Questions tagged [competition]
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Is it legal to ask for a competing offer providing the information from another competitor?
The local football club is organizing a fun competition once a year.
Bobs company has been hired for security and information services every year for a very long time. There have never been complaints ...
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Can a renting apartment force you into particular services?
Jurisdiction: Georgia (state), United States
A particular apartment that is a renting community are forcing residents to madatorily pay for certain services by particular providers (i.e. if residents ...
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Why are Hollywood studios permitted to collectively bargain with employees, and what are the limits of this apparent antitrust exemption?
Employers are generally not allowed to coordinate in any way which limits the normal competition for employees. Further, trade associations are not generally permitted to act in ways which would ...
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Where is the line between game of chance(gambling) and game of skill? [closed]
I plan to hold offline grassroots tabletop game events that charge a small fixed entry fee and a prize pool that distributes a predetermined percentage of all entry fees gathered to the top players. ...
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Are there examples of companies suing regulators for selective enforcement?
My hypothetical scenario is roughly like this:
Company A has product X in circulation
The relevant regulator, after scrutinizing X, issues a ban and/or fines company A for their product X
Company A ...
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Does running your own limited liability company constitute employment? [closed]
What exactly is "employment"? Does running my own limited liability company (GmbH or similar) constitute "employment"?
I am asking this because my (Swiss) employment contract (...
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If Microsoft and Activision Blizzard are both based in the USA, how does the UK have standing to block the merger?
Per this story from the BBC or Bloomberg
The UK Competition and Markets Authority has apparently decided to block the merger of Microsoft and Activision Blizzard. The story notes: "To go through,...
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Why would this law apply?
An Extract from Article 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) prohibits:
(a) directly or indirectly imposing unfair purchase or selling prices or other unfair trading ...
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Is it legal for a company to enforce price minimums in the USA?
When exporting from Europe to the USA but not sourcing directly from the manufacturer, it is common to receive communications from companies along the lines
(1) in the USA we have a minimum price ...
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Publicly sharing information obtained over e-mail (no NDA)
For data analysis purposes, I would like to request an offer / overview of product features with various companies, posing as a prospecting customer over e-mail.
I would like to analyse this data and ...
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What are the most relevant metrics for rating lawyers?
Different fields have different metrics that are used among equals to rate themselves. For example, amongst scientists, the h-index (a researcher has h-index = x if he has at least x peer reviewed ...
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Why can the UK's Competition and Markets Authority tell Facebook to sell Giphy?
The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) tells Facebook owner to sell GIF library Giphy.
But since Facebook (now Meta) is an American company, what authority does the UK have to tell Facebook ...
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Is Price Discrimination in the Software Industry legal in the US? (Sneakers resale software case)
There is a software manufacturer that advertises their product for $599 on their website. Conveniently, the software is always out of stock, while the manufacturer “backdoors” some licenses to a ...
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Can a company read another company's software tool configuration files?
We are a small software consultancy. Several of our existing clients are unhappy with one of companies they have licensed software from (CompanyX) because that company started abusing their majority ...
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Does Australia's News Media Bargaining Code prevent Australian news being displayed outside of Australia?
The Australian News Bargaining Code, if passed, will prevent companies like Google and Facebook from displaying images and snippets (and possibly even headlines) on their platforms unless they pay ...
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