Uber's business has transformed urban life across the globe. As of 1 January 2022, Uber's platform powers movement in around 10,500 cities around the world. Michael Coutts' areas of practice include competition, regulatory and consumer law, having completed his Master of Laws where his dissertation analysed competition law issues associated with applying anti-fragmentation conditions to open-source software licensing agreements. Uber's Counsel Michael Coutts joins the podcast to discuss how competition law is addressing Uber's transformation of movement being a win for consumers but a loss for the gig economy, the biggest challenges facing the point-to-point transportation sector in Australia, what the aim of competition law is if it is not to protect inefficient businesses, and the tools Michael carries around in his competition lawyer tool-kit.
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