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Legal News
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06.15.09 |
Association of Medical Illustrators Antitrust Guidelines
By Matthew P. Farmer, Esq., William P. Hamilton, CMI, and AMI Professional Guidelines Committee
Overview
Federal and state antitrust laws are designed to protect and promote
competition. They do this by making it illegal for competitors to act
in concert to fix prices or otherwise unreasonably restrain trade. The
most important antitrust statutes relating to trade association
activities are Section 1 of the Sherman Act and Section 5 of the
Federal Trade Commission Act. There are four main areas of antitrust
concern for professional associations: price fixing, membership,
standardization and certification, and industry self-regulation.
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12.09.08 |
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On behalf of the AMI membership, AMI Chair and President wrote to the House Judiciary Committee on December 9th on the eve of the 2nd lame duck session. They urged the Committee to not pass the Orphan Works bill by unanimous consent on the Suspensions calendar, and instead to permit future orphan works legislation be subjected to open and informed debate and revision in the next Congress, including a reconsideration of the safe harbor for infringing non-profit educational institutions. |
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