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	Anti-Monopoly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Anti-Monopoly is a board game made by San Francisco State University Professor Ralph Anspach, in response to Monopoly.
		A similar game (in that it inverts the objective of Monopoly, but with the aim of giving away money and property) was described/invented by science fiction author, Philip K. Dick.
		In the original 1974 version the board is "monopolized" at the beginning of the game, and players compete to return the state of the board to a free market system.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anti-Monopoly (243 words)

	Monopoly (game) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Monopoly was first marketed on a broad scale by Parker Brothers on November 5, 1935 with international licensing rights given to Waddington Games of the United Kingdom (both of which are now part of Hasbro).
		McDonald's Monopoly is a sweepstakes run by the fast-food chain, with a theme based on the board game where you receive a prize if you collect all the properties of one color section.
		Monopoly Tycoon is a PC game in the Tycoon series that takes the luck factor out of Monopoly and makes it a strategy and speed game.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Monopoly_(game) (4396 words)

	Jeffersonian Perspective: Anti-Trust and Equal Rights
		The blanket prohibition of monopolies is more problematic, because it introduces the problem of defining a monopoly, and it ignores the social benefit that occurs when a monopoly comes about naturally, simply out of outstanding excellence in a field.
		"The saying there shall be no monopolies lessens the incitements to ingenuity, which is spurred on by the hope of a monopoly for a limited time, as of fourteen years; but the benefit of even limited monopolies is too doubtful to be opposed to that of their general suppression." --Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1788.
		So, defense becomes a game in which the defender defines monopoly broadly enough to escape the provisions of the law.
	eyler.freeservers.com /JeffPers/jefpco62.htm (4714 words)

	Anti-Monopoly
		Their simple story begins with Anspach's invention of a game entitled "Anti-Monopoly" and its prankish antithesis to the Monopoly game.
		Monopoly soon became the most widely purchased and played board game of all time other than chess and checkers, earned more than a billion dollars for Parker Brothers, and made Darrow a millionaire.
		One of the most ironic aspects of the Monopoly game story is the role acquired by the American mass media in perpetuating the false version of it.
	www.washingtonfreepress.org /36/monopoly.html (858 words)

	Anti-Monopoly
		Appropriately, he named it Anti-Monopoly after being assured by lawyers that this title was not an infringement of the Monopoly trademark because the "anti" added to "monopoly" would prevent confusion between Anti-Monopoly and Monopoly.
		Its resolve hardened when Anspach's investigations revealed that the people who were accusing Anti-Monopoly of infringement of their rights were involved in the theft of the Monopoly game from its inventors and the public domain.
		He also discovered that the perpetrators of the scheme had fabricated a bogus story about the origins of Monopoly to cover up their doings and that the American public was then duped into elevating the bogus history into a famous American legend.
	www.discovergames.com /antimonopoly.html (413 words)

	Updated anti-monopoly law to combat cartels -DAWN - Business; 11 April, 2004
		Amendments were moved by a PPP member Naveed Qamar in the monopoly law before the Parliament to check what he called manipulations particularly of cement, sugar and steel prices.
		It would be designed to check cartels, monopolies and oligopolies that discourage market competition at the cost of industrial efficiency, investment and growth of private sector in general.
		Perhaps, a big challenge that policy makers face in preventing monopolies is the manner in which the privatization of major state enterprises comes about.
	www.dawn.com /2004/04/11/ebr5.htm (671 words)

	Anti-Monopoly Page Two
		But then, Hasbro bought out most of the competition, including Parker Brothers and Monopoly, and took over more than seventy per cent of the board game market in which Monopoly and Anti-Monopoly compete directly with each other.
		It is turning the Anti-Monopoly game into a PC game and, on the same software, it will also be offering the stolen Atlantic City monopoly game under the title Authentic-Opoly.
		indicated by the courts, Anti-Monopoly re-entered the market in 1984 with an entirely new game, also called Anti-Monopoly, which was a patented upgrade of Monopoly with an anti-monopolistic theme.
	www.discovergames.com /antimonopoly2.html (459 words)

