Intellectual property

During class, a topic was brought up that was very interesting and needed to be further investigated and researched. There has been a battle over copyright, intellectual rights, moral rights, and resale rights of artists in the United States. There have been laws passed that deal with these rights along with lawsuits that have appeared to the courts. Artist resale rights are also important to focus on because there are some differing opinions between government officials and artists themselves.…

have empirically verified the positives and negatives of whatever procedure. Empirical verification however, costs money, time and effort. There are not many enterprises that can function without some type of profit. People invest their own property, labor, and capital into a cause, should they have to simply give it away? Who wants to do anything without a profit? As an international business person the dilemmas faces when operating within a certain framework can be daunting.…

Innovation and Entrepreneurship Require Strong Property Rights G) Strong legal protection of property rights is another requirement for a business environment conducive to innovation, entrepreneurship, and economic growth. The Required Political System H) In the West, it is often argued that democracy is good for economic growth. However, there are examples of totalitarian regimes that have fostered a market economy and strong property rights protection and experienced rapid…

use this pervious material to create something new? In order to determine the answer, we must first look the definitions of intellectual property, copyright, and the public domain. If one has the blessing of succeeding in publishing something original, they are granted intellectual property rights. Richard A. Spinello, author of Cyberethics, defines intellectual property as “original musical compositions, poems, novels, inventions, product formulas,” et cetera (Spinello). The person who…

another in his life, health, liberty or possessions…”(Locke, 1823, p. 107, para. 6), as such, he was aware that if everything is the common property of man, there was a need for a morally right method of determining ownership of God's “gifts” without causing conflict. Locke’s belief resulted in his theory which legitimizes possession/ownership and boundaries of property rights. We both interpreted the limits Locke places on the amount of resources man should acquire but now, I believe Locke…

artists and composers, and/or the creator of this image or intellectual property, as well as the one who wants to download this composition, no matter the reason. There are exceptions, such as teaching purposes, ‘fair use’, 'public domain ', as well as for librarians. Ethics and legal concerns need to be considered prior to clicking the ‘download’ prompt. Although visual media is at our fingertips, photographs, and other intellectual property, though beneficial, are usually protected by a…

own company, many startups might work at their employer 's facility or on their employer 's computers. If you work in an industry that has intellectual property rights, and you signed an agreement when you started at your job, your employer might have the rights to your ideas or company. They could sue for patent infringement or theft of intellectual property. Make sure that none of the startups ' work was done at an employer 's workplace. The employer has no rights if the…

is built on the backs of innovators, and forward-thinkers. To protect these men and women lawmakers have drafted some of the most important pieces of legislation in our country’s history: copyright law. Copyright’s purpose is to protect the intellectual property of creators, so that their work cannot be used, or reproduced without their consent. This gives creators the security that their assets will not be stolen, and thus, creates an environment that encourages new innovation and artistic…

preservation of cultures and change of these ideas over a period of time. In general, it is closely related to intellectual history. This article is purely a summary of the analysis and critique of Locke’s second Treatise of government about property ownership. According to Filmer’s theory of patriarchalism, that suggests that; only absolute monarch descended from Adam, have the right to property. This is because he is the only being that God gave total dominion over all the land, something…

W. Jefferey Bolster’s book, “The Mortal Sea”, is viewed by many as an explanation of marine ecosystem depletion by the hands of the fisherman with a desire for more. With stories that end in such tragedy or environmental degradation, it often requires readers to place blame or vilify a player in this story, and that villain is most commonly made out to be the fishermen. This accusation would not be a careless one, since it was the fisherman that physically participated in this mass depletion of…