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… Serving innovative start-ups pro-bono with the wisdom of intellectual property laws FRIDAY FORTNIGHTLY WEEK: THE IP AND COMPETITION NEWSLETTER (ED. 2022 WEEK 46 NO. 36) Dear Readers, In this edition, you will find an overview of the key developments in Competition, Copyright, Patents, and … providers, concert promoters and other market players into unfair contractual arrangements. Ticketmaster’s current position of dominance in the multi-billion-dollar live music industry emerges in part from the 2010 Live Nation/Ticketmaster merger, wherein the US DoJ, at the time, allowed the merger with a set of non-structural remedies, such as sale of ticketing assets and licensing deals with competing service providers. Sources: Politico, 18 November 2022, available here. NY Times … here. German Maureau, 3 October 2022, available here. Image source: Dior, available here. 4.2 Musk’s Trademark-like Twitter Blues! On 27th October, Elon Musk finally completed the $44 billion acquisition of Twitter. Twitter, like Facebook and other online social networking platforms, offers its basic services for free. The key business model for Twitter is advertisement-based revenue model (see News Item 1.3 supra on how such a business model works in practice). Following Twitter’s acquisition, …