	Go to Court, Go Directly to Court
		Still, Anspach is shying away from actually using the full word "Monopoly" in the main title of the Original-opoly game, because Parker Brothers claims that it still has a trademark on the single-word name "Monopoly".
		Just as chess or checkers are in the public domain, the monopoly game (lower-case "m", as the Quakers insisted) has become largely public domain, but only through Anspach's court battles.
		In fact, Anspach plans next year to start releasing the game "Original-opoly," an exact replica of the original monopoly game played by Quakers and socialists early this century (there are still some game boards left from the era).
	www.washingtonfreepress.org /36/court.html (665 words)

	china's anti-monopoly legislation
		the perception is that a certain level of monopolies enhances the industry integration and therefore elevates the competitiveness of domestic firms when foreign firms enter the china market.
		it seems recently many chinese economists pay attention to the negative impacts of monopolies by foreign firms, in one of today's hexun articles (in chinese), the author compares the GDP and GNI growth rates and concludes that chinese didn't enjoy the economic growth in china as those foreign firms did.
		"the main monopolistic power (in china) is the administrative monopolies backed by government, not the economic monopolies brought by market competition".
	blog.bcchinese.net /bingfeng/archive/2005/01/31/8931.aspx (484 words)

	Anti-monopoly action against a cyberlord
		There is no doubt about the monopoly status of Microsoft in the information sector, not only in the U.S. or here in the Philippines but throughout the world.
		Despite the very strong case against the Microsoft monopoly, it remains to be seen whether the U.S. Justice Department will win its case against the software giant.
		To break up monopolies such as Microsoft's, the best option for the Philippines is compulsory licensing, an internationally-recognized mechanism against monopolies.
	www.angelfire.com /ma/SPECTRUM/cybermono.html (937 words)

	The Anti-Monopolistic Monopoly Game
		As such, people will learn that monopoly incomes are fun for the monopolists (and Wall Street) but they are not fun for the people who land on the properties and that therefore, we need vigorous antitrust enforcement.
		Anti-Monopoly will be producing the folkgame monopoly in a format which keeps the fun of the game but makes very clear that it is a robber baron game.
		Thus the power of government was brought into play to protect a monopoly even though the purpose for such protection, encouragement of the spirit of invention, was perverted.
	lists.essential.org /antitrust/msg00241.html (761 words)

	Gazprom Violated Fair Competition Laws — Russia Anti-Monopoly Service - MONEY - MOSNEWS.COM
		The natural gas monopoly and its subsidiaries are expected to receive the Anti-Monopoly Service’s justification of the ruling and a request to correct the alleged violations by October 26.
		Russia’s natural gas monopoly Gazprom expects to increase its average export price for Western European consumers by two to four percent next year.
		The hearing was postponed then until October 20, and the decision, which is unfavorable for Gazprom, was made then.
	www.mosnews.com /money/2004/10/21/gazpromviolation.shtml (377 words)

	The Epoch Times China Tries to Establish Anti-Trust Laws
		According to Ren Shangming, the director of the Ministry of Commerce’s Anti-Monopoly Investigation Office, the lack of competition can be addressed by establishing anti-trust laws to promote and protect business development under the rules of fair competition and prevent the formation of monopolies.
		Government control in China often takes the form of a government run monopoly, and when it doesn't, businesses and industries are still either government controlled or have inherent monopolistic tendencies.
		According to Ren, the final draft of the anti-trust law includes not only a ban of administrative monopolies and abuse of market domination, but establishes the legal responsibilities of anti-trust offices.
	english.epochtimes.com /news/4-11-19/24462.html (241 words)

	Print Version - The Anti-Israel Monopoly in the UK
		Print Version - The Anti-Israel Monopoly in the UK http://www.aish.com/jewishissues/mediaobjectivity/The_Anti-Israel_Monopoly_in_the_UK.asp
		The absolute monopoly of British intellectual life by the mandarins of the BBC and leftish dons should be a cause of concern not only for Israel but for every British Jew.
		A second factor is the existence of talk radio, which is dominated by conservative and mainly pro-Israel voices.
	www.aish.com /SSI/articleToPrint.asp?PageURL=/jewishissues/mediaobjectivity/The_Anti-Israel_Monopoly_in_the_UK.xml&torahportion= (1058 words)

	Techworld.com - Microsoft falls foul of Japanese anti-monopoly laws
		It is currently appealing a ruling by the European Union that it violated competition law by using its Windows monopoly to gain advantage in the server and media player markets.
		The deadlines on those remedies are currently suspended pending a ruling by the president of the European Court of First Instance (CFI), the EU's second highest court.
		It was fined ?497 million and ordered that the company supply a version of Windows without its media player as well as reveal enough Windows code to allow rivals to build competing server software that can work properly with Windows.
	www.techworld.com /opsys/news/index.cfm?NewsID=1905 (980 words)

