July 7, 11am-12pm
Robert Picard, Senior Research Fellow, Reuters Institute, University of Oxford
"Big Digital Tech and the International Application on Competition Law"
The seminar explored the increasing application of national and regional competition law worldwide to large digital tech platforms and service providers and where those efforts may be taking digital regulation and affecting company practices and structures.
The application of competition law is focusing on how business practices combine with the size of firms, their control of resources, services to harming competitors and business and general consumers. It discussed remedies being sought to mitigate that harm.
Robert G. Picard is a specialist on media and communications economics and policy and the business challenges facing media in the digital age.
A professor at universities in the U.S. and Europe for 4 decades, he is a senior research fellow at the Reuters Institute, University of Oxford, a fellow the Information Society Project at Yale Law School, and a fellow the Royal Society of Arts. He regularly works with media companies, media associations, and governments worldwide to improve performance and respond to challenges in the media environment.