International Podcast on IPR and Competition Law featuring guests who are IPR attorneys, competition lawyers, advocates and researchers.
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Ep 85: Power and Greed: Monopolies, Mergers and Cartels on the American Stage
In this episode of In Conversation with IPR & Competition Law, host Aditya Trivedi sits down with Prof. Spencer Weber Waller, John Paul Stevens Chair in Competition Law at Loyola University Chicago School of Law, to explore the intersection of market power, enforcement, and commercial theatre in America.
Drawing from his book, Power and Greed: Monopolies, Mergers, and Cartels on the American Stage, Prof. Waller discusses how the Gilded Age theatrical Syndicate, the Shuberts, and early vaudeville combines established deep-seated monopolies that took antitrust authorities nearly sixty years to address. The conversation examines newly uncovered archival evidence revealing corporate coercion, blacklisting, and early efforts at global expansion. Grounding these historical lessons in contemporary market realities, Prof. Waller assesses modern bottlenecks in live entertainment, recent regulatory actions involving Live Nation, and whether competition law can effectively restrain entrenched market power.
30 Aug 2026
Ep 84: Competition Law in the CARICOM Region: Spotlight on Trinidad and Tobago
In this episode of In Conversation with IPR & Competition Law, hosts Aditya Trivedi and Sania Bafna sit down with Mr. Bevan Narinesingh, Executive Director of the Trinidad and Tobago Fair Trading Commission, to unpack the evolution of competition law and market regulation in Trinidad and Tobago.
The discussion examines the journey of Trinidad and Tobago’s competition regime from the Fair Trading Act of 2006 to its development in the years that followed, with a focus on anticompetitive agreements, merger control, abuse of dominance, and the enforcement challenges arising in a small and open economy. Mr. Narinesingh also shares insights into market concentration, regional competition enforcement, cross-border competition concerns, and the role of the CARICOM Competition Commission in shaping competition policy across Member States.
The conversation offers a comparative perspective on how competition law operates within Trinidad and Tobago and the wider Caribbean, highlighting the institutional, economic, and regulatory considerations that shape effective competition enforcement in emerging competition regimes.
23 Aug 2026
Ep 83: DPDP Act in Practice: How Companies Can Achieve Real Compliance?
What does meaningful compliance with India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 actually look like for businesses?
In this episode of In Conversation with IPR & Competition Law, host Isheta Boruah is joined by Kaustubh Shakkarwar, a data protection and technology law practitioner working at the intersection of law, technology, data governance and global privacy compliance.
The conversation moves beyond simply understanding the DPDP Act and focuses on the practical challenges companies face when turning legal obligations into functioning compliance systems.
💡Key areas discussed:
• Understanding the core framework and objectives of the DPDP Act, 2023
• Identifying and classifying personal data across HR, marketing, operations and legacy systems
• Building meaningful and legally compliant consent mechanisms
• The role of Data Protection Officers and internal privacy governance
• Managing data processors, vendors and third-party contractual risks
• Data retention, deletion and preventing indefinite storage
• Reasonable security safeguards and employee awareness
• Handling Data Principal rights, including access, correction, erasure and grievance redressal
• Preparing for cross-border data transfers and evolving regulatory requirements
• Assessing compliance risks and understanding enforcement and penalties
• The growing intersection between data protection and competition law
• Lessons from the WhatsApp privacy policy litigation and what it means for consent, transparency and data sharing
• How businesses can move from “paper compliance” to meaningful privacy governance
One of the central questions of the episode is simple but important:
Is DPDP compliance merely about having policies in place or is it about changing how organisations actually collect, use, share, retain and protect personal data?
🎙️ Tune in to the latest episode of In Conversation with IPR & Competition Law for the full conversation.
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