Copyright

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…

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…

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…

A Murder Most Foul: The Death of the Atanasoff-Berry Computer The brainchild of the brilliant John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford Edward Berry, the Atanasoff-Berry Computer, had many enemies. Were these enemies what ultimately lead to its untimely demise? The Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC) is claimed by many to be the first modern digital electronic computer. Whether or not this is true; at the very least it was a precursor to ENIAC, the computer that most people who are not on the side of the…

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…

warnings before their films that state: The unauthorized reproduction or distribution of a copyrighted work is illegal. Criminal copyright infringement, including infringement without monetary gain, is investigated by the FBI and is punishable by fines and federal imprisonment. (Intellectual Property Theft) There are a couple laws that have been passed against copyright infringement such as 17 U.S.C. § 506(a). 17 U.S.C. § 506(a) states that it is considered infringement if a person is copying…

tte8, Sharon Gulley Copyright © 2015 by Sharon Gulley. ISBN: Softcover 978-1-5035-8088-6 eBook 978-1-5035-8087-9 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner. Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock…

102 (b). Copyright Act of 1976, 17 U.S.C. §§ 102(b) (2012). The question then becomes, whether Appellants attempted to reflect the style of Gaye’s piece, or whether they attempted to build on an already completed composition to create a derivative song that paralleled the original, pursuant to section 103. Copyright Act of 1976, 17 U.S.C. §§ 103 (2012). 6a. Copyright infringement via Derivative Works Creating a derivative work would mean that Appellants had in fact committed copyright…