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AOL-Time Warner $164 Billion Merger Creates Largest Media Conglomerate in History

2000-01-11 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 8/10

America Online (AOL), the nation’s dominant Internet service provider, announces its intention to purchase Time Warner for $164 billion in the largest media merger in history. The combined entity would control magazines, video and high-speed Internet cable, cable TV channels (including CNN, …

America Online Time Warner Steve Case Gerald Levin FTC Federal Trade Commission +1 more media-consolidation telecommunications merger deregulation internet +2 more

Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act: Disney Lobbying Creates 'Mickey Mouse Protection Act,' Extending Corporate Rent Extraction by 20 Years

1998-10-27 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 9/10

President Bill Clinton signs the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act (CTEA), extending copyright terms by 20 years—from life plus 50 years to life plus 70 years for individual authors, and from 75 to 95 years for corporate works. The legislation, derisively nicknamed the ‘Mickey Mouse …

Walt Disney Company Bill Clinton Time Warner Universal Viacom +2 more intellectual-property copyright regulatory-capture corporate-lobbying disney +2 more