{"id":590,"date":"2007-03-07T02:37:22","date_gmt":"2007-03-07T06:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/shlep\/2007\/03\/07\/antitrust-primer-video-wins-silver-tell"},"modified":"2007-03-07T10:31:58","modified_gmt":"2007-03-07T14:31:58","slug":"antitrust-primer-video-wins-silver-telly-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/2007\/03\/07\/antitrust-primer-video-wins-silver-telly-award\/","title":{"rendered":"antitrust primer video wins Silver Telly Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TellyStatue\"\u00a0The morning after this year’s Oscar’s Ceremony, I opined<\/a> that the Academy had “overlooked a real contender in the Short-form documentary category,” the antitrust primer Fair Fight in the Marketplace<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 The video was produced by the\u00a0American Antitrust Institute<\/font><\/a> and funded with a cy pres<\/a> <\/em>award from the California Vitamin Cases Consumer Settlement Fund.\u00a0 My assertion was partially based on a glowing review in Corporate Crime Reporter<\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(Feb. 21, 2007).<\/em>\u00a0 Tonight,\u00a0our assessment seems validated, as AAI was notified on Monday that Fair Fight in the Marketplace<\/em> has won a Silver Telly Award<\/em><\/a> for 2007.\u00a0 As explained at the Telly Awards\u00a0website:<\/p>\n

\u00a0\"TellyHistory\" “For over a quarter century, the Telly statuette has been a symbol of creative excellence.”<\/p>\n

The Telly Awards honor the very best local, regional, and cable television commercials and programs, as well as the finest video and film productions.\u00a0 Since 1978, our mission has been to strengthen the visual arts community by inspiring, promoting, and supporting creativity.<\/p>\n

The Silver Telly is the highest honor. \"TellyStatuette\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fair Fight<\/em> is narrated by NPR’s Marra Liasson.\u00a0 Corporate Crime Reporter<\/em> called the 30-minute video\u00a0informative, entertaining and “gripping educational television.” There\u2019s even a special edition<\/font><\/a> with commentary for high schoolers.<\/p>\n

\"TrustBusterTeddyS\"\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0As explained in “Antitrust the Video<\/a>” (f\/k\/a<\/em>, Feb. 10, 2005), an award of $496,000 was granted to the American Antitrust Institute to educate California consumers and businesses about the benefits of the antitrust laws by producing an educational video on the history, purpose and benefits of the antitrust laws.\u00a0 The award came from the Vitamin Cases Consumer Settlement Fund (Judicial Council Coordination Proceeding No. 4076 Master File No. 301803, San Francisco County; approved September 8, 2004).\u00a0 The case was brought by the State of California and private plaintiffs under antitrust law, alleging that consumers were harmed by a price-fixing scheme of the vitamin manufacturers.<\/p>\n

Two years ago, Walter Olson criticized the cy pres<\/em> award that funded Fair Fight<\/em>, in a posting at Point of Law<\/em> titled Litigation slush funds: Calif. propagandizes for antitrust<\/a> (Just last month, his co-editor Ted Frank criticized cy pres<\/em> awards in general in the posting The Trouble with cy pres<\/a>, saying the awards go to causes that\u00a0“are often allies of the trial bar, thus encouraging more litigation down the line”.)\u00a0 Below the fold, you can read an excerpt from my defense of the award to AAI at my weblog\u00a0f\/k\/a<\/a>.\u00a0 Click\u00a0here<\/a> to read an explanation of the\u00a0cy pres award<\/em> concept from The Impact Fund<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"BeMorePBS\"\u00a0 Fair Fight in the Marketplace <\/em>can be viewed online at any time here<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0It is scheduled to appear\u00a0on a number of PBS stations in California starting April 1st.\u00a0 Right now, PBS<\/a>\u00a0stations\u00a0across the nation are considering whether to air the video. \u00a0Please contact your local PBS affiliate today and tell them you’d like to see Fair Fight in the Marketplace<\/em>\u00a0on the air in your community. \u00a0<\/p>\n

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Here’s an excerpt from a dead horse – publicly driven<\/a>\u00a0(f\/k\/a<\/em>, March 5, 2005), which responded to the Point of Law<\/em> attack<\/a> on the cy pres<\/em> award that funded Fair Fight in the Marketplace<\/em>:\u00a0<\/p>\n

Helping the public understand how antitrust policy and enforcement works to assure competition in the marketplace — and why that is important to consumers and businesses — seems like a good use of this cy pres<\/em> fund.\u00a0 It\u2019s fairly innocuous \u2014 except to the fringe who want all antitrust laws revoked.\u00a0 I\u2019d be surprised if Walter [Olson] were among those radicals.\u00a0\u00a0 I\u2019ve known the AAI\u2019s Bert Foer for almost two decades, and I trust him when he says \u201dOur film and materials will be objectively presented, colorful and provocative\u201d (AAI press release, Feb. 10, 2005).\u00a0<\/p>\n

A public that understands the issues better may choose to expand antitrust enforcement \u2014 or to rein it in.\u00a0 Making those choices while informed about the issues seems like something Walter would applaud \u2014 unless he just has an axe to grind or an ox he\u2019s trying to protect.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0The morning after this year’s Oscar’s Ceremony, I opined that the Academy had “overlooked a real contender in the Short-form documentary category,” the antitrust primer Fair Fight in the Marketplace.\u00a0 The video was produced by the\u00a0American Antitrust Institute and funded with a cy pres award from the California Vitamin Cases Consumer Settlement Fund.\u00a0 My assertion […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[991],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-items"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}