conflicting with one another. In this complex relationship where both copyright and freedom of expression are ‘constellations of rights and interests’‚ whether copyright’s interference with freedom of expression is justified hinges on the question: does copyright in fact interfere with freedom of expression? To begin with‚ I will explore the role and justifications underpinning each right. Following on from that‚ by examining the relevant authorities and literature on this relationship‚ I will contend that
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“...He had a saying‚ ‘good artists copy‚ great artists steal’...”‚ Steve Jobs quoting Pablo Picasso. According to FBI.gov intellectual property theft is defined as robbing people or companies of their ideas‚ inventions‚ and creative expressions. Intellectual property theft is one of the things that aided in the explosive growth of the computer and technology industry‚ but is much less common in the industry today. Was this theft justified due to companies not taking the necessary actions to prevent
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In a well-known legal case‚ a classic conflict of property rights was featured. Red cedar trees‚ used only for ornamental purposes‚ carried a disease that could destroy apple orchards within a radius of two miles. There was no known way of curing the disease except by destroying the cedar trees or by ensuring that apple orchards were at least two miles away from the cedar trees. Apply the Coase theorem to this situation. Does it make any difference to the outcome whether the cedar tree owners are
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[“Intellectual Property Rights and Student Plagiarism‚ and the Impact of the Cyberspace Era”] Antonio Morales Cuquerella A quick Google search of the words “write my essay for me” provides the searcher with over sixty-eight million results. Sixty-eight million options for a student to not have to write their paper. Sixty-eight millions options for a student to essentially pay their way through an essay. If those numbers aren’t scary enough‚ many people do not realize
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Cross-Border Intellectual Property Litigation 1. What is the territoriality principle and how does it impact cross border intellectual property litigation? Throughout history‚ we have witnessed the territorial conception of national and international intellectual property law face an array of global challenges. According to the principle of territoriality‚ the possibility of protecting an IP right is limited to the territory of the country where the right is granted. In other words‚ it is fundamentally
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Ways to protect intellectual property on the Internet The Internet is a serious attempt to traditional protection of intellectual property such as copyrights and patents. Some forms of information‚ when made accessible on the Internet‚ are easily copied. Because the costs of copying are low and because copying is often anonymous‚ publishers have often responded with more aggressive enforcement of existing intellectual property rights and with calls for extensions of those rights to cover additional
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What do you think is unethical? The countrywide approved everyone to get their loans‚ no matter they have jobs or not‚ no matter they have income or not‚ no matter they have assets or not. The criteria they use may be unethical. They don’t care whether the documents are valid‚ whether they can verify the income‚ whether the appraisal is any good. They just care about getting the loan closed‚ in order to do another loan. The underwriters/ contractors looked through the loan as quick as they can.
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micro-organisms. Bilateral agreements encourage countries to join the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties (UPOV) Convention. The UPOV Convention‚ formed in 1961‚ acknowledges breeders of new plant varieties through uniform and clearly defined principles for exclusive property rights‚ based on criteria that the variety is distinctive‚ uniform‚ stable and novel.33 33 Commission on Intellectual Property Rights‚ 2002. 34 The Light Years project and in a recent World Bank report
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discussion on the Intellectual Property Law Md. Murtaja Islam Johanjeb Tareq Lecturer‚ Department of Law‚ Southern University Bangladesh. Intellectual property has acquired an internationally recognized character. Now it is regarded to be one important sector of international law‚ having its source in various international conventions. At present‚ each and every country is trying to shape or reshape their legislature‚ relating to intellectual property; in the light
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Aspects of Intellectual property Law/ 421 March 12‚ 2013 E-commerce and Aspects of Intellectual property Nowadays‚ e-commerce is a type of business which is utilized all around the world. It is crucial to be familiar with certain legal intellectual property rules and regulations. These rules include: privacy‚ ethics and security. The article “Management of Intellectual property rights” by Josephine Chinyang Lang reviews the growing global trends in intellectual property
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