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...record firms guaranteeing MTV exclusive use of many new video clips for as long as one year. DMN promptly sued MTV in a Los Angeles federal court, charging restraint of trade. Last month the Justice Department began a preliminary inquiry to find out whether MTV's strategy violates antitrust laws. Contends MTV President David Horowitz: "These contracts are normal practice in the [entertainment] industry and totally legal...
Economic Rights. The Warren Court vigorously enforced the antitrust laws in an effort to break up economic concentration. The Burger Court has backed the Reagan Administration's view that the real antitrust test should not be size but economic efficiency. Some experts think that the Burger Court would not have ordered the breakup of A T & T, which was the result of a settlement in a federal district court...
...acquisition of Rolm is approved, as expected, by federal antitrust authorities, it will be the first time that IBM has bought 100% of a firm since its 1962 purchase of an educational publishing house. In 1969 the Justice Department sued IBM for trying to monopolize the computer business, and that marathon case inhibited the company from shopping for partners. The shackles came off in 1982 when the Government dropped the suit...
...airlines: either voluntarily reschedule flights at the six most congested airports (Atlanta's Hartsfield, the New York City area's Kennedy, La Guardia and Newark, Chicago-O'Hare and Denver's Stapleton) or the FAA would do it for them. A special immunity from antitrust prosecution was granted so that the air carriers could meet. Representatives from about 50 domestic and 15 international carriers last week began a six-day session in Crystal City, Va., outside Washington, to work out new flight schedules. Ordinarily highly competitive, the officials pledged cooperation. Said Dan Henkin, a vice president...
...year, air carriers have said they would be willing to discuss spreading out their flight schedules, which overload airports at peak periods. But no carrier wants to be first to shift flights to unpopular times. So preparations for industry-wide talks on scheduling, which require a Government exemption from antitrust prosecution, have proceeded about as slowly as a search for lost baggage...