Justice: What is the Right Thing to Do? The greatest happiness principle / Utilitarianism Example: The Mignonette & the cabin boy Parker (cabin boy) was an orphan. Mignonette sunk at sea. While on the lifeboat‚ Parker had drunk seawater out of desperation and appeared to be dying. On the 19th day Dudley (captain) suggested drawing lots to determine who should die so that others might live. Brooks (sailor 1) refused. Next day Dudley motioned to Stephens (sailor 2) to kill Parker. All 3 men
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In a well-known legal case‚ a classic conflict of property rights was featured. Red cedar trees‚ used only for ornamental purposes‚ carried a disease that could destroy apple orchards within a radius of two miles. There was no known way of curing the disease except by destroying the cedar trees or by ensuring that apple orchards were at least two miles away from the cedar trees. Apply the Coase theorem to this situation. Does it make any difference to the outcome whether the cedar tree owners are
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Explain why conceptions civil rights or liberties (choose only one) which are supposed to be granted to all under the constitution‚ changed so greatly in the second half of the twentieth century. Make sure to discuss the court’s role in this shift. A civil right is a right or privilege that represents protections by government power or things government must secure on behalf of its citizens. Examples of civil rights are freedom of speech‚ press‚ and assembly; the right to vote; freedom from involuntary
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intellectual property rights in the digital age. These issues have resulted in various lawsuits‚ creations of laws‚ new definitions‚ and differences of opinion. I plan to elaborate on both sides of this issue and how the digital age has enabled this to become one of the hottest controversial issues in regards to the internet and the digital age. First I would like to go into the history and background of why people are for the protection of intellectual property rights. Intellectual property rights are
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Intellectual Property Intellectual property (IP) refers to creations of the mind: inventions‚ literary and artistic works‚ and symbols‚ names‚ images‚ and designs used in commerce. IP is divided into two categories: Industrial property‚ which includes inventions (patents)‚ trademarks‚ industrial designs‚ and geographic indications of source; and Copyright‚ which includes literary and artistic works such as novels‚ poems and plays‚ films‚ musical works‚ artistic works such as drawings‚ paintings
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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS The character of world trade has undergone significant changes in the last decade. Many issues have come to the fore to influence the trade patterns. The concerns of environment‚ assertions on human rights the sympathy (?!)‚ for child labour‚ to mention a few‚ have‚ been exerting dominant influences. Transfer of polluting industries to the developing nations‚ using poor economies for pollution control are all totally new issues defying the relevance of the traditional
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of New Varieties (UPOV) Convention. The UPOV Convention‚ formed in 1961‚ acknowledges breeders of new plant varieties through uniform and clearly defined principles for exclusive property rights‚ based on criteria that the variety is distinctive‚ uniform‚ stable and novel.33 33 Commission on Intellectual Property Rights‚ 2002. 34 The Light Years project and in a recent World Bank report (Barconcelli et al.‚ 2004). Geographical Indications are a second measure used to protect diversity in access
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Assignment: Tangible Property Rights Jo Darling‚ Mark Plenty‚ Chantile Smith‚ Chante Strickland LAW/531 April 15‚ 2013 David Cheatham‚ J. D. Week Five Team Assignment: Tangible Property Rights Tangible property is property that is seen and touched outside of fixtures (University of Phoenix‚ 2010).” Tangible property includes physically defined property such as goods‚ animals‚ minerals “(University of Phoenix 2010). The laws in the United States of America provides property owner rights of protection
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INTRODUCTION Intellectual property surrounds us in nearly everything we do‚ at home‚ school; work‚ at rest and at play. No matter what we do‚ we are surrounded by the fruits of human creativity and invention. The importance of protecting intellectual property rights has received heightened recognition through the increase in world trade. It is estimated that billions of dollars of business is lost due to illegal counterfeiting. Between five to eight percent of all goods and services sold worldwide
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Intellectual Property (IP) IP as a general term refers to the subject matter of the laws that give rise to proprietary interests in creations of the mind. The various tools of IPR that are used to protect innovations are Copyrights‚ Industrial Designs‚ Data Protection‚ Geographical Indications‚ Patent and Trademark. Introduction to Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) In earlier times‚ the concept of property meant something tangible. Man used to be in possession of property and property became
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