THE NIGERIAN HOME VIDEO INDUSTRY: A SURVEY OF THE ACTIVITIES OF VIDEO RENTALS AND THE COPYRIGHT LAW PRESENTED BY ABDULRAHMAN MALIK AT THE WEEKLY SEMINAR ORGANIZED BY THE PERFORMING AND VISUAL ARTS DEPARTMENT‚ KWARA STATE UNIVERSITY MALETE MARCH‚ 2013 ABSTRACT The Nigerian entertainment industry‚ particularly the movie sector has been battling with the problem of copyright infringement in the last two decades or more. In spite the legal framework put in place‚ (i.e. copyright
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Privatisation of business activities. The transfer or selling of state owned assets to the private sector or owners have brought an added advantage to several entrepreneurs within different industries. Governments reduce the level of competition between the private and public owned businesses by removing or reducing statutory restrictions (Sheshinski and López-Calva‚ 2010). This has since been implemented by governments after the initiative by the international finance community. The community pushed
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Is it Bad? Does free trade and outsourcing damage the U.S. economy by purging jobs and discouraging domestic investment or does it eventually strengthen the U.S. economy? Many seemingly well-educated people believe outsourcing is bad for the economy. They see hardworking Americans’ jobs shipped overseas leaving many people jobless‚ weakening the economy. President Bush feels so strongly about it that he recently signed a bill forbidding the outsourcing of federal contracts overseas (www.economist
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Technology affects us all. Technology can catapult a business into success or destroy it. The technological environment of a business is the external factors in technology that impact business operations. Changes in technology affect how a firm will do business. Although technology trends seem to come and go quickly‚ some have a lasting impact on business. These are ones that change the way businesses operate and provide huge improvement for those that adopt them. Such technologies help firms become
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1.Introduction Small Scale Enterprises (SSEs) have played and continue to play significant roles in the growth‚ development and industrialisation of many economies the world over. In Nigeria‚ the SSEs have performed below expectation due to a combination of problems. This situation has been of great concern to the government‚ citizenry‚ practitioners‚ operators and the organised private sector groups. Small businesses are generally regarded as the driving force of economic growth‚ job creation
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Australia and New Zealand (FSANZ). This submission generally comprises of a review of the literature‚ giving the background to this change‚ comparing this change with the situation in other countries‚ and reviewing the literature for possible adverse affects on humans. Submissions are generally made by a company wishing to change the food laws‚ and they present evidence to support their claim that this addition is safe‚ and poses no threat to the health of the population. The submission is then open to
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classification of small and medium scale industries in global context Meanings of Small and Medium Industries differ from country to country‚ depending on one or more of thresholds laid down in respect of investment‚ employment‚ turnover etc. The issue of what constitutes a small or micro and medium scale industry is a major concern in the literature (Ward‚ 2005). Different writers have usually given different definitions to this category of 25 business. Small and medium scale industries have indeed
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Running Head: DEMENTIA: HOW AND WHOM DOES IT AFFECT? 1 Dementia: How and Whom Does it Affect? Liberty University COUNS 502 B-23LUO Instructor: Dr. Richard Pace Shelly M. Becker March 5‚ 2013 DEMENTIA: HOW AND WHOM DOES IT AFFECT? 2 Abstract Although dementia is often viewed as an “old person’s disorder‚ its effects ripple down in many directions such as family‚ caregivers‚ finances‚ and the healthcare system
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Ability to Break Down H2O2 By: Rodneika Crutcher Abstract Temperature affects the ability of peroxidase to break down hydrogen peroxide. In this experiment our professor extracted peroxidase from potato tissue. In order to determine how temperature affects peroxidase we created solutions and measured their absorbance levels after water bath treatments. The more absorbent the solution was the less hydrogen peroxide there was in the solution. This means the peroxidase was able to break down the hydrogen
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The Global Economic Crisis 1 THE GLOBAL CEONOMIC CRISIS: Causes and Consequences The Global Economic Crisis 2 The world has confronted numerous economic crises in the history which have caused a decline in international commodity trade‚ bankruptcies in almost all sectors of activity. However‚ the September-October 2008 Stock market crash has proven to be far beyond the preceding calamities. The financial giants have been able to manipulate the stock market and resultantly have devastated
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