Charles Potter Business Law Education‚ Software Piracy‚ and the Law This paper is intended as a primer for copyright law in the form of a short story. An elementary school teacher illegitimately copies a piece of software for educational purposes and is discovered. Issues such as the fair use doctrine‚ copyright law‚ and cyberlaw are covered. The section provides a realistic legal defense for the fictional situation that drives the paper.
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Lecture 1: The importance of Business Ethics * 1st part : Introduction Ethics in General: Ethics is simply how people try to live their lives according to a standard of what is good or bad. They apply these standards both in how they think and how the others behave. Two way relationship. Example : MY friend left his wife for someone else. How do you think ? Unethical‚ so I behave in a way to not to talk to him anymore. My friend considers what I did as unethical‚ we’ve been friend for
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with language warning that this intellectual property (“I.P.”) could not be exported. These books‚ originally published and sold in Asia for less money than charged purchasers in the U.S.A.‚ by various publishers‚ were then resold by Kirtsaeng’s business‚ Bluechristine99‚ through sales’ vehicles such as the internet resale function of eBay.com. It was a common practice for publishers to manufacture cheaper books offshore and to sell these products in international markets at a lower price point than
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distributor. The distributor did not agree with this extra charge. The judgment should go for whom‚ and why? 4. Key issues: a) Were the increased costs due to currency fluctuations covered by the open-price term? b) Had the exchange rate risk had rendered performance under the contract commercially impracticable? 5. Reasons: a) In theory‚ the currency fluctuation may be covered by the open-price term when both two parties use different kinds of currency. However‚ in this case
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BUSINESS LAW EXAM1 1. One rule that emerges from the social contract is that people should never make unsupported judgments about one another but should instead always investigate the facts in an effort to uncover the truth about the character of a person or the nature of a situation. 2. utility thinking. 3. there are no objective or absolute standards of right and wrong. 4. utility thinking. 5. ethics. 6. If the social contract disintegrates‚ society would return to a "state
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Decision of Y11 This was the first decision within this game ‚ we tried to maintain the expected values of the investors and we succeeded in achieving good values within the performance objectives ‚ advertisement and Rebate offer were considered as competitive strength for the 3 Market segments ( wholesale ‚ private label and internet sales ) and the S/Q rating is considered to be competitive weakness within the 3 market segments ‚ so we have to concentrate more in improving the S/Q rating in
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Chapter one Business Law Law is a set of rules‚ enforceable by the courts‚ which regulate the government of the state and governs the relationship between the state and its citizens and between one citizen and another. There are various ways in which the law may be classified; the most important are: * Public and private law * A) Public law is concerned with the relationship between the state and its citizens. Specialised areas are: 1. Constitutional law is concerned with the workings
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Business law and ethics Ref book: Commercial law and Industrial law
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Torts of negligence are breaches of duty that results to injury to another person to whom the duty breached is owed. Like all other torts‚ the requirements for this are duty‚ breach of duty by the defendant‚ causation and injury(Stuhmcke and Corporation.E 2001). However‚ this form of tort differs from intentional tort as regards the manner the duty is breached. In torts of negligence‚ duties are breached by negligence and not by intent. Negligence is conduct that falls below the standard of care
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team and I partook in the MEGA business simulation‚ a game in which teams take over different struggling car manufacturers in order to right the ship and compete against each other. The simulation consisted of a set amount of periods which I saw as turns in a game. For each turn we had to make decisions on what to do with your team’s company. These decisions were then put in an excel sheet and the results were often known the next day. The goal of business simulations is to learn while also having
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