- So, the EU has launched an antitrust investigation into Google. One wonders, though, if the EU has the balls to look into two much more disturbing antitrust problems in its own backyard: The anticompetitive and abusive behavior of Pearson (a UK-based conglomerate) and Wolters Kluwer (an Anglo-Dutch conglomerate) in scientific and academic journals. Or, for that matter, the behavior of other EU-based conglomerates in publishing.
And maybe, as Professor Crawford notes, US antitrust authorities should pay more attention to Comcast... particularly since that's how Google results get to a third of the country or so.
- The always entertaining (in a "watch this replay of a train wreck" sort of way) bad sex in literature awards. Relatively SFW... after all, if it wasn't, it probably wouldn't qualify as bad sex writing...
- I guess it's still ok for a Muslim in Oklahoma to consider Sharia's requirements of members of the Faith when making his/her secular Last Will and Testament... because Judge Miles-LaGrange did the right thing and enjoined the anti-Sharia "constitutional amendment" that Oklahoma's bigoted political leaders forced through as a "referendum".
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Law and reality in publishing and entertainment (seldom the same thing) from the creator's side of the slush pile, with occasional forays into politics, military affairs, censorship and the First Amendment, legal theory, and anything else that strikes me as interesting. |
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