While this year’s BAFTA nominations offer up a more balanced split between streamers and traditional distributors and studios than in recent years, Netflix still remains the dominant streamer in the 2021 race.
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The Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice are launching plans to update and modernize merger enforcement guidelines, something that could mean closer scrutiny of major tech and media transactions.
Lina Khan, the chairwoman of the FTC, and Jonathan Kanter, the chief of the DOJ’s antitrust division, on Tuesday were to outline a review of the framework that the agencies use to analyze proposed mergers. Before Khan and Kanter took their current roles, both have been outspoken about reining in the power of big tech, at a time when Congress considers new legislation aimed at Facebook, Apple, Amazon and Google.
A bit coincidentally, their announcement of the review comes on the same day that Microsoft announced plans to acquire Activision Blizzard for nearly $69 billion. But a host of other mergers are awaiting the greenlight of the DOJ, including the Discovery-WarnerMedia combination and CAA’s planned purchase of ICM Partners, as well as the FTC, which is reviewing Amazon’s proposed acquisition of MGM.
The DOJ and the FTC are seeking public comment on any proposed changes to the merger guidelines, which still would have to be in line with existing antitrust laws. “A key overriding question is how effectively the current guidance documents capture the competitive issues raised by mergers today and whether these documents adequately equip enforcers to identify and proscribe unlawful, anticompetitive transactions,” the agencies said in announcing the review.
A criticism of existing enforcement has been its heavy emphasis on the effect that major transactions have on consumer prices. The agencies said that they are “particularly interested” in whether the current guidelines underemphasize other factors, like the
While this year’s BAFTA nominations offer up a more balanced split between streamers and traditional distributors and studios than in recent years, Netflix still remains the dominant streamer in the 2021 race.
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