Tropicana just modified its brand and the public screamed fowl play. But Tropicana was still delivering the same quality product, even if the packaging looked different. So just what is it that a brand owes its public?
Internet sites like Pandora that stream music are in contentions with the Copyright Royalty Board over paying $.19 per-song fee, arguing that such fees would put them out of business. They want to pay a percentage of their yearly revenue instead. Furthermore, a proposed agreement stimulates that bigger revenue companies pay a greater per-song fee and percentage then smaller revenue companies, which smaller companies argue discourages them from growing.
U.S. Senator John Cornyn and Representative Lamar Smith, both from Texas, propose a bill that would require all internet providers to maintain a log of their users' browsing, search, and email activity for the past 2 years.