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Competition Law in the Media Sector - Chapter 22 - International Antitrust Law & Policy: Fordham Corporate Law 1997
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International Antitrust Law & Policy: Fordham Corporate Law 1997 - Hardcover International Antitrust Law & Policy: Fordham Corporate Law 1997 - PDF ___________________________________________________________________________________ Preview Page Chapter 22
COMPETITION LAW IN THE MEDIA SECTOR
Moderator: Ferdinand Hermanns - Düsseldorf
Participants: Frédéric Jenny - Vice Chairman, Conseil de la
Concurrence, Paris
Robert D. Joffe - Cravath, Swaine & Moore,
New York
Mario Siragusa - Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen &
Hamilton, Brussels
John Temple Lang - Director, DG-IV, EC
Commission, Brussels
Dieter Wolf - President, Bundeskartellamt,
Berlin
MR. HERMANNS: Let us try to resume our work because time is
running. I hope that everybody will be interested in the next topic.
I will start with very bad news. We will take no break, and that is mainly
for two reasons: first, for your health, because too much coffee is not good;
and second, to stop you from escaping during the break, because it is always
much easier to go away than to leave the room during the conference.
Before giving the floor to our excellent speakers, whom I do not have to
introduce because everybody has already heard them, let me make some
introductory remarks.
Our subject is competition law in the media sector. The freedom of press -
and today one can correctly say, I think, the freedom of media - is surely part
of the fundamental rights. Most of the Continental constitutions now have
provisions protecting this freedom, and the same is true for the United States.
The underlying idea is that the freedom of media, which is part of the
freedom of opinion, is considered as forming a very important part of
democracy. The development in media, especially the still-increasing
importance of television, modified the described approach. There are people
About the Editor:
Barry Hawk is Director of the Fordham Corporate Law Institute and Partner with Skadden Arps (New York and Brussels). He is former Vice Chair of the ABA Antitrust Section and former Chair of the New York State Bar Association Antitrust Section, as well as Professor at Fordham Law School and Visiting Professor at Michigan Law School, Monash University Law School, New York University Law School and the University of Paris.
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