1:00p.m.-2:00p.m.
Dr. Samer Dhyyat
“Crime that Pays (and Pretty Well Too)”
International business Environment & operations/Chapter three
Case Study 1
By:
Aya Khirfan 0086721
Aya Al- Kurdi 0083316
Rudayna Qasem 0086609
Aya Hakh 0082464
Introduction
It has always been a major concern of programmers and software developers throughout the world, to protect the intellectual property rights and software privacy.
Governments in different countries fight computer software piracy; in which it provides support to national programs in order to educate and provide awareness to business communities.
Governments especially in wealthy countries, has taken serious actions related to software piracy through laws that prohibits it, they force penalties to those who commit software piracy.
Software piracy has reached a further approach, since it includes piracy of movies, music, computer software, and CD recording.
Governments, institutions, companies, and organizations all stated a clear point of view about software piracy and protection of intellectual property which in fact stands up fiercely to minimize it and reduce its effect on the society, as well as protecting the creative ideas and innovative expertise that provides a competitive advantage to the society in general.
On the other hand, communities with individualistic, collectivistic, democratic approaches, and other parties with other approaches; each stated its point of view clearly according to its own interests, concerns, and objectives; since, some of these parties fight software piracy and supports protecting intellectual property, and mainly those parties are the ones concerned with about the benefit of the society. On the other hand, there are some parties stated that they oppose protecting intellectual property, for the reason that their objectives and interests are