Copyright infringement

With recent advancements in the field of machine learning and artificial intelligence, researchers have begun to take a closer look at intellectual property laws as they apply to creative works produced by computers. The issue in question is: If a computer program creates a piece of work without human assistance or intervention, whether it is a book, video or musical composition, who owns the work, and who should receive royalties or sales of the work? One example of why this question is…

As an international business manager one maybe faced with numerous ethical and legal consequences of doing business. Even an international non-profit business such as Doctors without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres which as its mission is to; “provide assistance to populations in distress, to victims of natural or man-made disasters, and to victims of armed conflict. (They do so) irrespective of race, religion, creed, or political convictions.”(1), must still operate within certain…

Technically, it is illegal to download things for free off the internet, and people who work in the music industry sand by that. They say that it cost them money because people are stealing products from artist. The articles Contextualizing the Copyright Debate: Reward vs. Creativity by Nate Anderson and The Internet Debacle: An Alternate View by Janis Ian argue the different reasons on why illegally downloading stuff is right or not. Each article was written in a certain…

3.2 Music as Self-Identity According to Ulusoy (2016), art plays a key role in contemporary society and is also a key component of subculture, as it is a form of creative transformation and expression. One of the most universal forms of art is music, which can be further categorized into a wide range of music genres such as hardcore, punk, metal, grunge, straight edge, electronica, old-school rap, alternative rock and metalcore. Music subcultures grants consumer the ability to find a plethora…

Back in 1970, there was a small conflict between the Coca-Cola company and Grove Press because the book publishing company was being accused of using the slogan “It’s the real thing,” a phrase Coca-Cola had been using for approximately 27 years, as advertisement for one of their books. The issue here was that the beverage corporation thought this would cause some sort of confusion to the public, even though the two products were not related in any way. Several rhetorical strategies are used…

INTRODUCTION: An adulterant is a chemical substance which should not be contained within other substances (e.g. food, beverages, and fuels) for legal or other reasons. The addition of adulterants is called adulteration. The word is appropriate only when the additions are unwanted by the recipient. Otherwise the expression would be food additive. Adulterants when used in illicit drugs are called cutting agents, while deliberate addition of toxic adulterants to food or other products for human…

order to realize their potential benefits” (Groupon). Accordingly, Groupon’s joint venture in China was not successful. If I was the CEO at Groupon, I would enter foreign markets through wholly-owned affiliates, because the company’s “trademarks, copyrights, patents, trade secrets, proprietary technology, merchants and subscribers lists, sales methodology, and intellectual property” are critical to the company’s success (Groupon). In 2015, the company acquired thirteen businesses to “grow its…

Whenever any new invention or technology, which has not been previously existed or published in any document which has not been used in the country or anywhere else in the world on any day before such innovation has been registered. When someone has invented some invention or technology and would like to get it in the public domain it is regarded as invention disclosure. When one person discloses his innovation he would require getting it patented in order to protect his innovation from…

On May 3, 1972 the case of Honeywell vs. Sperry Rand was decided [3]. This case was for patent infringement of ENIAC on the earlier works of John Vincent Atanasoff. Atanasoff had shown Mauchly and Eckert, the creators of parts of ENIAC, sketches, plans and ideas for an electronic computer. Atanasoff claimed that these ideas used in the earlier ABC, were…

To own something is to hold possession. A possession of something can sometimes ultimately lead people to thinking that it is who the person is because of what they own or have. So basing it off of objects being owned by the person, their identity is built up and ascribed by what other people see. A philosopher named Jean-Paul Sartre, suggests that ownership is something more than just objects, it is in fact intangible things like talent or skill. And agreeing upon that, it shows that skill and…