For well over a century, U.S. trademark law has afforded brand owners certain rights, remedies and obligations. As the Department of Commerce has noted, owners of trademarks have both a legal right and an affirmative obligation to protect their trademarks from unauthorized third-party use....

Keyword search advertising occurs when an advertiser pays a search engine to link a particular keyword to its website. Keywords are often trademarks and some mark owners have objected to the search engines' practice of selling their marks as keywords without permission. Trademark doctrine...

In 2004 lanceerde Google een fabuleus boekendigitaliseringsproject dat de ambitie heeft om meer dan 30 miljoen boeken uit het literair werelderfgoed online beschikbaar te maken. Naast veel lofspraak lokte dit ‘Google Books Project' ook heel wat kritische reacties uit. Niet geheel onverwacht...

The music, publishing and motion picture industries are each today struggling to identify new business models that might replace existing mechanisms for funding professional content. In this podcast, we consider the legal and strategic roadblocks that might stand in the way. Guests include: Brad...

Thorsten Piening und Saskia Kampmeyer zeigen in diesem essential kompakt und auf den Punkt gebracht, wie Unternehmen im Internet neue Mitarbeiter gewinnen und insbesondere Search Engine Advertising (SEA) zielführend dafür nutzen können. Die Autoren erklären, wie Google und Co. die Candidate...