Question 1: Introduction: Patent Right; is essentially a limited monopoly whereby the patent holder is granted the exclusive right to make‚ use‚ and sell the patented innovation for a limited period of time. According to Collins English dictionary a Patent Right is the right granted by a patent; especially the exclusive right to an invention. A patent is essentially a government grant to a person for the exclusive right to make‚ use‚ and sell his new and useful discovery‚ design‚ process‚ machine
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Music and Software Piracy Piracy and Copyright Infringement are major issues that have developed through the use of the Internet and file transfer servers. Developments and advances in these areas over past two decades have my generation within a mouse click of their destination. However‚ these opened doors have been overrun with a large exchange of pirated material. The present issue involves the nations excessive illegal downloading of unlicensed products. The trend of previous litigations
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can make copies of it on your home computer. There is a wide underground market around the country that is involved in the manufacturing‚ distribution and sales of pirated movies. This may not be very important to many citizens. However‚ movie piracy is still wrong. It does not matter if the movie is copied and sold in high quantity or if it is copied from a friend for personal use. There are laws that confirm how copying movies without proper authorization is illegal. Those who copy and sell
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Software Piracy Almost everyday it seems ‚ software companys keep pumping out brand new software that kills the day befores in that it is more sophisticated and more in tune with the needs of today’s superusers ‚ office users ‚ and home users . Yet ‚ at the same time ‚ the software theft industry in growing at an even faster rate ‚ costing software companies billions of dollars a year . The piece of shit government can put as many copyright laws in a book as they feel ‚ but soon it will be
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Piracy in the Caribbean Most of us today think of pirates as something that exists only in movies and literature‚ but 300 years ago this was a very different story. Much unlike what you may see in today’s pop culture piracy was a very fair and democratic system where crew members could elect their own captains and where Africans were considered equal to whites‚ a truly revolutionary concept for its time‚ considering that the use of slaves was a common practice at the time. Piracy in the Caribbean
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Felix Greene BUS 339 CASE STUDY #4 The biggest threat to the Movie Industry of today is Movie Piracy. Movie or Film Piracy is the unauthorized replication and disbursement of movies by DVDs‚ Videos‚ or computerized files. The world we live in today is a world of Technology‚ where anyone with access to the internet can either stream or share files conveniently and quickly. A big result of all this new technology‚ that a lot of people have access to‚ is the theft of copyrighted products by
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Terry. "P2P Suits Make No Sense For Music Business." Billboard 4 March 2006. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Getchell Lib.‚ University Nevada. 19 Apr. 2006 . McLeod‚ Kembrew. "MP3s Are Killing Home Taping: The Rise of Internet Distribution and Its Challenge to the Major Label Music Monopoly." Popular Music and Society 28.4 (2005): 521-532. AHSearch. OCLC First Search. Getchell Lib.‚ University Nevada of Reno. 1 May 2006 . Metz‚ Cade. "Sharing: Now Serving Up Music‚ Movies‚ Software‚ and More." PC Magazine
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All around the world people connected to the internet are downloading free digital content through P2P file sharing software. Intellectual property rights are being broken as people are downloading free content through P2P (Peer 2 Peer) networks‚ and illegal websites online. Production companies can’t do anything about that because developers of this type of software can’t be blamed for what people share. And no one can track the people behind the illegal websites. Production companies took
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Merriam-Webster ’s Collegiate Dictionary defines piracy as‚ "an act of robbery on the high seas or an act resembling such robbery" (885). From this we can define software piracy as an act of robbery on the information superhighway. Many people do not see it as such. Even though the average person would never consider going into a convenience store and stealing a stick of gum‚ many have no qualms about stealing thousands of dollars worth of software. In a study done by the Canadian Alliance Against
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Microsoft in 2005 As their 2005 fiscal year came to a close‚ Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer could reflect on the last year as well as the previous five years-with mixed emotions. Microsoft had slowed down after two decades of spectacular growth in revenues‚ profits‚ and stock price (see Exhibits 1‚ 2‚ and 3). Although Microsoft remained one of the most valuable and profitable companies in the world‚ its two core products‚ Windows and Office‚ had been experiencing anemic growth in revenues and profits
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