Lately, those independent studios have become ripe for acquisition as media conglomerates look to expand their library of intellectual property and consumer products.
Controversies surrounding agricultural biotechnology produced crops and foods commonly focus on human and environmental safety, intellectual property rights, consumer choice, ethics, food security, poverty reduction and environmental conservation.
The rise of the subscription economy will fundamentally reshape the relationship between industry, owners of intellectual property, and consumers.
Research related to a major disease should not unfold in a purely intellectual context, nor should consumer advocacy exist solely in a lobbying context, nor clinical practice exclusively under the shadow of profit-driven pharmaceutical research.
These boxes often falsely bear the FCC logo, the letter informed, and are used to perpetuate "intellectual property theft and consumer fraud".
It said these boxes often falsely bear the FCC logo to give them the appearance of legitimacy, but are actually used to perpetuate "intellectual property theft and consumer fraud," the FCC said in letters to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and eBay CEO Devin Wenig.
In this case, its "booty" is at least 650 million email addresses and a zillion other data points of personal information on likes, buying patterns, etc., all of which hold intellectual insight into the consumer's mind.
The climate crisis presents a challenge to the survival of our planet, but it also presents an opportunity to create a clean energy economy... we must recognize that workers' rights, consumer and intellectual protections, and environmental safeguards must be just as enforceable as the protection of the economic interests of investors.
Riley Russell, the general counsel for Sony Computer Entertainment of America, said in a statement at the time, "Our motivation for bringing this litigation was to protect our intellectual property and our consumers".
Such issues as privacy, consumer protection, intellectual-property rights, contracts and taxation cannot be left entirely to self-regulation if e-commerce is to flourish.
