The subject of my paper focuses on movie piracy. Movie Piracy by definition is the illegal copying of movies for personal or commercial use. This is a new epidemic that is affecting the film industry financially on a global level. What are the necessary steps that can be taken on behalf of the film industry that can stop this illegal practice from occurring? Once you walk down the city streets of New York‚ you can easily find vendors selling their bootleg DVD copies of new released movies for half
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Patents Act‚ 1970 Patents Act‚ 1970 is designed to protect inventions in respect of manufacture‚ machine or process of manufacture. On the other hand‚ the Copyright Act‚ 1957 is to protect rights of artists‚ authors‚ producers of films‚ computer software owners etc. Patent is an exclusive rights granted to the patent holder‚ for a limited period‚ as a reward for creative work based on his private initiative. ‘Creativity’ is accorded the status of ‘property’ which can be bought‚ sold‚ licensed or
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Topic 2 Patents and Computer Software (Part 1) What is a Patent? It is a right granted by law to an individual who has created an invention in a form of product or process‚ which is new. In other words‚ a patent simply means a right to an invention. Darcy v. Allin (1602) Co Rep 84 b Stroud’s Judicial Dictionary of Words And Phrases: letters patent for an invention Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English: a paper from a government office (the Patent Office) giving someone
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5 3.2 PESTLE Analysis 6 3.2.1 Political 6 3.2.2 Economic 6 3.2.3 Social 6 3.2.4 Technological 7 3.2.5 Legal 7 3.2.6 Environmental 7 3.3 Five forces 7 3.3.1 Existing Competitions 7 3.3.2 Threat of New Entrants 8 3.3.3 Threat of Substitutes 8 3.3.4 Power of Buyers 8 3.3.5 Suppliers 8 4. The Value Chain 9 5. Retaliation of Competition 10 6. Recommendation 11 7. Conclusion 11 8. Bibliography... 13 1. Executive Summary Microsoft is a computer business company
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Singapore Patents Act * Rule against double-patenting – S14(3) * Disclosures to be disregarded – S14(4) * Transactions in Patents – S41 * Inventorship and Ownership - S2‚ S19‚ S20‚ S24 * Co-ownership - S46 * Anti-competitive practices‚ tie-in provision S51‚ tie-up S52 * License of Right – S53 * Compulsory licence – S55 * Government rights to use – S56 * Scope of government rights – S60 * Exhaustion of right – S66(2)(g) * Prior Honest User Rights – S71 * Exclusive license – S74 * Effect
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The Rise of Digital Piracy and the fall of the Music Industry Imagine hearing your favorite band’s new song on the radio for the first time. You love it‚ and the moment you get home you head straight for your computer and find the song on iTunes. Upset with the fact that you would have to pay $1.29 for the song‚ you search the Internet and find one of the many digital piracy websites and download the song illegally. Sure‚ you may have obtained the song for free‚ but you have also just stolen
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CORRUPTION AS A POLITICAL CHALLENGE IN PHILIPPINES By Romil Jagunap I. INTRODUCTION Philippines held its 15th presidential election last May 10‚ 2010. The obvious winner of the said election was Mr. Benigno “Noynoy” Aguino III. He won by landslide garnering 42% from more than 36 million total votes. Noynoy won the heart of the Filipino people during the May 2010 election thru his campaign on clean government and on his fight to eradicate corruption to drive economic growth
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are acting on your understanding on what is right & wrong". This definition will be used later to explain the integrity (or the lack thereof) in most IP-related tech lawsuits. Public Radio International’s "This American Life" episode "When Patents Attack..." examined the nature of these technology lawsuits involving Intellectual Property. These types of lawsuits are of the same varity that the two tech giants Apple & Samsung are currrently litigating. This American Life’s report focused on
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Assignment On Novelty of Patent NOVELTY OF PATENT Abstract 1. The invention brings out an apparatus and method for analyzing bacteria. The apparatus includes a section for preparing an analyte sample from specimen and a detector to detect optical information from each particle in this analyte sample. It also has a controller to detect the non-fermentative
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CHAPTER 2 The open door policy is a policy used by the china in the 19th century to repair the economy of their nation. Some of the scholars and academician classify this policy as one of the American’s foreign policy towards china to monopoly China’s economy. China in the 19th century was a country which was widely kwon as the wanted land of the imperialist. All the imperialist including Dutch‚ Germany‚ America as well as British. All of those imperialist feel insecure as they have their own
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