	LBR: Competition Regulators: Russia
		In addition to the jurisdiction inherited from the former State Anti-Monopoly Committee, the remit of the Ministry for Anti-Monopoly Policy and for the Support of Business Activities includes industrial policy and the support of small and medium-sized enterprises.
		In the meantime, the 79 regional anti-monopoly committees have become branches of the Ministry.
		The competencies of the Federal Service for the Regulation of the Natural Monopolies in the Field of Telecommunications and of the Committee for Transport (including in particular responsibility for price regulation in these areas) were also transferred to the Ministry.
	www.global-competition.com /regultrs/russia.htm (653 words)

	book_excerpt.asp?bookid=1321
		The quid pro quo was getting Nixon to call off the dogs of his Antitrust Department which was objecting to ITT gobbling up the country's biggest insurance company, Hartford Insurance." At which point, the phone finally rang which made the host very happy since it was proof positive that at least one person was watching.
		"First of all Dr. Anspach, I hate to date myself with a story going back all the way to the mid-thirties, but I think Parker Brothers has a lot of nerve suing you for getting a free ride on their game when they stole monopoly in the first place."
		She said it happened in the early thirties, when she was just a little girl, but she could recall very clearly watching her father and his friends working out the details of the game.
	www2.xlibris.com /bookstore/book_excerpt.asp?bookid=1321 (1505 words)

	Amazon.com: The Billion Dollar Monopoly (R) Swindle: Books
		Any fan of the Monopoly game or one of the many versions of the game available today will be intrigued by the origin of this fantastic game as told by Anspach through his investigations.
		This is an entertaining book, and interesting to read about the whole Monopoly inventor scandal and the ramifications of it, but beyond that, the book is extremely biased and full of opinions.
		Recommended to everyone who's ever played Monopoly (so you can find out what the game you've been playing is really about).
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0966649702?v=glance (1366 words)

	Fear of foreign juggernauts speeds up China's anti-monopoly legislation
		"Politically, the threat of foreign monopolies may be the justification for having the law," said Mark Williams, an expert on anti-monopoly law at Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the author of an upcoming book on the subject.
		The problem is at least three state agencies are vying for the responsibility and one of them, the commerce ministry, has even set up a "shadow regulator" in the form of a monopoly office.
		With the new-found anti-foreign momentum, the draft could be turned into law by the end of 2005 if the process goes smoothly, the China Business Weekly said, without giving sources.
	www.theallineed.com /news/0501/314727.htm (895 words)

	Alexander's Gas & Oil Connections - Anti-Monopoly Service worried about Gazprom-Rosneft merger
		He believes serious problems "may appear in the future if the government fails to realize negative aftermaths of such a strengthening of the biggest natural monopoly on different markets".
		Focusing on a possible joining of ZarubezhNeft to Gazprom, Artemyev noted that he is concerned by the fact that "Gazprom is using its market power, which will not contribute to the development of competitiveness on the oil market".
		He added that the issue of "how and when this should be done" is to be discussed separately.
	www.gasandoil.com /goc/company/cnr44928.htm (254 words)

	Scotsman.com Business - Microsoft - Microsoft's Tokyo office raided in anti-monopoly probe
		The investigation is only the latest for Microsoft, which has been plagued by accusations that it has abused its monopoly on PC operating systems to push prices higher or harm rivals.
		It is already in settlement negotiations with the European Commission, which has accused the company of trying to stifle competition for multimedia players by tying its Media Player programme to its Windows operating system.
	business.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=613&id=226162004 (386 words)

	TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Anti-Monopoly -- May. 09, 1938
		Last year Harold L. Ickes and Robert Houghwout Jackson handed U. Business the Administration's Christmas greetings in the form of a pair of diatribes about "economic oligarchy" and "the 60 families." Implication was that they would be followed by a similarly vehement message from the President to Congress, suggesting revision of U. anti-trust laws.
		Anxiously awaited by Business ever since, the business monopoly message from the nation's greatest governmental monopolist finally appeared last week.
	www.time.com /time/archive/printout/0,23657,759590,00.html (135 words)

	Monopolizing Monopoly
		During this legal battle, the ironic truth emerged that Monopoly itself had been stolen in the first place, so General Mills was on shaky ground in claiming it had been wronged.
		He called it Finance, because lawyers told him that the name “Monopoly” was in the public domain--since the very same game was already being played in Indiana, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts as Monopoly.
		Knapp knew the true history of Monopoly and threatened to reveal it, so Parker Brothers paid him $10,000 for the rights to Finance and for a promise of silence.
	www.humboldt1.com /~bri/monoptwo.htm (1285 words)

