In a verdict that could have far-reaching consequences in the music industry, the live colossus that includes Ticketmaster was found to have violated antitrust laws.
Fans overcharged by $1.72 each by 'monopoly' Ticketmaster-owner Live Nation
The lawsuit said the firm's practices had led to higher ticket prices and worse service for customers.
Ask HN: Why hasn't there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet? | Hacker News
Ticketmaster avoided the two-sided market problem until they reached scale. They were just a website where you buy tickets, an IT appliance for promoters.
Jury finds Meta and YouTube negligent in landmark lawsuit on social media safety
The jurors awarded the plaintiff $3 million in damages, finding Meta 70% responsible for harm caused to her, and YouTube responsible for 30%.
Pluralistic: The worst possible antitrust outcome (03 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Last year, Google lost an antitrust case to Biden's DoJ. The DoJ lawyers beat Google like a drum, proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that Google had deliberately sought to create and maintain a monopoly over search, and that they'd used that monopoly to make search materially worse, while locking competitors out of the market.
Restoring Consumer Sovereignty: How Markets Manipulate Us and What the Law Can Do About It
Abstract. For decades, there has been broad consensus within antitrust, intellectual property, and consumer law scholarship that consumers make decisions i
Meta Faces Lawsuit Over Gambling Scam Ads on Facebook, Instagram - iGamingToday.com - News, insights and Slots review
The Consumer Federation of America has taken Meta to court, accusing the company of misleading users about how it tackles fraudulent advertising on Facebook and Instagram. Filed in Washington, DC, the lawsuit claims Meta’s handling of scam ads, including scam gambling sites, violates local consumer protection laws. Unlike scams that rely on direct contact with […]
Jury in Los Angeles finds Meta, YouTube negligent in social media addiction trial
A jury reached a verdict in the LA trial focused on Meta and YouTube, a case that experts have characterized as social media's "Big Tobacco" moment.
South Korea’s KOMCA ends ban on AI-assisted songs – false filings now risk royalty holds and contract termination - Music Business Worldwide
The amended rules took effect on Monday (August 3), replacing a ban that KOMCA had applied since March 24, 2025.
Meta must face youth addiction lawsuit by Massachusetts, court rules
The decision follows a landmark trial in which a jury found Meta and Google negligent for designing social media platforms that are harmful to young people.
Rethinking the Large Ensemble Paradigm: Moving Toward Epistemic Justice
In this paper, I center the epistemic dimensions of musics and musicking to consider the ways in which the band/orchestra/choir paradigm of music education prevalent in the U.S. and Canada may be implicated in epistemic injustice. Drawing in particular on the work of Fricker (Epistemic injustice: power and the ethics of knowing, Oxford University Press, New York, 2007), Dotson (Hypatia 26(2):236–257, 2011), and The Routledge Handbook of Epistemic Injustice (Kidd et al., The Routledge handbook of epistemic injustice, Routledge, New York, 2017), I explore facets of epistemic injustice and apply these ideas to music education school contexts in Canada and the U.S. I further explore aspects of school music that may amount to “testimonial smothering” (Dotson 2011) and “cognitive imperialism” (Battiste in Can J Native Educ 22:16–27, 1998). Ultimately, building on existing literature on epistemic justice (Kidd et al. 2017; Fricker 2007), I theorize an epistemically just music education for school music in alignment with culturally responsive, anti-racist, and anti-colonial teaching.
Judge Learns Lawyers on Both Sides of Case Used AI, Cancels Trial, Kicks Everyone Off the Case
When two AIs argue against each other, the legal system loses.
What the Verdict Against Meta and Google Says About the Way We Live Now
Serving as a signal of a taste in the courts and among the public to have tech companies bear some of the costs of harm that they have allegedly caused, the recent verdict against Meta and Google in California says a lot about the central anxieties of our time.
Meta’s Legal Troubles Are Worse than You Think
Price and Sovereignty Harvard Law Review
[W]e must not overlook the actual fact that dominion over things is also imperium over our fellow human beings. — Professor Morris R. Cohen,...
Meta and YouTube found liable in social media addiction trial
A woman has been awarded $6m in a verdict that could have implications for hundreds of other cases in the US.
When Purchase Means License: Digital Ownership's Quiet Erosion — Koios
When Purchase Means License: Digital Ownership's Quiet Erosion