an aggressive discounter, and to raise the retail prices of ebooks.
This chapter describes the case from an economic point of view. It examines the competing views of the government and Apple over the competitive impact of various provisions in the iBookstore’s …