Timbaland admitted sampling the song, but said that he had no time to research its intellectual owner.
On one side of the fence are law enforcement agencies, intellectual property owners and marketers.
Intellectual property owners are numerous and obviously not all of them are nefarious.
However, many companies and intellectual property owners who are paying attention to this issue describe the system as unnecessarily complex.
The introduction of.biz, and another domain,.info, has involved complicated processes intended to protect the rights of intellectual property owners.
Meanwhile, intellectual property owners like record companies and software makers, who described the law as a step in the right direction, said the measure fell short over all.
The men have cut long-term deals with star filmmakers like Judd Apatow and signed important development partnerships with intellectual property owners like Hasbro.
"In the knowledge economy, ideas become the product," said Kevin G. Rivette, author of "Rembrandts in the Attic" (Harvard Business School Press, 2000), which has become a textbook for would-be intellectual property owners.
The process is intended to give intellectual property owners a chance to make claims on proprietary addresses in the dot-biz domain before it is opened to general registration.
One of the main challenges of the expansion, which has long been in the planning stages, has been developing registration procedures that give intellectual property owners a chance to protect trademarked names.
