The provisions in the Department of Justice’s proposed...
The provisions in the Department of Justice’s proposed remedy in the Apple e-book case are necessary to keep Apple from engaging in anti-competitive behavior, which the court found the company guilty of last month (CED July 11 p1), the DOJ…
Sign up for a free preview to unlock the rest of this article
Timely, relevant coverage of court proceedings and agency rulings involving tariffs, classification, valuation, origin and antidumping and countervailing duties. Each day, Trade Law Daily subscribers receive a daily headline email, in-depth PDF edition and access to all relevant documents via our trade law source document library and website.
wrote in filings Friday to the U.S. District Court in Manhattan. Preventing Apple from entering similar, price-fixing agreements in other content markets “is both necessary and prudent to prevent future violations of the antitrust laws,” DOJ said. To return to the conditions of the pre-collusion e-book market, Apple should have to offer competitors “a costless means for readers to purchase e-books from” retailers including Barnes & Noble and Amazon, by allowing competitors to include hyperlinks to their bookstores within apps, DOJ said. Finally, Apple needs an independent compliance officer, as “Apple’s in-house enforcement program will be insufficient to change the corporate culture,” which is a “culture of insensitivity to basic tenets of antitrust law,” the DOJ said.