	Morrison & Foerster LLP - Japan - Amendments to Japanese Anti Monopoly Act: Japan Significantly Strengthens Its Antitrust Laws (26/04/2005) from Mondaq
		A bill to amend Japan’s Anti Monopoly Act (the "AMA"), which had been long pending at the Japanese Diet, was finally passed on April 20, 2005.
		Morrison & Foerster LLP - Japan - Amendments to Japanese Anti Monopoly Act: Japan Significantly Strengthens Its Antitrust Laws (26/04/2005) from Mondaq
		The amendments significantly expand the antitrust investigation and enforcement authority of the Fair Trade Commission of Japan ("JFTC") by effecting four significant changes in Japanese...
	www.mondaq.com /i_article.asp_Q_articleid_E_32201 (255 words)

	CPUSA Online - "No mandate, no surrender" from report to the CPUSA National Committee
		And while we don’t think that the Democratic Party is going to morph into a people’s anti-monopoly party, we should not be indifferent to the struggles going on between its liberal, centrist, and conservative wings.
		Party and YCL members in those states and volunteers from other non-battleground states were among the tens of thousands of people who fought the good fight in this crucial region of the country.
		For Marx and for our Party, it has always been a fundamental conviction that white workers must and can be won on the basis of their own interests to struggle against racism and for the full political, economic, and social equality of all racially oppressed people.
	cpusa.org /article/articleview/609/1/27 (255 words)

	PROGRAM OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY USA - Adopted by the Central Committee, CPUSA June 1981
		The contributions of the Communist Party are vital to the development of the anti-monopoly movement, and a stronger Communist Party is in the interest of all anti-monopoly forces.
		In the battle against state monopoly capitalism, it is necessary for the trade unions to raise their sights from taking on employers one by one to challenge the whole system of capitalist exploitation.
		Powerful monopolies are expropriating Indian coal, oil and uranium resources; U.S. government agencies act as neo-colonial overlords; and the whole mechanism of state monopoly capitalism produces almost indescribable poverty, unemployment and denial of cultural and social rights.
	mltoday.com /Pages/Debates/CPUSAProg-81.html (255 words)

	Australian Legal Eye - Home - China To Review Anti-Monopoly Law ?
		The report goes on to say that Li's remarks were confirmed by Shang Ming, a department director of the Ministry of Commerce, who said the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), the country's top legislature, has listed the Anti-Monopoly Law as part of its legislation plan for this year.
		Figures show China has now a combined 89,000-strong staff working in the anti-monopoly sector.
		The law, which has been in draft mode since 1994, is "greatly significant" towards curbing monopolies, promoting fair play in the market and safeguarding the interests of consumers, analysts said.
	www.practicesource.com /ale/blog/pivot/entry.php?uid=standard-833 (227 words)

	NewsFromRussia.Com Anti-monopoly agency blocks Siemens' acquisition of Russian firm
		Russian natural gas monopoly Gazprom could raise prices for gas sold to Moldova to European levels, a top company official said Wednesday, as the government mulls economic sanctions in protesting what it considers unfriendly actions by the former Soviet republic.
		Flamboyant, ultra-rightwing Russian lawmaker Vladimir Zhirinovsky clashed with a legislator from a rival party on Wednesday in a violent brawl inside parliament that highlighted his frustration at the dominant role of pro-Kremlin forces.
	english.pravda.ru /main/2005/04/13/59110.html (1532 words)

	BRAMA LAW: Ukrainian Antitrust Legislation
		Law of Ukraine on Restricting Monopoly and Preventing Unfair Competition in Business (Enacted under Resolution of the Supreme Council #2133-12, of 02.18.92;
	www.brama.com /law/monopoly.html (92 words)

	CBC News: PetroKazakhstan executives hit with anti-monopoly charges
		The company said it believes the price ceilings are a violation of PetroKazakhstan's rights under the privatization agreements relating to the Shymkent refinery, in which Kazakhstan guaranteed to the refinery the right to sell oil products at free market prices.
		The company said the financial police are alleging that PetroKazakhstan violated price ceilings established by Kazakhstan's Agency for Regulation of Natural Monopolies and Protection of Competition in August 2002.
		Thomas Dvorak, the president of PetroKazakhstan Kumkol Resources and PetroKazakhstan Oil Products (PKOP), and Clayton Clift, chief financial officer of the same companies, were charged by the former Soviet country's financial police.
	www.cbc.ca /story/business/national/2005/04/04/petrokazak-050404.html (286 words)

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