Re: Content and Distribution seen as polar.... was Re: More Napster Pablum

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From: ThosStew@aol.com
Date: Fri Jul 28 2000 - 06:24:42 PDT

In a message dated 7/28/2000 2:34:17 AM, jbone@jump.net writes:

> many, including John D. Rockefeller,
>believed that vertical integration of this sort where the company controlled
>both production and distribution was inherently anticompetitive.
>

good eye, Jeff:

That's the biggest no-no in antitrust. The Paramount case (1949?) also
divided the production of motion pictures form owning the theaters in which
they were displayed.

Tom

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