Re:Apple Fires Back at Spotify for Asking for 'Preferential ...
by UnoriginalGuy on Friday July 01, 2016 @05:29PM
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> Not in the legal sense of the word, so no.
Since that hasn't been ruled on, we won't know that until it has.
> It's "only a company dictates the rules/has near total share/control of the general market".
That's a strange definition, but even taking it, the market has yet to be defined by a court. As I've said elsewhere courts have already expanded competition law into securities, they literally declared it a market allowing them to use anti-monopoly controls.
Since that hasn't been ruled on, we won't know that until it has.
> It's "only a company dictates the rules/has near total share/control of the general market".
That's a strange definition, but even taking it, the market has yet to be defined by a court. As I've said elsewhere courts have already expanded competition law into securities, they literally declared it a market allowing them to use anti-monopoly controls.