Jamal Awil

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Property rights to the name of a magazine such as The Economist. [fact]

Even if that content simply consists of yet more names: had the newspaper Repubblica lost all its "name" reporters as a result of a threatened takeover in early 1990, it might itself have become a worthless name. Property rights to the name of a magazine such as The Economist, in which articles are traditionally unsigned, can he more easily enforced.

Diego Gambetta, The Sicilian Mafia The Busi…, loc. 962