Intellectual Property Table of Contents Overview of Intellectual Property 3 Types of Intellectual Property Rights 3 Industrial property 4 Copyright 5 Controversy of Intellectual Property 5 Intellectual Property in the Digital Age 7 No Electronic Theft Act 9 Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 9 Case Study Involving Intellectual Property – Domain Names 9 Conclusion 11 Overview of Intellectual Property The term intellectual property refers to the innovations of the human mind. Intellectual
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2012‚ copyright laws and the creative industries they protect‚ have come face to face with the Internet in an unprecedented struggle for power. According to some‚ this is having a dramatic effect on our culture (Lessig 2001; Lessig 2004). Whilst most of the attention has been focused towards the United States and the two controlling industry bodies‚ the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)‚ the consequences for stricter copyright laws
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S. (2008). A gift of fire. (3rd ed.). Upper Saddle River‚ NJ: Prentice Hall.Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform (N.D.). Windows Server 2008 R2‚ Retrieved Merriam-webster online dictionary (2011) Definition of copyright. Retrieved from http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/copyright History channel (N. D.). The death spiral of Napster begins Retrieved from http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-death-spiral-of-napster-begins CNN Money(N.D.)‚ Today is Napster ’s last day of existence
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countries‚ intellectual property is referred to as industrial property. Intellectual property can be bought‚ sold and licensed. Similarly it can be protected against theft or infringement by others. Intellectual property law protects the results of human creative endeavor‚ by protecting the intellectual property against any infringement. Intellectual property protects rights to ideas by protecting rights to produce and control physical instantiations of those ideas. For example‚ if you were to purchase
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technology allowed users to share MP3 files with other logged in users of Napster via the internet. While it gained popularity for music sharing‚ it attracted the attention of the music industry accusing Napster for breaching plaintiff rights and copyright violations which saw them facing law suits from artists like Dr. Dre ‚ music companies like EMI‚ BMG. In July 2001‚ after an intense battle with the recording companies Napster had to shut down its operation in order to comply with the injunction
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The Philippine Group Report By: Aleli Angela G. Quirino Philippine Group President This report covers the period from 01 September 2004 up to 20 September 2005. CHANGES IN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAWS Rules & Regulations Implementing Republic Act No. 9239 otherwise known as the Optical Media Act of 2003 In February 2005‚ the Optical Media Board (“OMB”)‚ under the Office of President‚ promulgated the Rules and Regulations Implementing Republic Act No. 9239 (Implementing
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educational video with clips of Disney Movies to voice his definition of copyright and fair use. He broke down movies and used clips to say each word in his video piecing together work by word different movies in the disney productions. In my opinion is use of disney clips was in the guidelines of fair use making it a legal production and him innocent of the claims brought against him by Walt Disney Studios for copyright infringement. Walt disney studios claims Faden infringed
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code and not any of Sega’s actual code. Accolade next created its own games for the Sega Genesis system using only the functional specifications. The first issue in the case was whether or not this intermediate copying by Accolade constituted copyright infringement or was it a fair use of the code. Another issue the court decided was whether a screen display of Sega’s trademark by the Accolade games was a Lanham Trademark Act violation. Sega included a trademark security system which was required on
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of its scenes. Plagiarism may not be a crime but the alleged movie can be liable for copyright infringement because they used an exact same concept from another movie. This instance could be solved if they recognized their character as another version or if they buy the copyright of the movie they got it from. In most cases‚ producers buy copyrights to make another version. The most popular is buying copyrights from authors of book to create it a movie version. This law is important and should be
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PESTLE Analysis - Marketing Plan PESTLE analysis is a useful tool for understanding the industry situation as a whole‚ and is often used in conjunction with a SWOT analysis to assess the situation of an individual business. [pic] PESTLE stands for “Political‚ Economic‚ Sociological‚ Technological‚ Legal and Environmental” factors. The questions to ask yourself are: ▪ What are the key political factors likely to affect the industry? ▪ What are the important economic factors? ▪ What
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