Randy Picker

Student of antitrust, copyright, net industries. Views expressed here are not those of the University of Chicago (as if I needed to tell you that somehow).

[Randy Picker @randypicker]

@PGunigantiAT Wow. I started seeing the tweets and I didn’t understand how. I unfollowed, but thanks for explaining the mechanism.

[Randy Picker @randypicker]

Last week of copyright. Two days on AI and then a wrap up. I will be debuting today my new song, License the Future, courtesy of @suno: https://t.co/J3mM2gc7iM

[Randy Picker @randypicker]

@Sherman1890 @florianederer @JesusFerna7026 Yes, quarters. I don’t do dense slides like that. That is the point about differences in style.

[Randy Picker @randypicker]

@Sherman1890 @florianederer @JesusFerna7026 It is all about how you do slides. I had 1988 slides for my fall antitrust class, as another mere law professor, and I suspect I had less class time than Herb did.

[Randy Picker @randypicker]

@eriqgardner I went to say it is a use in the same market in a way that training on novels is not and that’s critical after Warhol. Andy can have fancy silk screens, but the Warhol foundation isn’t making a transformative use, per the Court, when it sells the same images for magazine covers.

[Randy Picker @randypicker]

Super thoughtful conference in a great setting. Thanks for a chance to talk about my forthcoming @PrincetonUPress book, The Quest for Next: A Competitive History of the Computer Industry

[Int'l Ctr Law & Econ @LawEconCenter]

ICYMI: At our Rome conference, @AuerDirk, @randypicker, David Bosco, @ngiocoli, and @profthomlambert reviewed platform regulation. The tension was clear: pressure to act early collides with the high error costs of intervening in fast-moving industries.

Watch the full panel ⬇️

[Randy Picker @randypicker]

The best part of the conference for me was seeing so many of my former students who’ve gone on to become serious participants on their own in today’s antitrust debates. Deeply satisfying.

[Thom Lambert @profthomlambert]

This was a great panel. @randypicker’s work on the history of computing (first part of the video below) is fascinating. It was lots of fun to consider what lessons policymakers should glean from that history.

[Randy Picker @randypicker]

@GhostCapitalBoo @BenBajarin So this effectively is an LLM front end to the standard Google Maps product?

[Randy Picker @randypicker]

@Sherman1890 @HHIDavidson You can get it on courtlistener: https://t.co/iwPJscVu2a

[Randy Picker @randypicker]

@asymco @stevesi That chip arc omits the PowerPC chip.

[Randy Picker @randypicker]

New book showed up today (7th edition of the classic Hennessy and Patterson Computer Architecture book, now with Kozyrakis). The oxen/chicken question is fun, but I am most interested in the 2026 copyright notice:

[Randy Picker @randypicker]

@Sherman1890 @HalSinger I was trying to just guess at what I think is probably going on. I will leave the world in which we have tailored pricing for plaintiff-side antitrust consultants to another day.

[Randy Picker @randypicker]

@Sherman1890 @HalSinger Do you really think they are doing this based on the type of car? My assumption would be that they know that they face different demand curves for parking at different times of day. The market clearing price at 10 AM might be quite different than it would be at 3 PM.

[Randy Picker @randypicker]

@PGunigantiAT Do you have particular thoughts on them? Either here or via email if you prefer that?

[Randy Picker @randypicker]

Happy New Year all. Classes start Monday. In my Winter tech policy seminar, we always read three new books. Here is the selection for this version:

[Randy Picker @randypicker]

I have posted a pdf of my consolidated antitrust slides for the quarter. A very large file as I have a somewhat distinctive approach to slides: https://t.co/QLooAJQRZD

[Randy Picker @randypicker]

@stevesi Was no one at Microsoft was turning on a new Windows 7 PC in Europe to confirm that the browser choice screen was being presented to a new user? it seems that this should have been caught much much earlier on both sides. This was caught something like 17 months out?

[Randy Picker @randypicker]

https://t.co/zxDNBVfusv

[Randy Picker @randypicker]

I am doing the new Meta opinion this afternoon in antitrust. Discovered this morning the new version from yesterday, with many fewer redactions. If you want a window into that, look at slides 59-71 in

[Randy Picker @randypicker]

I will just say that I sent 680 pages on this subject (and more to be fair) to Princeton University Press last Tuesday. 550 pages of text, 130 pages of endnotes, 296K words total. Not even close to hitting the 300K word limit in the contract!

[Brian Albrecht @BrianCAlbrecht]

Semiconductors are clearly one of the most important industries in the world. They run everything: AI, cars, the digital economy.

Yet people haven't focused on market competition in this industry.

New paper out with @geoffmanne, David Teece, and @MZunigaP remedies that