The Legal Environment of Business: Text and Cases
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Author: Frank B Cross/ Roger LeRoy Miller
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Chapter 27, Problem 4BCP
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Case summary:Company EI, company BGM, company UMR, and company WMG together licensed, produced and distributed 80 percent of the digital music that is sold in the US market. They formed a company MN to vend music to the online services which sold songs to the listeners/consumers. Company MN needed all of the useful services to sell songs for the similar price and subject to the same kind of restriction. Music digitization became cheaper but company MN decided to keep its price same.
To find: The violation of the antitrust law by MN.
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