Domain engineering

Copyright law states that works of original expression may receive a copyright, allowing the recipient to restrict use reproduction and distribution of the work. The breadth of copyright pertains to the uses one is allowed without authorization by the author. The issue of what may be copyrighted has required both legislating and court interpretation. Oracle must develop an integrated strategy to fight back and need to be successful in getting Rimini Street cover all the damages due to lost…

The Fair Use Doctrine defines ways of how the public can use small portions of copyright material without the fear of consequences. Fair Use is a set of guidelines that informs people how to prevent copyright infringement and can defend a person at a copyright infringement trial. The five tests for analyzing Fair Use are Transformative Factor, nature of the copyright work, the amount and substantiality of the portion used, the effect of the use upon the potential market, and the moral judgement…

Related legislation and standards How it helps to achieve organizational outcomes Copyright act Copyright protection is provided under the Copyright Act 1968 and gives exclusive rights to license others in regard to copying once work, performing it in public, broadcasting it, publishing it and making an adaptation of the work. Rights vary according to the nature of the work. Those for artistic works, for instance, are different from those for literary and musical works. Depending on the material…

Eminent Domain and the Governments Overstepping of Power Since the founding of the country, laws have been passed and determined to be constitutional by the Supreme Court that allow for the taking of private property for public good with just compensation. This right of the government is called eminent domain. Eminent domain is necessary to a certain degree and should be used only as a last resort if no other viable options are available, however, it is commonly used and abused as the primary…

Utilitarian theorists generally endorse the creation of intellectual property rights as a means to foster innovation. The rights are permitted for a limited duration of time in order balance the social welfare loss of monopoly exploitation the protection of utilitarian works, particularly, technological inventions. Principally, the social value of utilitarian works lies in their ability to perform tasks (for example, a better can opener) or satisfy desires more effectively or at lower costs.…

The United States policy regarding trademarks, known officially as the U.S. Trademark Law, is incredibly important to the way American society functions on a daily basis. Not only does the law encourage competitive business, but it also plays an important role in both American culture and the legal system. A trademark is some type of symbol that points “distinctly to the origin or ownership of merchandise…and [is] legally reserved for the exclusive use of the owner” (in text). Oftentimes a…

understanding of both "on page" and "off page" factors. By on page factors I am referring to your actual domain name and web or blog site, including the invisible meta tags that are associated with it and…

When the Fifth Amendment was passed in the United States, part of its function was to give the government the power of eminent domain. The power of allows them to take an individual’s private property in return for “just compensation” for “public use” with the intent to better off a community. This could mean that a plot of land could be seized by the government with plans to become a road or a canal. In those cases, the government would be turning a private plot of land into a “public use” in…

The idea/expression dichotomy theory is used to recognise copyright subsistence in the work in some cases. For example, in the United-Kingdom, the requirement of fixation involves that idea that is not reduced into writing or into some tangible form is not copyrightable. But this theory is also used to determine if a substantial infringement occurred, because a court must consider whether it is an idea of an expression of the idea that was taken in the infringing work. For Bently and Sherman,…

Stop Bea! Do you know what you're doing? I bet you didn't know your deplorable online pirating habit affects everyone, including you! Although Australia has delayed releases of television shows and movies, this is no excuse for Australians being the world’s worst infringers of online copyright (Hayes, Alex, 2015). Bea: So what is copyright? It’s the legal right given to creators of original works to exclusively use or distribute their works for a limited time. It thereby provides creators of…