But some legal experts say trademark issues may take on a higher profile, fueled by the escalating value of brands in general and trademark holders increasingly trying to assert their rights, especially on the Internet.
I am inspired by Leigh Drogen's "Law of Unbundling" (h/t to Bijan Salehizadeh for putting me onto this), which basically asserts that at least on the internet, companies that try to win by bundling everything (examples cited include AOL, Craigslist, Facebook) get disrupted as customers realize they have other options, and can get better results from a series of other sources.
In another example - this time somewhat analogous to gene sharing - it is asserted that file-sharing on the internet has the hallmark of a public good (the files are spread by a copying mechanism and once a file is freely available on the internet, it is very difficult to completely prevent people from accessing that file and making copies available for further sharing) [ 57].
Indeed, a recent New York Times piece, "Wasting Time Is New Divide in Digital Era" (or, as Gawker put it, "Poor People Are Wasting Time on the Internet!") asserts that while all kids are spending more time with media, those with lower socio-economic status were spending even more of it, and on activities like Facebook that aren't exactly conducive to learning.
ALEPPO, Syria — A shadowy jihadist organization that first surfaced on the Internet to assert responsibility for suicide bombings in Aleppo and Damascus has stepped out of the shadows and onto the front lines of the war for Syria's cities.
One function, the Redmond, Washington giant asserts, is the ability to get on the Internet and collect information.
First, Amazon's counsel repeated the district court's reasoning, and asserted that the CompuServe Trend system is not on the Internet or the World Wide Web.
The song that Anderson calls the album's emotional and lyrical centerpiece, "3Jane," is a meditation on living on the Internet, which, the album notes assert, "came out in a flood".
In their response to the controversy Google asserted that it's search engine results are driven by what images were found next to what text on the Internet.
