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It is well known that the copy diminishes the individual value of the creation and discourages the effort of the creator. Because of this, the responsibility of internet service providers (ISP) concerning copyright infringement by their users has been a subject of great controversy for more than a decade. This discussion has led to a consensus in the sense that the ISP will not be responsible when their participation in the infringement is limited to transmitting, linking, caching, and disseminating information generated by third parties, as long as other requirements are met, such as adopting and communicating policies intended to prevent infringements. However, the development of new business models and the expansion of services available online have raised the question of whether it is possible to extend the secondary or indirect liability regime to other intermediaries such as internet advertising services and financial transaction providers. In order to analyze the liability regimes that could be applied to these intermediaries,¡ it is important to take into account the following points, which will be developed in this paper: i) to understand the operation of online advertising and payments and the economic magnitude of these businesses, ii) to understand the liability regime presently applied to the isp, iii) to study the objections that have been raised against the extension of such regime to online advertising and financial transaction providers, and finally, iv) to analyze how through recent legislative initiatives such as the proposed PIPA, SOPA, and open bills in the United States, efforts have been undertaken to overcome the objections and to offer effective and expeditious mechanisms to protect copyright in the internet.

Often, in the courses of industrial property rights, and even in the manuals that sustain those, the figure of a trade name is usually subject to little conceptual development due to the fact that, among other reasons, there is a willingness to use the study in order to embrace the analysis of the distinctive signs, which is an exhaustive one of the brand. Besides, the legislator usually forwards what he disposed on the trade brands for policy integration effects of the trade name. Since the trade name has become a sign of the first order, and its implications are as far-reaching today in the world of exchange of goods and services, it is not enough its study as a mere extension of the distinctive sign par excellence, the brand in this case. The following lines will discuss the name regulation, and within, the emphasis on its shortcomings and those issues that on evident contradictions may place the trade name institution on interpretation problems, or uncertainty related to the requested security that demands an increasingly intensive legal transaction on the use and positioning of distinctive signs different from brands. ; La figura del nombre comercial suele ser objeto de poco desarrollo conceptual en los cursos de derecho de propiedad industrial, e incluso en los manuales que sirven de sustento a aquellos, esto por cuanto, entre otras razones, existe la predisposición a abarcar el análisis de los signos distintivos con el estudio –ese sí exhaustivo– de la marca; y además porque el mismo legislador suele reenviar, para efectos de la integración normativa del nombre comercial, a lo por él dispuesto sobre las marcas de comercio. Sin embargo, el nombre comercial ha devenido un signo de primer orden y sus implicaciones son hoy tan trascendentales en el mundo del intercambio de bienes y servicios que no es suficiente para su estudio verlo como un mero apéndice del signo distintivo por excelencia, esto es, la marca. El artículo realiza una exposición de la regulación del nombre, y dentro de ella hace énfasis en sus falencias y en aquellos asuntos que, con contradicciones evidentes, pueden colocar a la institución del nombre comercial en problemas de interpretación o de incerteza frente a la seguridad que reclama un tráfico jurídico cada vez más intenso en el uso y posicionamiento de signos distintivos diferentes a las marcas.